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Seagate recently published its financial results for the latest quarter and, since it was on the subject, it talked a bit about the HDD shortage and how it would go from there.
People may remember that, back in January, 2012, Hitachi said it didn't expect the supply of HDD to fully recover until late this year... |
2 February 2012
03:38 GMT |
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In a darkly amusing turn of events, Seagate was found to have actually benefited from the hard disk drive shortage and subsequent price hike.
It helped that the company didn't actually get hit directly by the Thailand floods, unlike Western Digital.
Long story short, Seagate shipped 3.1% fewer drives, but saw ... |
1 February 2012
10:45 GMT |
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If you feel that using the USB 2.0 interface of your Thunderbolt-equipped MacBook for connecting a GoFlex external drive to your computer is like being stuck in the stone age, Seagate has a solution for you.This comes in the form of the GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter, which the outfit has just added to its website. Whil... |
1 February 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Verizon and Seagate have established a partnership for the promotion of an external storage solution with support for wireless connectivity. Storage products, like most other consumer electronics devices, have started to gain new features. Seagate and Verizon have just become two of the more prominent figures behin... |
11 January 2012
02:35 GMT |
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It appears that Seagate has successfully secured the second spot in the worldwide HDD production rankings.
The company finished the proceedings for the acquisition of Samsung's HDD division on December 19.
Thus, its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2012 (ended on December 30, 2011) incl... |
5 January 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Seagate has finally gotten past that short period of time when it was farther behind Western Digital than the world is used to. Back when WD Bought Hitachi, it gained a share of about 50% of the whole thing, leaving the rest for Seagate, Toshiba, Samsung and others to divide amongst each other. Considering that Se... |
20 December 2011
03:24 GMT |
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It appears that the myth of the decline of the hard disk drive market is not a myth at all, as Seagate has mirrored its rival company in reducing the warranties of some of its hard disk drives.
Some may remember that, about a couple of days ago, we wrote about how Western Digital had dropped the warranty-purging ... |
17 December 2011
04:35 GMT |
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Though some are still pessimistic about the prospects on the HDD market, a ray of sunshine, pale though it is, has broken through the winter clouds, or is expected to do so soon enough.
The hard disk drive shortage is one thing on the IT market that has been closely monitored by companies and market watchers alike.... |
6 December 2011
18:41 GMT |
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Hybrid drives is a concept that Seagate started to play with as early as last year, and the company is doing so again, though this time it seems to be more serious business.
Granted, even the first time around was serious business, but more of the experimental type than now.
Hybrid drives may still not be past th... |
29 November 2011
02:41 GMT |
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Seagate and Western Digital have been in arbitration over allegations of use of trade secrets and misappropriation of confidential information, but their quarrel may finally be at an end. Then again, maybe it isn't, since Western Digital can still challenge the decision of the arbitrator who issued the 'a... |
21 November 2011
11:07 GMT |
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Seagate has just announced that it has refreshed its Barracuda HDD product family to feature the new 1TB platter technology that was introduced with its GoFlex external drives enabling these to deliver better overall performance.Together with the new drives, Seagate also introduced a new naming scheme, which unites a... |
1 November 2011
09:32 GMT |
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The flooding problems of the HDD industry are rising and, with them, concerns that hard disk drive units will suffer from severe shortages starting two months or so from now.
We previously spoke of how the hard disk drive market is about to go through a tough period because of flooded factories.
Western Digital, ... |
27 October 2011
09:25 GMT |
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Seagate may have said that its operations weren't disrupted overmuch by the floods in Thailand, but it looks like it has its own share of problems which, added to all other HDD woes, may be problematic in the near to mid term.Seagate has two Thailand facilities, which make head stack assemblies, head gimbal ass... |
22 October 2011
07:16 GMT |
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Seagate has already completed the first quarter of its fiscal year 2012 so, naturally, the company weighed its gains and losses, finally publishing its financial results.
Seagate appears to be doing more or less well for itself, even now that its unlooked for advantage over Western Digital has yet to come into play... |
21 October 2011
07:44 GMT |
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It was months ago that Seagate said it would be buying Samsung's hard disk drive product division and, at long last, the European Commission has gone over the deal and given it its approval. Whenever a company says it wants to acquire another, or even just part of its assets, the deal needs to be approved by t... |
20 October 2011
10:59 GMT |
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It looks like this year is going through its second phase of natural disaster-induced economic upheaval, though at least this once the effects will be restricted to just one IT field instead of the whole world's economy. Though not as bad as the disaster that shook Japan back in March, certainly not as deadly,... |
19 October 2011
05:05 GMT |
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We already spoke about how the floods in Thailand have or will disrupt the activities of the world's top HDD makers and, it turns out, December will see some real shortages. Cutting right to the chase, hard disk drives are in serious danger of ending up in short supply during the final month of the ongoing yea... |
17 October 2011
09:34 GMT |
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After WD said it had to shut down pretty much every one of its operations in Thailand, Seagate is facing unfortunate prospects as well, since it has its own facilities there. Thailand has been suffering from bad flooding for a while already, with extensive consequences, albeit perhaps not quite as horrible as those... |
14 October 2011
15:55 GMT |
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Hard disk drive makers have pretty much chosen to have hard drive capacity grow on a regular basis, so as to maintain its position in the wake of SSDs, and Seagate says it should make the next leap within three months' time.
