Hard Disk Drives

The two industry giants- Seagate and WD do offer a limited warranty for their hard drives, but this limitation has not been officially mentioned on their websites for years now . We as a partner get a diminished value of the drive with each passing year and often hav...

The Seagate X20 platform is a 5-disc drive with 2 capacities - 18TB and 20TB. The number of SKUs is significantly lower on this platform thanks to Seagate FastFormat, which lets you quickly format a drive to 512e or 4Kn. They ship in 512e format (which is the most popular f...

Western Digital (WD) offer different series of hard drives, each one suited for a specific purpose. WD has colored their drives based on the function each one is optimized for. Currently there are 6 colors, each one representing a pr...

What is a self-encrypting drive (SED) A self-encrypting drive (SED) is a drive with a built-in encryption mechanism so that all data written to the drive is automatically encrypted. The encryption hardware is built into the drive, including a processor - you d...

What is WD ArmorCache In a nutshell - WD ArmorCache is a non-volatile cache in hard drives that improves performance and reduces the risk of data loss associated with traditional DRAM based caching. Traditional solutions - DRAM caching - small, expensive a...

Back in May, WD announced 22TB and 26TB drives, and these drives are now commercially available in the Middle East .Ultrastar 22TB HC570 drivesHC570 is the 10-disk CMB drive that also uses OptiNand just like the 20TB drive. As with the other Ul...

Seagate is transitioning many hard drives from the X16 platform (with 16TB as the highest capacity) to the X18 platform (with 18TB as the highest capacity). 10TB is no exception. The ST10000NM001G of the X16 platform has been discontinued, and the new part number is ST10000NM0...

TLDR :ST16000NM002G belongs to the X16 platform and ST16000NM004J belongs to the newere X18 platform with better transfer rates. Seagate is discontinuing the 16TB drives on the X16 platform, which is understandable since they had 16TB on both the X16 and X18 platform...

The new 3TB Ironwolf ( ST3000VN006) has 2 platters and it will replace the older 3 platter part number ( ST3000VN008). Having one less platter means that ST3000VN006 is lighter and has better engery efficiency ( even if only marginally ).  Transfer rates of new part...

Updated 2023 : Now the ST4000VN008 has completely been phased out and is not available in channel in UAE TL; DR: ST4000VN006 is the newer model with higher cache, higher transfer rate and lower RPM. Both the drives are CMR. What has changed u...