Tag archive: Seagate

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

There are a few truisms in the technology world, and one of them is that storage always gets faster and cheaper. Over the long term, that will undoubtedly stay true, but in the near and medium term traditional hard drive storage is facing a major problem: Record flooding in Thailand. The deluge has forced Western Digital and Toshiba to shut down their hard drive manufacturing facilities in Pathum Thani province, near Bangkok, and hard drive… Read More

Storage developer Seagate has added a new monster to its desktop hard drive offerings: a new edition of its GoFlex Desk external hard drive with a whopping 4 TB capacity. Seagate claims the 4 TB of storage is the highest in the industry, but the drive isn't a behemoth: it actually sports a small desktop footprint and a new industrial design Seagate plans to migrate across its entire GoFlex Desk line in the coming weeks. The drive sports a… Read More

Storage manufacturer Seagate is looking to offer consumers more piece of mind with its external storage products—this time by bundling two years's coverage under its SafetyNet data recovery services into the cost of its new GoFlex Turbo external hard drive. If, at any point within two years of purchase, the drive goes belly-up, customers just need to call Seagate: the company will try to recover your data remotely, and—if… Read More

Storage vendor Seagate has opened up its GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage to the Android world, introducing a native Android app that enables smartphones, tablets, and other devices to tap into media and other content on the drive—including streaming video—via Wi-Fi. Seagate's GoFlex Satellite drives are battery powered and connect to devices using 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi rather than USB, Firewire, or other cables—and… Read More

Portable hard drives are a great way to carry around vast amounts of media and data—but they're annoying because they can only be connected to one device at a time and require at least one cable (and maybe another for a power adapter). Storage vendor Seagate wants to ease that pain with its new GoFlex Satellite, a battery-powered 500 GB hard drive that connects to devices using built-in 802b/g/n Wi-Fi—and the GoFlex Satellite… Read More

Hard drive and storage developer Seagate has closed a whopper of a deal: Seagate will be buying Samsung's hard drive manufacturing business for some $1.38 billion dollars in a deal that will see Samsung claiming a 10 percent stake in Seagate. The deal will see Samsung manufacturing controllers for use in Seagate hard drives, and Seagate will in turn supply hard drives for Samsung-manufacturers business consumer electronics and computers.… 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

Hard drive giant Western Digital announced Monday its newly-approved acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) for the equivalent of $4.3 billion, reports Engadget. The deal, says Western Digital in a press release, “will result in a customer-focused storage company, with significant operating scale, strong global talent and the industry's broadest product lineup backed by a rich technology portfolio.” Under the… Read More

These new external drives are compatible with  Apple Time Machine, while maintaining the ability to work across both Windows and Mac OS X computers. GoFlex for Mac drives can also be used with computers running Windows by simply downloading an HFS+ driver for Windows from Seagate, which will provide full read-write access to the drive from a Windows computer. The new line-up of GoFlex for Mac external drives include: GoFlex for Mac… Read More

We know, we know: for most people hard drives aren't very exciting, but until the world is completely converted over to SSDs and ubiquitous always-reliable cloud storage they're going go be part of our lives for a while. And storage developers Seagate and Hitachi have some new HDDs that can turn some heads: Seagate's new Barracuda Green drives sport low power consumption and smart material usage, while Hitachi's new 3 TB… Read More

Last month, storage manufacturer Seagate revealed it was talking with unnamed parties about potentially taking the company off the stock market and going private as a way to pump money to shareholders, who would each get a portion of any purchase price. Now, the company says it has ended those talks, and will be launching an additional $2 billion buyback of its own stock to increase the stock's value to shareholders. “Management… Read More

Storage and disk drive manufacturer Seagate has revealed that it's in discussions with an unnamed party about taking the company private, which would mean de-listing the company from the stock market and converting to a privately-held entity. Seagate hasn't named its suitor, but says it has hired Morgan Stanley and Perella Weinberg Partners to provide financial advice, as well as retained legal counsel. Seagate says there is no… Read More

Storage vendor Seagate has taken the wraps off a new FreeAgent GoFlex portable external hard drive, which the company claims is the world's first to offer a 2.5-inch hard drive with a 1.5 TB capacity. And for fast access to the mountains of data and content that can represent, Seagate has packed a USB 3.0 interface onto the drive—and the unit will still work with USB 2.0 devices. “Today's announcement is a… Read More

Storage manufacturer Seagate has expanded its GoFlex line of hard drives with the new GoFlex Home network storage system, which offers backup for WIndows PCs and Macs along with capacities up to 2 TB. In addition, the GoFlex home can connect up to SeaGate's Seagate Share Pro to remotely access content stored on the device from things like iPhones and BlackBerry devices, as well as push images and files to services like Facebook and… Read More