Seagate has been in the hard disk drive business for many years now and, naturally, ... |
14 October 2011
03:29 GMT |
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Seagate may be best known for its “pure” storage products, but its product line includes much more than that, like the GoFlex Cinema multimedia drive.
The GoFlex Cinema from Seagate is what one might call a hard disk drive with media player capabilities.
Some might make the leap to multimedia pla... |
12 October 2011
05:55 GMT |
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At the beginning of this month, Seagate announced the introduction of the world's first external hard drive to feature 4TB of storage capacity and reports suggest the company is now planning to release the desktop version of this drive in November of this year.Seagate will most probably use the same HDD as the o... |
26 September 2011
11:03 GMT |
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Samsung may have spoken of a project that would yield a 4TB hard disk drive, but it looks like Seagate was the one to finish first, as revealed in its new press release.Solid state drives may have gained in base capacity over the past six months, but hard disk units have been constantly expanding their own, maintain... |
7 September 2011
02:41 GMT |
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IT companies, like anyone else, definitely have a reason to rejoice when one of their more daring projects bears good and plentiful fruit, so it is not strange to see Seagate celebrating the Momentus XT.Users might remember that, back in May, Seagate introduced a certain invention known as a solid state hybrid drive... |
9 August 2011
09:36 GMT |
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Seagate develops portable hard disk drive featuring a certain security feature that will allow users to recover data in case anything may leave it corrupted or otherwise lost, though this will only be usable once.Seagate has been in the HDD business for many years and, some time ago, even expanded its market share b... |
8 August 2011
08:23 GMT |
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Solid state drives haven't had anything to stop their steady increase in market share at the expense of hard disk drives, but it might just be that a certain move on Seagate's part could finally stave them off, at least for a while.
Back in June, Seagate announced 7 mm-thin Momentus Thin 2.5-inch HDDs,... |
5 August 2011
05:31 GMT |
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Storage giant Seagate has reportedly decided to shorten the warranty period of most of their consumer series hard disk drives from the current five years to just two years, in an effort to reduce the costs associated with such storage solutions.
The warranty reduction will affect some of Seagate's most popula... |
4 August 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Samsung did its part in regards to SSD transition not long ago and it looks like Seagate is ready to give its own products a boost, though in this case it is hard disk drives of the portable variety that are becoming more versatile.There are various types of storage units out there, divided according to almost as ma... |
3 August 2011
03:11 GMT |
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Apple is addressing owners of 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac systems with acknowledgment that their 1TB hard drive may be faulty. Customers who bought an iMac between May 2011 and July 2011 are encouraged to contact the company for a free replacement of their Seagate drive.The announcement comes both via email, to custom... |
24 July 2011
10:45 GMT |
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In early March, Seagate has introduced to the world its second generation of solid state drives for enterprise use, and now, more than four months after the official announcement, the Pulsar XT.2 SSDs have finally started to ship into the distribution channel.
The Pulsar XT.2 drives use the standard 2.5-inch form ... |
18 July 2011
08:35 GMT |
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Toshiba may have lagged behind the two other powers on the HDD market, but it definitely doesn't plan on slacking off, having decided to set the basis for not just one, but two new HDD development centers.One could say that the past several quarters saw things on the hard disk drive market change massively in t... |
8 July 2011
04:30 GMT |
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Seagate has made many a hard disk drive over the years and, in tune with its latest acquisitions, is going to keep doing so, keeping horizons broad by developing such things as bright pink devices.Seagate might not be the leader of the HDD market anymore, but it definitely is the close second to Western Digital. ... |
28 June 2011
11:00 GMT |
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Seagate just announced that the company has developed a news series of super-slim hard drives that measure only 7mm in height and are specially designed to be used inside tablets and other ultra-portable computing devices.The new hard drives were introduced into the Momentus Thin product line, are available in three ... |
24 June 2011
03:44 GMT |
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When it comes to portable storage drives, one usually thinks of a 2.5-inch or 1.8-inch HDD or SSD that connects to a laptops or tablet via the USB connection, but it looks like Seagate had something extra in mind for its GoFlex Satellite.Being the second greatest supplier of hard disk drives worldwide, Seagate is no... |
16 May 2011
09:31 GMT |
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With the new mergers on the HDD industry, competition has become more focused, with just three players now vying over control of the market, and TDK believes that Toshiba is not in as great a danger as some might think.By now, end-users probably know of the great mergers that happened on the HDD market over the past... |
10 May 2011
10:23 GMT |
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That Seagate was going to boost its HDD market share after buying Samsung's HDD division is something that didn't really allow for doubt, but it looks like iSuppli checked to see just what the numbers really are.The IT industry is no stranger to partial or total acquisitions of a company by another, especi... |
4 May 2011
09:54 GMT |
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Seagate has just become the first company to announce that is has developed a hard drive that breaks the 1TB per platter density barrier to help meet the ever increasing worldwide demand for digital content storage.
