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Seagate Technology, one of the largest manufacturers of magnetic hard drives, is planning to enter the SSD market with a couple of flash-based storage solutions designed for the enterprise market. The company, which has a long story of creating traditional magnetic hard drives, is considering launching its first SSDs... |
10 October 2008
09:47 GMT |
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Seagate, one of the leading manufacturers of computer storage products, has announced that Acer, top provider of notebook computers, is now offering new portable systems equipped with its own 500GB 2.5-inch Momentus 5400.6 hard drives. The 500GB 2.5-inch HDDs were introduced back in July, along with the industry... |
29 September 2008
10:34 GMT |
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Last week, SanDisk turned down Samsung's offer of acquisition. It seems that the price per share offered now is lower than the one at the beginning of the discussions, and the company wants more money. As recent news shows, other companies seem to be interested in getting their hands on the flash memory company.... |
22 September 2008
02:57 GMT |
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Seagate, a world leader in storage solutions, announced today new additions to its award-winning FreeAgent external hard drives series. The Fall 2008 lineup of the FreeAgent family includes devices for desktop and mobile machines, for both Mac and Windows operated PCs, enhancing the backup, sharing and protection of ... |
15 September 2008
05:01 GMT |
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Despite the fact that some claim that HDDs have almost outlived their usability, the overall HDD industry is continuing to grow. According to iSuppli, this happens mostly because of an insatiable demand for low-cost, high-capacity storage devices.The current figures regarding HDD shipments indicate a rather impressiv... |
23 July 2008
09:20 GMT |
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As far as storage is concerned, Solid State Drives are expected to impact the market in a very significant way. And it seems that this is what all storage manufacturers are concerned about these days, according to all the recent news. With all that, Seagate comes to counter this trend - by announcing today the releas... |
10 July 2008
10:22 GMT |
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It's becoming pretty clear that SSDs represent the future of storage as we know it. This is the reason why most of the major manufacturers on the storage market are trying their best in order to catch a spot on this bandwagon to the future. Some of them might even try some extreme solutions, like going for their... |
25 June 2008
14:51 GMT |
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After stating that it would introduce SSD storage products for consumers "if the cost-per-gigabyte comes down to 10 cents," Seagate is reportedly pursuing a buyout of Intel's 49% stake in IM Flash Technologies. IM Flash is a NAND flash memory vendor that is currently part of a joint venture with Intel and Micron... |
20 June 2008
08:32 GMT |
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Seagate, one of the leading manufacturers of storage solutions, is seriously considering getting more involved in the SSD market. The company plans to introduce its first SSD storage next year, but the products will not be meant for the consumer market. Along with the release of its first SSD drives, Seagate also pla... |
30 May 2008
07:13 GMT |
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Two of the largest manufacturers of portable computers will be the first to ship their products with the latest 7200 RPM, 320 GB hard drives. Dell and Alienware have been announced, via a press release coming from Seagate, as the first two vendors to offer their notebooks with a 320 GB hard drive upgrade. Dell will p... |
20 May 2008
03:48 GMT |
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Yesterday, Seagate, one of the leading manufacturers of storage solutions for both consumer and business users, has announced that they will be releasing Seagate Showcase. The new product aims to satisfy the needs of users looking to save and keep their favorite TV shows and movies. Seagate Showcase plans to extend t... |
20 May 2008
02:58 GMT |
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Storage specialist Seagate has just announced that its Momentus 5400 FDE.2 hard drive got certified by the US National Security Agency. According to the report, Seagate's self-encrypting notebook disk drive can be safely used by U.S. government agencies and national security contractors, as it delivers maximum l... |
14 May 2008
08:52 GMT |
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A 400 MB hard-disk drive manufactured by Seagate has been recovered from the wreckage left by the Columbia space shuttle. The ship has been completely destroyed by an explosion during reentry on February 1, 2003. There was nothing left of the ship and all the seven crew members had been killed by the blast. However, ... |
6 May 2008
05:24 GMT |
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Storage specialist Seagate has just announced that it is the first hard-disk drive manufacturer to have shipped 1 billion HDD units. The huge number makes a statement about Seagate's position on the storage market, but it also draws attention to the amount of information stored by computer users. According to th... |
22 April 2008
11:28 GMT |
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Solid-state drive manufacturer STEC claims that Seagate's patent infringement lawsuit is completely without merit and gets ready to prove this in court. According to the filled lawsuit, hard-disk drive manufacturer Seagate accuses STEC of infringing four of its patents that cover mass-memory storage technologies... |
16 April 2008
04:51 GMT |
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Storage expert Seagate is reportedly gearing up for a huge court battle with almost any solid-state drive manufacturer on the market. As previously reported, Seagate's CEO, Bill Watkins, said that he was not impressed with the performance boost achieved by using SSDs inside notebooks, and would ultimately sue it... |
