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Demonstrating its advanced technologies at the OCP Summit 2018 to support "accelerated hyperscale demand and data growth", Seagate's 14TB drive is its biggest yet.

Although WD’s RED range launched in the US in May, official Australian availability for the NAS-optimised, 5400 RPM WD Red and 7200 RPM WD Red Pro has finally arrived.

Hard disk drives (HDD) have long been the staple of computing devices – from notebooks to data centres. Recently Flash NAND or solid state drives (SSD) have made inroads.

Helium drives are, as the name suggests, filled with helium that is one-seventh the density air. The reduced friction allows for more disk platters and data tracks placed closer together resulting in increased storage.

In planning since 1959, NASA's Gravity Probe B was launched in 2004 to test two key predictions of Einstein's Theory of Relativity.  With great success.