November 3, 2009 – 8:13 am
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 [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in SSD, Technology, Trends
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Also tagged Carnegie Mellon, disk drive, Flash, hdd, IEEE, IEEE Transactions, magnetics, Mark Kryder, Seagate, SSD, trends
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October 27, 2009 – 11:23 am
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 [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Desktop PC, Products, Reviews
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Also tagged 3.5", 6G, 7200.11, 7200.12, applications, barracuda, barracuda lp, Barracuda XT, best, choose, colorado, contrast, david burks, disk drive, expert, Green, how to, longmont, low power, Reviews, sata, Seagate, Seagate Barracuda "Barracuda XT" "Barracuda LP" 7200.12 7200.11 "Western Digital" WD "3.5 SATA" 6G green "low power" Longmont Colorado "David Burks" expert "how to" howto choose contrast applications , video, WD, western digital
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October 22, 2009 – 8:52 am
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 [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Desktop PC, Products, Reviews
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Also tagged 1 TB, 7200, 7200.12, alien babel, Alien Babel Tech, alienbabeltech.com, barracuda, best, comparison, Crysis, disk drive, fastest, game, gamer, Gaming, good value, hdd, king, review, Seagate, Seagate 1TB, Seagate vs. WD, Seagate vs. Western Digital, terabyte, western digital
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October 12, 2009 – 9:16 am
When I’m in the cereal isle at the grocery store, I’m OK with letting marketing have its way with me. Sell me something “New!”, even if it’s really just a [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Green, Products, Reviews
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Also tagged 2TB, 5400 rpm, 5900 rpm, Barefeats, Green, green drive, IntelliPower, Maximum PC, review, Seagate, WD, western digital
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October 7, 2009 – 7:52 am
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 [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Green
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Also tagged #1, 2009, Apple, best, Bromine, Chlorine, chosen, dell, disclosure, disk drive, efficiency, Fortune 500, Green, greenest, HP, ibm, leader, low power, materials, Newsweek, rankings, Seagate, storage, storage device, supply chain, toxic substances, WD, western digital
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October 2, 2009 – 8:41 am
Those at IDEMA in Santa Clara in September we treated to a one-time hard drive museum, courtesy of industry veteran Jim Porter.
Check out eWeek’s slideshow of the exhibit. Not [....]
September 16, 2009 – 12:40 pm
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 [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Backup, Consumer Storage, Products
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Also tagged announce, Cloud, cloud computing, cloud storage, disk drive, dock, DockStar, easy, ethernet, FreeAgent, geek, home, launch, nas, network, new, pc, personal cloud, portable, Seagate, simple, storage, usb
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Stephen Foskett is an observant guy. Here are this thoughts on the new Seagate 640 GB FreeAgent Go portable drive – the first 2.5″ drive to [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Backup, Consumer Storage, Products
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Also tagged 640 GB, 640GB, Backup, biggest, dock, drive, first, FreeAgent, freeagent go, portable, Seagate, Stephen Foskett
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A few weeks after the disk drive community published encryption standards, self-encrypting disk drives take another step towards broad enterprise adoption: WinMagic announced that SecureDoc now manages encryption keys across Mac and Windows PCs.
The [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in IT Storage, Notebook PC, Security
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Also tagged cipher keys, disk drive, encryption, enterprise, full disk encryption, IT, key, mac, management, pc, Pete Steege, Seagate Blogs, SecureDoc, Security, WinMagic
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February 20, 2009 – 11:45 am
Source: Office Depot
Office Depot’s Sunday newspaper insert highlighted each of their notebooks on sale with large-font text centered on each notebook’s monitor, each with these three specifications:
Screen: 19″
Memory: 6 [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Notebook PC, Trends
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Also tagged ad, AMD, computer, eMachines, HP, intel, memory, notebook, Office Depot, pc, Pete Steege, processor, screen, Seagate Blogs, Toshiba
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