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1. Seagate on Soaring Trajectory

   [ News ] Topic: Seagate | Author: SusanHall | Date Published: 01/21/2010

   Seagate, the world's largest maker of disk drives, is flying high after reporting results of its second fiscal quarter, reports Reuters . It also raised its forecast for 2010. Net income was $533 million , or $1.03 a share, compared with a loss of $2.82 billion, or $5.80, in the...

2. Seagate Launches 6Gbps 2TB Hard Drive

   [ News ] Topic: Hard Drives | Author: AinsleyJones | Date Published: 09/21/2009

   Seagate announced today that its new Seagate Barracuda XT hard drive is now shipping. The company claims its the world's first 3.5-inch 6Gbps 2TB hard drive, according to CNET News . The drive is based on the SATA3 standard, which doubles the throughput of hard drives that use the SATA2...

3. Seagate Unveils 7mm-Thick Hard Drive

   [ News ] Topic: Hard Drives | Author: AinsleyJones | Date Published: 12/15/2009

   Seagate announced the Momentus Thin, a new 2.5-inch laptop hard drive that is only 7mm thick. Its size is comparable to most solid-state drives (SSDs) used in netbooks, but offers the advantages that come with a hard drive. One of the key advantages hard drives have over SSDs is price , says ...

4. Research Published After Recovery of Hard Drive from Shuttle Columbia

   [ News ] Topic: Hard Drives | Author: SusanHall | Date Published: 05/08/2008

   Five years after the breathtakingly tragic breakup of the space shuttle Columbia, which killed all seven crew members on re-entry, scientists have published research done during that space mission. Using data on a 400 megabyte Seagate hard drive recovered from the wreckage, scientists have...

5. Seagate Fix for Barracuda Drives Needs Fixing

   [ News ] Topic: Hard Drives | Author: SusanHall | Date Published: 01/21/2009

   Seagate has promised a second fix within 24 hours for the issue causing Barracuda drives to fail, reports The Register . The firmware patch for Barracuda 7200.11 hard disk drives addressing the issue in the 500GB models now also affects 1TB models as well, according to ITPortal.com . It...

6. Seagate Issues Second Hard Drive Fix

   [ News ] Topic: Seagate | Author: SusanHall | Date Published: 01/23/2009

   Seagate has issued a second fix for a firmware problem that caused some hard drives to fail, reports InformationWeek . Earlier this week, the original fix affecting 500GB models of Barracuda 7200.11 hard disk drives also caused the problem to spread to Barracuda's 1TB drives. This Web...

7. SSDs Won't Escape Performance Degredation

   [ News ] Topic: Solid-State Drives | Author: AinsleyJones | Date Published: 05/11/2009

   For all the pomp and circumstance surrounding solid-state drive technology, you'd think it would be without flaw. You'd be wrong. According to the Solid State Storage Initiative's Consumer SSD Market Development Task Force, solid-state drives can be subject to performance degradation and...

8. Seagate Makes Self-Encryption Standard on Hard Drives

   [ News ] Topic: Encryption | Author: KaraReeder | Date Published: 09/24/2009

   Seagate has rolled out new hard drives that feature self-encryption as standard , reports V3.co.uk . Geared toward enterprises, the new Savvio, Constellation and Cheetah lines will now have the ability to automatically encrypt their contents. Data will remain encrypted while at rest or when...

9. Seagate Enters SSD Market

   [ News ] Topic: Solid-State Drives | Author: AinsleyJones | Date Published: 12/08/2009

   Seagate has released its first solid-state drive. While SSDs have found limited acceptance in the laptop market, Seagate is aiming for the more lucrative and larger server market with its new Pulsar drive . According to CNET News , the 2.5-inch SATA Pulsar drive offers 200 gigabytes of capacity...

10. i365 Platform Enables ISVs to Integrate Backup and Recovery Services

    [ News ] Topic: Cloud Computing | Author: AinsleyJones | Date Published: 01/11/2010

    i365, a unit of Seagate, has announced the launch of its EVault Cloud-Connected Services Platform . According to Mike Vizard over at our CTO Edge site, the platform enables the simplification of the backup and recovery process by allowing it be a function of any given application...

11. IBM, Seagate Acquisitions

    [ News ] Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions | Author: SusanHall | Date Published: 12/07/2007

    With acquisitions, IBM and Seagate are diving deeper into the managed services market , according to Byte and Switch . IBM has added to its arsenal in the field by buying Arsenal Digital, whose main product ViaBack, is sold to service providers for backing up customer data. Meanwhile,...

12. Seagate Unveils New External Hard Drives

    [ News ] Topic: Hard Drives | Author: AinsleyJones | Date Published: 09/15/2008

    Seagate is unveiling its new lineup of FreeAgent external hard drives. The drives, which include both laptop and desktop models, come pre-formatted for either Mac or PC file systems, reports CNET News . Seagate claims its FreeAgent Go and Go for Mac, at 12.5 milimeters, are the thinnest...