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HGST still makes most reliable hard drives, says Backblaze

Hard drive don't fail me now

HGST is the reigning champion of hard drives when it comes to reliability, according to cloud backup provider Backblaze, which should know…

by Jonathan Vanian Jan 21, 2015 - 4:33 PM PST

New Seagate drive streams video to Chromecast, Apple TV and more

Movie storage galore

Let’s face it: Hard drives aren’t sexy. Seagate thinks it can spice things up though, launching its new Seagate Personal Cloud drives on…

by Kevin C. Tofel Jan 4, 2015 - 11:06 AM PST

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The Truth About DIY Vs. Converged and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Hyperscale infrastructure—used by Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook—delivers performance in aggregate and extreme high density. It upends the existing way of doing…

by Caroline McCrory, Marc Staimer and Simon Bramfitt Dec 3, 2014 - 10:00 AM PST

Microsoft tweaks its server specs as part of Open Compute Project

Microsoft, a software power, wants to have a greater say in how data center hardware is designed. And now it’s even got some hardware partners in this effort.

by Barb Darrow Oct 30, 2014 - 9:00 AM PST

This everlasting battery is made from recycled vanadium and ready to plug in

Is recycled vanadium the key to low cost batteries for buildings, solar farms and the power grid?

by Katie Fehrenbacher Oct 23, 2014 - 3:00 AM PST

LyveHome, the personal media device from former Apple exec Tim Bucher, goes on sale

Former Apple executive Tim Bucher’s Lyve Minds is starting to sell its first product, the personal media backup device LyveHome.

by Janko Roettgers Apr 25, 2014 - 12:01 AM PST

Backblaze on cheap hard drives: Buy Hitachi if you can afford ’em

Cloud storage provider Backblaze is at again, this time detailing which models of hard drives last the longest in its open source storage pod arrays. If money were no object, it would probably be Hitachi all the way.

by Derrick Harris Jan 21, 2014 - 6:00 AM PST

Why digital storage is the next hockey stick market in tech

By 2020, annual demand for new storage technology will hit 9.8 zettabytes; substantially less than the 40 zettabytes of data expected to be generated that year. How do we produce enough storage devices to hold all of this data?

by Albert "Rocky" Pimentel, Seagate Dec 8, 2013 - 10:30 AM PST

Seagate’s 500GB Ultra Mobile hard drive brings laptop-level storage to Android tablets

How much storage do you want in your next Android tablet? Will 500GB work for you? Seagate wants to be inside your slate.

by Alex Colon Sep 9, 2013 - 7:47 AM PST

GoFlex Satellite review: Stormy weather for this personal cloud

The idea behind Seagate’s GoFlex Satellite is cool: a 500GB drive and a Wi-Fi transmitter in a small case, which can stream your media collection. So when Seagate sent me a Satellite to test, I looked forward to it. Unfortunately, I ran into significant problems.

by chamilton Jul 1, 2011 - 3:01 PM PST

SSDs May Have Flash But Western Digital Bets $4.3B on Disks

All the cool data centers are deploying solid state drives that use Flash memory as opposed to janky old hard drives, so why is Western Digital shelling out $4.3 billion to acquire the old-fashioned hard disk drive business of Hitatchi ?

by Stacey Higginbotham Mar 7, 2011 - 10:07 AM PST

Seagate GoFlex Ups Game to 1.5 TB, USB 3.0

Road warriors with a lot of disk files can now carry 1.5 terabytes of them in a shirt pocket with the newly announced Seagate Freeagent GoFlex portable disk drive. The new GoFlex incorporates the faster transfer speed of USB 3.0 to better access so much content.

by James Kendrick Sep 21, 2010 - 8:44 AM PST

Seagate and Samsung Team Up to Bring Flash to the Data Center

Seagate, the world’s top maker of hard drives, has teamed up with Samsung, which has a huge Flash memory operation to make solid state drives for corporate computing. SSDs, as they are called, have become a popular feature in consumer laptops and electronic devices because the consume less energy and have no moving parts to break when the device is jostled or dropped (screens are another matter).

by Stacey Higginbotham Aug 12, 2010 - 7:58 AM PST

Review: The Seagate Freeagent GoFlexTV

Seagate’s new Freeagent GoFlex TV tries to marry the sneakernet with online streaming, combining the company’s new GoFlex portable hard drives with online content from Netflix and YouTube. However, the box comes without Wifi, and it can get pretty pricey once you add all the fixins.

by Janko Roettgers Jul 5, 2010 - 9:00 AM PST

3 Terabytes of Storage on Your Desktop…Amazing

Seagate today announced what it’s calling the world’s first 3-terabyte external desktop drive (dubbed FreeAgent GoFlex), which costs about $250. Seagate thinks that an increase in HD movie downloads will push people into buying bigger drives. This drive can fit up to 120 HD movies.

by Om Malik Jun 29, 2010 - 8:55 AM PST

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