Tag archive: Momentus

Announced over the past week, both Western Digital and Seagate plan to decrease the length of warranty periods on consumer-grade hard drives in order to reduce costs and push more money back into product development. Beginning January 2, 2012, the three year warranty on Western Digital Caviar Blue, Caviar Green and Scorpio Blue hard drives will be reduced to 2 years. This will only affect purchases of these drives made after January 1 2012 as… Read More

In the age of flash-based storage and solid-state drives, storage developer Seagate is continuing to make the case that there's a lot of life left in traditional hard drive storage: the company has just announced the GoFlex Slim, which it claims is the world's thinnest external drive with a total thickness of just 9mm. But inside that tiny case, the drive also packs some punch: it spins at 7200 rpm, offers 320 GB of storage, and… Read More