Seagate IronWolf Pro Harddisk ST18000NE000 18TB 3.5 SATA-600 7200rpm - FACTORY REFURBISHED

“It's been a while now, but earlier this year we had three storms pretty much back to back. The end result of this was a damaged roof tile, some blown-over garden furniture, and my NAS died.”

Verdict: The IronWolf Pro 20TB offers some good incentives to choose it over the 18TB version and smaller capacities in each series that go beyond just being bigger. But, based purely on the relatively low

Verdict: The global pandemic has pushed an already seemingly insatiable demand for data storage even harder. While HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording) and MAMR (microwave-assisted magnetic recording) technologies are seen as the way forward towards massive cap...

Verdict: The demands for data storage are growing at an ever-faster pace and showing no signs of slowing down, especially when it comes to cloud-based services, content serving and digital archiving and that was before Covid-19 hit with the resulting huge and unex...

Verdict: Hard disk drives still make up the most of the storage market both in the enterprise and in the consumer markets in terms of capacity. However, they're stalling with CMR reaching a plateau and SMR, proving to be a poisoned chalice and not a technology tha...

Verdict: The demands for data storage are growing and showing no signs of slowing down. While Flash based storage encroaches ever deeper into markets that were once the stronghold of mechanical drives, the one area where spinning disks still reign supreme is in t...