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500GB for your MacBook

May 27, 2009 – 8:50 am

CNet Asia’s Crave blog dropped a 500GB Seagate Momentus drive into a MacBook…and there was much rejoicing.

The maximum capacity from Apple is 320GB. CNET says the install was not difficult [....]

By Pete Steege | Posted in Notebook PC, Products | Also tagged 500 GB, 5400 rpm, Asia, blog, cnet, Crave, how to, install, MacBook, momentus, notebook, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, swap, upgrade | Comments (1)

Upgrade your notebook drive in three easy steps

May 21, 2009 – 2:40 pm

Geek.com demonstrates an ultra-simple process to swap out your notebook drive for a bigger or faster one:

Clone the old notebook drive with DiscWizard
Remove the old drive from the notebook
Install [....]

By Pete Steege | Posted in Notebook PC | Also tagged 500GB, 7200 rpm, capacity, DiscWizard, faster, geek.com, how to, laptop, momentus, notebook, replace, Seagate, speed, The Storage Effect, upgrade | Comments (3)

The National Archives lose a terabyte drive filled with sensitive data

May 20, 2009 – 8:36 am

The National Archives lost a terabyte disk drive filled with sensitive data from the Clinton administration, including Social Security numbers and Secret Service procedures.

Had this data been on a [....]

By Pete Steege | Posted in Security | Also tagged Al Gore, daughter, disk drive, encryption, fde, government, loss, lost, mandate, National Archives, procedures, Seagate, Secret Service, self-encrypting, sensitive, Social Security number, SSN, terabyte | Comments (1)

Seagate Replica: the difference between easy and automatic

May 11, 2009 – 2:21 pm

Consumers have gotten themselves into a bit of a pickle. PCs, cameras and DVRs have brought them painlessly into the wonderful world of digital content without them even knowing it. [....]

By Pete Steege | Posted in Backup, Products | Also tagged Backup, camera, content, data protection, digital, dvr, movies, Music, no touch, One Touch, pc, photos, Replica, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, simple | Comments (6)

Barracuda LP: more from a low power drive

April 24, 2009 – 10:35 am

Today Seagate launched the Seagate Barracuda LP drive. It’s the world’s most efficient desktop-class drive. What does that mean?

The 1 TB version uses 3.0 Watts of power at [....]

By Pete Steege | Posted in Backup, Desktop PC, Products | Also tagged 2 TB, 2 terabyte, 5400 rpm, 5900 rpm, barracuda lp, cool, Desktop PC, disk drive, external storage, Green, green drive, low power, quiet, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, watts, WD | Comments (0)

How disk drives are like light bulbs

April 13, 2009 – 8:06 am

Green IT and energy efficiency are all the rage. But they’re not just topics for large data centers, and not just about saving the planet:

There are schools that have used [....]

By Pete Steege | Posted in Green, IT Storage | Also tagged business, compact flourescent light bulb, constellation, education, electric bill, Green, incandescent light bulb, IT, Nortech, pc, saving, schools, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, storage | Comments (0)

Is SSD ready? 3PAR says no

April 8, 2009 – 9:51 am

Dave Raffo says 3PAR didn’t add SSD in their latest product refresh because they didn’t need it – at least not yet, not in its current form.

In the same [....]

By Pete Steege | Posted in Data Center, SSD, Trends | Also tagged 3Par, Dave Raffo, enterprise, Evaluator Group, Flash, reliability, Russ Fellows, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, SearchStorage, Servers, SSD, support, testing | Comments (1)

The biggest data breach yet?

April 7, 2009 – 1:53 pm

Heartland Payment Systems disclosed a data breach that could eclipse the current record set by TJX in January 2007.

While not specifying the number of records that were compromised, Heartland’s [....]

By Pete Steege | Posted in Security | Also tagged credit card, customer records, data breach, disk drives, fde, Heartland Payment Systems, payment processor, Seagate Blogs, Security, SED, self-encrypting drives, TJX, transactions | Comments (0)

Networks and storage: which is the chicken and which is the egg?

April 6, 2009 – 10:33 am

Source: guardian.co.uk

Networks drive storage growth. The fatter the pipes, the bigger the content users can create and consume – from streamed HD movies to 240 TB [....]

By Pete Steege | Posted in Cloud Storage, Data Center, Technology, Trends | Also tagged 240 terabytes, chicken, Cisco, data, data center, egg, EMC, GigaOm, growth, HD movies, ibm, Moon, network, Nirvanix, Seagate Blogs, Stacy Higgenbottom, storage, Sun, TB | Comments (0)

The dawning of the Age of the Notebook

April 2, 2009 – 2:21 pm

Notebooks surpass desktop PCs for the first time

Source: uulyrics.com

According to Byte and Switch and iSupply, notebooks finally surpassed desktops in global unit shipment volume.

There’s no turning back, either. [....]

By Pete Steege | Posted in Notebook PC, Trends | Also tagged 500 GB, 7200, Byte and Switch, Desktop PC, forecast, iSupply, laptop, Matthew Wilkins, momentus, notebook, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, shipments | Comments (0)