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Seagate hasn't started selling its latest solid state drives yet, but it has made the official announcement, marking the first entrance in the consumer business.
The 600 Series are 2.5-inch units with 6 Gbps SATA support and up to 480 GB capacity.
The 600 Pro are more or less the same, only they have lower pow... |
7 May 2013
11:04 GMT |
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Over the past month, Seagate had time to check all its expenses and income, eventually finalizing the financial report that all large corporations need to post every three months. On March 29, 2013, Seagate ended the third quarter of its fiscal year 2013. Now, the financial results have finally been published. The... |
2 May 2013
08:02 GMT |
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Hard drive units need to maintain their capacity lead over solid-state drives in order to keep their role on the IT market.
That is why Western Digital, Seagate and Toshiba have been developing platters with higher data densities.
Seagate is the one taking the lead now, having released the industry’s first 4 TB HDD... |
3 April 2013
05:20 GMT |
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A couple of weeks ago, Sophos experts identified a cybercriminal campaign that relied on rogue Apache modules that pushed iFrame injections in an effort to direct the visitors of compromised websites to the BlackHole exploit kit. The researchers say one of the websites affected by this attack is Seagate’s blog... |
15 March 2013
04:40 GMT |
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The world really has come a long way. Three decades ago, computers were a luxury, but now they are part of our lives and they aren't even the only ones that use hard disks anymore, hence Seagate's milestone.
Seagate has proudly announced that it has reached the two billion hard disk drive shipment mark, a... |
12 March 2013
14:01 GMT |
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Seagate may be one of the two greatest makers of hard drives in the world, but it knows when the time of its primary products has passed.
As it happens, the time of HDDs has not yet passed, but the magnetic storage devices have been experiencing a rather unfortunate decline in shipments, though sadly not in prices.
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5 March 2013
11:05 GMT |
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It was bound to happen sooner or later, but most people were banking on later: Seagate will give SSDs a big push this year but dropping manufacture of a certain type of hard disk drive.
While there are hard disk drive units with platter speeds of 10,000 rotations per minute, they are rare, and expensive.
HDDs of 7... |
1 March 2013
02:11 GMT |
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There was a time when servers were the only things that could act as storage hubs for networks, and connected PCs had to store most things on their own HDDs, but network-attached storage devices, like the series that Seagate has just introduced, have changed that.
Network-attached storage devices are computers, of ... |
19 February 2013
05:06 GMT |
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Seagate's Barracuda brand is one of the longest-running HDD names on the storage market, but Seagate is ready to move on and leave that name behind, as a symbol and relic of history.
The company will replace it with the much more straightforwardly named Desktop HDD brand, which covers the 250 GB – 4 TB r... |
8 February 2013
05:20 GMT |
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To stay as one of the top two suppliers of storage units, Seagate has to become well known on the solid-state drive market, which means it needs to sell as many SSDs or as many kinds as possible. To achieve this, it has enlisted the help of Virident.
Virident Systems is “a provider of flash-based storage-class... |
29 January 2013
05:13 GMT |
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Before Thailand got hit by floods back in late 2011, hard drives were very cheap, much cheaper than they are now. The prices went up by factors of 2 and 3 immediately after the disaster though, and it is a sad fact that the return to normal levels won't be nearly as fast.
Of course, that HDDs continue to be ov... |
25 January 2013
04:33 GMT |
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At CES 2013, Seagate has revealed the Central shared hybrid device that combines the benefits of an external HDD with those of a consumer NAS device (Network-attached storage).
Essentially, it is a multi-functional data hub that can store and stream audio and video, wirelessly, to Samsung Smart TVs, mobile gadgets, ... |
8 January 2013
03:52 GMT |
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Not one to let the Consumer Electronics Show pass without some measure of participation, Seagate is attending the show in Las Vegas, Nevada. One of the products ready to start selling for $199 / 151-199 Euro is an AirPlay-connected magnetic storage device that exists to stream media to Samsung smart TVs or any other... |
8 January 2013
03:30 GMT |
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Hard disk drives used to be a storage solution exclusive to personal computers and servers, but they have been used in other things over the past years, like network-attached storage devices, set-top boxes, even TVs. Seagate has launched an HDD made specifically for these types of applications. As such, it has give... |
13 December 2012
14:11 GMT |
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The hard drive market has been declining over the past few years, but Seagate is one of the few companies that has firmly held on.
The company definitely has something to celebrate now: it has finally crossed the 2 billion sales milestone.
The way Seagate reached that number is strange. It took 28 year (Seagate was... |
1 November 2012
05:00 GMT |
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As it has already been a while since the first hybrid HDDs (more recently called solid-state hybrid HDDs / SSHD) were introduced, Seagate figured it was time it broadened the scope of these storage devices. Seagate's hybrid hard drives have been available only to notebook makers for the past five years. The co... |
1 November 2012
03:27 GMT |
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The Enterprise Value HDD series hasn't been released alone. In the same announcement, Seagate has introduced the 6th-generation Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 hard drives, as well as the Enterprise Performance 10K HDDs.
