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WD Red Plus is a new Launch in capacities from 1 to 14TB. Its a CMR drive with all the benefits of a red Drive.

Seagate was the first to market with its 16TB - A lead lost to WD recently when WD introduced 18TB capacity before Seagate. It may change this September.

Quantum's LTO-9 Pre Purchase program offers you LTO-9 drives exchanged for your LTO-8 drives at a nominal uplift fee.

Its August - 8 months have passed since we published our recommendation of Top NAS devices for 2020. A lot of models have changed and new one introduced,...

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18TB Ultrastar SATA will available by 10th July

We look at various packings available in LTO Ultrium tape media and how each one is different from the other

SAT5200 is a 2.5" SATA SSD available in 480GB, 960GB and 1.92TB capacities.  SNV3400 is an M.2 2280 NVMe SSD available in 400GB and SNV3500 is an M.2 2210...

Synology Warranty Extension of 2 years can be had for selected devices within 30 days of purchase of middle east channel  products.

Synology DSM 7.0 has many great features like Rapid Raid Repair, AI based Drive health monitoring and the new Contacts App. Its also rumored that Plus...

QNAPs QuTS hero OS has many new features like Data Integrity checks/Repairs, RAID Z, Multi Level Cache , Indline Data Deduplication and many more.

The 2 newly introduced QNAP enclosures can not only be used for NAS expansion, but also with Windows, MAC and Ubuntu PCs also as JBOD or...

What we know about the new SMR drives.

Capcity of the HDDs have been increasing thanks to Energy assisted recordings, and using multiple actuators can be a way to increase the read/write...

Currently we have very limited operations. Business is expected to fully resume after 18th April.

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This article covers the Expiry dates , and the limited lifetime warranty of the LTO ultrium tapes. Since there are no expiry dates mentioned on the...

How is the new Part number difference from the old one ? With the same RPM, Cache and capacity, but with a little higher power consumption, we are...

Seagate Rescue Data Recovery plans makes you eligible for Segates in-lab data recovery if your drive fails.  A Low cost, easy claim and 95% recovery...

When you see the capacities of LTO ultrium tapes, there is always a pair of Native/Compressed capacity. We see how they are related, what is compression...

Seagate RapidRebuild claims that it can rebuild your raid upto 3x faster than the traditional RAID rebuild. We take a look at the traditional RAIDs,...

what are the regionalized cartridges, their benefits and what to do if you/your client is stuck with a printer from another region.

When you are backing up your data to the tape media, you are going to rely on it in case of a catastrophe. Its a no brainer that this media itself though...

Data Sanitization has gained more importance in the recent years due to the increasing cases of data thefts and the financial and operation impact it may...