ICY News: Seagate releases industry's thinnest 2TB HDD

Seagate today announced it is shipping its highest density laptop drive, a standard 9.5mm thick model with up to 2TB of capacity.

"The M9T drive is also available in a 1.5TB model. Both the 2TB and 1.5TB drive models use a 6Gb/s SATA interface. While there are 2TB laptop drives today, they come in 12.5mm and 15mm form factors, which are around a half in inch thick. At 9.5mm, the M9T is about .37-in thick. Laptop drives are standard in 7mm and 9.5mm form factors." 

Desktops won't have any issues using them, however if your case does not have 2.5-inch bays or 2.5" to 3.5" converters.

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IcyDock MB994SP-4SB-1 & MB991SK-B: Drive bay domination continues

MB994SP-4SB-1 -- Four for one, and one for all The 4SB is a 5.25” form-factor drive bay that is able to accommodate up to 4 x 2.5” SATA drives. IcyDock offers an even denser array with the MB996SP-6SB (not surprisingly, storing 6 drives) but, unlike the MB996, the trays for this series support drives up to 15mm in height. MB991SK-B -- You weren’t using that 3.5” bay anyway The 991SK-B is a 3.5” bay device that can fit a single drive. It uses the same size tray as the 4SB. The tray is lockable for convenient way to make sure the drive doesn’t walk off or get ejected unintentionally. With almost complete disappearance of 3.5” floppy drives from the modern PC, it only makes sense to put that empty location to good use for extra storage..........Read More ToughArmor MB991SK-B Product Page: http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=162 ToughArmor MB994SK-4SB-1 Product Page: http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=142

ICY News: Western Digital's HGST Announces Its New Ultrastar He6 Drives

6TB
3.5-inch Helium Platform Enterprise Hard Drive

• World’s first helium HDD – Patented HelioSeal™ technology enables this new building block for future growth

• Industry’s first 6TB HDD – Innovative 7Stac™ disk design enables the world’s highest capacity

• TCOptimized™ platform – Delivers higher capacity, lower power, cooler and quieter operation in a standard 3.5-inch form factor

The reduction in turbulence for the spinning disk allows HGST to offer a seven-disk design in a traditional 3.5-inch form factor. In addition to being the world’s first helium-filled hard drive, HGST Ultrastar He6 is also the first hard drive in the industry to offer a 6-terabyte capacity. This design delivers a 50% capacity gain and still reduces the energy needed to run the drive by up to 23%.


Read more at: HGST Ultrastar He6

ICY News: Toshiba Introduces Enterprise-Class SSD with 1.1GB/s Throughput.

Toshiba Reveals Enterprise SSD with Up To 800GB/s Capacities

"Toshiba Corp. has introduced its latest enterprise-class solid-state drives (eSSDs) that boast high capacities as well as extreme speeds. The new Toshiba PX02SS eSSDs will provide up to 800GB of storage space and up to 1.1GB/s data read speed. The eSSD is designed for various write-intensive enterprise applications and is ideally suited for large workloads, such as data processing and online transactions....Read More"