Seagate Announces New Line of FreeAgent Drives

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Seagate announced its new line of FreeAgent external hard drives today. The offerings include the FreeAgent Go portable, which is the slimmest external hard drive available at only 12.5mm. The drive also offers a docking option for easy moving on the road. The line can be had with up to 500GB of storage.

Other drives in the line include the FreeAgent Go Drive for Mac at $159.99 for 250GB and $189.99 for 320GB. The FreeAgent Go Drive will retail for $119.99 for 250GB, $149.99 for 320GB, and $239.99 for 500GB. The FreeAgent Dock and Case is a docking station and will sell for $29.99. The FreeAgent Desk Drive is a backup and security drive and will be available with up to 1.5TB of storage at $279.99. The final new drive is the FreeAgent XTreme Drive. The drive offers eSATA connectivity and can be had with up to 1.5TB of storage with prices up to $299.99. Read more

Posted on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:50:44 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate Cheetah X15K.6 Hard Drive Review

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Hothardware published a review of the Seagate Cheetah X15K.6 Hard Drive.
Quote from the review: "Traditional hard disk storage is living on borrowed time. We know it and storage manufacturers know it. Solid state drives, which use non-volatile memory chips instead of rotating metal discs for storing data, are simply a better medium in the long run. They consume less power, create nearly zero heat, and produce no noise – but best of all, there are no moving parts to wear out over time. The technology and prices aren’t quite there yet, but it’s only a matter of time. Take a quick look through any tech-oriented forum and you will likely run into folks proclaiming the death of traditional platter based storage. For the most part, they're right - but there is a twist to the story as platter based storage manufacturers are fighting back. Read more

Posted on Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Annonces 1.5TB HDD for Desktop and 500GB for Notebooks

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Seagate has announced the world’s highest capacity desktop hard drive at 1.5TB is capacity. The drive uses four platters to reach its capacity and Seagate says that this is the biggest increase in hard drive capacity in 50 years.

It has been about a year since Seagate launched its 1TB hard drive. The drive is called the Barracuda 7200.11 and spins at 7200 rpm. Seagate has also announced new notebook hard drives that both have a 500GB storage capacity. One of the notebook drives comes in 5400 rpm and the other is 7200 rpm, both have the same 500GB capacity. The drives will be available in Q4 2008 at undisclosed pricing. The 1.5TB drive also features the option of bulk data encryption with AES encryption. Read more

Posted on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:53:19 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Alienware and Dell Ship Notebooks with Seagate 320GB HDD

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Seagate announced today that Dell and Alienware have become the first two notebook makers to ship systems that use Seagate’s new 320GB 7200 RPM HDD for performance and storage capacity. Seagate says that the 320GB drive is available now on some Dell XPs machines and will see be offered in Alienware systems.

The Seagate drive uses a SATA 3.0 Gbit/second interface. The fast 7200 RPM rotational speed makes for serious performance. Commonly when a notebook drive has a high storage capacity you have to live with 5400 RPM or slower speeds making data access slower. Read more

Posted on Mon, 19 May 2008 10:14:39 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate First to Ship 1 Billion Hard Drives

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Seagate announced today that it was the first hard drive maker to ship 1 billion hard drives. Seagate says that the 1 billion drives shipped amounts to about 79 million terabytes of storage. That is enough space for 158 billion hours of digital video.

You could also store a whopping 1.2 trillion hours of music. Seagate says that it took 29 years to ship 1 billion drives but that it expects to ship its next billion drives in 5 years. The first hard drive Seagate shipped was the ST506 with 5 megabytes of storage for $1500 in 1979. Read more

Posted on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:15:04 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate Launches 1TB HDD with SAS interface

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Seagate announced today that it is now offering the world’s first 1TB hard drive with a SAS interface. The drive is the enterprise class Barracuda ES.2 with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. Seagate says the SAS interface can boost performance by 135% compared to SATA drives.

"The explosion of content in enterprise environments is driving the need for faster data access and bandwidth that Seagate's 1TB Barracuda ES.2 drives can deliver with a SAS interface," said Sherman Black, Seagate senior vice president and general manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute Business. "SAS dual-port capability with redundancy, improved performance and data integrity make this drive the perfect low-cost/GB enterprise-ready drive for our customers." Read more

Posted on Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:33:53 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB Review

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ThinkComputer published a review of the Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB external hard drive. The FreeAgent Pro without Firewire sells for only $164.99 on Amazon.com.

Quote from the review: "The Seagate FreeAgent Pro is among many other current external hard drives. Its sleek design will help keep your desktop clutter free. Available in 320GB, 500GB, 750GB, and 1000GB capacities and supporting USB, eSATA, and dual FireWire 400 there is quite a number of drives to choose from for your liking. Read more

Posted on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate FreeAgent Pro Review

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The team over at our review partner Digital Trends published a review of the stylish Seagate FreeAgent Pro portable hard-drive.

Quote from the review: "Seagate is taking a different approach to portable storage with the FreeAgent Pro. Read more

Posted on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:25:30 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

I4U Review Round-up: 1TB Seagate HDD, V-Tech Kidizoom, Razer Diamondback

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Here is our weekly review round-up, highlighting the products we tested last week.

If your videos and photo collection does not fit on your hard-drive anymore take a look at the new Seagate 1TB hard-drive we tested last week.

We also tested a cool creative toy for your kids. The VTech Kidizoom Camera is very durable and great fun for kids to play with. Read more

Posted on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB Internal HDD Review

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Today we are looking at the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB internal HDD. This is Seagate’s first 1TB drive and is a direct competitor to the Hitachi 1TB drive we reviewed before.

