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Seagate Savvio 15K.2 HDD is super fast and super green

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Nov 6th 2008 No Comments

savvio 10k 2 sm 106x106 Seagate has just added another drive to their Savvio enterprise HDD line and this time around, it’s faster, greener and smaller. In fact, the Savvio 15K.2 HDD uses less power and has a 115% performance boost when compared to 3.5-inch drives.

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Seagate planning home NAS, researching hybrid SSDs

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 5th 2008 No Comments

seagate logo Seagate are exploring new SSD technologies that combine SLC (single layer chip) and MLC (multiple layer chip) to create a cost-effective and reliable hybrid. Talking to Pocket-lint, Seagate CEO Bill Watkins revealed that the company would “love to have an SSD range” but that issues with read/write cycle performance and production cost are slowing them down. Pat King, senior vice president of global marketing, also confirmed that Seagate are planning a network-attached storage (NAS) device for home customers.

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New Seagate FreeAgent external hard drives announced

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Sep 15th 2008 1 Comment

Seagate has launched a slurry of external hard drive devices today that are sure to capture the attention of those in need of some serious storage. Most notable, however, is the big one with 1.5TB of storage room!

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Seagate 1.5TB 7,200rpm HDD is current largest

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jul 10th 2008 4 Comments

After Hitachi stole headlines with their 1TB 7,200rpm drive the other day, Seagate have retaliated with a 1.5TB desktop drive, the Barracuda 7200.11, that uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to squash in all that capacity. The unit is the largest the company has produced, and shares the limelight with new Momentus notebook drives: a pair of 2.5-inch half-terabyte 5,400rpm and 7,200rpm drives.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB

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Seagate Maxtor Central Axis NAS offers 1TB & auto-sort software

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jun 26th 2008 1 Comment

Hard-drive company Seagate have announced their latest network-attached storage (NAS) device, the Maxtor Central Axis network drive. Containing 1TB of storage, the monolithic block supports DLNA and UPnP media streaming and secure remote access via the internet.

Maxtor Central Axis NAS

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SlashGear Week in Review – June 1st

By Chris Davies on Sunday, Jun 1st 2008 No Comments

The major news this week came out of Google’s IO Conference, with the Android team unveiling the latest build of the mobile platform and a slick touchscreen handset to demonstrate it on. We usually leave cellphone news to our sister sites PHONE Magazine and SlashPhone, but the Android handset – complete with compass-navigated Street View and slick animations – was too good to miss. Considering the feedback over at Android Community, Google look like they’ve recaptured any momentum lost since MWC in February.

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Seagate enterprise SSDs in development; 2TB HDD in 2009

By Chris Davies on Friday, May 30th 2008 No Comments

Seagate logo Seagate has confirmed that it will enter the SSD market, but maintains that demand for traditional hard-drives will continue as users prove reluctant to give up cheap cost-per-gigabyte storage. CEO Bill Watkins has described the upcoming solid-state drives as intended for enterprise use, the only market segment, he claims is willing and able to stump up the premium. Instead Seagate will push larger capacity platter-based drives, with a 2TB model expected sometime in 2009.

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Cheetah 15K.6 hard drives from Seagate shipping – not quite as cheesy as Chester

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Mar 6th 2008 1 Comment

These are 3.5” hard drives that would only end up in a home computer if it were and uber-l33t gaming computer. That’s to say they are fast, expensive, and only have Fibre Channel or SAS connection options.

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Seagate Unveils New Mobile Drives Momentus 5400.4

By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Jan 22nd 2008 No Comments

seagate Momentus 5400 4 The 4th generation mobile disc from Seagate uses 120GB per platter design to arrange the new Momentus series with capacity of 120GB, 160Gb, 200Gb and 250GB. All of them feature a much slower 5400RPM speed, 8MB of cache with low power consumption, Seagate’s SoftSonic fluid-dynamic bearing motors and QuietStep ramp load technology to reduce noise.

It doesn’t strike us as much as Hitachi 500GB travelstar did in capacity but the market still has it large share of 5400RPM drives. The Momentus also features 2nd generation perpendicular magnetic recording with SATA II Interface with operating and non-operating shock specs of 325G and 900Gs makes it ideal for mobile systems that are subjected to rough environment. It’s available to ship worldwide now.

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Seagate D.A.V.E. Technology portable hard drive

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Jan 14th 2008 No Comments

So I stumbled upon this at one of the shows surround CES and thought it was pretty cool and I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen it or anything like it before. It looks like a fairly run of the mill external, pocket-sized, bus-powered hard drive, but its not.