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WD drops 4TB whopper


Supersize My Book
Like Burger King, Western Digital believes in whoppers; it’s just announced a 4TB capacity My Book external drive.…

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Hitachi GST buying WD plant


Malaysian media substrate swap
Number three disk drive manufacturer Hitachi GST is helping out number two supplier Western Digital by buying a media substrate plant it no longer needs.…

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WD gives 2TB drive a green spin


How many to offset a Chinese power station
WD has greened up its freshly minted 2TB SATA drive by focussing on reducing power consumption.…

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Seagate re-armours small business storage


BlackArmor NAS offers bare metal restore
Seagate has introduced a line of network-attached, workstation and portable disk storage products with encrypted contents under its BlackArmor brand.…

Seagate revs up SATA speed


Keep up at the back
Seagate and AMD have demonstrated a 6Gbit/s link between SATA disks and a server, double the speed of the current SATA 2 spec and the same as the fastest SAS speed.…

Seagate ends gunfight at the SSD corral


Wild Bill Watkins defeated
In the legal gunfight at the SSD corral initiated by Wild Bill Watkins – then top gunslinger at Seagate – STC has emerged victorious, with Seagate abjectly running away.…

Seagate sets Constellation above Barracuda


Matches Western Digital
Seagate has launched its much-expected 2TB drive under the Constellation brand, which includes 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) drives, for nearline storage needs.…

The Newest Cheetahs


Today Seagate introduces its newest Cheetah drives, the 600 GB 15K.7 and NS.2.
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Seagate isolates ‘potential’ Barracuda flaw


Offers free firmware upgrade, data recovery
After reports that its 1TB Barracuda drives are failing at an unusually high rate, Seagate says it has isolated a “potential firmware issue” that would seem to be the cause of this worldwide plague.…

Seagate customers swamped by Barracuda drive failures


Seagate firmware to blame
Seagate 1TB Barracuda drives are failing at an alarming rate, with users complaining of a plague of such failures spreading across the globe.…