Hard disk drives (HDDs) offer some of the best price-to-performance value when it comes to data, and that value goes even further with larger storage capacities. You’ll really feel the price advantage of HDDs over SSDs once you enter the realm of 4TB drives and larger. Whereas a 1TB ...
Part 1: What Is Hard Drive Data Recovery Services? Hard drive data recovery services are services offered to help individuals and businesses recover lost or corrupted information stored in their hard drives. Such services should be used when a person or business experiences a system crash, logical...
Vendors HGST -- now a division of Western Digital -- continues to have the most reliable drives, with a cumulative AFR of just 0.47%. Toshiba comes in second at 0.98%. Seagate brings up the rear this quarter at 2.05% AFR. WDC (Western Digital) hard drives aren't in the listing. Back...
Seagate’s drives are improving, Western Digital’s are getting worse, and HGST’s are some of the most reliable drives out there. That’s according to service records compiled by Blackblaze, a cloud backup provider,Ars Technica is reporting. Blackblaze makes a habit of regularly sharing their...
The Catch – Enterprise Hard Drives are Still Less Expensive than SSDs Personally, the last six solid state drives I have purchased were between 240GB and 256GB in size. As prices have fallen, that has become a sweet spot. When we look at a SSD bill of materials (BOM) the PCB and ...
Yes, the new 115GB is built using 25nm NAND device technology. Like OWC, SandForce is extremely conservative in what Flash devices they approve for use in drives driven by their processor and the formula for over provisioning to ensure the reliable usage of the product over the long long ha...
PLC SSDs, which can write 5 bits per cell, don't exist yet for consumers, but they're on the way.Toshiba mentioned PLC drivesin late August 2019, andIntelthe following month. PLC drives should be able to pack even more capacity into SSDs. However, they'll have the same problems as...
Burning computer components releases dioxins, furans, PCB’s, and other toxins into the atmosphere, and also into the lungs of anyone nearby. Why would anyone incinerate a PC? It’s the cheapest, low-tech way to separate the worthless plastics from the salable metals. If you reside in a ...