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Seagate ships worlds first 4TB hard drive using 1TB platters

Steven Parker — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:42:38 +0100

Proving you can still get more gigabytes per dollar, Seagate has made available the worlds first 4TB hard drive utilizing four 1TB platters, and the cost won't burn a hole in your pocket either. Read more...

Seagate sells two billion hard drives; half that in the last four years

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:26:21 +0000

Seagate has announced they have managed to sell a total of two billion hard disk drives. Half of the sales happened in the last four years alone while the first half took almost 29 years. Read more...

Seagate slowly moving away from mobile hard drive business

John Callaham — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:43:39 +0000

Seagate has announced that it will no longer make 7200rpm mobile 2.5 hard drives after the end of 2013, which may be a sign that notebooks may slowly do away with hard drives in favor of SSDs. Read more...

Seagate: 60 TB hard drive possible with new tech

John Callaham — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:47:00 +0000

Hard drive manufacturer Seagate announced this week it has developed a new way to store even more data per square inch which could allow for drives in the future to have as much as 60 TB of space. Read more...

Seagate officially buys Samsung's hard drive division

John Callaham — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:02:14 +0000

Seagate has announced it has now officially acquired the hard drive division of Samsung in a deal that's worth $1.4 billion in cash and Seagate stock. Read more...

Hard drive makers cutting warranty periods

John Callaham — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:44:58 +0000

Two of the major hard drive makers, Western Digital and Seagate, will be cutting back, sometimes drastically, on the time periods of their warranties for their products starting in late 2011 and 2012. Read more...

Report: PC hard drive prices might go down next month

John Callaham — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:33:30 +0000

A new report claims that the rise in PC hard drive prices due to flooding in Thailand might actually go down in December as hard drive shortages don't appear to be as bad as first thought. Read more...

Seagate streamlines hard drive line-up; offers 1 TB platters

John Callaham — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:13:30 +0000

Seagate has announced plans to streamline its hard drive line up, folding two line-ups into one big Barracuda hard drive family while also offering 1 TB hard drive platters in its products. Read more...

Thailand floods cause hard drive prices to soar

John Callaham — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:38:46 +0000

The continuing floods in Thailand are officially affecting PC hard drive supplies and have sent prices for those products soaring as much as 40 percent higher in the past week. Read more...

Flooding in Thailand could affect hard drive supplies

John Callaham — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:24:29 +0100

Massive flooding in Thailand, the worst in 50 years in that country, could cause shortages in hard drive supplies for the next several months as some hard drive makers shut down operations. Read more...

First 4 TB external hard drive announced from Seagate

John Callaham — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:18:30 +0100

Seagate has announced it plans to release the first ever external PC and Mac hard drive that holds a massive 4 terabytes of data, or 2,000 high definition movies later this month. Read more...

Apple recalls some 1 TB hard drives in iMacs

John Callaham — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:20:12 +0100

Apple has issued a recall of some of its hard drives that were put inside some of its iMac PCs. A page on Apple's web site has the details of the recall which affects iMacs... Read more...

Seagate to announce 3TB drive later this year

Matt Blowes — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:31:43 +0100

Thinq has confirmed after speaking to Seagate's senior product manager Barbara Craig a 3TB hard drive will be announced later in the year. There are however a number of major issues beyond raising the areal... Read more...

Seagate adds Paramount movies to drives

Austin Davies — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:36:01 +0100

Seagate and Paramount have partnered up to preload 20 Paramount movies on Seagate's FreeAgent Go drives, according to The Inquirer. Each movie will cost $9.99 - $14.99 to unlock. They will also include Star Trek... Read more...

Seagate release their first 2TB SATA 3.0 hard disk

Sam Alderwick — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:43:13 +0100

Seagate have introduced their first hard drive which supports the new SATA 3.0 specification. The Barracuda XT is the Seagate's first drive to use the new interface, which has a theoretical bandwidth of 6Gb/s -... Read more...

Seagate shows off 6Gbps SATA3 hard drive transfer speed

Sam Symons — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:53:36 +0000

Partnering up with AMD, on Monday Seagate announced the latest Serial ATA specification: SATA3. The new specification offers hard drive transfer speeds of up to 6Gbps, which is around 600MBps. This new specification was developed... Read more...

Seagate Barracuda hard drives plagued by failures

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:49:53 +0000

Numerous complaints are being reported from customers who own the 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive at the Seagate's online support forum. The hard drive seems to just freeze during data transfers. Kabatek, Brown and... Read more...

Seagate and Dell offer self-encrypting drives

Andrew Lyle — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:55:10 +0000

Seagate and Dell have announced that they will be shipping laptops with self-encrypting solutions for hard drives up to 320GB. The company said this was a move to prevent data theft on stolen laptops... Read more...

Seagate first with 1.5TB hard drives

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:22:15 +0100

One terabyte hard drives still cramping your decadent data storage lifestyle? No more tears. Seagate is rolling out 1.5TB HDDs this August. Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 will use four platters to cram the scale-tipping new... Read more...

Seagate Buys MetaLincs

Sagittarius — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:19:18 +0000

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Seagate Technology, the No. 1 player in the cutthroat hard-disk drive business, said today that it will beef up its services division by acquiring MetaLincs, a company that makes "e-discovery" software that helps corporations, attorneys... Read more...