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Seagate Unveils New Storage Solution for Small Business

Seagate, one of the leading makers of computer storage solutions, has decided to remind us of our old Maxtor hard disk drives by introducing a new dual-drive network storage server, dubbed Maxtor Central Axis Business Edition. Essentially designed to meet the storage requirements of small businesses, the Central Axis...

12 November 2008
11:35 GMT

1TB Storage for Maxtor Shared Storage II

Maxtor Shared Storage II features two hard disk drives that can offer up to 1TB of storage space. The two 7200RPM drives can also be configured as a single storage drive or as a RAID 1 drive, meaning that there will be 500GB storage space that will be completely backed up on the second drive. This feature offers more...

31 March 2008
08:47 GMT

Workaround Released for Seagate Free Agent

The latest batch of external drives from Seagate, the so-called Free Agent series are not compatible with Linux, but some workarounds have been discovered.The main problem relates to the power-saving systems on these drives, while the other - the NTFS formatting is used - is just a small issue, because the recent Li...

11 December 2007
09:50 GMT

Norton, McAfee and Kaspersky Fighting for Seagate's HDD Security

The short story so far: Seagate delivered approximately 1,800 Maxtor Basics 3200 hard-drives which were apparently infected with a dangerous Trojan attempting to steal users' credentials. The interesting fact is that nobody said a thing until the Taiwan government accused the Chinese authorities of trying to acc...

19 November 2007
03:42 GMT

Maxtor Releases the Superman of Portable HDDs: Both Waterproof and Fireproof

Although Maxtor has suffered quite a serious blow to its brand image after the recent pre-installed virus related scandal, the company keeps rolling out new and improved products, designed to respond to certain specific market demands. And that's pretty much the case with the company's latest announcement, ...

14 November 2007
06:06 GMT

Maxtor's Infected HDDs Aiming To Steal Government Information

Yesterday, Seagate confirmed the rumors talking about a potential virus included in the Maxtor Basics 500G portable devices, saying that all the hard discs were removed from the shelves and only a few of them managed to reach the consumers. Today, the Taipei Times informed that no less than 1,800 discs were sent to T...

13 November 2007
03:43 GMT

Special Christmas Gift from Maxtor: Buy a HDD and Get a Free... Virus?!

OK, that's smart. Seriously, have you ever thought that you can infect your computer by installing a brand new HDD on your computer? No more spam messages, no more malicious links, no more nothing. Just pay for a Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 and you're infected. Simple as that. But how can this happe...

12 November 2007
03:47 GMT

Angelina's "Friends" Cause Trouble

A virus has been disclosed by the Kaspersky company within the Maxtor 3200 Personal Storage - that's an external hard drive. Thing with it is that you get it for free, when purchasing the products. This is the second news item of this type that we had in the past ten days - last week we found out that some lapto...

20 September 2007
03:10 GMT

Seagate Roll Out The Maxtor OneTouch4

Seagate Technology announced the launch of a new hardware based data back up and protection solution using the well known and liked Maxtor OneTouch products line. The new Maxtor storage solutions come in the form of simple and robust devices that combines experience with tradition and offer increased protection and s...

7 September 2007
06:57 GMT

Seagate Sees Income Rising

Seagate just posted its latest fourth quarter financial data and it reported a boost in incomes thanks to a higher revenue and a one-time tax benefit. Seagate is the largest hard disk drive manufacturer in the U.S. and one of the most important in the whole world. Its income increased to $541 million, compared to onl...

20 July 2007
05:02 GMT


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