15 April 2008
03:00 GMT |
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Storage specialist Seagate Technology announced that it will add automatic encryption capabilities to its upcoming offerings in the Cheetah 15K series of enterprise hard-disk drives. The underlying encryption algorithm is compliant to the Trusted Computing Group specifications.According to Dianna DaGiau, senior produ... |
7 April 2008
09:31 GMT |
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Solid-state drives are extremely popular storage media among notebook users. They are slim, light and they have no moving parts to damage the storage media while operating under increased vibrations or shocks. More than that, they are extremely energy-efficient and help preserving the battery life for extended period... |
25 March 2008
04:38 GMT |
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Seagate technology has just announced its new Cheetah 15K.6 hard drive that will begin shipping later this month. Built from ground up for high-performance computing and enterprise storage environments, the Cheetah family is a top-tier offering in Seagate's storage family of products.The new drives are built wit... |
5 March 2008
04:37 GMT |
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Seagate Technology has teamed up with encryption specialist WinMagic in order to provide enterprise-class security solutions for data-at-rest. The two companies will base the new security solution on their best technologies. Seagate's Secure disk drive technology is a hardware-based full disk encryption system w... |
19 February 2008
09:50 GMT |
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Earlier this week, Seagate unveiled their brand-new 250 GB Momentus 5400.4 portable hard drive. Although everybody would have expected the disk to continue the Seagate tradition of hybrid drives introduced last year, a note inside the presentation specified that the Momentus 5400.4 contains "no flash".The company... |
24 January 2008
11:37 GMT |
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The storage market is somewhat similar to the DRAM battlefield and can be translated into a single sentence: "you're late, you're dead". No wonder that the industry titans are in a continuous battle for the largest and cheapest hard disk drives. As if it were not enough, there's the new and shiny solid... |
24 January 2008
06:54 GMT |
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Storage specialist Seagate Technologies has announced a capacity update for their Momentus line of notebook hard disk drives. The new Momentus 5400.4 is a 2.5-inch form factor disk drive, featuring two platters and 8MB of cache. Spinning at 5,400 RPM, the disk is designed for use with notebooks and small-firm factor ... |
21 January 2008
03:28 GMT |
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Storage specialist Seagate Technologies published a second-quarter revenue of $3.4 billion, with a net income of $403 million. Laptop sales had a tremendous impact over the final sales figures as they have continued to grow for some years now. The quiet battle between the notebook and the desktop PC segments is about... |
19 January 2008
06:57 GMT |
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Is Microsoft comical? I guess that the answer is a matter of perspective, but the Redmond company has debuted a new initiative that might just ensure a nook among the heavyweights of comedy. While gearing up for the imminent release of Windows Server 2008, ITdevcomics is bound to give IT professionals and developers ... |
18 January 2008
06:36 GMT |
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Storage company Seagate announced not too long ago a new wireless storage platform that would allow any wireless device connect to it for additional storage space or file sharing. The platform was first spotted in January 2007 and was presented as a platform for wireless storage access by mobile phones. This year... |
16 January 2008
10:47 GMT |
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Seagate has made yet another step in launching its Digital Audio Video Experience (DAVE) wireless storage device. The company has introduced its technology partners that will integrate the storage device into their various consumer applications. The Digital Audio Video Experience device can connect to various technol... |
7 January 2008
05:39 GMT |
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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 |
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Seagate's Free Agent drive is known for its reluctance regarding operating systems. Shortly, the hard drive won't work correctly with Linux and Mac operating systems (this means that only Microsoft's Windows stands a chance), due to a nifty feature built into the hard disk, namely the sleep timer. This... |
11 December 2007
09:11 GMT |
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Seagate's Free Agent series of external had drives are making worldwide users pluck their hair out in anger. It seems that the 'Go small' slogan should be replaced with 'Go nuts' since Linux users are discriminated after they have paid a pretty salty price. While Linux would manage almost any... |
7 December 2007
06:40 GMT |
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Apple is usually slow to acknowledge things like manufacturing flaws, typically putting things off until they can also offer a solution to affected customers. This is not always possible, and sometimes the company cannot put things off any longer, simply making an announcement stating that they are investigating the... |
28 November 2007
00:09 GMT |
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One of Seagate Technology hard drives that come bundled with Apple MacBooks have a critical manufacturing flaw that makes the disk act uncontrollably destructive, either wiping your data or irreversibly compromising it. The issue was discovered by a data recovery company, Retrodata, that identified the problem in som... |
27 November 2007
04:56 GMT |
