Category: Hard Drives

PNY Technologies has come along way since it introduced its first SSD in 2007. Since then, PNY has greatly improved their solid state drive technology and released better and better models. With the advent of their XLR8 Series and Prevail Series, PNY wanted to provide high quality memory SSD’s to all levels of the market. They were the first few to utilize the 25nm Intel enterprise grade MLC synchronous NAND flash memory in their consumer SSD’s. This translates to crazy endurance levels that was not seen in the average consumer SSD. The XLR8 series is aimed to serve as the Premium level for Light Home / Office use. The Prevail Series is aimed to serve as the Computer Grade for Business / Professional use, and the Prevail Elite Series serve as the Enterprise Grade for Intensive Storage Loads. Basically the XLR8 Series is aimed at consumer use while the Prevail series is aimed at workstation, server, and networking use.

Each SSD is highlighted by its reliability, accelerated performance, lower power operations, durability, and overall efficiency. The Prevail Series and XLR8 Series carry endurance ratings of 10K and 3K Program/Erase cycles respectively(as noted in the following diagram), and they’re both backed by the PNY Endurance Promise.

PNY SSD Highlights

PNY SSD’s are powered by the SandForce SF-2200 controllers. These controllers make it possible for the SSD’s to have 550MB/s sequential read speeds and 520MB/s sequential write speeds. Data is coming in and out a lot faster than your conventional hard disk drive.

The XLR8 Series offers one of the best performance to cost ratio for consumers. Coming in the market at a price of $259.99 for the 240GB SSD on PNY’s website, it comes close to the $1.00/GB threshold at approximately $1.08/GB. Other resellers and distributors are selling these SSD’s under the $1/GB barrier. The SSD market has been making strides in lowering costs for SSD’s, really benefiting consumers and companies that are transitioning to or maintaining their IT infrastructure with SSDs. The XLR8 series offer long lasting high performance that caters to all your gaming, video and photo applications, and system performance needs.

The PNY Prevail Series offers amazing performance  and endurance for an enterprise class storage drive. The Prevail Elite Series is the model that carries the 10K rated flash endurance life. It’s designed for “lower latency, faster boot up and application launching” and its lower power design and flash endurance makes it ideal for workstation, server, and networking infrastructures.

So, the question is, which PNY SSD is right for you?

The Seagate NAS HDD seeks to blow away the competition in the NAS HDD marketplace. The NAS HDD boasts a 30% larger capacity over competitors and a industry leading throughput at a maximum of 180MB/s of data transfer rate. They’re offering these hard drives in 4TB, 3TB, and 2TB sizes, that means you can have up to 20TB of storage space in a 5 bay NAS solution.

Seagate boasts that their NASWorks Technology will ensure the lifespan of your hard drive. It implements protective measures such as a dual plane balance that helps reduce vibrations in your multi-hard drive solutions. It also has specialized error recovery controls to ensure the health of your hard drives in RAID arrays. It’s programmed with advanced power management that supports continuous performance while using low power. Average power for each hard drive tops out at 4.8W for the TB and 3TB models and 4.3W for the 2TB model.

Seagate NAS Solutions

They’ve also done the work for you and by testing their hard drives for compatibility with the Industry’s Top NAS Solution Providers. Among these are Asustor, D-Link, Drobo, Lacie, Lenovo, QNAP, Synology and Thecus. Seagate is ensuring the money you invest in their products has great returns. Seagate also wanted to remind us that they have extended their warranty on hard drives to at least 2-year limited warranty since June 30, 2012. These hard drives specifically have a 3-year warranty.

To learn more about Seagate’s warranty policy, Visit : https://www.seagate.com/support/warranty-and-replacements/

Hard drives, an essential component in the operation of a computer system. It stores all the programs, the operating system and personal files on the computer. It’s the most precious, irreplaceable part of a computer, one can ill afford to lose the data from a hard drive.. You can’t recover the files from a hard drive once it fails, or even stolen.

Poor Jingming Zhang, a student at Rutgers University, tells the best story concerning stolen hard drives.

5 years of research and Mr. Zhang did not think to backup his dissertation.This story should be a lesson to anyone out there that thinks one hard drive is enough. If you’d like to read more about this story, the link is posted at the bottom of the page.

At Saitech Inc. we guarantee all our products are high quality to ensure that an incident like this does not happen to you. All computer products go through rigorous testing for stability and defects before it can be sold. If by chance, one slips by us, contact us about our amazing Return Policy and we will send you a working product right away.

If your hard drive hasn’t failed on you yet and you don’t have a backup, don’t take chances and purchase an external hard drive now at Saitech Inc.

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