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1. Seagate ships 40.6 million HDDs in Q2, loses $81 million

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 21 July 2009

   Seagate reported a loss of $81 million on revenue of $2.35 billion for the second quarter of this year. However, the company said that it is seeing signs that the storage market is improving and it ...

2. Seagate to axe 1100

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 13 May 2009

   Seagate Technology has announced a restructuring plan that includes a reduction of approximately 1100 employees or 2.5% of the company's workforce. Scotts Valley, CA - Seagate Technology has announced ...

3. Less backup pain with Seagate’s Replica drive

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 27 April 2009

   ... what and fairly complicated to handle, especially when you try to recover an entire PC. That task may be a lot easier with Seagate’s Replica drive, as it promises to back up everything on your PC. Yes, ...

4. 6 Gbps SATA drives set for 2009 rollout

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 09 March 2009

   ... and is being prepped for introduction later this year. The new interface will double the maximum interface bandwidth from about 275 MB/s (Megabytes) to about 550 MB/s.Seagate and AMD demonstrated the first ...

5. Seagate debuts new Enterprise hard drives

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 02 February 2009

     Seagate is introducing some new enterprise storage solution hard drives for those who work with Tier 2 nearline storage applications. These new Constellation hard drives are said by the company to be ...

6. UPDATED: Seagate 500GB Barracuda HDDs having high failure rates

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 30 January 2009

     A few weeks ago, TG Daily noticed there were a growing number of reported drive failures posted on NewEgg.com's customer review section for Seagate's 7200.11 500G Barracuda hard drives. Trends in recent ...

7. Western Digital launches 3.5" 2TB hard drive

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 27 January 2009

     Western Digital (WD) today released the industry’s first 2TB 3.5” hard drive, featuring a massive 500 GB per-platter capacity, which matches the storage density announced by its rival Seagate. ...

8. Seagate unveils highest-density hard drive

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 05 January 2009

   ... drive technology still has room to grow: Seagate today announced a new 3.5” drive that stores 500 GB on a single platter. Scotts Valley (CA) – A solid state disk (SSD) drive may be the sexiest ...

9. Hitachi announces 1.4 watt self-encrypting hard drive

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 10 November 2008

     Following yesterday’s announcement of Seagate’s self-encrypting hard drives, Hitachi today announced its own 2.5” encryption hard drives with up to 500 GB capacity, which consume less than half ...

10. Dell ships laptops with self-encrypting hard drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 09 November 2008

      Seagate is more aggressively pushing its full disk encryption (FDE) hard drives and said that McAfee is now providing enterprise management level tools. Dell is the first manufacturer to ship ...

11. Self-assembling polymer arrays the secret of next-generation hard drives?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 14 August 2008

    ... Quinta, a company that was acquired by Seagate in 1998. Ten years ago, Seagate believed that the natural barrier of storage density in traditional (Winchester) hard drives would be somewhere in the 100 ...

12. Hard drive industry shrugs off economic concerns, posts double digit growth rates

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 22 July 2008

    ... while hard drive makers such as Seagate appear to get away with one black eye.    “Unlike the NAND flash chip industry, HDD vendors have been able to resist the worst impacts of the economic ...

13. 200 GB per disk: Toshiba leads 2.5” hard drive storage density

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 16 July 2008

      Toshiba has upgraded its 2.5” hard drive series with a new 400 GB model. The total capacity is 20% less than what Toshiba’s rivals are currently offering, but Toshiba has the edge in terms of ...

14. Seagate boosts hard drive storage capacity to 1.5 TB

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 10 July 2008

      Seagate reclaims storage capacity leadership in the hard drive market with a 1.5 TB drive, which represents a stunning 50% improvement over the largest drives currently available on the market. ...

15. Hitachi aims low-power hard drives at consumer electronics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 27 May 2008

      We have been hearing a lot lately about low-power hard drives and Hitachi GST is only the latest company to continue the trend. However, the company does not pitch its new CinemaStar hard drives ...

