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Seagate Misappropriated Convolve Technology, Says Ex-Employee

December 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Seagate Technology misappropriated disk-drive technology developed by Convolve, alleged a former Seagate engineer in a November affidavit. Attorneys of Convolve, a small IT company, cite that affidavit in new court documents and accuse Seagate of destroying evidence related to the case, in the latest twist in a decade-long patent-infringement battle that has also involved the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Compaq Computer.
– Seagate Technology deliberately destroyed source code and other evidence in
order to cover up its theft of technology originally developed by small IT
company Convolve and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claimed a
former Seagate employee in court documents filed Nov. 30.
Those allega…

Seagate Launches Its First Enterprise SSD

December 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Seagate’s Pulsar drives, which use single-level cell flash memory, come with SATA interfaces and are available in 50GB, 100GB and 200GB capacities, all on a 2.5-inch card. They are also quite fast, as one might imagine.
– A lot of people do not realize that Seagate Technology, the world’s largest
spinning-disk hard drive maker, hasn’t brought a solid-state drive to market
until now nearly two years after NAND flash SSDs started
making major inroads in the data center.

EMC started making SSDs
from STEC availabl…

Carbonite, Seagate Hook Up for Coordinated Local, Online File Backup

November 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Customers who purchase Seagate FreeAgent Desk or Go model external hard drives will receive an option to back up their desktop or laptop system plus the attached external hard drive through Carbonite’s service for an annual fee of $59.95.
– Online backup provider Carbonite and hard disk drive maker Seagate Nov. 12
announced a partnership to provide Carbonite’s subscription-based service for
both local and online backup.

Customers who purchase Seagate FreeAgent Desk or Go model external hard drives
will receive an option to back u…

Seagate Ships Barracuda XT Desktop Hard Drive

September 21st, 2009 | No Comments

The companys Barracuda XT desktop drive offers 2TB of space and delivers burst speeds of up to 6 Gigabits per second.
– Hard disk drives and storage specialist Seagate Technology
announced it was shipping the Barracuda XT, a 7200RPM desktop hard drive with
2TB of storage capacity and a Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second interface. The
company said the 3.5-inch desktop drive was the industrys first to feature a
SATA 6Gb…

Samsung Launches 1TB HDD for Servers, Desktop PCs

July 30th, 2009 | No Comments

The Korean HDD maker joins a trend of recent large-capacity releases from Western Digital, Toshiba and Seagate with Spinpoint F3, a new product line of high-density disk drives for high-performance computing systems that go up to 1TB in storage space.
– Following on the heels of big new spinning-disk storage drives released by Western
Digital, Toshiba
and Seagate,
Samsung rejoined the capacity party July 29 with Spinpoint F3, a new product
line of high-density disk drives for high-performance computing systems that go
up to 1TB in storage spac…

Seagate Momentus 5400.3

December 16th, 2005 | No Comments

ASBIS is to start shipments of the world’s first 2.5-inch disc drive built on perpendicular recording technology – a 160GB notebook hard drive Seagate Momentus 5400.3. This brand-new notebook drive further closes the capacity and performance gap between desktop and notebook PC hard drives as more users replace aging desktop systems with fast, high-capacity notebook computers. ASBIS offices throughout the EMEA region are expected to start offering this unique drive to local customers in January 2006.