Seagate followed up on Constellation.2 with a high-performance eco-friendly desktop drive for green computers and storage. – Seagate Technologies on Dec. 14 officially launched the Barracuda Green, a
high-performance eco-friendly 3.5-inch desktop drive.
Formerly known as Barracuda LP (low power), the new drive is designed and
built to the quot;highest quot; environmental standards, said Seagate. The new
drives use fe…
Seagate’s Constellation.2, a 1TB hard disk drive for storage arrays and enterprise data centers, will be shipped in Dell systems at the end of the month. – Seagate introduced on Dec. 13 the Constellation.2, a 1TB
hard disk drive designed for enterprise server storage applications.
The 2.5-inch hard disk drives are intended for a variety
of storage environments, including direct attached storage, network attached
storage and storage area network s…
No one is buying Seagate, neither the private equity firms nor Toshiba. The company canceled the buyout talks and initiated a stock repurchase program. – After weeks of speculation, Seagate Technology has ended
discussions with private equity firms about taking the company private.
Instead, it will start a $2 billion stock repurchase program.
The company made the announcement after the stock market
closed Nov. 29.
Seagate canceled talks quo…
Despite rumors of Toshiba, Western Digital, Hitachi or Samsung buying Seagate Technology, an analyst believes Seagate is still likely to go private. – What’s going to happen to Seagate Technology? No one seems to know for sure,
as rumors swirl that instead of going private, the company may be an
acquisition target for Toshiba or one of its rivals. However, Wedbush
Securities analyst Kaushik Roy said a strategic buyout doesn’t make sense.
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EVault CCSP program may be the first of its kind to give the channel community a way to build a cloud storage business and generate a recurring revenue stream. – Seagate’s i365 subsidiary has a new package of products and services
for channel resellers who find themselves having trouble selling
cloud-related services because, well, they’re all out in the cloud and
being sold by service providers.
On Nov. 17, the online storage company launched its …
A lawsuit filed by Rembrandt IP Management accuses Seagate Technology and Western Digital of infringing on patents regarding the method of storing data to hard disk drives at high speeds and higher densities. – Rembrandt IP Management filed separate suits against Seagate Technology and Western Digital charging that the two companies violated patents on the method for writing data to hard disk drives at high speeds and high storage densities.
The patents in question concern low-noise toroidal film read/wri…
Seagate Momentus Self-Encrypting Drives with DriveAmor encryption technology offers government and other regulated industries a secure way to protect data. – Mobile Armor and Seagate Technology will work together to sell
self-encrypting storage drives to government and health care customers.
Under the partnership, Seagate will join Mobile Armor in co-marketing and
actively selling the Seagate Momentus Self-Encrypting Drives with DriveArmor
technolog…
The latest GoFlex potable features an all-new 2.5-inch drive with two 500GB disks. It has the same dimensions as Seagate’s previous 640GB-and-less capacity drives. – It was only about 2 years ago that deploying a 250GB portable storage drive the size of a standard hardback novel was pretty much the state of the art in the personal desktop storage sector.
Even though those machines generally served their purposes, their time has come and gone. The form factors…
Private equity firms have approached Seagate about taking the hard disk drive maker private, according to Bloomberg, in a deal that may be worth $7.55 billion. – Seagate Technology is considering going private, the company announced after
the markets closed on Oct. 14.
In a statement, Seagate said it had received a quot;preliminary indication
of interest quot; from an unnamed party for a leveraged buyout and its board is
evaluating the offer and other a…
Seagate releases two BlackArmor NAS servers, one a 4-bay and the other a 2-bay. – Storage specialist Seagate introduced the BlackArmor NAS 220 and NAS
440 network storage server, 2-bay and 4-bay, respectively, desktop
network attached storage solutions aimed at small to medium-size
business (SMBs). Initially, both solutions will come pre-populated with
3TB drives in each bay …
With its newest FreeAgent GoFlex device, Seagate figures users can store up to 60 high-definition movies, about 750 video games, or tens of thousands of hours of digital music. – Seagate Technology, which introduced the first multiplatter, 3TB portable storage device only three months ago,
on Sept. 21 added another item to its list of breakthroughs by
launching the first 1.5TB 2.5-inch portable external drive.
