Published on: 2025-06-05 15:11:00
Time to Rethink PostgreSQL Storage Burak Yucesoy Principal Software Engineer Cloud storage was built around the limits of old hardware. Spinning hard drives (HDDs) were slow and fragile. So, early on cloud providers moved storage off of servers. They used network-attached disks to boost durability and scalability. But hardware has evolved. Today, you can get 2.5 million IOPS from a $600 NVMe SSD [1]. By contrast, pushing 2.5 million IOPS through Aurora would cost you $1.3M per month. With NVMe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 09:40:00
Forward-looking: Western Digital remains one of the world's largest hard drive manufacturers, although it trails Seagate in adopting the latest recording technologies. However, the company has announced that major advancements are planned for its HDD lineup over the next few years. At the recent Computex trade show in Taipei, Western Digital confirmed that its first hard drives based on Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) technology are scheduled to debut in 2027. Before then, however, the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 01:23:03
ZDNET's key takeaways The Sabrent USB SSD 4-bay docking station is available now on Amazon for $89. This docking station makes adding external drives to your system a total plug-and-play affair. The case is plastic, so it feels a bit cheap but that doesn't get in the way of performance. $89.99 at Amazon $89.99 at Walmart $89.99 at B&H Photo-Video more buying choices At Amazon, the Sabrent USVB SSD docking station is on sale for $80, a 11% discount. It seems I'm always running out of room on
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 23:31:58
"The biggest risk is data escape." Eric Ingebretsen, chief commercial officer at SK TES, an IT asset disposition provider, tells me this early on during a tour of a 128,000-square-foot facility in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He will restate this a few times. A big part of this site's pitch to its clients, including the "hyperscale" customers with gigantic data centers nearby, is that each device is labeled, tracked, and inventoried for its drives—both obvious and hidden—and is either securely wi
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"The biggest risk is data escape." Eric Ingebretsen, chief commercial officer at SK TES, an IT asset disposition provider, tells me this early on during a tour of a 128,000-square-foot facility in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He will restate this a few times. A big part of this site's pitch to its clients, including the "hyperscale" customers with gigantic data centers nearby, is that each device is labeled, tracked, and inventoried for its drives—both obvious and hidden—and is either securely wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 14:11:00
"Everything" is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows. Unlike Windows search "Everything" initially displays every file and folder on your computer (hence the name "Everything"). You type in a search filter to limit what files and folders are displayed. Why is Everything so fast compared to Windows Search? Everything achieves its speed by directly accessing the NTFS Master File Table (MFT) and utilizing the USN change journal to monitor file ch
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 01:19:00
Holy TB: Training and managing complex AI models requires not only significant computing power but also vast fleets of capable storage devices. Seagate plans to build a new AI-focused business around this need, developing new disk drives with unprecedented storage capacities in the not-so-distant future. Seagate expects to launch a 100-terabyte hard disk drive by 2030, anticipating that AI companies will require such massive storage for their increasingly complex chatbots and generative AI serv
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 21:54:00
Choose wisely! The correct answer, the explanation, and an intriguing story await. Correct Answer: Neither drive is the master There is no need for a master or slave distinction with SATA drives because they each connect to the motherboard with their own SATA cable. Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand, could share the same data cable, but only one could use it at a time and thus each required a distinct name. In fact, by the time ATA-2 was approved in 1996, the spec referred to the drives a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-04 20:26:20
Synology / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET So, Synology dropped a bombshell on its users this week. After some back-and-forth with company officials, I can confidently say it's not quite as bad as it seems. It's not ideal, but it's not the end of the world either. OK, let's back up. Synology is a company that makes network-attached storage (NAS) systems. The company makes prosumer, small business, and enterprise-level gear. In my evaluation of their small business NAS devices, compared to most of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 11:48:21
I dislike writing these articles, but here we are. According to HardwareLuxx, Synology is on a rough course with generations-old sub-par NAS hardware and now appears to be locking its NAS units to its own branded hard drives in its upcoming 2025 Plus models. This is a shame since a few years ago, Synology had neat hardware. Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move In 2021, we covered how Synology launched an Enterprise Hard Drive Line and started locking Drives for New NASes. That w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 05:10:00
