Items tagged with Seagate
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Shawn Oliver - Tue, Jan 05, 2010
In case you haven't heard, USB 3.0 is the hot new thing, at least in the connectivity realm. Today at CES, Seagate--a name you surely recognize in the storage industry--has announced its first major USB 3.0 portable drive: the BlackArmor...
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Shawn Oliver - Mon, Dec 14, 2009
Earlier this month, we heard that storage mainstay Seagate would be introducing a new, ultra-thin notebook hard drive at CES. Evidently the company has decided not to wait, and it has today spoiled its own surprise by serving up the...
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Jennifer Johnson - Wed, Dec 09, 2009
Seagate is planning to launch a new hard drive at CES that is 25% thinner than current models. At 7-millimeteres, the new drive will enable laptop manufacturer to reduce the thickness and weight of their computers even more than current hard drives (which measure either 9.5 millimeters high or...
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Shawn Oliver - Mon, Dec 07, 2009
For a company with a 2TB hard drive and a serious chunk of market share in the overall storage sector, it's really tough to believe that it has yet to produce a solid state drive of its own. But sure enough, Seagate is still standing on...
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Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Oct 21, 2009
Seagate Technology Reports Fiscal First Quarter 2010 Results Quarterly revenue of $2.66 billion Establishes long-term gross margin target of 22-26% Fiscal year-to-date debt reduction of $685 million SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. -...
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Shawn Oliver - Mon, Sep 21, 2009
We've seen plenty of innovation this autumn already, but it seems that increased speed is the next bandwagon to hop on. With USB 3.0 about to take over where USB 2.0 left off, Seagate is saying goodbye, for at least one of...
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Daniel A. Begun - Wed, Sep 16, 2009
Seagate has licensed CloudEngines' easy-to-use Pogoplug network-attached storage (NAS) technology, and has integrated it into the new FreeAgent DockStar network adapter. With a FreeAgent DockStar, you can easily turn any Seagate FreeAgent...
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Shawn Oliver - Sun, Jul 26, 2009
Free stuff is hard to beat, wouldn't you agree? It's been a little while since we've cleaned out the closets here and offered up a sweepstakes, but we felt the time was right for another one. Today, we're offering up a 2.5" Seagate Momentus 5400.5 80GB hard drive, which should slot perfectly...
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Shawn Oliver - Thu, Jun 25, 2009
Not one to rest on its laurels (or platters, as it were), Seagate is introducing a slew of new products just days after tickling the small business arena with its new BlackArmor external storage solutions. Today, the outfit is bestowing upon the storage world a bevy of new FreeAgent external...
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Shawn Oliver - Mon, Jun 22, 2009
Back in March of this year, Seagate added a pair of new BlackArmor NAS devices to its growing portfolio, and now the company is issuing three more in the direction of small business owners. The firm's BlackArmor series is known for being all-business, and these two are no exception to that...
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Jennifer Johnson - Mon, Apr 27, 2009
In an effort to help make backing up one’s data easier, Seagate introduced the Replica backup appliance today. Seagate claims the Replica completely eliminates the need to manually learn, manage, or dedicate any time to the backup process. The Seagate Replica backup appliance is a complete PC...
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Jennifer Johnson - Wed, Apr 22, 2009
Many companies are taking advantage of Earth Day to call attention to the green products they offer. Today, Seagate is capitalizing on the Earth Day buzz by announcing shipment of a power-thrifty desktop hard drive family that combines large storage capacity with the best power efficiency and performance in its class. According to Seagate,...
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Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Mar 16, 2009
We're writing to let you all know that we have just posted a new article at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features and performance of the Maxtor Central Axis Business Edition NAS Server. The Maxtor Central Axis Business Edition is more than just an updated version of the Maxtor Central...
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Jennifer Johnson - Mon, Mar 09, 2009
Seagate and AMD Unveil World's First Demonstration of Serial ATA 6Gigabit/Second Technology for High-Speed PC Applications Seagate, teaming with microprocessor manufacturing leader Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans this week, today...
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Michael Santo - Mon, Feb 23, 2009
Last April, Seagate sued SSD manufacturer STEC, charging that STEC had violated four of its patents relating to error correction, memory-backup systems, and storage interfaces with computers. However, late last week STEC announced that Seagate had dropped its lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit was dropped after "extensive discovery and...
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Jennifer Johnson - Mon, Jan 19, 2009
After some angry Barracuda owners expressed their dissents over failing disk drives, Seagate is fessing up to the issue, and is now admitting to a firmware bug in Barracuda 7200.11, DiamondMax 22, and Barracuda ES.2 SATA drives that could make the disks inaccessible when the host system is powered on. According to some users, the drives tend...
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Marco Chiappetta and Dave Altavilla - Tue, Jan 13, 2009
On our yearly jaunts to the Las Vegas to attend the Consumer Electronics Show, we meet with numerous companies and see a myriad of products--some we can, and some we can't talk about--in what is always an absolute whirlwind of a trip. This year was no exception. Although the show itself wasn't quite as big as it has been in previous years...
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Matthew Shaw - Tue, Jan 13, 2009
Today Seagate has announced two new models of its award winning and industry mainstay Cheetah enterprise class hard drives, the Cheetah 15K.7 and Cheetah NS.2. What’s really significant about these models is that they are 3.5” form factor drives in larger than previously available (SAS)...
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Jennifer Johnson - Mon, Jan 05, 2009
SEAGATE SHIPS DESKTOP HARD DRIVE WITH WORLD’S HIGHEST AREAL DENSITY – 500GB PER DISK SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. — January 5, 2009 — Seagate (NYSE:STX) today announced first-to-market volume shipments of a mainstream desktop hard drive with the industry’s highest areal density. Packing 1TB of capacity on just two disks, Seagate’s Barracuda®...
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Sarah Miller - Wed, Nov 26, 2008
Seagate issued a fix for the Barracuda 1.5TB issue reported in the blogosphere and several shopping forums. In a statement, Seagate said: Some Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drives may show uncharacteristic operation when used with Mac and Linux operating systems in multi-drive...
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Matthew Shaw - Wed, Nov 19, 2008
Seagate Brightens This Holiday Season With New Colors for the FreeAgent® Go Portable Storage SolutionWith Six New Colors and a Special Offer on Movies, Music and Photos; the FreeAgent Go Portable Hard Drive is a Gift Loaded with Joy Seagate, the world's leading provider of storage solutions, unveiled today a gift idea that will keep on...
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Daniel A. Begun - Wed, Nov 12, 2008
Seagate Unveils Latest Storage Solution for Small Business - New Central Axis(TM) Business Edition Dual-Drive Network Storage Server Delivers 'Hassle Free' Network Storage with Secure Remote Access SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seagate (NASDAQ:STX), the world leader in storage solutions, today introduced the Maxtor(R)...
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