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1. Seagate 2TB Barracuda drive features 64MB cache

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 20 September 2009

   Seagate has introduced a 2 terabyte hard disk drive with a 64MB cache. The Barracuda XT - which features a 6GB/s SATA interface - is targeted at high-end gamers and multimedia developers. San Francisco, ...

2. Seagate upgrades network docking station for FreeAgent hard drives

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 16 September 2009

   Seagate has introduced a retrofitted docking station that allows users to easily access and share digital content stored on FreeAgent Go portable hard drives. According to Seagate, the FreeAgent DockStar ...

3. 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 ...

4. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 19 June 2009

   ... of DDR2 DRAM Seagate FreeAgent Go: The stylish companion for carrying media on the go. With its sleek aluminum finish, exclusive chrome trim, piano black desktop dock and large capacity, the FreeAgent ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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, ...

7. 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 ...

8. Toshiba to acquire Fujitsu’s hard drive business

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 25 February 2009

   ... about 7.2%, while Fujitsu stands at about 6.9%, which puts the two firms at #4 and #5 in the ranking of the largest HDD manufacturers worldwide. Hitachi GST is at # with about 17.3%, WDC at 22.0% and Seagate ...

9. KMIP: Controversy brewing between security standards bodies

   (Security/Security Features)

   Tuesday, 17 February 2009

   Last week, TG Daily wrote an article about a new KMIP security protocol wherein companies like Brocade, EMC, HP, IBM, LSI, Seagate and Thales had unveiled Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) ...

10. KMIP: New security encryption protocol created

    (Security/Security Brief)

    Friday, 13 February 2009

    A new encryption protocol specification developed by Brocade, EMC, HP, IBM, LSI, Seagate and Thales has been unveiled this week. Dubbed Key Management Interoperability Protocol, or KMIP, the specification ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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. ...

14. Seagate: Will lay off 10% of US work force

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 12 January 2009

    Scotts Valley (CA) - In an SEC filing today, Seagate announced it will be laying off 10% of its U.S. work force, or about 800. Seagate employs 54,000 people worldwide and about 8,000 of them work in the ...

15. 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 ...

16. Steve Jobs' Macworld 2009 keynote uncertain

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 16 December 2008

    ... most exhibitors downsizing and several big names reducing significantly their visibility. Others decided to skip the event altogether, including Adobe, Belkin, CreativeLabs, and Seagate, none of which ...

17. Stockwatch: Chip makers hit hard by pessimistic 2009 forecast

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 19 November 2008

    ... billion, Apple, which is down 68% to $77 billion as well as Seagate, which lost 86% and has a market capitalization of just $1.9 billion. The best performing stock remains Oracle, which is now down 32%. ...

18. Oracle remains best performing tech stock in declining economy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 12 November 2008

    ... the hardest were Seagate, which moved from position 8 to 4 (-83%); Google, which moved from 14 to 13 (-60%) and Ebay, which moved from 12 to 11 (-65%). Here is the current chart. Company ...

19. 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 ...

20. 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 ...

21. Microsoft market cap drops below $200 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 22 October 2008

    ... during this shaky month. Especially chip companies were once again in the crosshairs of traders with Nvidia, AMD, Seagate and Intel showing visible declines. Microsoft also was hit with a substantial ...

22. Seagate SSD release date slips into 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 10 October 2008

      The world’s dominant hard drive manufacturer will begin offering flash-based solid state disk (SSD) drives next year. Seagate told Cnet that the drives will be offered to enterprise customers ...

23. Tech mergers ahead?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 09 October 2008

    ...  -76% 0.5 AMD -72% 2.5 Seagate -67% 4.6 Sandisk -67% 3.8 Ebay -65% 20.8 ...

24. Load faster, kill faster, win more – Intel touts SSDs for extreme gaming

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 22 August 2008

    ... were compared to two Seagate Barracudas (7200rpm) also in RAID 0.  The traditional drives had 572 random read instructions per second while the SSDs performed 44,500 read IOPS/second.  But not ...

25. 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 ...

26. 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 ...

27. 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. ...

28. Rate your CEO on Glassdoor.com

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 16 June 2008

    ... from Apple currently stands at 92%, Michael Dell at 65%, Steve Ballmer at 57%, Sam Palmisano (IBM) at 49%, Mark Hurd (HP) at 48%, Jonathan Schwartz (Sun) at 38% and Bill Watkins (Seagate) at 33%. Further ...

29. HP pitches green printers, Samsung green hard drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 22 May 2008

    ... from 7200 to 5400 rpm). Samsung also has an advantage in this field as the company is able to reach 1 TB capacity with only three platters (334 GB) each, its rivals Seagate and WD use four (250 GB) platters. ...

30. 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) – ...

31. 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 ...

32. STEC rebuffs Seagate’s patent suit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 16 April 2008

      Don’t you just love it when tech companies bash heads?  Flash drive maker STEC isn’t taking Seagate’s patent lawsuit lying down and the company’s Chairman and CEO vows a lengthy court battle.  ...

33. Seagate sues flash drive maker STEC

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 15 April 2008

      Seagate, the world’s largest hard drive maker, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against flash-drive manufacturer STEC.  In the suit, which was filed in the US District Court in San ...

34. Western Digital reduces workforce by 800

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 21 March 2008

    ... billion. In contrast, market leader Seagate, which was relisted on the stock market in late 2002, has shown a flat performance over the past years, with a market cap that is stuck in the $11.5 billion ...

35. Imation gets into the solid state game

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 March 2008

    ... margins this market offers right now. The competition increases especially outside the traditional hard drive industry with companies such as Hitachi and Seagate being a bit slow out of the gate. Imation ...

36. 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 ...

37. Seagate working on one terabyte DVR drive

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 07 January 2008

    El Paso (TX) - The Inquirer is reporting that Seagate Technology is working on the one terabyte hard drive for HD digital video recording units.  The hard drives are called Pipeline HD drives, and ...

38. Update: The Black Friday Shopping List

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 21 November 2007

    ... Seagate 160 GB $49.99* Best Buy Internal Seagate 320 GB $59.99 Best Buy External Western Digital 160 GB $69.99 ...

39. 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, ...

40. Sign up for our brand new newsletter - and a chance to win a Dell gaming notebook!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 30 October 2007

    ... with a Dell Dimension XPS M1730 notebook, Seagate hard drives and a Kingston enthusiast memory kit. Chicago (IL) – We are proud to announce the launch of the TG Daily newsletter service as an extension ...

41. TG Daily #1 Newsletter Giveaway Official Rules

    (Company/Company)

    Wednesday, 24 October 2007

    ... free broadband TV from AT&T, $15 specialty coffee bucks and $50 towards a game at Ubisoft. The second prize is a Seagate internal 3.5” 7200 rpm hard drive with 1 TB capacity. Third and fourth prize each ...

42. 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 ...

43. 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 ...

44. UPDATE: Seagate reports Q3 2007 revenue and products shipped both up

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 16 October 2007

    Preliminary quarterly earnings are reported for the period ending September 30, 2007.  UPDATE:  Seagate is operating at capacity.  Expects to be capacity constrained in Q4 2007. Scotts ...