Certified Overspending: Synology is known for its NAS appliances (network-attached storage) and other related products. While the company doesn't manufacture its own disk drives, it is now selling a "certified" line of HDDs for "maximum" reliability and compatibility. The next high-end NAS line from Synology will require the use of the company's branded hard disk drives. The manufacturer announced the change in a recent press release, stating it will increasingly rely on a proprietary ecosystem
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 08:30:00
Forward-looking: Western Digital has launched a large-scale hard disk drive recycling initiative in partnership with Microsoft, Critical Materials Recycling, and PedalPoint Recycling. The program, called the Advanced Recycling and Rare Earth Material Capture Program, aims to tackle a longstanding problem in the tech industry: the loss of valuable rare earth elements and other critical materials when data center drives reach the end of their lifecycle and are typically destroyed, generating signi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 06:54:13
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Synology is preparing to roll out new restrictions on third-party hard drives in its future network attached storage (NAS) devices later this year, the company confirmed to Ars Technica. The changes could make it much harder to use third-party drives in Synology’s devices for typical use cases, like backing up household computers or as local media servers.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 12:41:54
USB FLOPPY DISK STRIPED RAID UNDER OS X WHAT: The USB FDD raid was constructed using the following (1) One Bondi Blue iMAC 500 MhZ ( It was upgraded with a SONNET Harmoni G3 ) running OS X 10.2.4 (2) Five standard Y-E DATA 1X USB Floppy Disk Drives here they are..... (3) 5 random floppies laying around (4) Generic USB 4 port hub WHY: Why not? I had just set up my 2 firewire drives and thought, "Can I RAID USB Floppy DRIVES"? I happen to work for Y-E DATA which is one of the worlds largest m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-13 00:50:26
Popular NAS-maker Synology has confirmed and slightly clarified a policy that appeared on its German website earlier this week: Its "Plus" tier of devices, starting with the 2025 series, will require Synology-branded hard drives for full compatibility, at least at first. "Synology-branded drives will be needed for use in the newly announced Plus series, with plans to update the Product Compatibility List as additional drives can be thoroughly vetted in Synology systems," a Synology representati
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-13 05:50:26
Popular NAS-maker Synology has confirmed and slightly clarified a policy that appeared on its German website earlier this week: Its "Plus" tier of devices, starting with the 2025 series, will require Synology-branded hard drives for full compatibility, at least at first. "Synology-branded drives will be needed for use in the newly announced Plus series, with plans to update the Product Compatibility List as additional drives can be thoroughly vetted in Synology systems," a Synology representati
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ZDNET's key takeaways The Sabrent USB SSD 4-bay docking station is available now on Amazon for $89. This docking station makes adding external drives to your system a total plug-and-play affair. The case is plastic, so it feels a bit cheap but that doesn't get in the way of performance. $89.99 at Walmart $89.99 at B&H Photo-Video $89.99 at Amazon more buying choices At Amazon, the Sabrent USVB SSD docking station is on sale for $81, a 10% discount. It seems I'm always running out of room on
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-15 13:19:01
Synology, maker of network-attached storage (NAS) devices, will seemingly remove advanced features from its Plus devices that are not using hard drives provided by, or certified by, Synology itself, starting with its 2025 lineup. A report on the German site HardwareLuxx (translated by Google) and a press release on Synology's German-language website appear to confirm Synology's strategy. The company, which sees "significant benefits" to its "proprietary hard drive solution" (also per Google's t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-29 00:48:00
Budget Before anything else, you'll want to figure out how much you're willing to spend on a new hard drive. Compact solid-state drives that use flash memory are pricier than slower and bigger mechanical drives, but they have gone down in price over the last couple of years. Today, you can get a 1TB external SSD for as little as $65 or so. Very high-capacity SSDs tend to be quite pricey, so if you're looking for a lot of storage for not too much money, you'll likely have to opt for a mechanical
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-06 19:39:04
In late August of 2022, after two years of remaining relatively healthy, COVID-19 finally caught up with me. Cut off from friendly gathering, working out, and even food that wasn’t protein bars, a completely normal thought occurred to me: “How about I install AIX on my old 486?” My 486 is, as I assume most extant 486es are today, a franken-486: a hodgepodge of pieces collected over the course of thirty years, ultimately a Ship of Theseus of opportunity (yard sales!) and necessity (30 year old c
