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Seagate to buy external drive maker LaCie

Posted May 23, 2012 - 2:41 pm

Seagate today announced plans to acquire LaCie, a French maker of external consumer hard drive products, in an all-cash deal worth about $186 million.
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Seagate to demo 12Gbps SAS SSD

Posted May 7, 2012 - 9:11 pm

Seagate said it will demonstrate a 12Gbps SAS solid-state drive (SSD) at the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase this week.
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With tech breakthrough, Seagate promises 60TB drives this decade

Posted March 21, 2012 - 7:27 am

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.
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Serious storage: Cram giant amounts of data onto these tiny storage drives and cards

Posted May 27, 2011 - 8:00 am

These eight cutting-edge hard drives, flash drives, and cards can hold multi-gigabytes of data and yet still slip in a shirt pocket.
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Seagate releases battery-powered drive for iOS, other mobile platforms

Posted May 16, 2011 - 2:13 pm

Seagate today announced a battery-powered wireless drive for mobile devices such as the iPad.
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500GB Seagate hard drive streams to 3 iPads

Posted May 16, 2011 - 12:04 pm

Seagate has a new wireless external hard drive that lets you access movies and music on your iPad without worrying about the tablet's puny onboard storage.
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Samsung to sell HDD unit to Seagate in $1.4B deal

Posted April 19, 2011 - 5:18 am

Samsung Electronics will sell its hard-disk drive operations to Seagate Technology in a US$1.375 billion deal that will create strong links between the two companies, they said Tuesday.
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WD Starts on SSD trip, ends up buying Hitachi

Posted March 7, 2011 - 9:49 pm

While analysts were absorbing news that WD plans hybrid drives, it went and bought Hitachi for $4.3 billion, instantly outweighing rival Seagate.
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Seagate ships 3TB desktop drive, breaking 2.1TB barrier

Posted March 1, 2011 - 2:21 pm

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.
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Seagate: Solid-State Disks Are Doomed (At Least For Now)

Posted January 26, 2011 - 9:29 pm

Hard disk manufacturer Seagate has published an extraordinary report all but proving that solid-state disk (SSD) technology will remain niche for the next decade or two, at least.
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Seagate debuts fast green drive

Posted December 14, 2010 - 2:54 pm

Seagate has introduced a new high-speed, eco-friendly hard drive for low-power personal computers. The 3.5-inch desktop drive spins at 5900 RPM and includes the company's SmartAlign technology.
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Seagate releases first 1TB 2.5-in enterprise hard drive

Posted December 13, 2010 - 3:19 pm

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

Posted October 27, 2010 - 2:54 pm

Seagate and Iomega have announced new high-capacity portable drives; both support the USB SuperSpeed protocol.
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Hard drive manufacturers embrace new storage tech

Posted October 5, 2010 - 8:55 pm

In a reflection of the hard-fought battle among hard drive makers to get ahead of rivals, Hitachi, Seagate and Western Digital this week talked up storage innovations, including a Hitachi drive that combines an optical platter with Micron's densest NAND flash memory and advanced hard drives from Western Digital and Seagate that hold up to 3TB of data.
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Seagate launches 1.5TB portable hard drive

Posted September 22, 2010 - 1:36 pm

Seagate today unveiled what it calls the world's first 2.5-in, 1.5TB portable hard disk drive.
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Seagate GoFlex Brings Cheap Storage to Small Business

Posted July 19, 2010 - 4:59 pm

Seagate launched a new line of external hard drives--the GoFlex Home network storage system. The product is aimed at the home user market, but the GoFlex Home drives can also be a flexible, cost-effective backup and storage solution for small businesses.
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Seagate releases first 3TB external desktop hard drive

Posted June 29, 2010 - 2:01 pm

Seagate today unveiled its highest capacity external hard disk drive for desktops, a 3.5-inch-wide 3TB model that can connect using USB 2.0, USB 3.0 or FireWire 800.
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Seagate hybrid drive delivers SSD performance at HDD price

Posted May 24, 2010 - 1:22 pm

After failing to gain market traction with its first iteration of hybrid drives three years ago, Seagate today announced a new hard-disk and solid-state combination drive with as much as 500GB of capacity, but with a 250GB model starting at $113.
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Seagate, Microsoft launch disk-to-disk to cloud service

Posted April 20, 2010 - 10:42 am

Seagate today announced it has tightly integrated its EVault backup software and cloud storage service with Microsoft's Data Proteciton Manager disk-based backup appliance to offer multi-vendor application backup managed through a single dashboard.
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Seagate doubles capacity of data center hard drive

Posted February 9, 2010 - 12:29 pm

Seagate released a 2.5-in SAS drive today that doubles the amount of capacity over previous drives and offers lower power consumption while increasing drive reliability.
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Former Seagate engineer says company destroyed evidence

Posted January 3, 2010 - 9:46 pm

A former Seagate engineer says the company destroyed evidence pertinent to a nine-year-old patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by a small engineering company and MIT.
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Review

Seagate's Replica: truly set and forget

Posted May 14, 2009 - 5:10 pm

Imagine a really small toaster that was flattened, and you get the idea of the size of the Seagate Replica, a 250GB or 500GB hard drive that connects quickly and easily to your PC or notebook to provide instant backup of everything that you've got stored on the computer.
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Seagate announces new green desktop drives

Posted April 21, 2009 - 9:03 pm

Seagate Corp. Tuesday announced a new family of lower-power 3.5-in desktop hard-disk drives the company said have the highest performance and best power efficiency in their class.
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Solid state disk adoption to be swift in corporations

Posted April 7, 2009 - 9:43 am

Adoption of SSD has taken on a 'gold rush' mentality
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Seagate discovers hard drives and ice don't mix

Posted April 1, 2009 - 9:06 am

After 100 days buried in an ice rink the company's YouTube experiment comes to an end.
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