Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 SAS 2.0 6Gb/s 600GB Hard Disk Review

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Tweaktown tested the Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 SAS 2.0 6Gb/s 600GB HDD and published this review.
Quote from the review: "Seagate Technology released the first 15,000 RPM enterprise hard drive nearly 15 years ago, the X15. While the name was appropriate at the time, Seagate changed the name of the product line in the second generation to show generational updates; the 15K.2 was born. The second coming of the King of Enterprise Storage caught Seagate’s competitors off guard and for a year Seagate had the only second generation 15,000 RPM product on the market. This went on until the fourth generation, at that point competing products starting to perform and in some benchmarks overtake Seagate’s flagship drive. Read more

Posted on Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Cheetah NS.2 And Cheetah 15K.7 HDD Review

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LanOC published a review of the Seagate Cheetah NS.2 and Cheetah 15K.7 hard-drives.
Quote from the review: "This spring I took a look at the 15k RPM Savvio drives from Seagate, a 2.5 inch high speed hard drives designed for server use. Read more

Posted on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA 6 Gbit/s Hard Drive Performance Review

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Tweaktown published this review of the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA 6 Gbit/s Hard Drive.
Quote from the review: "Third generation Serial ATA technology is finally here. Today we are going to take a look at the new Seagate Barracuda XT, the first SATA 6 Gb/s hard drive to hit the TweakTown Test Lab. Read more

Posted on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 SAS 15,000RPM Hard Drive Review

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Benchmark Reviews published a Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 SAS 15,000RPM Hard Drive review.
Quote from the review: "Until SSDs can safely prove that they're a reliable long-term media for Enterprise storage, the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface owns the market share for server storage. Until Seagate launches their Solid State Drive counterpart, the 600GB Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Hard Drive ST3600057SS delivers safe and affordable high-capacity storage to data servers and Enterprise environments. Read more

Posted on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA III HDD With 6Gb/s Unveiled

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Seagate announced that it is first to ship a SATA III desktop hard-drive with the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA III HDD (ST32000641AS).
The Seagate Barracuda XT is a 7200RPM HDD featuring 2TB of storage capacity and the new blazing fast Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second interface. Of course to leverage the new speeds you need a new motherboard with a SATA III interface like the recently announced Asus P7P55D Premium. Read more

Posted on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:05:29 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Offers Music Skins for External Hard Drives

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Seagate has unveiled a new line of music skins that users can take advantage of to customize their external hard drives. The skins are offered in conjunction with MusicSkins and are available for the FreeAgent Go and FreeAgent Go for Mac.

A wide range of skins are available to customize the drives and all skins use the same 3M adhesive technology to prevent air bubbles and allow for clean removal. Skins are available with musicians, Adult Swim characters and can even be made with personal photos and images. Read more

Posted on Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB Hard Drive Review

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Hard drive upgrades are easy enough to do on a notebook assuming you can install the operating system without any problems. Today we are looking at a new Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB HDD. The drive spins at 7200 rpm but consumes nearly the same power as a 5400 rpm drive.

The Seagate trounced the 5400 rpm drive I recently tested in most benchmarks and has drop protection built-in. If you need a large hard drive for your notebook with high performance that doesn't kill battery life, this may be the product for you. Read more

Posted on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:34:26 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate Announces New Video Surveillance Hard Drives

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Seagate has announced new hard drives aimed at the surveillance industry called the SV35.5 Series. The drives are optimized for 24x7 use with capacities up to 1TB. Seagate promises that the line has best in class reliability, performance, capacity, acoustics, and power consumption.

The drives are performance tunes for 140MB/s sustained sequential data rates and ATA-7 streaming commands for high-speed transfers. The drives also feature built-in error recovery for non-stop streaming, thermal monitoring, and reporting. Read more

Posted on Tue, 7 Apr 2009 10:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate Launches BlackArmor NAS Devices

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Seagate has launched a new family of NAS storage devices aimed at small businesses called the BlackArmor series. In the series are the BlackArmor NAS 440 and BlackArmor NAS 420 storage servers. Both of the solutions have up to 8TB of capacity.

The BlackArmor NAS 420 comes with two drives in a four drive chassis and the 440 comes with four drives installed. Drive capacities vary from 2TB in the 420 to 8TB in the 440. The devices are ready to use out of the box and both feature LCD screens for status information. Read more

Posted on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Mobile Armor and Seagate Team Up for Laptop Security

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Seagate and Mobile Armor announced that they have teamed up to provide improved laptop security for mobile users. Under the partnership, a data protection solution using Seagate Momentus FDE hard drives and software from Mobile Armor will be offered.

The Seagate FDE hard drive automatically encrypts everything on the drive with AES encryption. The Mobile Armor software solution provides users and managers with full audit control over the notebook and allows managers to audit all laptops from a single unified policy and management console. Read more

Posted on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate Unveils Constellation Enterprise Hard Drives

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Seagate announced new enterprise class hard drives called the Constellation family. The new enterprise storage drives are for Tier 2 storage applications and includes two models including the 2.5-inch Constellation and the 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard drives.

The drives offer power efficiency and storage capacity. Seagate PowerChoice is integrated allowing the drives to decrease power consumption by up to 54%. The 2.5-inch drive is available in 160GB and 500GB capacities in SATA and SAS 2.0 interfaces. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate and Symwave to Debut First USB 3.0 Storage at CES 2009

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Symwave and Seagate have announced that Seagate will be unveiling the world's first USB 3.0 storage device at CES 2009. Seagate will demo the Symwave USB 3.0 controller device inside the FreeAgent line of Seagate external hard drives.

With data transfer speeds of up to ten times faster than USB 2.0, USB 3.0 storage solutions will make data backups much faster than we see on USB 2.0 drives. Symwave says that its first USB 3.0 physical layer device was introduced only seven weeks ago. Read more

Posted on Mon, 5 Jan 2009 07:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

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