According to the company, the new hard drives have an areal density of 625 Gigabits per square inch... |
3 May 2011
08:54 GMT |
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Seagate may already possess its own solid state drives, but it hasn't really managed to gain any real recognition in this IT field, something that might change now that Samsung's assets are involved.End-users may be aware of the fact that, not long ago, Samsung and Seagate announced a certain financial agr... |
21 April 2011
03:49 GMT |
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It looks like serious changes are happening on the hard disk drive market, one of them involving Samsung's sale of its entire HDD business to Seagate, as part of an agreement that also touches on their existing patent cross-license agreement.With the rise of solid state drives and the reduced use of mini HDDs i... |
19 April 2011
04:47 GMT |
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As far as rumors on the IT market go, some are more wild than others, but a recent one involving Samsung may actually have something to it, considering how things have been going on the storage industry.Samsung is a company that deals in a wide variety of products and technologies, mobile, CE (consumer electronics) ... |
18 April 2011
02:40 GMT |
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It looks like Seagate decided this was the opportune moment for a small update on its financial situation, as well as for announcing a quarterly cash dividend set to be payable on June 1, 2011.Each company has its own way of keeping track of its fiscal years and the financial development during each of the four quar... |
8 April 2011
04:24 GMT |
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Introduced more than four months ago at the CES 2011 fair as the world's slimmest external hard drive, the Seagate GoFlex Slim is now finally available for purchase and, later down the line, Seagate also plans to release a special Mac version of the drive.
The GoFlex Slim is one of the most interesting extern... |
5 April 2011
09:31 GMT |
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It would appear that Seagate was really serious about its efforts on the enterprise market when it issued its newest press release, as even the Constellation ES.2 series has made its debut.When releasing a new product for the consumer market, companies often dedicate a whole press release just for that.On the enterp... |
15 March 2011
09:45 GMT |
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We've already covered Seagate's newest series of solid state drives for the enterprise market but they are just part of the company's new offer, as some hard disk drives of very high platter speeds have also been introduced.Even though it is now well behind Western Digital on the storage market, what ... |
15 March 2011
09:20 GMT |
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Seagate may have fallen behind Western Digital on the storage market, especially now that the latter owns Hitachi as well, but the outfit definitely isn't finished yet, and its newest press release proves it.It seems that Seagate decided it was time for one of those major product refreshes, so it released a bun... |
15 March 2011
08:54 GMT |
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In a surprising and unforeseen turn of events, Western Digital has just announced that it has purchased Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $4.3 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, Western Digital will acquire Hitachi GST for $3.5 billion in cash and ... |
7 March 2011
08:14 GMT |
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Although SSDs tend to spend a lot more time in the spotlight nowadays, the truth of the matter is that the bulk of storage in home computers is still done by HDDs, and the Seagate Barracuda XT proves this only very well, coming with a whooping 3TB of storage space.According to Seagate, their very capacious storage so... |
1 March 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Soon after Intel's Thunderbolt technology made its debut in the 2011 MacBook Pro, Seagate and Western Digital, two of the most important storage solutions manufacturers on the market, have announced their support for the new technology as well as their plans to release Thunderbolt solutions in 2011.
Together,... |
25 February 2011
06:11 GMT |
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For the hard disk drive market, the year 2010 was a period of growth, and while both Seagate and Western Digital performed admirably, marketing-wise, it seems that a change in leadership came to pass.For many years, Seagate and Western Digital have been battling over the top position on the hard disk drive market.Gr... |
23 February 2011
09:27 GMT |
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It would appear that Seagate is doing fairly well for itself, as its most recent press release was dedicated to celebrating its most recent success, that of having exceeded the 1 million unit shipment threshold in regards to self-encrypting HDDs.The first time Seagate sold self-encrypting HDDs was in 2005, and it wa... |
15 February 2011
06:43 GMT |
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Seagate may have been trying to become a private company at one point no too long ago, but it has definitely not stopped its continuous research and development efforts, as is made plain by its latest series of HDDs. Those keeping track of such things might know that both I-O Data and Buffalo revealed new hard ... |
19 January 2011
10:06 GMT |
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