Hard Drives

On the hunt for a new external drive? We check out the latest Seagate Ultra Touch model

The Oracle Air is Cooler Master's first SSD enclosure. A toolless design constructed from aluminium, it uses a USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C interface and features Dual layered cooling and supports the most common M.2 SSD formats. The pocket-sized two-part aluminium enclosure is well built and is a tool-less design. It …

We check out Toshiba's latest 20TB hard drive, priced at £360

Seagate has launched a number of special edition portable HDDs in recent years, often teaming up with Xbox or PlayStation for big launches. This time around, Seagate is taking on the Star Wars license, unveiling three themed portable HDDs featuring art inspired by some of the series' most popular heroes …

God of War Ragnarok has just been released for PS4 and PS5, and to commemorate the occasion, Seagate has partnered with Sony to launch a special edition 2TB external hard drive.  Designed to match the Ragnarok-themed DualSense controller from Sony, the Seagate special edition God of War Ragnarök game drive …

It's WD's latest Red Pro NAS-focused drive - and it costs almost £600

WD has long been at the forefront of storage technology. This month, the company is expanding its offerings to include new WD Red, Gold Purple and Ultrastar 22TB HDDs to tackle the world's growing need for reliable storage.  Each of these new 22TB HDDs is loaded with industry-firsts, including new …

It's a NAS-focused 20TB HDD, packing in a ton of technology - but it doesn't come cheap

It's a whopping 20TB hard drive, and the first to use WD's new OptiNAND technology

It's another mammoth 20TB HDD, designed for use with hyperscale applications & cloud data centres

It's a monster 20TB HDD, designed for use in multi-bay NAS environments

We are deep in the era of SSDs, but in scenarios where storage space is more important than performance, HDDs still make sense. With that in mind, we still see companies like Seagate pushing the boundaries of mass HDD storage. The company's latest launch includes two 20TB hard drives, one …

Kingston recently announced a new line up of FURY branded memory - based around this they decided to raise some awareness with KitGuru readers and sent Leo a bunch of new hardware for us to build a system. As well as the new hardware, Kingston also decided to send Leo a massive box of Kingston branded Merch. We have to admit that watching Leo playing with Kingston branded Merch gave Kitguru staff quite a chuckle this morning.

It's an external USB 3.2 Gen1 hard drive with Razer RGB lighting - worth a punt at £125?

Synology is launching its brand new HAS5300 series 3.5″ SAS hard drives this month to meet growing demand for high-capacity and resilient storage systems. There are three HDDs, offering up 8TB to 16TB of storage. Available in 16TB, 12TB, and 8TB models, the HAS5300 drives are the latest addition to …

Western Digital isn't only announcing new storage gear for the gaming market today, the company has also unveiled SanDisk Professional, a new brand of premium storage solutions for creative professionals. Professional content creation requires reliable storage, as content is captured, saved, transferred, shared and archived. To harmonise this process, SanDisk …

SSDs are known to significantly outclass HDDs in terms of performance, but Seagate has been developing a new technology to close the gap a bit. Named Mach.2, this new technology features a dual-actuator and two HDDs working simultaneously to deliver a level of performance similar to a SATA SSD.

Seagate is expanding its range of external storage solutions for PC gaming. There are two new external HDDs coming – the FireCuda Gaming Hard Drive and the FireCuda Gaming Hub, both designed to allow users to install their games and take them on the go. The FireCuda Hard Drive features …

New statistics show that SSDs outsold traditional hard drives for the first time in 2020. While SSDs may have sold more units though, HDDs still take the crown for total storage.  According to the statistics from Trendfocus (via Storage Newsletter), SSD sales have increased by almost 21% in 2020 (333.12M) …

We review an 18TB (!) NAS-focused HDD from Seagate

Black Friday has officially arrived and with it, there are a ton of new deals floating around, making this weekend the best time to buy some new upgrades for your gaming setup. We’ve been on the lookout for some of the best storage and memory deals. SSDs: SSDs have become …

One of the primary improvements touted by Sony with regards to the upcoming PlayStation 5 is the fact that the next-gen console will utilise a speedy SSD, drastically reducing loading times, while also allowing for new level designs thanks to this increased loading speed. That being said, it appears as …

It's a 3.5in, 16TB HDD aimed at the enterprise market segment

OWC has unveiled its Thunderbay 8 storage solution that offers up to 128 TB storage and uses Thunderbolt 3 to reach speeds of up to 2586 MB/s. Those who are in dire need of even more storage can daisy-chain up to six units together for up to 768 TB of storage …

With game install sizes increasing all the time, the current crop of games consoles are struggling to fit all this data on their internal hard drives, so external storage is almost a necessity if you want to keep your game library packed with new releases. Silicon Power has a new …

QNAP has announced the launch of two new multi-platform USB 3.2 Gen 2 JBOD storage enclosures including an 8-bay desktop model and a 12-bay 3U rackmount redundant power model designed for NAS, PCs and servers. The new TL series USB JBOD enclosures from QNAP could be used to expand QNAP …

QNAP has added a new 24-drive bay to its enterprise ZFS NAS series. The new ES2486dc is QNAP’s first high-availability all-flash NAS to feature dual controllers with Intel Xeon D-2142IT processors for excellent I/O throughput and 10GbE Ethernet connectivity. The ES2486dc from QNAP features a dual active-active controller architecture to …

A new addition to the Silicon Power external hard drive range is designed to offer a blend of stylish aesthetics with excellent functionality. Silicon Power has styled the Stream S07 external drive bay around the appearance of stone with a textured surface finish. The reason behind this ‘stone-like' appearance is …

TerraMaster has proudly announced a new lineup of Thunderbolt 3 equipped direct-attached storage solutions to provide fast video and data access to content creators and multimedia professionals. The new TD2 direct-attached storage (DAS) line from TerraMaster utilises the power of Thunderbolt 3 to allow 40Gbps data transfer in a two-bay …

CES 2020 is reaching its halfway point today and we have already seen a stack of innovative and exciting new products launching at the event in the last few days. Western Digital has announced the world’s highest capacity, pocket-sized portable SSD from its SanDisk line, along with other brand-new storage …