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Western Digital HDD capacity hits 28TB as Seagate looks to 30TB and beyond

Enlarge / Western Digital is gearing up to sample its first 28TB HDDs to customers, around a year after announcing its first 26TB drives. Western Digital reader comments 7 with After a couple of decades of talk, Seagate announced earlier this year that it was shipping samples of huge 32TB hard drives using heat-assisted magnetic… Read More: Western Digital HDD capacity hits 28TB as Seagate looks to… »

Free data-center heat is allegedly saving a struggling public pool $24K a year

reader comments 71 with Share this story A public pool in the UK is expected to save £20,000 (about $24,000) and cut carbon emissions by 25.8 tons annually by warming a 25 m and children’s pool with waste heat from a data center from startup Deep Green. Data center owners have long tried to limit… Read More: Free data-center heat is allegedly saving a struggling public pool… »

Ars online IT roundtable Thursday: What’s the future of the data center?

reader comments 19 with 18 posters participating, including story author Share this story If you’re in IT, you probably remember the first time you walked into a real data center—not just a server closet, but an actual raised-floor data center, where the door wooshes open in a blast of cold air and noise and you’re… Read More: Ars online IT roundtable Thursday: What’s the future of the… »