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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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 -... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
Seagate is warning users to scan their systems for malware after a password-stealing Trojan was found on some of its hard drives. The vendor said that the malware was discovered on the Maxtor Basics Personal... More...
Seagate Technology has agreed to reimburse 5% of the purchase price to people who bought Seagate hard drives in the United States between March 22, 2001, and December 31, 2005 plus pay up to $1.79... More...
Seagate is to build automatic encryption into all its enterprise hard drives, the company announced at Storage Expo 2007 in London. All enterprise drives will be fitted with Seagate's Full Disk Encryption (FDE) as standard.... More...
When they were introduced a couple of years ago, hybrid hard drives seemed enticing. Pairing a standard hard drive with a flash component sounded like a good way to deliver on the theoretical performance boosts... More...
An unnamed Chinese technology company has shown interest in acquiring disk drive maker Seagate Technology, which owns about 30% of the world market share in the sector. The possibility of such a transaction raises concerns... More...
Seagate has unveiled two new hard drive lines that both offer a maximum 1TB capacity: the Barracuda 7200.11 (consumer) and the Barracuda ES.2 (enterprise). Expect both to arrive sometime this quarter and note that Seagate... More...
In response to Fujitsu's MHW2160BJ 160GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s notebook hard drive, Seagate has released its 160GB Momentus 7200.2, a second generation 7200RPM hard drive which uses perpendicular recording technology. The Momentus 7200.2 also adds... More...
Thanks to Amano for his front page submission. ASI Computer Technologies of Markham, Ontario, Canada will be the first to sell laptop computers using Seagate Technology LLC's computer hard drives with built-in encryption technology. The... More...
Largest hard drive? Been there, done that. Let's do speed now. Seagate has announced "the world's fastest hard drive". The Savvio 15K touts a seek time of a mere 2.9 ms. The drive offers a... More...
A day after rival Seagate Technology announced plans to ship a 1-Tbyte hard drive in the first half of this year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies said it would release its first 1-Tbyte drive within three... More...
Thanks to several members including slimy for writing in about this one. Seagate has confirmed to the folks over at DailyTech, that they plan to launch a 1TB (Terabyte) hard drive sometime in the first... More...
Seagate Technology today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held EVault, Inc., a leading provider of online backup services, as part of its effort to extend the company's storage solutions offerings and... More...
Early in 2007, Seagate Technology will begin shipping its first widely available hard drives with built-in encryption. The Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (which stands for Full Disk Encryption 2) will include a special encryption chip that... More...
Thanks goes to slimy for the heads up.. Seagate Technology announced today that it will ship a 1.5TB version of its Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition external hard disk drive. The new drive ships... More...
Since the first time "Get Perpendicular" got stuck in our heads, we've anxiously anticipated the arrival of perpendicular recording technology. The wait has been long, especially on the desktop, but perpendicular recording has finally arrived... More...
After a deal was reported to be in the works months ago, shareholders for both Seagate and Maxtor have approved a merger of the hard drive giants. Under the deal, Seagate will acquire Maxtor,... More...
Seagate "accidentally" posted a PDF document on their website with all the juicy details of their next high capacity hard drive. Seagate will soon be releasing their new 750GB Barracuda 7200.10 hard drive. Wipe... More...
Processors are incredibly fast, RAM is rocketing its way through our games, and videocards pack more punch than ever. With all these screamingly fast system components available, often the hard drive is neglected. It's a... More...
Seagate has updated its Cheetah 15K enterprise-oriented hard disk drive line-up with a model that incorporates perpendicular recording technology and takes the 15,000rpm drive family's capacity to 300GB - more than double the current top-of-the-line... More...
Seagate has announced a new 1-inch 12GB hard disk that is substantially smaller and faster than its current top of the line 8GB model. The ST1.3 series 12GB disk is 23 percent smaller, has... More...
Drivemanufacturer Seagate Technology has begun shipping its new Momentus®2.5 inch perpendicular storage drives for laptops that were debuted at CES earlier this month. Inthe past, typical hard drives have stored data in a horizontal fashion... More...
Computer disk drive supplier Seagate Technology has agreed to buy rival Maxtor Corp. for $1.9 billion in stock, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The paper... More...
Today Seagate formally announces its Barracuda 7200.9 family of hard drives. Unlike the 7200.7 and 7200.8 series, which focused low and high storage densities, respectively, the 7200.9 family covers capacities from 40GB to 500GB. Drives... More...
Nearly all of hard drive maker Seagate Technology's products will use perpendicular recording technology by the end of 2006, the company's chief financial officer says. Perpendicular recording promises big capacity boosts for drives used in... More...
Microsoft's Xbox 360 is set to use hard drive technology from storage specialist Seagate, with the company announcing that its new LD25 2.5" discs are to be used as the removable drives for the console.... More...
Seagate Technology will start shipping a new range of 2.5-inch hard drives for the notebook PC market this June. The range contains a number of industry firsts that promise consumers a combination of better performance... More...
Hard-drive maker Seagate Technology has developed new digital-video recording technologies aimed at addressing concerns about capacity and digital-rights management. Seagate representatives are demonstrating the new DVR features for cable service carriers at... More...
In the second part of our look at some of the portable gear Seagate are offering currently, we've taken a look at the company's smaller option for users : a 5 GB, pocket hard drive.... More...
Harddrives : a critical part of any personal computer. They store our personal data, files, operating systems and much more. Over the last decade, the industry has gone through some major changes both in terms... More...
There's recently been some confusion regarding Seagate's five-year hard drive warranties, specifically with respect to when coverage starts and which drives are eligible. When asked, Seagate offered the following clarification: ... More...