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Seagate's Application Platform (AP) series of servers have targeted the market segments requiring tightly coupled storage and compute capabilities. The currently available SKUs - The Exos AP series with HDDs, and Nytro AP series with SSDs - are all based on Intel CPUs. That is changing today with the introduction of the Seagate Exos AP 5U84 based on the AMD EPYC Embedded 7292P processor. The Exos AP 5U84 equipped with the 2nd Gen. AMD EPYC platform enables a high-density building block for private clouds and on-premises equipment, with 84 3.5" HDD bays capable of storing up to 1.344PB (using Exos X16 HDDs) in a 5U form-factor. Capacity can further be expanded with EXOS E SAS expansion units. The platform includes redundancy options and all the...
Seagate's Intel Rangeley NAS Pro 4-bay Review
Seagate recently rebooted their NAS offerings, completely revamping their 2013 Business Storage lineup and dropping that software platform altogether. In its place, they adopted a Debian-based offering, NAS OS...
14 by Ganesh T S on 8/27/2014
WD Red Pro Review: 4 TB Drives for NAS Systems Benchmarked
A couple of weeks back, Western Digital updated their NAS-specific drive lineup with 5 and 6 TB Red drives. In addition, 7200 RPM Red Pro models with 2 -...
62 by Ganesh T S on 8/8/2014
Seagate NAS 4-Bay with Marvell ARMADA 370 Review
Seagate recently rebooted their NAS offerings, completely revamping their 2013 Business Storage lineup and dropping the old software platform altogether. In its place, they adopted the Debian-based NAS OS...
20 by Ganesh T S on 7/24/2014
6 TB NAS Drives: WD Red, Seagate Enterprise Capacity and HGST Ultrastar He6 Face-Off
Western Digital launched the first NAS-specific 6 TB drive today. In expanding their Red portfolio, they have brought 6 TB drives suitable for 24x7 operation into the hands of...
84 by Ganesh T S on 7/21/2014
Seagate Reboots Network Storage Offerings with Rangeley NAS Pro and ARMADA NAS Lineups
The fruits of Seagate's LaCie acquisition started to appear earlier this year with the Seagate Business Storage Rackmount Series. The NAS OS that was part of the unit was...
19 by Ganesh T S on 7/15/2014
LaCie's 2big Thunderbolt 2 and Rugged Thunderbolt DAS Review
Consumers dealing with multimedia workflows need to transfer large amounts of data around. Be it collecting data in the field or editing media at a workstation, the necessity for...
42 by Ganesh T S on 7/9/2014
Seagate Acquires SandForce From Avago/LSI
Seagate has just announced that they will be acquiring LSI's Accelerated Solution Division and Flash Components Division from Avago, which translate to LSI's Nytro lineup along with the SSD...
37 by Kristian Vättö on 5/29/2014
Seagate Business Storage 8-Bay 32TB Rackmount NAS Review
Seagate's acquisition of LaCie in 2012 made quite a bit of sense as most of their product lines were complementary in nature. However, they had a bit of an...
31 by Ganesh T S on 3/14/2014
Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic Recording
It's not just planar NAND that's running into physical limits lately. According to Seagate, its latest 1TB platter 3.5" drives have shrunk read/write heads as small as they can...
27 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/9/2013
Seagate's Ultra Mobile HDD: Putting HDDs in Android Tablets
In a move I honestly never thought would happen, Seagate is announcing today plans to brings its 5mm 2.5" Laptop Ultrathin HDD to Android tablets. The drive will come...
42 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/9/2013
Battle of the 4 TB NAS Drives: WD Red and Seagate NAS HDD Face-Off
The SMB / SOHO / consumer NAS market is expected to experience good growth over the next few years. With declining PC sales and increase in affordability of SSDs...
54 by Ganesh T S on 9/4/2013
Seagate Introduces NAS HDD: WD Red Gets a Competitor
Consumers looking to fill their SOHO / consumer NAS units with hard drives haven't had too many choices. Western Digital recognized early on that the dwindling HDD sales in...
46 by Ganesh T S on 6/11/2013
The Seagate 600 & 600 Pro SSD Review
If you had asked me back in 2008 who I thought would be leading the SSD industry in 2013 I would’ve said Intel, Western Digital and Seagate. Intel because...
59 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/7/2013
Seagate 1200 SSD: Custom Seagate SAS Controller, X8 PCIe SSD Also Announced
Alongside the Seagate 600 and 600 Pro SATA SSDs, Seagate is also announcing its 1200 SSD aimed squarely at the enterprise market. While the 600/600 Pro use Link A...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/7/2013
Seagate Announces New Laptop and Desktop SSHDs (Solid State Hybrid Drives)
A few days ago we reported that Seagate would stop selling 7200 RPM 2.5” hard drives by the end of the year. Now we know why. Seagate will continue...
53 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/5/2013
Seagate to Discontinue 7200rpm 2.5" Drives Later This Year
Earlier today X-bit Labs reported that Seagate will stop the production of their 7200RPM 2.5" drives by the end of this year and I just got a confirmation from...
57 by Kristian Vättö on 3/1/2013Seagate and LaCie Demonstrate Complementary Product Lineups at CES 2013
Seagate is well on its way to complete the acquisition of LaCie, and the two companies had a joint presence at CES 2013. For the most part, the companies...
3 by Ganesh T S on 1/14/2013
Seagate Announces Intent to Acquire LaCie
We just received word from LaCie PR that Seagate has announced an intent to acquire a controlling interest in LaCie. Seagate is a familiar name for storage products, with...
9 by Jarred Walton & Howard Johnston on 5/23/2012
A Tale Of Two Thunderbolt Storage Devices: Seagate's GoFlex Desk and Western Digital's Thunderbolt Duo
I remember the early days of the USB-vs-FireWire wars like they were yesterday, although Wikipedia reminds me that they were more than a decade ago (sigh). USB 1.0 arrived...
46 by Brian Dipert on 5/13/2012
Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter Now Available
A few weeks ago at CES 2012, Seagate showcased their GoFlex Thunderbolt adapters. They come in two flavors: the GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt adapter takes 3.5" drives, requires an external...
18 by Kristian Vättö on 2/2/2012
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