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We test Seagate IronWolf 16 Tb in modern applications

A new line of capacity is a new speed and new firmware, in which we see that the manufacturer is already optimizing its hard drives for using SSD cache in storage Today, hard drives remain the only available way to store large amounts of data, and perhaps, considering one hard drive, we do not focus on its volume at all: yes, a ten terabyte will be enough for an ordinary user for almost a lifetime. But in the corporate segment, an increase in the capacity of one HDD from 10 to 12 TB made it ...
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Seagate Exos 10E2400 - testing a hybrid SFF drive with an extended method

This 2.4 TB hybrid hard disk for servers is interesting because it supports non-volatile write cache and has a 16 GB NAND read buffer. We tested it to see how the cache accelerates applications, whether WCE is set to 1, and to see if it is economical to use hybrid drives. Many analysts believed that 2.5-inch hard drives in the future should have disappeared altogether, since in the corporate segment they would not have found a place between voluminous 3.5-inch drives and ultra-fast solid- ...