October 30, 2009 – 11:29 am
Seagate is celebrating 30 years in the storage device industry. That’s quite an achievement in one of the most dynamic and competitive industries in existence.
How did we get here?
Seagate 1.0 [....]
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, hard drive, hdd, king, review, Seagate, Seagate 1TB, Seagate vs. WD, Seagate vs. Western Digital, western digital
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September 18, 2009 – 11:00 am
Maximum PC: “Barracudas eat Caviar for breakfast”
Seagate’s Barracuda LP drive bested Western Digital’s Caviar Green drive in both power and performance in the new issue of Maximum [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Consumer Storage, Green, Products, Reviews
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Also tagged 2 TB, best, bested, better, comparison, competition, energy efficient, fastest, Green, green drive, low power, lowest, Maximum PC, performance, review, Seagate, WD, western digital
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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 [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Desktop PC, Green, Products, Reviews
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Also tagged 2 TB, 2TB, 5900 rpm, 7200 rpm, barracuda lp, best, cheapest, desktop, disk drive, Green, high capacity, low power, Overclocker, recommended, review, Seagate, WD
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Maximum PC gave the 2-platter 1 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 drive a score of 9/10 – “Kick ass” in their ratings system. It blew away the competition in performance.
What’s the [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Desktop PC, Products, Reviews
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Also tagged 1 TB, 2 platter, 2 TB, 7200, 9/10, arial density, barracuda, Barracuda 7200.12, best, Caviar, desktop, disk drive, fastest, Green, Maximum PC, performance, rating, review, Samsung, Seagate, SpinPoint, top, WD, western digital
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Hardware Secrets brought twelve one-terabyte disk drives into the lab for a head-to-head competition. At the end of their series of benchmark matchups, HS declared Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.12 the [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Desktop PC, Products, Reviews
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Also tagged 7200, 7200.12, barracuda, barracuda lp, benchmark, best, contest, desktop, DiskSpeed32, dvr, Hardware Secrets, HD Tach, HD Tune, laptop, pc, performance, pipeline hd, review, Seagate, transfer rate, winner
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Image source: Cisco
Some say we’re now in the Terabyte Era, due to the size of today’s largest disk drives - two terabytes.
Others say we’re in the Petabyte Era [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Random, Technology, Trends
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Also tagged 2 TB, 2 terabyte, barracuda lp, Cisco, digital footprint, disk drive, EMC, exabyte, exploding universe, IDC, petabyte, trends, zettabyte
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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
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Posted in Security
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Also tagged Al Gore, daughter, disk drive, encryption, fde, government, loss, lost, mandate, National Archives, Pete Steege, procedures, Seagate, Secret Service, self-encrypting, sensitive, Social Security number, SSN
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February 25, 2009 – 6:59 am
Source: MCE
Just as we’re hearing more and more about Netbooks comes this from Ars Technica: a way to swap your MacBook’s optical drive for a second hard drive .
Two [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Notebook PC
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Also tagged Apple, Ars Technica, disk drive, DVD, electronic distribution, laptop, MacBook, MCE, Netbook, notebook, optical drive, Pete Steege, RAID, Seagate Blogs, storage
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