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Western Digital is developing Ethernet-connected drives for OpenStack

Following Seagate, Western Digital will demonstrate Ethernet-connected drives at the OpenStack Summit, wich will take place between 12 and 16 May in Atlanta, GA. This design has integrated CPU and memory resources running Linux, and can be integrates with existing … Continue reading

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HGST ships 6TB helium-filled drive

HGST, a Western Digital company, announced today that it is shipping the 6TB Ultrastar He6 hard disk drive. Key OEM, cloud and research leaders working closely with HGST to qualify the drive include HP, Netflix, Huawei Unified Storage, CERN, Green … Continue reading

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HDDs on helium

HGST, formerly Hitachi Global Technologies, has announced plans to release a helium filled hard disk drive (HDD) in 2013. Hard drives traditionally run on air, but HGST claims that using helium, which is seven times less dense than air, will … Continue reading

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160,000 IOPs and 525MB/s Enterprise Flash Disks launched by Pliant Technologies

Pliant Technologies announced yesterday in a press release the availability of their new Enterprise Flash Drives (EFD) family that includes the Lightning LB and Lightning LS models. They are designed around the standard 2.5-inch (LB) and 3.5-inch (LS) form factors … Continue reading

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Segate’s first 600GB 15,000 rpm drive

Seagate announced last week that it is now shipping its technology-leading Cheetah® 15K.7 enterprise-class hard drives into the worldwide distribution channel. As the highest performing, highest capacity 3.5-inch mission critical hard drive with best-in-class reliability for Tier 1 environments, the … Continue reading

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