Tag: hard drive
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Western Digital Se 2TB (WD2000F9YZ) Hard Drive Review
Today we are looking at a new line of drives from Western Digital – the Se range. Click through to read our review of the baby of the new line – a 2TB drive…
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Seagate HDD Date Codes
On Seagate drives you may see a Date Code – e.g. 07466. What does it mean? Simply put, it’s in the format of YY:W:D, or YY:WW:D, where Y is year, W is week and D is day of week. The year is fairly self-explanatory; the weeks aren’t measured from January, though,…
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Fractal Design Define R4: Removing all of the front drive trays
Someone asked how we removed the hard drive bays in the Fractal Design R4 builds we’re doing at the moment, so we wrote up a quick post for those who are wondering. If you want to install a radiator to the front of the R4 or are simply using a handful of SSDs…
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Western Digital Red Drive Performance Numbers: Sequential Read/Write
As a follow-up to our review (found here), we’ve finally finished testing the new Red drives and compared them to the equivalent Green drives.
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Western Digital 2TB Red Drive review (WD20EFRX)
Up until now Western Digital have separated their hard drive lines into three; Blue for consumer drives, Green for low-power drives and Black for performance. This has now been expanded with a fourth colour added to the stable; the WD Red NAS hard drive range. Western Digital tout these as being designed specifically…
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Western Digital announce Red NAS drives
WD have announced a new line of drives specifically designed for 24/7 home and small business network-attached-storage use – dubbed the Red Series. Initial release information suggests improved power consumption across the board as well as improved performance and modifications to make them more suitable for constant use. The vibration compensation is quite…