Also known as the Constellation ES.3, the Enterprise Capacity 3.5 series comes in 1 to 4 ... |
16 October 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Since it isn't about to disregard its enterprise storage lineup, Seagate has prepared three additions to its already extensive lineup.
Called Enterprise Value HDD, the series is composed of 1 TB, 2 TB and 3 TB drives, all of them featuring the 3.5-inch form factor.
In addition to a server rack density of 114 T... |
16 October 2012
10:15 GMT |
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In a support document released last year, Apple had determined that certain 1TB Seagate hard drives used in 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMacs could fail. Apple now says “these systems were sold between October 2009 and July 2011.”
Customers can now ask Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP) to re... |
16 October 2012
02:57 GMT |
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Recently, we've seen helium being used for two things, namely cooling and storage, and it is the latter use that Seagate does not hold much faith in, despite the apparent enthusiasm of Western Digital, more specifically its subdivision HGST (Formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies).
The idea of using heli... |
12 October 2012
07:35 GMT |
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Seagate is one of the three remaining great providers of hard disk drives, rivaled by Western Digital and trailed, rather distantly, by Toshiba. That doesn't mean that the corporation isn't involved in other things though.
While the field of cloud storage is not the same thing as hard disk drive manufactu... |
24 September 2012
13:11 GMT |
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AMD may have diverted some attention away from Intel's Developer Forum (IDF), but Chipzilla will be at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco for three days, so it will not have trouble offsetting that fact.
One of the companies there with Intel is Seagate, whose Momentus XT hybrid storage drives ... |
11 September 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Seagate didn't become so large just because of its own ideas, but also thanks to the buyout of various companies in the same field, that of computer storage.
One of the more recent such acquisitions is that of LaCie, a provider of external storage devices like hard drives and network-attached storage units.
Th... |
4 August 2012
03:31 GMT |
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We first reported here that Seagate was rumored to be probing OCZ for a possible buyout, and then we received unofficial reports that the deal is close to completion so we reported on that here. The final report said that Seagate is likely to soon make an announcement regarding the move. The financial reports came... |
1 August 2012
22:31 GMT |
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Expert hybrid hard drive (HHD) manufacturer Seagate is apparently preparing to manufacture better HHDs than the ones we’ve already seen from the company. Test products will be shipped to various partners in the following months.
The targeted market is the enterprise domain with various applications in high-per... |
1 August 2012
02:59 GMT |
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Seagate Technology has just announced its financial performance for the last quarter of fiscal year 2012 and the overall fiscal results for the whole fiscal year 2012. Despite the global economic downturn and the specific issues in the hard drive market, Seagate made over $3 billion in net income from June 2011 until... |
31 July 2012
07:41 GMT |
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We'd have expected Seagate to wait until the latest acquisition was completed before appointing a leader of its solid-state drive business, but that has not turned out to be the case.
Seagate Technologies has decided who will be managing its solid-state drive division: Gary Gentry, previously of Micron.
The ... |
31 July 2012
02:35 GMT |
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Well-known SSD company OCZ has apparently been sold to HDD company Seagate. Despite of its market value of about $300 million, it seems we were right and the company has been sold for a little more than 1 billion dollars.
We reported here about the potential deal and the money exchange it would imply, and now, hardw... |
30 July 2012
04:31 GMT |
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For decades, the HDD market was plagued by tough competition and oversupply. Asian manufacturers were successfully competing on price and performance and all players had to buy huge amounts of HDD components to ensure big discounts from their suppliers and keep the costs in check. You really need to check out the fi... |
28 July 2012
19:31 GMT |
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You’d think that the shares of a company that has its factories under water would be dropping in value. Well, usually you’d be right, but when that company holds half of the world’s HDD supply in its pocket, the share price is only going up. You really need to check out the first and the second par... |
27 July 2012
21:21 GMT |
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After decades of oversupply and harsh competition in the global market, two of the world’s biggest HDD makers decided to buy all other competitors and increase prices to levels unheard of before. You really need to check out the first part of this series before reading any further. In 2011, Western Digital bo... |
26 July 2012
21:11 GMT |
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Western Digital has yet again posted record financial results for the fiscal quarter ending in June 2012. The company’s net income was 272% higher than the same period last year, and WD managed to spend a whole $1.1 billion in cash in the midst of the global economic downturn. The HDD market has long been in a... |
26 July 2012
05:11 GMT |
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It seems that bad news is following the IT business this year. The sales are down due to the overall economy, system prices are up because of the HDD duopoly between Seagate and WD and now it seems that Seagate will tie down the fast pace of SSD development. Going from a net income of about 0.3 ~ 0.4 billion dollars... |
20 July 2012
04:01 GMT |
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All computer users have more than a year left to still enjoy the “wonderful” duopoly in the HDD industry. Toshiba was supposed to pose as the third HDD player in the market, but it doesn’t seem to be eager to. After Seagate acquired Samsung’s successful HDD business last year, Western Digital... |
13 July 2012
04:09 GMT |
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By now, we've resigned ourselves to the idea that a large part of the HDD “crisis” concerns were overblown and that prices won't get back to pre-flood levels. Curiously, though, even record HDD sales don't seem to have met Seagate's hopes.