The Seagate drive performs well and has great storage capacity. The only potential problem with the drive is that it is expensive. Read more

Posted on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:06:06 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate Momentus ST9160823ASG 7200.2 160GB SATA Notebook Hard Drive Review

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Today we are looking at the Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160GB notebook hard drive. This drive is as fast as notebook hard drives get right now and has good storage space for your music and files.

Installing the drive into my MacBook was easy and the drive performed very well in benchmarks and real world use. If you want to get more storage space and more performance from your notebook, the Momentus 160GB HDD is a great choice. Read more

Posted on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:53:04 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Latest Reviews include iPhone, Seagate FreeAgent Pro and MacBook Pro

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We have been busy again last week testing computer hardware and gadgets.

Our review partner Digital Trends published an interesting Apple iPhone review and a MacBook Pro Review. Of course we also tested a graphics cards this week: PowerColor HD 2900 XT Video Card.

All reviews from last week below. Read more

Posted on Sun, 8 Jul 2007 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB External Hard Drive Review

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Today we are having a look at another external hard drive, this time from Seagate. The Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB external hard drive can be connected via USB, FireWire 400 or e-SATA making it very versatile.

The large 750GB storage capacity is also a great way to be able to store more video, music, files or other information. The drive also ships with backup software so you are ready to go right out of the box. Read more

Posted on Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:35:57 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate launches 1TB HDDs Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2

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Seagate introduced two 1TB hard drives today. The Barracuda ES.2 1TB HDD is aimed at networked and tiered storage solutions, reference/compliance storage, disc-to-disc backup and restore, archiving solutions, rich media content storage and collaboration.

The 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 is aimed at desktop and gaming computers.

The perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) hard drives Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2 deliver 7,200-rpm spin speeds, average seek times of 8.5ms, caches up to 32MB and Seagate's five-year limited warranty. Seagate uses four discs to provide cool operating temperatures and low power consumption in the new 1TB drives. Read more

Posted on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:42:04 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB External Hard Drive

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Everything USB reviews the Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB External Hard Drive.

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"Backups can be such a chore. For the novice computer user, they're a maze of which folders and backup schemes to pick from. For geeks, they can be slow, inefficient, and sometimes even have the nerve to rely on our memory to press a button! Read more

Posted on Mon, 21 May 2007 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Launches DIY Lost File Recovery Tool

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If you have ever lost data to a virus, OS crash or a malicious user you know how frustrating having to recreate files, if that is even possible, can be. Take that a step further with business where you run the risk of disgruntled employees erasing files purposefully that can seriously damage a business and cost more than money.

Before I worked in the world of full time geeks I was an IT guy for a pharmacy. We had an employee erase files that we needed when she quit her job. The files could not be reproduced so we had to resort to sending the drive out to a lab for data extraction. The bill for the work was well into the hundreds of dollars, plus it was well over two weeks before the data was available again. Had the data been mission critical the company would have been out of business for the entire time it took for data retrieval. Read more

Posted on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate Launches D.A.V.E at DEMO 07

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Seagate Technology today formally announced the Digital Audio Video Experience (D.A.V.E) technology, formerly code-named "Crickett", at the DEMO 07 Conference.

The Seagate DAVE platform delivers 10-20 GB of wireless storage in an accessory smaller than many common mobile phones. Data is exchanged between your phone and the storage device either Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
DAVE's mobile storage platform is open source, enabling third party software developers to create new applications for the mobile phone utilizing the external mobile hard drive.
Read more

Posted on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Confirms 1TB 3.5'' HDD

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Seagate has confirmed to DailyTech that they will be launching a 1TB HDD in the first half of 2007. The new 1TB drive will use the perpendicular recording technology Seagate pioneered with the 750 GB drive.

The new drive however will utilize fewer platters and less heads meaning the platters will hold more data than the ones in the current 750GB drive. This move leaves the other big hard drive manufacturers in the dust as no one else has matched the 750 GB HDD from Seagate to date. Read more

Posted on Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate 500GB eSATA External Hard Drive Review

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External hard drives are great for portable storage needs, but often you have to trade speed for that portability. Seagate has an external drive that is as close as you will get to internal drive speeds that uses the eSATA interface.

The subject of this review is the Seagate eSATA 500GB External Hard Drive. Seagate includes a PCI eSATA card for users who don’t have an on-board eSATA part and the required cable. Read more

Posted on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:31:43 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB Hard Drive Review

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The Tech Report published a detailed review of the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 with perpendicular recording technology. Seagate introduced the 750GB 7200.10 in April.

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"Perpendicular recording does wonders for storage capacity, and thanks to denser platters, it can also improve drive performance. Couple those benefits with support for 300 MB/s Serial ATA transfer rates, Native Command Queuing, and up to 16 MB of cache, and the Barracuda 7200.10 starts to look pretty appealing. Throw in an industry-leading five year warranty and a cost per gigabyte that's competitive with 500 GB drives, and you may quickly find yourself scrambling to justify a need for 750 GB of storage capacity.

Is Seagate's Barracuda 7200.10 as good as it sounds? And what's the deal with perpendicular recording technology, anyway? "
Read the full review. Read more

Posted on Tue, 30 May 2006 01:52:36 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB! Hard-drive

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Seagate announces highest capacity 3.5 inch hard-drive to the market. The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 offers 750GB storage achieved through perpendicular technology.

Available options for this high capacity hard-drive series are 8 or 16MB cache, choices of ATA/100, SATA 1.5Gb/s or SATA 3Gb/s.
The Barracuda 7200.10 features Seagates SoftSonic motor to reduce noise and enhanced G-Force protection. Seagate gives a five-year warranty on the new Barracuda drives. Read more

Posted on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:14:35 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr