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Seagate to demo 12Gbps SAS SSD

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:01:00 GMT

On the heels of Western Digitial's release of the industry's first 12Gbps SAS SSD, Seagate this week said it would demo one of its own for the enterprise market.

Some new devices to mess around with Wi-Fi

(Keith Shaw) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:28:00 GMT

Shaw review Stem Innovation's iZON Remote Room Monitor, Belkin's Wireless Dual-Band Travel Router.

With tech breakthrough, Seagate promises 60TB drives this decade

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:58:00 GMT

Seagate said it is the first hard-drive maker to achieve the milestone storage density of 1 terabit (1 trillion bits) per square inch on a disk platter. The technology will allow it to create a 60TB hard drive this decade.

China approves conditionally Western Digital's acquisition of Hitachi

(Michael Kan) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:16:00 GMT

China has approved with conditions Western Digital's planned acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST), requiring that the Hitachi entity operate independently for at least two years after the acquisition.

Climate change or not, weather hurt tech

pthibodeau@computerworld.com (Patrick Thibodeau) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:22:00 GMT

Scientists expect that climate change will increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, and last fall's flooding in Thailand fit the definition of extreme.

Thai floods catapult Seagate into hard drive market lead

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:07:00 GMT

Seagate technology for the first time in two years reclaimed the throne as the leading hard disk drive suppler, usurping Western Digital's lead after the company suffered production shutdowns in the wake of Thailand floods last year.

Seagate: Shortage of disk drives to continue through 2012

(John Ribeiro) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:54:00 GMT

Seagate Technology said the supply of hard disk drives this year will continue to fall short of demand, leading large customers to look to long-term agreements to ensure supply after devastating floods in Thailand.

Hard drive makers Seagate and Western Digital slash warranties

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:00:00 GMT

In a bid to save money or redirect funds to product development, Seagate and Western Digital are cutting hard drive warranties -- in some cases from five years to one.

China wants Western Digital to address monopoly concerns

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:55:00 GMT

Western Digital's planned acquisition of Hitachi's hard drive business may have hit a snag: China's anti-monopoly regulators want the company to address concerns about the buyout.

Seagate completes acquisition of Samsung's HDD business

(John Ribeiro) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:57:00 GMT

Seagate Technology said Tuesday it has completed the acquisition of the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics, after it recently received approval for the deal in Australia, China, and the European Commission.

Hard drive manufacturers slash warranty periods

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:37:00 GMT

Seagate and Western Digital are cutting back on hard drive warranties, in some instances from five years to one, in order to save money or redirect it to product development.

China approves conditionally Seagate acquisition of Samsung HDD unit

(Michael Kan) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:05:00 GMT

China has approved Seagate Technology's proposed acquisition of Samsung Electronics' hard disk drive business, but with conditions, including measures to minimize potential price increases after the deal, the country's Ministry of Commerce said on Monday.

Impact of hard drive shortage to linger through 2013

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Flooding in Thailand will affect hard disk drive supplies into 2013, but the most significant impact is being felt now and will continue well into 2012 by companies such as PC maker Lenovo, which is telling its customers there are no more 7200-rpm replacement drives.

Wall Street Beat: Tech rises on sales, economic news

(Marc Ferranti) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:47:00 GMT

Tech stocks looked strong Friday morning on the back of a week of upbeat surveys on small business and online spending, positive news about enterprise hardware and hopeful reports on U.S. employment and the European debt crisis.

Seagate launches new Momentus XT hybrid drive: 750GB for $245

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:01:00 GMT

Seagate today released the third generation of its hybrid drive, doubling the amount of NAND memory to 8GB and increasing total capacity to 750GB.

New Seagate hard drive offers 4TB of storage

(Mauricio Grijalva) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:13:00 GMT

Seagate’s latest hard drive, the GoFlex Desk External Drive offers a whopping 4TB of storage. It also offers connectivity adapters and decent speeds. Don’t get your hands all over it, though, because it quickly gets dirty from too much handling.

Small PC makers hiking PC prices on hard-drive shortage

(Agam Shah) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:25:00 GMT

The early brunt of a hard-drive shortage resulting from widespread flooding in Thailand is falling on small PC makers, who are raising computer prices to stem losses.

Seagate wins $525M from Western Digital in arbitration

(Agam Shah) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:07:00 GMT

Seagate has been awarded US$525 million in arbitration in connection with a trade secrets case against Western Digital, which said it would challenge the ruling.

Hands on: StarTech's drive imager as simple as it gets

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:01:00 GMT

StarTech has released two devices for duplicating hard drives (or SSDs) to create exact bootable drive copies in about half the time of more traditional methods.

Hard drive shortage expected to hurt consumers most

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:47:00 GMT

While flooding in Thailand is affecting hard disk supplies worldwide, the customers most likely to be hit hard by price increases will be consumers in the retail market as manufacturers put enterprises and PC system manufacturers atop their lists.

Thai floods hit Q4 hard drive production, says IHS iSuppli

(John Ribeiro) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:20:00 GMT

The devastating floods in Thailand will cause a 28 percent quarter-on-quarter drop in hard disk drive (HDD) production in the fourth quarter, potentially affecting notebook production in early 2012, research firm IHS iSuppli said on Monday.

Seagate standardizes Barracuda drive line on 7200 rpm

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:20:00 GMT

Seagate announced that it's bumping the platter rotation speed in all of its Barracuda hard drives to 7200 rpm.

LSI to buy flash controller maker SandForce

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:16:00 GMT

LSI Corporation today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire SandForce, a leading provider of flash storage processors for enterprise and client PCIe-based flash cards and solid-state drives.

Yahoo Sale Buzz Mounts as Google Said to Be Possibly Interested

(Christina DesMarais) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:13:00 GMT

Yahoo's improving stock price following a CEO shakeup makes the Internet portal ripe for a sale, and speculation is flying about industry titans that may bid for the company.

EC OKs Seagate acquisition of Samsung drive business

(John Ribeiro) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:07:00 GMT

The European Commission approved on Wednesday the acquisition by Seagate Technology of the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics, after concluding that there will still be enough players in the market after the acquisition.

Table salt found to boost data storage density

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:10:00 GMT

The National University of Singapore and the Data Storage Institute have come up with a way to use NaCl (table salt) to increase the storage density on hard drive platters to 3.3 terabits per inch -- or more than five times what a Seagate 4TB hard drive is capable of today.

Thailand floods may disrupt global electronics makers

(John Ribeiro) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:17:00 GMT

Severe floods in Thailand have disrupted production of electronics including hard disk drives and semiconductors, with a number of factories suspending operations.

Seagate to offer 4TB external drive for $250

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:37:00 GMT

Seagate is preparing to ship the industry's first 4TB external drive. The drive also represents the first product redesign for Seagate's GoFlex family.

OCZ releases its first hybrid drive, a 1.1TB rocket

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:42:00 GMT

OCZ today announced its first hybrid drive product based on the PCIe interface and that incorporates 100GB of flash cache with a 1TB hard drive.

Back-to-school tech guide 2011

(Jake Widman) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:00:00 GMT

From an ingeniously designed surge protector to a tiny portable speaker that sounds like a million bucks, this gear will get students back in the swing of things on campus and off.

Start-up releases all-in-one VMware server, storage appliance

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:00:00 GMT

Start-up Nutanix released its flagship product, a VMware-based server combined with SSD and hard drive storage, today to deliver a clustered system that grows over time.

Seagate, Western Digital merger deals face EC probe

(Agam Shah) — Tue, 31 May 2011 06:47:00 GMT

Moves by Seagate and Western Digital to acquire hard-drive companies are being investigated by European regulators because of "competition concerns," the European Commission said.

Enterprise SSD testing spec released

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 23 May 2011 10:00:00 GMT

SNIA has developed a specification that allows users to test solid-state drives from any vendor for their performance.

Testing SSDs with SNIA's specification

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 23 May 2011 04:01:00 GMT

Jim Handy, of Objective Analysis, and Tom Coughlin, founder of Coughlin Associates teamed with Calypso to compile a study on SSD performance that involved 18 different drives. No two drives had the same performance.