The HDD crisis passed a while ago, regardles... |
6 July 2012
02:42 GMT |
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After Seagate acquired Samsung’s HDD division and Western Digital got Hitachi’s HDD business, the HDD market was left with a huge, almost perfect duopoly that manipulated HDD prices in any way the two companies desired. The only other company that was supposed to play the role of the third HDD &ldqu... |
29 June 2012
20:21 GMT |
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Seagate was not capable of developing either a decent SSD or an impressive hybrid drive in the past years. The company did everything to play down the role SSDs have on the computer storage market. Now, Seagate is using some of the money they“extorted” from the HDD buyers to invest in SSD technology.... |
26 June 2012
03:51 GMT |
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In buying LaCie, as it announced it would, last month (May 2012), Seagate was quite efficient and quick on its feet, having acquired a dominant market share from the former's leaders.
According to the latest press announcement on the matter, Seagate has bought 64.5% of LaCie's outstanding shares from Phil... |
15 June 2012
10:50 GMT |
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We live in a strange world if a natural disaster turns into a boon, but that is precisely what happened on the hard disk drive market during the first quarter of 2012.
Back in late 2011, there was a flood in Thailand, where most HDD makers and HDD component manufacturers have their factories.
Water reached almost ... |
13 June 2012
05:45 GMT |
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There are some new external hard drive units up for sale from Seagate, all of them equipped with the company's Dashboard software that performs local backup with just one mouse click. There is a certain feature that Seagate sees as central to the marketing success of the Backup Plus series of hard drives: the ... |
12 June 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Seagate and Western Digital now own more than 85% of the HDD market and are seemingly in a complete agreement to artificially raise worldwide HDD prices. After they bought Hitachi, Samsung and Toshiba’s HDD divisions last year, the duopoly is now free to bleed us dry. There are many uninformed readers that ha... |
8 June 2012
17:11 GMT |
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HP's servers are used by many companies around the world, so the company decided it was time for a general improvement, starting with its ProLiant Gen 8 line.
HP has begun to gather allies that may help forward its projects as part of the ProActive Insight Architecture Alliance, or PIA Alliance for short.
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30 May 2012
21:01 GMT |
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For a company supposed to be in trouble with shortages, Seagate did remarkably well during the last quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of this year, 2012.
One would think that the alleged undersupply would give the HDD giant trouble meeting what orders it already has.
This does not seem to be the case, at leas... |
24 May 2012
02:30 GMT |
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As we've established in our previous article, storage density is not going to increase any faster in the following years and as such, the performance bumps will be mediocre at best. When it comes to hybrid drives, WD openly exposes Seagate’s rip-off, as the company admits the fact that a 20 to 1 ratio bet... |
14 May 2012
04:40 GMT |
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It’s clear that HDD capacity is still in high demand and the demand will only grow in the following years. That’s why profit mongering HDD company Western Digital has reportedly discussed new technologies to increase the capacities and performance of its products, yesterday at a conference in Vienna, Aust... |
10 May 2012
09:22 GMT |
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Seagate's Pulsar.2 solid state drive line, the successor to the original pulsar collection, has been formally introduced, but the first tests haven't been carried out yet.
It is tomorrow, on May 9, 2012, that the storage product maker will put the 12 Gbps SAS interface through its paces, during the SCSI T... |
8 May 2012
03:16 GMT |
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During its quarterly fiscal results conference on Thursday, Western Digital reportedly admitted that it managed to significantly restore production capacities after the October 2011 flooding in Thailand. "I am pleased to announce today that the recovery activities related to both WD operations and those of our suppl... |
27 April 2012
12:43 GMT |
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Hard drive manufacturers Seagate Technology and Western Digital have reported great financial results after such a prolonged hard disk drive “crisis.” There was always talk about the fact that hard disk drives are so cheap, that the profitability of the manufacturers is getting low enough to limit t... |
26 April 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Makers of hard disk drives have been revealing one advancement after another, but they might not be able to keep it up for long. Seagate thinks so at least.
In the past few years, as has become fairly customary on the IT industry as a whole, new breakthroughs have been reached in HDD research and development.
One... |
20 April 2012
11:01 GMT |
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They are at it again: makers of hard disk drive units are busy saying how NAND Flash memory couldn't possibly replace magnetic drives. Ever. To Seagatet's credit, CEO Steven Luczo does, at the very least, admit that NAND can be a good complimentary technology (we think he meant complementary, but just in ... |
18 April 2012
03:40 GMT |
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