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MDD hard drives are mostly refurbished hard drives which fail a lot. We don't recommend buying these drives for your NAS.

Toshiba is a distant third in enterprise and NAS drives for internal drives, and the market is dominated by WD and Seagate, at least in t...

TLDR ; Seagate's new line of Ironwolf Pro drives has higher annual utilization, higher MTBF and supports an unlimited number of drive bay...

The WD Red Plus 6TB CMR with 256MB is available now under the part number WD60EFPX. The part number so far available to channel was WD60E...

Not too long ago, Seagate launched Mach.2 drives with dual actuators. We expected that WD (and eventually Toshiba) would have to do the s...

TLDR : WD42PURZ is superior - higher recording density, higher cache and better performance Both WD40PURZ and WD42PURZ are CMR drives wit...

TLDR : The difference is in the number of platters and the cache. The WD22PURZ is newer with probably 1 disc and 256MB cache. There are 2...

In WD Red plus family, there are multiple variants in 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, 14TBcapacity. They are all CMR drives being RED plus but with differ...

As hard drive technology evolves, new products come to market and part numbers change. Seagate Exos is no exception. Part numbers change ...

It was almost a year ago when Seagate unveiled the specifications for the Mach.2 drive and planned to launch only SAS drives that would...

The two industry giants- Seagate and WD do offer a limited warranty for their hard drives, but this limitation has not been officially me...

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 ...

Synology is well known for their Network attached stroage and Routers and now with BeeDrive they have their own personal backup hub drive...

After the success of the Synology HAT5300, Synology has now launched the HAT3300. Synology HAT5300 compared to HAT3300 While the HAT5300 ...

Synology and QNAP are the two major NAS brands that enjoy immense popularity in the UAE and other regions. Both brands utilize their own ...

During CES, QNAP introduced TBS -574X NAS, the first NAS in the industry that we know uses E1.S SSD. Since the availability of E1.S is li...

In 2023, Synology is launching DS723+, DS1823XS+, SA6400, SA3410, SA3610 , RS2423RP+ and DS923+. Here are the early  specifications on DS...

Following the launch of the Synology DS923+,the DS423 and DS423+ are expected to launch in the first quarter of 2023. Here are the specif...

"No technology connected to the Internet is unhackable. " This is true for any technology and NAS is no exception. It does not matter wha...

Since exFAT support is available in the Linux kernel, you can use exFAT in both QNAP QTS5.0+ and Synology DSM7.0+ for free What is exFAT ...

The Synology DS920+ is one of the most successful NAS in the history of NAS.The DS920+ is the successor series to the DS415+, DS916+, and...

Currently, all Synology models with M.2 NVMe slots can only use the M.2 SSD for caching. However, in DSM 7.2, M.2 volume creation is supp...

Synology's best-selling DS920+ now has a DS923+ successor. Here are the main differences between the 2 models The DS923+ is powered by a...

One of the many questions we are asked about the new Synology DS923+ and DS723+ is whether they will have an open drive policy or whether...

IBM unveils 3592 Gen 7 Type F tape, featuring 50TB native capacity, the format's largest. Following Gen1 and Gen2 discontinuation, th...

In March, IBM made an important announcement regarding the discontinuation of the manufacturing of 3592 Gen 1 and Gen 2 Media. As a resul...

If you are following the storage business, you may have come across the news of a record-breaking 148.3 Exabyte of compressed capacity so...

The process of Media Sanitization involves permanently erasing all information on storage media, such as HDDs, SSDs, and magnetic tapes, ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently introduced a new part number for its LTO tapes that ends with double A instead of A Here is a l...

Summary Conventional tape solutions have either SAS or FC connectivity and that keeps the Media companies from using them. Thunderbolt3 i...

Any LTO tape, Cleaner and Diagnostic media that is used with an autoloader or a library will have an LTO Label for identification of the ...

If you have a mix of media, e.g. hard drives, tape media and flash, SSD, there is no SINGLE device that can sanitize all of them. The rea...

LTO-9 media needs calibration on the first use which can be anywhere between 15 minutes to 2 hours, and this presents an opportunity to s...

LTO-9 with 18TB Native capacity will put the tape on the same league as Hard drives in terms of capacity, and it looks like it may hit th...

An onsite safe offers many benefits and it may be worth considering instead of opting for an offsite media rotation plan.

Quantum's LTO-9 Pre Purchase program offers you LTO-9 drives exchanged for your LTO-8 drives at a nominal uplift fee.

There is a new G-Drive from Sandisk Professional that uses the 22TB Ultrastar hard drive (the highest capacity hard drive currently avail...

Now that WD has rebranded the G-Tech drives to Sandisk Professional, there are some new part numbers and some product changes. We list s...

LaCie 6Big Old STFKXX000400 models are being transitioned to STFKXX000402. The new models ending with 402 will have 3 years warranty inst...

Gspeed Shuttle and Shuttle XL now ship with ev carriers, and we are asked if it affects the total number of bays on the drives.

d2 Thunderbolt and 12big are obsolete, 1big docks are introduced. A list of all the LaCie Desktop 3.5" Storage drives as of Jan 2021

There is nothing replacing the 12 Bay LaCie 12Big, and its upto the smaller 6 bay 6Big to fill the capacity gap with a higher cap hard dr...

Thunderbolt3 - The world's most popular high-speed all in one interface, uses the same USB Type C connector that a USB 3.1 does. How do t...

what are the regionalized cartridges, their benefits and what to do if you/your client is stuck with a printer from another region.

Printronix has decided to utilize 100% recycled plastic resin on the cartridge ribbon enclosures. This recycled resin maintains the same ...

In Less than 15 days, Printronix will start shipping the new Dual branded printers with PTX/TG Bundle Firmware. Here is all you need to k...

As a part of their new branding Strategy , Printronix are making some changes from April 2019.  There are 3 major changes  for all the  P...

Printronix has introduced a new packaging size for the Standard Life 17K pages cartridges,  a box with 4 ribbon Cartridge.  It applies to...

Printronix is an Industry leader in Line Matrix printers and is renowned for Manufacturing Industrial grade heavy duty rugged printers th...

Starting P7000 cartridge ribbons, Printeronix started to ship different ribbons to different regions, with chips that won't work with the...

For a Long time, the Ultra Capacity 6 Pack Spool Ribbon for Printronix P7000 ( 179499-001) has been the only option for Printronix P7000 ...

Tally Genicom 6600 line matrix printers use cartridge ribbons with embedded chipsets that give 30% improvement in consumable cost per pag...

NComputing's huge success is largely thanks to their innovative vSpace virtualization software, and this is what separates them from seve...

When you need a desktop experience for your WVD infrastrucure, a thin client stacks up well against the mobile devices, and even against ...

The number of users that can connect to a host without affecting user expreince depends on the intended application suites and their CPU,...

NComputing utilizes User eXtension Protocol (UXP), a very efficient, proprietary terminal services protocol that runs on top of the TCP/U...

NComputing is a known for it's hardware and software to create virtual desktops which enable multiple users to simultaneously share a sin...

Thin computing is booming in large multi user environments today, offering huge cost savings, power savings, simpler management and easy ...

In the realm of photography and cinematography, the reliability of storage solutions is of paramount importance to ensure the capture and...

The Key indicators of Performance in an SSD is the same as HDD - IOPS, Transfer rates and Latency. But they can vary greatly depending on...

Enterprise SSDs have better endurance, higher capacities, extra Overprovisioning and they are available in SAS and U.2 formats too.