Samsung 860 EVO and PRO SATA SSD Review – 512GB, 1TB, and 4TB Tested
Introduction: Samsung launched their 850 line of SSDs in mid-2014 (over three years ago now). The line evolved significantly over time, with the additions of PRO and...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jan 23, 2018 | Storage | 27
Introduction: Samsung launched their 850 line of SSDs in mid-2014 (over three years ago now). The line evolved significantly over time, with the additions of PRO and...
Read Moreby Ryan Shrout | Jul 14, 2016 | General Tech | 15
PC Perspective Podcast #408 - 07/14/2016 Join us this week as we discuss a conclusion to the RX 480 power issue, the GTX 1060, a 4TB Samsung 850…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jul 12, 2016 | Storage | 16
Introduction: Everyone expects SSD makers to keep pushing out higher and higher capacity SSDs, but the thing holding them back is sufficient market demand for that capacity. With that,...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Sep 22, 2015 | Storage | 13
During yesterday's SSD Summit, obscured by their 950 PRO launch was new branding for their 32 (and now 48) layer Vertical NAND technology: This new branding is more in line with...
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Jul 23, 2015 | General Tech | 7
PC Perspective Podcast #359 - 07/23/2015 Join us this week as we discuss the AMD R9 Nano, 4TB Samsung SSDs, Windows 10 and more! You can subscribe to us through
Read MoreThis week, Toshiba introduced 4TB and 5TB hard drives to the consumer space. Coming from Toshiba's Digital Products Division, the new drives are part of the company's PH3*00U-1I72 series and are the…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jul 24, 2014 | Storage | 19
Introduction: *** NOTE *** In the preparation for this review, we noted abnormal behavior with the 6TB Red. After coordination with Western Digital, they replicated our results and will be...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jul 23, 2014 | Storage | 15
Western Digital has extended its Red line with 5 and 6TB models, sporting 1.2TB per platter. Performance is expected to be slightly improved over the older / smaller capacities of the Red.…
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Jun 19, 2014 | General Tech | 4
PC Perspective Podcast #305 - 06/19/2014 Special guest David Hewlett joins us this week to discuss our interview with AMD's Richard Huddy, the Seagate 4TB SSHD, SSD Endurance and…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jun 18, 2014 | Storage | 12
Introduction We've looked at many hybrid options over the past few years. First we checked out Intel's RST Caching solution, introduced on the Z68 chipset. Then we looked into Seagate's...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 17, 2014 | Storage | 1
There are still many times when having a huge amount of storage at a low price is more important than having the speed of an SSD and the Western Digitial Black family…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 23, 2013 | Storage | 0
Seagate's aptly named NAS HDD looks very much like their 4TB Desktop model but internally it has enhanced vibration reduction as well as parts that are more resistant to vibration which should…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 9, 2013 | Storage | 6
SSDs may be the speed kings but when you need a lot of storage space they quickly become quite expensive which is where the new WD Black 4TB HDD shines...
Read MoreSeagate recently took the wraps off of a new 4TB hard drive. The new drive uses the company's 1TB platters, and the ST4000DM000 uses four 1TB platters. Other characteristics include a 7,200…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Nov 20, 2012 | Storage | 6
Today Western Digital announced their new 4TB Black Series HDD. This new drive boasts some features normally reserved for their RE (enterprise) series drives, such as dual processors and dual stage actuator…
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Oct 11, 2012 | General Tech | 10
PC Perspective Podcast #222 - 10/11/2012 Join us this week as we talk about the NVIDIA GTX 650 Ti, Western Digital RE 4TB, Windows 8 Tablets, and more! You can subscribe to us…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Oct 11, 2012 | Storage | 9
Introduction: The Western Digital RAID Edition line of hard drives has been around for some time now, and has largely impressed us with each subsequent release. Since the launches of...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 4, 2012 | General Tech | 0
There aren't any benchmarks yet to see what the new Hitachi Ultrastar 7K4000 4TB HDD but with the similarities to the 3TB model some assumptions can be made. The 7200RPM drive contains five…
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