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  Seagate has announced to buy a controlling stake in LaCie for $186 million. Seagate will buy a 64.5% stake in the company and subject to government approval, will start an all-cash simplified tender offer to acquire the remaining outstanding shares. Seagate says the transaction will allow them to combine LaCie’s premium branded offerings with [...]

  With smartphones getting smarter and tablets getting more portable and powerful, consumers have started consuming content on these portable devices more than on a PC, HDTV or any other multimedia device. However, these devices are restricted by one major barrier – storage space. Kingston tried to solve it by releasing the Wi-Drive but let’s [...]

  Seagate has announced the latest generation of its unique Momentus XT Hybrid drives that combines the speed of a SSD and storage of a regular HDD. The Momentus XT features an 8GB NAND Flash memory along with 750GB of HDD and with the help of Seagate’s Adaptive Memory and FAST Factor technologies, the drive [...]

  When it comes to selling USB external drives, companies have few selling points to entice consumers. They can lure them on the price front, storage capacity, looks or speed. And Seagate with its GoFlex Slim is targeting users seeking great looks as well as speed. GoFlex Slim is the thinnest in Seagate’s arsenal, measuring [...]

  Seagate has announced its GoFlex Satellite HDD for Indian consumers. This new HDD comes with an integrated battery and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n that allows any Wi-Fi-enabled devices to take advantage of the HDD storage wirelessly. Android and iPhone users can download dedicated apps from respective stores to consume content directly from the hard drive, which [...]

  Seagate has launched a new 4TB GoFlex hard drive, which is the industry’s first external hard drive to sport such capacity. Coming in a new streamlined industrial design, the GoFlex Desk Drive can hold up to 4 terabytes of data, enough to hold over 2000 HD movies. Additionally, the new drive supports GoFlex adapter [...]

  Feeling a bit restricted with the limited storage of your iDevice? Well, Seagate has got you covered with their GoFlex Satellite portable HDD. The 500GB hard drive is integrated with Wi-Fi and rechargeable battery, which can be connected to your iPod, iPhone or the iPad to stream content wirelessly on the device. All a [...]

  Seagate is one of the leading hard drive manufacturers and to extend its leadership in the business they’ve managed to buy Samsung’s ailing hard drive business. However, this is not a regular buyout as it stretches on number of other fronts. Under the agreement, Samsung and Seagate will “extend and enhance” existing patent cross-license [...]

  Seagate today announced the Constellation.2 hard drives meant for the enterprise-class consumers. The 2.5-inch drive goes up to 1TB in storage and is designed for server storage applications like Directed Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) environments. The Constellation.2 supports 6GB/s SATA or SAS interface and comes with [...]

  Seagate who were apparently on sale have turned down the takeover deal from its competitor, Western Digital. Sources have told Bloomberg that both companies were in talks after the discussion ended with TPG Capital. Western Digital reportedly was willing to offer 10 to 50 percent more than TPG, which is said to be over [...]

  Seagate has launched its SSD-HDD Hybrid drives in the Indian market. The 9.5mm 2.5-inch Momentus XT offers a unique way to give consumers the speed of SSDs and affordability of HDDs by integrating 4GB of NAND flash and up to 500GB HDD capacity. By combining both SSD and HDD onto one drive and using [...]

  Seagate’s world’s first 3TB external hard drive has been announced for the Indian market. For starters, 3TB of space can hold up to 120 HD movies, 1,500 games and innumerable music and images. Seagate’s GoFlesk Desk range boasts a special feature that makes it compatible with the latest interface. It predominantly supports USB 2.0 [...]

  Seagate has finally announced its rumored 3TB hard drive. The world’s first 3TB drive has been added to its FreeAgent GoFlex Desk range that allow users to store up to 120 HD movies, 1,500 games or thousands of images and music. Although the drive supports USB 2.0, with the help of an additional adapter [...]

  SSDs are faster but way expensive. HDDs are cheaper and slower when compared to SSDs. Now, Seagate has found a middle way to combine the performance of an SSD and keep the price under affordable levels. The Momentus XT Hybrid HDDs are touted to be the world’s fastest 2.5-inch laptop drive with claims to [...]

  Seagate has confirmed the rumor related to its capacious 3TB hard drive. Seagate’s Senior Product Manager, Barbara Craig confirmed to Thinq that the 3TB enterprise-class HDD is scheduled to launch by end of this year provided the technical issue gets sorted. The issue is not from Seagate’s end but from the PC industry because [...]