16. Seagate rolls out speedy 320 GB notebook hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 19 May 2008

      Dell and Alienware have begun offering Seagate’s new flagship notebook hard drives. The third-generation Momentus 7200 drives are now available with up to 320 GB capacity. Scotts Valley (CA) – ...

17. WD challenges SSDs with world’s fastest hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 April 2008

    ... server-specific benchmarks such as I/O runs, file server and web server tests. Among consumer-related benchmarks, it leads the field with the exception of the Windows XP startup test, in which Seagate’s ...

18. 250 GB in notebooks going mainstream

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 January 2008

    While Seagate is the dominating hard drive manufacturer worldwide, the company has not really been a driving force in the capacity race on the notebook side. Today the company joined its rivals with a ...

19. The California fires: Why backup and recovery should be your top priority now

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 November 2007

    ... recovery service to get the data back. But, trust me, it is vastly better to have done a backup.   Now there are local backup products like the Seagate FreeAgent Pro which not only has a lot of capacity, ...

20. Green hard drives with 40+% better power savings in Q4

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 23 October 2007

    Hitachi is about to introduce green hard drive technology which lowers the maximum power consumption to 7 watts, only about 14% of the Energy Star 4.0 machine budget. Greenville (SC) - Hitachi has announced ...

21. Seagate to begin shipments of first notebook PC hybrid drive in October

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 17 October 2007

    Seagate Technology will begin to ship its Momentus 5400 PSD, its first hybrid hard disk (HHD) for use in notebook PCs, in October 2007, according to the company's Taiwan/Korea executive director Brian ...

22. Seagate puts 2.5” hybrid HDD into mass-production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 08 October 2007

    Seagate today said that it has begun shipping its first hybrid hard drive, a device that combines standard hard drive storage technologies with NAND flash, in volume. There is still a premium to pay for ...

23. Seagate planning to release a hybrid hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 24 September 2007

    Hard drive capacities lately have been growing faster than ever and we sometimes have a hard time keeping up with the announcements. Interestingly it wasn't market leader Seagate that dominated the ...

24. Fujitsu marching towards terabyte hard drives for notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 09 August 2007

    ... densities of up to 205 Gb per square inch in Seagate's single-platter 3.5" desktop drive. Samsung recently announced a 3-platter 1 TB drive which records data at 241 Gb per square inch. At the ...

25. Western Digital's disk maker reports a loss for Q2

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 06 August 2007

    ... operating result. The manufacturer said it shipped 25.8 million disks in Q2. 40% of all disks went to Western Digital, 34% to Seagate and 18% to Hitachi GST. 55% of all disks manufactured were disks ...

26. Western Digital acquires disk manufacturer Komag for $1 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 28 June 2007

    ... second largest hard drive company for some time and recently was estimated by iSuppli to hover at a market share level of 20.5%, trailing Seagate that is estimated to hold just under 35%. However, WDC ...

27. Seagate announces 1 TB hard drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 25 June 2007

    Following Hitachi and Samsung, Seagate now has announced 1 TB desktop hard drives as well. Scotts Valley (CA) – Following Hitachi and Samsung, Seagate now has announced 1 TB desktop hard drives ...

28. Seagate introduces power-saving Cheetah NS enterprise drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 20 June 2007

    Seagate has spun down its 15k-RPM Cheetah drives and transformed them into bigger and cooler Cheetah NS hard drives. Scotts Valley (CA) – Seagate has spun down its 15k-RPM Cheetah drives and transformed ...

29. Samsung announces 1 TB hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 June 2007

    ... inch. Seagate recently revealed a single platter 250 GB 3.5” drive with a density of 205 Gb/square inch. While higher storage density and fewer platters typically result in less power consumption ...

30. Hard drives get cheaper, profit margins decline

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 13 June 2007

    ... pricing pressure “due to intense competition and changing demand patterns”.  There are only six major hard drive manufacturers left (Seagate, WD, Hitachi GST, Samsung, Toshiba, Fujitsu, ...

31. Seagate claims highest density 3.5” hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 07 June 2007

    Seagate today announced the first desktop hard drive to store 250 GB on a single platter. Scotts Valley (CA) – Seagate today announced the first desktop hard drive to store 250 GB on a single platter. ...