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The storage industry has undoubtedly undergone a fascinating evolution this year. We have seen the 250 GB notebook hard drive hit the shelves, as well as we have witnessed the first 3.5'' one terabyte hard disk drive. Most of all, the new technology is already mass-produced, with affordable prices for the c... |
26 November 2007
09:39 GMT |
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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 |
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The hybrid hard disk drives, HHDs for short, are looking like the best solution nowadays when users are kind of fed up with the slowness of the traditional hard disk drive, HDDs for short, while also being shy from the extravagant price tags that come with the new storage devices, the solid state drives. As a middle ... |
8 October 2007
08:35 GMT |
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The hard disk drive manufacturing industry recently reached a point where storage capabilities are plentiful and few users could ask for more while most of the time the very same industry has big trouble accelerating the access speed of the drives in order to improve response times and overall system performance.One ... |
25 September 2007
05:18 GMT |
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Seagate Technology announced the launch of a new line of products designed to meet the demands for both increased storage capacities and better data protection. In order to satisfy those demands, the hard disk drive manufacturing company launched a hard drive intended for use in laptops and notebooks with a capacity ... |
10 September 2007
03:01 GMT |
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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 |
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Seagate Technology announced the launch of its latest hard disk drive which is intended to be used as a high performance storage solution in an enterprise or corporate environment. The Cheetah 15K.6 hard disk drive is the latest addition to the hugely successful enterprise Cheetah family of products that are specific... |
6 September 2007
06:20 GMT |
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Unlike most computer hardware parts, traditional hard disk drives are very hard to improve when it comes to speed, not storage capacity, mind you. A number of solutions exist though, like a faster data transfer interface between the hard disk drive and its mainboard controller, higher rotational speeds, larger amount... |
23 August 2007
03:54 GMT |
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Wester Digital announced the end of a very strong fiscal year. During the last quarter of the 2007 fiscal year, the company shipped no less than 24.9 million hard disk drive units, a serious jump from the 19.2 million units from a year ago. For this year, Western Digital registered $5.5 billion in revenues and an ad... |
27 July 2007
04:31 GMT |
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Serial ATA hard disk drives and optical drives are becoming more and more popular as their price drops (now it is already equal with the price of a Parallel ATA drive). Their popularity is not only due to their now lower costs, but mainly because they offer better performance in a computer hardware segment where spee... |
26 July 2007
06:56 GMT |
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Seagate announced that its new Cheetah hard disk drives series have been integrated by Xyratex in its enterprise quality class data storage subsystems. The Cheetah NS is one the high efficiency, high performance disk drives from Seagate and Xyratex integrated it in their 4GB SBOD storage system. The Cheetah is a hard... |
25 July 2007
06:35 GMT |
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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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Seagate, SCUDE and GammaTech (formerly known as Twinhead) are forming a partnership to create and implement hardware-based security solutions in order to prevent unauthorized access to data on stolen or lost laptops. Each of these companies comes with its own security technology, as SECUDE has the FinallySecure authe... |
11 July 2007
09:16 GMT |
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After some months in which nothing new came out of Seagate's door, on Thursday the hard disk drive manufacturer silently began to ship its 1TB (1000GB) hard disk drive (HDD) to large retailers and partners. Unfortunately this 1TB unit comes in about half an year late after the launch of Hitachi's Deskstar/C... |
8 June 2007
15:51 GMT |
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From time to time companies publish their incomes: net income, operations income and total revenue. This is done on a year long basis, each company sharing with the rest their successes or failures four times a year. To us simple numbers of how rich companies are and how much money they make isn't quite the subj... |
18 April 2007
07:10 GMT |
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One of the most annoying things is when you delete a folder in which you later realize that you had important information. From that point on a struggle goes on to get back whatever it was that you lost. So, first things first, you have to get some piece of software to help you do the trick. That being said, you surf... |
12 April 2007
05:40 GMT |
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The hard drive has seen some interesting crossroads during the years and the path it took so far has been a huge motivation for the computer industry. Now, we are faced with the challenge brought by memory-based storage devices: they are faster, more rugged and durable, but they are not as big. This being said, the o... |
2 April 2007
05:18 GMT |
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There should be a commercial for this: "Are you paranoid? Can't sleep at night thinking your data isn't secure? Wanna secure your information without actually putting it into a safe? Try out the latest technology in hard drive security, it's Paranoid-Encryption! Paranoid-Encryption, the paranoia is rea... |
12 March 2007
11:31 GMT |
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