Seagate GoFlex Satellite

(Melissa J. Perenson) — Fri, 20 May 2011 23:16:00 GMT

The Seagate GoFlex Satellite hard drive takes the shackles off your tablet, freeing it to connect to a greater amount of storage capacity--without having to go through any pesky wires. But although the hardware implementation is adequate, the software app struggles. A lot. At launch, Seagate is offering a messy, limited app for iPad and iPhone; an Android app equivalent is still in the works, so for now Android users must access the hard drive's contents using a comparatively crude Web-browser interface (admittedly, one not unlike the browser interface for standard network-attached drives).

Seagate releases battery-powered drive for iOS, other mobile platforms

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:58:00 GMT

Seagate today announced a battery-powered wireless drive for mobile devices such as the iPad.

Seagate breaks 1TB per platter barrier

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:59:00 GMT

Seagate said it has broken a previous areal density benchmark with a line of drives that can hold up to 1TB of data per platter.

Seagate-Samsung deal to spur HDD, SSD, hybrid drive development

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:34:00 GMT

Seagate's deal to buy Samsung's HDD business leaves only three main players in the industry, which will spur development of next-generation technology as well as boost sales of solid state drive and hybrid drives.

Seagate to buy Samsung disk drive operations for $1.375B

(Martyn Williams) — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:18:00 GMT

Samsung Electronics will sell its hard-disk drive operations to Seagate Technology for $1.375 billion.

Hands-on: Seagate's GoFlex Slim drive makes your data more portable

bkrasnoff@computerworld.com (Barbara Krasnoff) — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:00:00 GMT

Seagate's new 320GB GoFlex Slim external hard drive offers USB 3.0 performance in a nicely thin case; however, you will pay for the privilege.

Seagate updates drives in biggest-ever refresh

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:00:00 GMT

Seagate today announced five product upgrades that include two enterprise-class solid-state drives and three internal hard-disk drives.

Western Digital to buy Hitachi's disk storage division for $4.3B

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:32:00 GMT

Western Digital announced it has entered into an agreement to buy Hitachi's hard drive subsidiary in a cash and stock deal valued at $4.3 billion.

Seagate ships 3TB desktop drive, breaking 2.1TB barrier

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:49:00 GMT

Seagate today announced its first 3TB internal hard disk drive, the 3.5-in Barracuda XT, which uses free software driver in order to allow legacy OSes, such as Windows XP, to access its full capacity.

Users frustrated with Seagate's next-gen hybrid drive

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:57:00 GMT

Users complained that Seagate's Momentus XT hybrid drive, which combines SSD with a hard drive, has major problems with its spin-down feature, which saves power by pausing the spinning disk. One user said his drive spun up and down 3,200 times in two weeks.

Seagate has shipped 1 million-plus self-encrypting drives

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:15:00 GMT

Seagate announced that it has sold more than a million SEDs through six manufacturers, and that its family of Cheetah, Constellation and Savvio SEDs and the Momentus SED have secured FIPS 140-2 certification.

Computer History Museum to highlight storage, from RAMAC to microdrives

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:04:00 GMT

Storage technology has evolved faster than microprocessors over the past five decades, and it's been a bigger building block of the Internet -- and of today's ever-expanding 'cloud' -- than most people realize.

The evolution of hard disk drives

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:04:00 GMT

Storage technology has developed faster than microprocessors, and it's been a bigger enabler of the Internet -- and today's 'cloud' -- than most realize. Consider how quickly drive capacities have increased and prices have plummeted over the past 50 years, from the RAMAC 305 with 5MB capacity to 0.85-in. microdrives with gigabytes of space for data.

Hitachi unveils 500GB, razor-thin laptop hard drive

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:22:00 GMT

Hitachi has announced its highest capacity 2.5-in. laptop drive, which comes with up to 500GB of capacity and exceeds competitor's products in areal density by almost 100Gbit per square inch.

Seagate releases first 1TB 2.5-in enterprise hard drive

lmearian@computerworld.com (Lucas Mearian) — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:14:00 GMT

Seagate today announced the second generation of its Constellation drive, the industry's first 2.5-in enterprise-class drive with 1TB of capacity.

Best NAS boxes for less than $1,000

(James E. Gaskin) — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:16:00 GMT

Buffalo shattered the $1,000 barrier for a terabyte of shared storage back in 2005. With storage prices continuing to drop, that same $1,000 today can buy a four or even five terabyte network attached storage (NAS) device with RAID 5 disk redundancy, plus additional features, like backup storage licenses and indexing capabilities.