32. Hitachi launches 250 GB 2.5” hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 June 2007

    ... has been offered for some time by Seagate in the Momentus FDE series. Hitachi is shipping the 5K250 now for a suggested retail price of $250.  ...

33. WD ships 750 GB desktop hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 04 June 2007

    ... Caviar SE16 3.5” drive. The new Caviar arrives more than a year behind the market’s first 750 GB drive, Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.10, and in fact trails today’s largest desktop ...

34. Fujitsu announces 300 GB notebook hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 11 December 2006

    ... exception of Seagate's 750 GB 3.5" drive, capacities have not been expanded as quickly as some may have thought and it appears that the leading hard drive developers are waiting for the others to catch ...

35. Seagate helps your hard drive stay hard

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 01 December 2006

    Seagate CEO Bill Watkins will probably be known as the most brutally honest hard drive executive in history. During a dinner conversation with Fortune's senior editor Jeffrey O'Brien, Watkins said, "We're ...

36. Market-share free-for-all breaks out in hard drive market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 04 October 2006

      Seagate Technology's acquisition of Maxtor has triggered an all-out battle for market share in the hard disk drive (HDD) business, spurring an industry-wide price war in the second quarter, according ...

37. Fujitsu introduces 2.5" perpendicular hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 30 August 2006

    ... on sale worldwide from October 2006, according to Fujitsu. More here at DigiTimes. Related articles: Toshiba ships first harddrive with perpendicular recording tech Seagate announces 160 GB perpendicular ...

38. Seagate extends lead in hard drive market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 19 July 2006

    espite a slight sequential decline in overall hard drive shipments in the first quarter of this year, Seagate managed to post solid gains and an increased market share, which now stands at 29%, according ...

39. Hard disk shipments reach new record level

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 February 2006

    ... could threaten the existence of 1" harddrives, hard drive suppliers posted one of their best years ever with "practically every" hard drive maker being in the black in Q4, iSuppli said. Seagate and Western ...

40. Seagate announces 12 GB mini hard disk

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 13 February 2006

    Perpendicular recording will be a key technology to keep the capacity of hard disks growing in coming years. Seagate isn't wasting time upgrading its products: The company will be shipping a massive 12 ...

41. Fujitsu announces 200 GB 2.5" hard drives for 2006

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 13 January 2006

    ... year. According to a press release, the company will try to tackle Seagate's dominance in multiple markets. By 2008, Fujitsu aims to become the world's third largest hard disk supplier, the release stated. ...

42. CES 2006: Highlights of Saturday's coverage from TG Daily

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 09 January 2006

    ... from the back of a display, a WiMAX-enabled notebook computer that might very well command 300 Mbps wireless transfer speed. And we learned from Seagate - the company that will absorb Maxtor in 2007 - ...

43. CES 2006: Seagate demos W-USB harddrive, pluggable hard drive concept

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 07 January 2006

    ... electronics. Still, Seagate surprised with two interesting concepts that simply make sense. Las Vegas (NV) - Besides capacity increase and the upcoming introduction of mass market perpendicular recording, ...

44. TG Daily complete wrap-up of CES 2006 coverage

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 03 January 2006

    ... event, Google and Motorola announced a partnership that will integrate Google branding into mobile phones. Read more... Big Announcements Seagate demos W-USB harddrive, pluggable hard drive concept On ...

45. Western Digital increases capacity of Raptor drive to 150 GB

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 January 2006

    Western Digital (WD) today announced that it has doubled the size of its Raptor harddrive. Already considered to be the best performing SATA device available today, the manufacturer enhanced the drive ...

46. Tom's Hardware Guide presents the 2005 Readers' Choice Awards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 25 November 2005

    ... Pentium M 770 processor, 2 GByte of RAM and a 100 GByte harddrive. TV enthusiasts may also appreciate the integrated TV-tuner. The second prize is a 500 GByte 7200 RPM harddrive from Seagate. Winners three ...