With that kind of storage capacity in its newest FreeAgent G…
The company’s GoFlex Home storage appliance comes in two versions, a 1TB and a 2TB, and offers a host of features such as compatibility with Windows and Mac data backup services and the Share Pro remote access service. – Storage solutions specialist Seagate unveiled the newest addition to its GoFlex family of hard drives, the GoFlex Home network storage system, aimed at consumers and small office/home office (SOHO) users. When the device is connected to a wireless router, an entire household can centrally store, acc…
Only a few weeks ago, Seagate was touting its 2TB GoFlex drives. At this rate, 4TB storage devices are only another few months away, a veteran storage analyst told eWEEK. – It had to happen sooner or later, and in this case it happened sooner than the industry expected.
Hard drive and storage device maker Seagate Technology announced June
29 that has made available the industry’s first 3TB desktop storage
device, a new version of its popular FreeAgent GoFlex.
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Western Digital shipped a record 51.1 million HDDs (31.3 percent market share) during the three-month period from January to March 2010, up 3.2 percent from the 49.5 million it sold in Q4 2009, market researcher iSuppli said. – Champagne glasses were undoubtedly clinking June 1 at Western Digital’s Lake Forest, Calif. main campus.
Western Digital, which now prefers to be called WD, for the first time moved past perennial market champion Seagate Technology into first place in number of hard drives sold during one quarte…
Seagate’s Momentus XT data storage drive, which can hold up to 500GB of capacity in a 7,200-rpm package, will become available for the first time as an upgrade in Asus laptops. The OEM price is a mere $113. – Seagate pulled no punches on May 24, introducing a spinning-disk/solid-state
hybrid drive that it boldly described as the quot;world’s fastest drive for
laptops. quot;
The Momentus XT, which can hold up to 500GB of capacity in a 7200-rpm package,
will become available for the first time as an…
Personal computer-related storage always has had to follow advances in connectivity. When USB 2.0 came into play a few years ago on PCs and handheld devices, earlier external drives based on USB 1.0 were stuck without an easy upgrade path. Although they work with newer USB versions, the connectivity is not ideal. All that goes away with the advent of Seagate’s new GoFlex storage device, which made its debut May 5 at a media event in San Francisco. With the GoFlex, a user won’t have to buy a whole new storage drive to get full connectivity just because the USB port has been upgraded to 2.0. In this case, you just switch to another cable connector that fits on the top of the drive to satisfy the need for a faster USB (or FireWire or eSATA) connection. Check out this slideshow to see how this works.
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Toshiba, Seagate, Iomega and other storage companies know that everyone needs a great deal of storage, whether it’s for your epic Grateful Dead live concerts collection, photos from trips around the world or an album or two of your family, or the mountains of business files, documents and e-mails that never seem to cease flowing into your hard drive. With that in mind, here’s a selection of high-capacity USB storage devices and external hard disk drives that pack an enormous amount of storage into a compact design. Because no matter how much data you may have, often the most important point is that you can carry it around with you when you want.
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This arrangement, believed to be the first of its kind, is an example of the new methods of distribution that are being explored by movie-makers and their distributors.
– For the first time, shoppers for additional disk-based storage will
have a choice of buying portable drives already loaded with
feature-length, DVD-quality movies.
Seagate, the world’s largest hard disk drive maker, and Viacom’s
Paramount Pictures announced April 12 that they have come tog…
The world’s highest-volume producer of HHDs has begun shipping a new 600GB, 2.5-inch enterprise drive to its OEMs that runs at 10,000 rpm. This doubles the capacity of conventional 3.5-inch drives.
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When it comes to enterprise-grade hard drives, smaller is turning out to be
better and for a lot of reasons.
Seagate, the world’s highest-volume producer of HHDs, Feb. 9 began shipping
a new 600GB, 2.5-inch enterprise drive to its OEMs that runs at 10,000 rpm.
Most enterprise drives run at 5,…
Seagate’s BlackArmor PS110 USB 3.0 portable external hard drive achieves three times the performance speeds over USB 2.0 in real world testing.
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Storage specialist Seagate announced the release of the
BlackArmor PS110 USB 3.0 portable external hard drive performance kit for
notebook computers at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this
week. The solution packages a 500GB 7200RPM 2.5–inch portable hard drive, power
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