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Types of Storage Drives & Their Uses
In a world where everything is done on the virtual platform, from business transactions to personal archives, the significance of data cannot be undermined. This equates to the increasing value of storage drives for computers.These storage drives come in many forms and designed to cater to specific storage tasks. Nonetheless, they serve the same purpose and that is to hold data or information whether temporarily or permanently.By definition, a storage drive is computer hardware that stores and r
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Oct 1st 2020
How To Choose Between SAS vs SATA HDDs?
With a bulk of hard drive products today, choosing the right one for your computer or your server can be taunting. Hence, if you are on your way to purchasing a hard drive, it is best to learn more about the basics of HDD plugs and cables that potentially make the difference.Hard drives or HDD are unmistakably one of the most valuable components of your computer. It stores files, programs, and other essential data that keep your computer living up to its functions.While the many types of HDD sto
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Sep 24th 2020
HPE Instant Secure Erase (ISE) Hard Drives / Solid State Drives
HPE Instant Secure Erase (ISE) is designed to protect data on hard disk drives by instantly resetting the drive back to factory settings and changing the encryption key so that any data remaining on the drive is cryptographically erased. This means all data on the drive is permanently and instantly unreadable, as needed.To perform the ISE function, you must have either a Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) with or without FIPS validation, or a HPE ISE drive. ISE-only drives provide you the ability to se
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Jun 22nd 2020
HPE Business Critical Hard Drives
HPE Business Critical Hard Drives are engineered to deliver the highest capacity, performance, reliability and data security across your data center applications. Business Critical hard drives allow you to store more data without sacrificing performance or reliability. HPE Business Critical Hard Drives are available in both 3.5-inch Large Form Factor (LFF) and 2.5-inch Small Form Factor (SFF) and ship with a standard one-year warranty. All HPE hard drives pass a rigorous qualification process
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Jun 22nd 2020
HPE Servers Multi Vendor (MV) Mixed Use (MU) Value SAS (VS) Solid State Drives (SSDs)
HPE Servers Mixed Use (MU) Solid State Drives (SSDs) deliver high performance and endurance for applications requiring high random read and write IOPS performance. HPE (MU) SSDs are backed by over 3.35 million hours of testing and qualification ensuring reliable, high-performing drives.HPE Value SAS SSDs offer a significant performance boost over SATA SSDs with roughly twice the IOPS of SATA SSDs, enabling you to improve transactional database workloads with affordable Value SAS SSDs. HPE Digita
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Mar 7th 2020