An exciting pricing error has happened. Western Digital has evidently slashed the pricing for the company’s Gold, Red Pro, Red Plus, Purple, Purple Pro, and Blue product lineups. However, the new pricing looks skeptically low, so it’s likely a pricing error. Western Digital’s online store shows the WD Gold enterprise hard drives starting at $3…
With the rise in popularity of the best SSDs, many people have started to write hard drives off as a thing in the past. That’s a mistake – the best hard drives offer huge amounts of storage at prices that SSDs just can’t match. If you have a giant library of music, video or even…
Solid state drives (SSDs) could drive traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) to the brink of extinction in the data center as early as 2025, Huawei predicts. Speaking to TechRadar Pro in Barcelona ahead of MWC 2022, the company’s VP of Data Storage, Fupeng Zhang, explained that the falling price and superior performance of flash storage…
Toshiba this week announced the industry’s first 18TB hard drives featuring flux-control microwave-assisted magnetic recording (FC-MAMR) technology, that are designed for desktops and inexpensive NAS. The X300 and N300 drives not only offer a very high capacity and enhanced performance, but they also promise enhanced reliability. Toshiba’s X300 18TB HDDs for high-end desktops, as well…
Thermaltake has built a long-standing reputation among PC builders, especially with its cases. Thw company is also trying its hand at PC-related furniture these days, and the Thermaltake X Fit Real Leather is its second most expensive gaming chair as of writing (topped only by Thermaltake’s CyberChair E500 White Edition). Undoubtedly, the use of real…
In a proposed settlement to a lawsuit against Western Digital for using technology that could slow down drives, the company will create a compensation fund to the tune of $2.7 million dollars. Claimants must file by November 27. in June, Western Digital agreed to settle a lawsuit about the use of shingled magnetic recording (SMR)…
At Best Buy, WD’s massive 14TB Easystore external hard drive just got a $130 price cut — taking it down to just $289.99. Need a huge amount of storage for backups or archives? This is an ideal option at a bargain price. WD easystore 14TB external hard drive: was $419.99, now $289.99 at Best BuyRight…
The Radeon RX 6600 XT launch day is here, and availability is both great and terrible depending on the retailer. Online retailers did not have any RX 6600 XT graphics cards for sale at 9AM EST (the cards release time). However, some of Micro Center’s brick-and-mortar stores have over 100 RX 6600 XT’s available for…
Photo: istockphoto.com Our computers are treasure troves of personal information, including social security numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and website logins and passwords. When we erase this data or reformat the hard drive with a data-wiping program, it’s possible that this information can still remain on the hard drive. For this reason, it’s…
Ethereum’s latest hard fork, London, went live today with several changes meant to prepare the cryptocurrency for long-term success. But one change in particular could drastically reduce the profitability of Ethereum mining in the process. Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559 makes several changes to ETH transactions that favor cryptocurrency users over miners. The first is…