Tag Archives: disk drive

The death of the hard drive has been greatly exaggerated

SSD is all the rage in the storage industry.  Very exciting technology for sure and just now going Prime Time in the enterprise. But the rise of SSDs does [....]

A Seagate Barracuda for everyone

 

With the launch of Seagate’s groundbreaking Barracuda XT, there’s now a Barracuda drive for every need.  Which one’s right for you? 

David Burks explains it [....]

Seagate Barracuda crowned the king of 1 TB drives

AlienBabelTech.com conducted an extensive review of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB drive and proclaimed it the best 1 TB drive available. 

Why?  It was the fastest drive tested, and [....]

What it means to be green in the storage industry

Seagate was recognized as the greenest storage device manufacturer by Newsweek in their 2009 Green Rankings of Fortune 500 companies.  Seagate was ranked 182 positions higher than its nearest [....]

Seagate’s DockStar is the new PC – Personal Cloud

Cloud Computing is all the rage these days when it comes to data centers.  Seagate’s new innovation called DockStar gives everyone their own personal cloud.  Have all your digital [....]

Sweet disk drive clock

There are a ton of disk drive clocks out there.  I like this one – sweet design, lots of fun clock face projections.

Disk drives are so affordable these [....]

“Gosh darn easy” backup for business PCs

Computer Shopper had this to say and more about the Seagate BlackArmor WS110 drive.  It’s one of the few backup drives designed for business use. Secure, simple, compact [....]

New videos from Seagate: The Two-Minute Drill

 

We’ve had a lot of requests for more real-world insight on how to pick a drive.  There are so many choices today – how does one know which drive to [....]

Barracuda LP reduces carbon footprint with less loss of performance

Overclocker recommended the Seagate Barracuda LP 2 TB disk drive in a recent review:

“The performance is good, the price is good, and anything that costs less to operate has [....]

Storage fights back

Buried in the details of Seagate’s Q4 earnings report released yesterday are three very interesting facts:

132 million units shipped industry-wide during the quarter, essentially flat from the year-ago quarter
Over [....]