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ZDNET's key takeaways The Sabrent USB SSD 4-bay docking station is available now on Amazon for $89. This docking station makes adding external drives to your system a total plug-and-play affair. The case is plastic, so it feels a bit cheap but that doesn't get in the way of performance. $89.99 at Walmart $89.99 at B&H Photo-Video $89.99 at Amazon more buying choices It seems I'm always running out of room on my iMac drives. Why? Video files. You see, I film many videos in 4K ProRes, which mea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-29 08:43:00
Forward-looking: Hard disk drive technology dates back to the 1950s and still relies on decades-old I/O standards. Seagate plans to usher hard drives into a PCIe-based future – a shift driven by the growing demand for faster storage in artificial intelligence training and inferencing, particularly in massive, energy-hungry data centers. Seagate recently introduced a novel approach to HDD development and evolution, bringing magnetic storage and NVMe together in a new storage technology. The manu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-13 12:32:00
ZDNET's key takeaways The Sabrent USB SSD 4-bay docking station is available now on Amazon for $89. This docking station makes adding external drives to your system a total plug-and-play affair. The case is plastic, so it feels a bit cheap but that doesn't get in the way of performance. View now at Amazon It seems I'm always running out of room on my iMac drives. Why? Video files. You see, I film many videos in 4K ProRes, which means the files can get very large. Just yesterday, I filmed a vi
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As part of my work toward an upcoming post about a lost piece of very obscure Mac history that has finally been found, I’ve been playing around with old Apple-branded SCSI hard drives made by Quantum and Conner in the 1990s. What I’m about to describe is already common knowledge in the vintage computing world, but I thought it would be fun to share my take on it anyway. What I’m talking about is how a lot of these hard drives just refuse to work anymore. This is very common with old Quantum Pro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-05 20:01:26
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . If your computer is starting to feel a little sluggish, or you’re tired of waiting for games and apps to load, upgrading to one of the best SSD options out there can be a game-changer. Solid-state drives (SSDs) are much faster than traditional hard drives, helping your system boot up i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-08 05:51:00
What just happened? Samsung has expanded its consumer SSD lineup with the launch of the 9100 Pro series solid-state drives featuring PCIe 5.0 speeds. Built on an improved version of Samsung's TLC V8 V-NAND flash, this is the South Korean company's first "true" Gen 5 SSD, delivering blazingly fast speeds and more storage capacity than its predecessors. Samsung claims that the 9100 Pro series delivers up to 14,800 MB/s of sequential read speeds, potentially making it the fastest consumer SSD on t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-08 11:51:00
What just happened? Samsung has expanded its consumer SSD lineup with the launch of the 9100 Pro series solid-state drives featuring PCIe 5.0 speeds. Built on an improved version of Samsung's TLC V8 V-NAND flash, this is the South Korean company's first "true" Gen 5 SSD, delivering blazingly fast speeds and more storage capacity than its predecessors. Samsung claims that the 9100 Pro series delivers up to 14,800 MB/s of sequential read speeds, potentially making it the fastest consumer SSD on t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-08 21:18:28
Looking to upgrade the storage in your desktop PC? Our favorite internal M.2 SSD is marked down with a healthy discount at Walmart, with the 2TB model marked down to $109, and the 1TB model marked down to just $64. Those prices are both a fair amount off their regular price, and are even slightly lower than the sale prices at some other retailers. With storage prices at a premium lately, it might be a good time to expand. WIRED contributor Scott Gilbertson put the SN770 through a battery of tes
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-08 00:37:00
In context: Earlier this month, an investigation revealed that Chinese cryptocurrency farmers are passing off their used hard drives as new and selling them to consumers and retailers. The scandal mainly involved Seagate Exos server HDDs between 12TB and 16TB. Samples showed usage between 15,000 and 50,000 hours, but now there's even of more widespread distribution that extends to other drive models. Last week, the researchers at Lutz Labs who exposed the fraud found that the scam is more wides
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-08 00:37:00
In context: Earlier this month, an investigation revealed that Chinese cryptocurrency farmers are passing off their used hard drives as new and selling them to consumers and retailers. The scandal mainly involved Seagate Exos server series HDDs between 12 and 16TB. Samples showed usage between 15,000 and 50,000 hours. Last week, the researchers at Lutz Labs who exposed the fraud found that the scam is more widespread than they initially thought. Based on emails received after breaking the news,
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