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Seagate unveils gaming drives for the holiday season

Seagate has unveiled a new range of gaming hard drives and SSDs, set to enhance the gaming experience this Christmas for gamers across Australia and New Zealand.

By Kaleah Salmon • 2 min read • Tue, 17th Dec 2024

Storage

Seagate unveils IronWolf Pro 24TB hard drive for evolving enterprise needs

Seagate Technology introduces the IronWolf Pro 24TB hard drive, offering sustained transfer rates, vibrational resilience through AgileArray technology, and data protection via IronWolf Health Management, to meet the evolving data needs of SMBs and enterprise NAS environments.

By Sean Mitchell • 2 min read • Wed, 14th Feb 2024

Storage

Western Digital launches 24TB & 28TB HDDs for data centres

Western Digital debuts eco-friendly 24TB and 28TB hard disk drives for data centres, offering higher storage capacity and power efficiency.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Mon, 20th Nov 2023

DataCentre infrastructure

Backblaze report set to examine impact of temperature spikes on hard drives

Backblaze set to release a report examining how temperature spikes affect hard drive failures in data centres.

By Kaleah Salmon • 4 min read • Tue, 14th Nov 2023

Hyperscale

Seagate Technology releases new Exos 24TB hard drives

Seagate Technology, a global expert in data storage technology and solutions, has introduced the new Seagate Exos X24 hard drives.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Thu, 19th Oct 2023

Gaming

Hands-on Review: WD_Black SN770 NVMe SSD Game Drive

Western Digital enhances its WD_Black NVMe SSD range with the WD_Black SN770 Game Drive, offering fast, power-efficient storage.

By Darren Price • 3 min read • Fri, 20th May 2022

Storage

Synology launches new SAS drives for enterprise customers

Synology launches HAS5300 SAS enterprise hard drives to meet demand for high-capacity, high-performance storage systems.

By Catherine Knowles • 2 min read • Tue, 20th Jul 2021

Manufacturing

The villain lurking in your PC - a cautionary tale

Deadly flaw discovered in popular hard drive - Seagate Barracuda drives using SMR technology at risk of failure. Backup recommended.

By Darren Price • 5 min read • Tue, 15th Sep 2020

DataCentre infrastructure

Western Digital adds top tech to data centre solutions

Worldwide availability of 16TB and 18TB capacities for Ultrastar HDDs, WD Gold HDDs and Ultrastar storage platforms.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Tue, 14th Jul 2020

Storage

QNAP releases new NAS series for home users

The TS-x31K series NAS is designed for home and personal cloud storage for users who wish to build their own private clouds.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Thu, 30th Apr 2020

Hyperscale

Western Digital unveils 20TB mechanical HDDs

Western Digital debuts its 20TB Ultrastar DC HC650 SMR and 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 CMR HDDs for data centres, with full production planned for early 2020.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Fri, 6th Sep 2019

Storage

Seagate delivers first EXOS 16TB HDD and new drive for SMB NAS

Seagate introduces the EXOS X16, the first 16TB helium-based HDD for hyperscale data centres, alongside new 16TB IronWolf NAS drives aimed at SMB markets.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Thu, 13th Jun 2019

Disaster Recovery

Are hard disk drives damaged by smoke recoverable?

The old saying 'fail to prepare, prepare to fail' is certainly an apt proverb in IT circles - ESET shares some advice for recovering smoke-damaged HDDs.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Fri, 5th Apr 2019

Storage

Gallery: Seagate's Singapore R&D facility pioneering storage innovations

The Shugart was completed in June 2015, spanning 440,000 square feet and capable of housing approximately 850 employees.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Wed, 27th Feb 2019

Storage

Toshiba pushes hard drive capacity further with 16TB CMR

The MG08 series hard disk drives are the industry's largest capacity conventional magnetic recording hard drive.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Mon, 14th Jan 2019

Partner Programmes

Synnex Australia and Toshiba partner to sell into ANZ

Toshiba and Synnex Australia announced their collaboration for internal hard drive product sales and after-sales services for the ANZ region.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Fri, 6th Jul 2018

Surveillance

Western Digital announces product line geared for AI-powered video surveillance

According to IDC, the amount of big data exabytes generated by surveillance solutions is expected to grow by 25% per year through 2021.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Thu, 5th Jul 2018

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Phishing

Research shows mobile workers put corporate data at significant risk

Research by Apricorn shows 63% of UK and US IT leaders fear mobile workers will cause data breaches, with 55% admitting deliberate security compromises.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Wed, 19th Jun 2024