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  Just like Samsung did to its S2 Portable HDD, Seagate has also entered into a partnership with Paramount Pictures to pre-load movies on their 2.5-inch FreeAgent Go HDD. A purchase and a quick register to the redemption page, enables users to unlock Star Trek (2009) movie without any additional cost. There are other 20 [...]

  It’s taken almost a year to reach our shores but it’s finally here – Seagate’s Blackarmor range of storage solutions. Targeted at small and medium businesses, the Blackarmor Network attached storage drives and external workstation drive claim to give peace of mind to businesses with strong backup solution. The BlackArmor NAS 440/420 Storage Servers [...]

  Seagate has started shipping the world’s highest capacity 2.5-inch HDDs meant for enterprise clients. The 600GB Savvio 10K.4 boasts enterprise-class features like Protection Information, self-encryption, PowerChoice to optimize power consumption during idle mode and has an outstanding 2 million hours Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) reliability rating. Seagate reckons the Savvio 10K.4 HDDs can [...]

  Seagate’s 7mm HDDs we mentioned few days back has got all the required details. The drive is the world’s thinnest 2.5-inch HDD and will be sold under the Momentus brand. Seagate reckons entry of such thin drives will drive manufacturers to churn out slimmer and cheaper laptops. Good thing is that the thin profile [...]

  Seagate will unveil a new ultra-thin hard drive at the CES expo that begins from next month. The HDD will be just 7mm thick as compared to the prevalent 9.5mm or 12.5mm drives. Seagate is keeping rest of the details under wraps but it will be interesting to see how much capacity these thinner [...]

  Seagate has been producing hard drives for the past 30 years but their first SSD has seen the light of day yesterday. Dubbed as Pulsar, the SSDs are said to be apt for enterprise and server applications because of its unprecedented quality and durability. The 2.5-inch single-level cell (SLC) Pulsar SSDs support SATA interface, [...]

  Seagate has announced that they have begun shipping the world’s fastest Cheetah 15K.7 enterprise-class HDDs. The new 3.5-inch hard drives boast 15K RPM speed and delivers data rate up to 204MB/s. The drives support 4Gb/s FC or 6Gb/s SAS interfaces and comes with other features like PowerTrim to reduce power consumption and option to [...]

  Seagate today upgraded its FreeAgent for Mac series drives by upping the storage as well as adding couple of new features to lure the professional creative crowd. The line includes two portable HDDs, one Desk HDD and a docking station. The portable drives consist of FreeAgent Go and FreeAgent Go Pro, both have got [...]

  Intel has tied up with AOC, Gigabyte, iBall and Seagate to bring a nettop that could be assembled by its channel partners under their own brand name. The strategy will make Intel to cash in on the reputation of the channels enjoyed by them in their respective regions. With the device targeted at the [...]

  Seagate and AMD have partnered to show the world, the next generation SATA interface that is capable of transferring data up to 6Gigabit/second. In the demonstration, Seagate showed off two SATA HDDs – a 3Gb/s Barracuda 7200.12 drive and the 6Gb/s prototype Barracuda drive, both powered on AMD’s prototype chipset. The benchmark tests displayed [...]

  Seagate has also joined the league of 2TB drive producers with the announcement of Constellation ES drives. The 2TB 3.5-inch Constellation ES HDD boasts speed, storage and enterprise level security. Seagate is touting that this drive is the only one to run at 7200-rpm carrying such huge storage capacity. There’s also an optional self-encrypting [...]

  Another product revealed at the CES was Seagate’s FreeAgent Theater HD Media player that allows to play files directly from the external USB drive. The idea is pretty simple – just pop in a Seagate FreeAgent drive or any other USB external drive into the unit and play multimedia files on TV. It also [...]