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Tag Archives: storage

What to buy your flat screen TV for Christmas

Q: What do these lists have in common?

Holiday Gift Ideas for the Men inYour Life
Gifts for the Gadget Guru
10 Hot Gadgets for the Holiday Season
Last Year’s Gadgets Now Worth the Price

A:  Seagate FreeAgent Theater + .  A pretty cool, very easy way to get all of those videos and phots onto your new flat screen TV.
It’s not [...]

Laptop performance doesn’t have to cost an arm or a leg – or battery life

 
I asked Seagate’s Joni Clark what to think about when choosing a laptop hard drive.  It’s more than just the obvious capacity choice.  Things like performance, encryption and drop protection.
Check out Joni’s response in the video. 
Sometimes you can get something for nothing.  The Seagate Momentus 7200 rpm drive runs faster but uses no more power than [...]

A tech fable: Flash and the Three SSD Applications

 
Once upon a time there was a technology named Flash. 
Flash was shiny and very exciting. Everyone had high hopes for her. 
Flash wanted to Make a Difference, so she went to the Wizard of Applications for advice.
“You are very fast and sparkly,” said the Wizard.  “I’m sure you will Make a Difference for the Laptop.” So he put Flash in a magic cloak [...]

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 competitor on the list.
Just as significantly, Seagate is a strategic supplier to the #1, #2 and #4 ranked technology companies – HP, Dell and IBM.  Seagate’s [...]

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 stuff from multiple devices on in one “place”, easy to use and share.
The best part? It doesn’t require geek credentials to make it work.
This could be [...]

Seagate FreeAgent Theater + now showing in a living room near you

Seagate just launched the sequel to Seagate FreeAgent Theater – Seagate FreeAgent Theater +.  Check out The Digital Den’s tour.  What’s not to like?

HDMI
1080p
More photo & video formats
An Ethernet connection
More USB ports

It’s the simplest way for people to merge their digital content – ALL of their digital content – with their television.

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 use for which application?
We’ve responded with a new video series called The Two-Minute Drill. These videos each feature a Seagate product expert and focus on [...]

Everything you wanted to know about USB 3.0, and then some

Ars Technica has documented the path that USB 3.0 has taken en route to becoming the next great consumer storage interface. 
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be glued to the page!
Maybe not.  But USB 3.0 is coming soon. Bone up now so you’re ready.

Storage shortage destroyed the original Apollo 11 moon walk videos

NASA is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon walk today by releasing restored video of the historic footage broadcast around the world on July 16, 1969.
Part of the back story is very sad. Turns out that what we (those of us over 40) saw that night was a poor-quality TV broadcast translation of the actual video. The better-quality [...]

The newest, oddest USB drive

Last year it was sushi storage.  This year Calvin Klein takes the prize with these USB sunglasses. 
Now tell me what you think the next oddest USB drive will be.