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Seagate ships virus-infected hard drives
News Some Seagate hard drives infected with a virus have been sent to users. Seagate said that antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab had discovered the existence of a virus on some of its Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 hard drives.
[November 14, 2007, 7:29]
Seagate Barracuda XT: third-generation SATA
Blog Seagate has announced global shipment of its new flagship 3.5in.desktop hard drive, the 2TB Barracuda XT. Seagate's $299 2TB Barracuda XT is the first 6Gbps SATA drive to market. Seagate also expects key applications for its third-generation SATA...
[September 22, 2009, 11:28]
Seagate to make flash-based hard drives
News Seagate Technology, the number-one maker of magnetic hard drives, will start manufacturing hard drives based around flash memory, according to its chief executive officer Bill Watkins. Seagate's decision is a significant turning point for the...
[August 23, 2007, 16:33]
Seagate touts new line of hard drives
News Seagate announced nine new products on the eve of its annual analyst meeting, scheduled to take place later this week. Seagate's DAVE (digital audio video experience) platform, for instance, is geared towards people who want to use their phone as...
[September 6, 2007, 8:06]
Seagate tops 1Q estimates
News Disk-drive and software developer Seagate Technology easily topped analysts' estimates in its first quarter Tuesday, raking in $62m, or 26 cents a share, on sales of $1.75bn. Seagate shares closed off $1 to $62.94 ahead of the earnings report.
[October 11, 2000, 11:06]
Seagate reveals hard drive roadmap
News Seagate Technology on Wednesday announced new lines of hard drives geared toward quenching the thirst for high-capacity handhelds, digital media management and cross-platform syncing. Seagate touts the ST18 as having the robustness of so-called...
[June 8, 2006, 9:25]
Seagate launches hard drives with encryption
News Seagate Technology on Monday plans to announce the first manufacturer to sell laptop PCs with Seagate's new hard drive that has built-in encryption technology. Fremont, California-based ASI Computer Technologies will start selling computers...
[March 12, 2007, 8:37]
Seagate revs up high capacity disks
News Seagate plans to announce its highest-capacity 15,000 revolutions-per-minute hard disks yet on Monday, with a 73GB model. The Cheetah 15K.3 -- so-called because it represents Seagate's third generation of hard disk to have a spindle speed of 15...
[May 3, 2002, 14:31]
Seagate sends perpendicular drive to market
News Seagate, the largest hard-drive manufacturer in the world, has started to ship its first drive for notebooks based around perpendicular recording techniques, a shift that increases capacity by percent.
[January 17, 2006, 7:50]
Seagate serves up 60GB on a platter
News Hard drive maker Seagate Technology has claimed a new record for cramming data onto a disk, announcing a new line of 3.5-inch drives that can fit 60GB on a single platter. Seagate's 120GB, dual-disc Barracuda ATA V drives will be the first to...
[June 25, 2002, 10:22]
Seagate upbeat despite profit shortfall
News Seagate Technology on Tuesday reported lower-than-expected revenue and income for the quarter, but the company's chief executive said that doesn't mean 2007 will be a difficult year for the PC crowd. The company expected revenue to come in around...
[April 18, 2007, 10:37]
Seagate unveils 12GB minidrive
News Seagate and Cornice both launched new compact hard drives on Monday that offer contrasting approaches to storage on mobile phones of the future. Seagate offered the device with the highest capacity, while Cornice has opted for a trade-off between...
[February 13, 2006, 17:20]
Seagate shrinks results forecast
News Seagate, the hard-disk-drive supplier, has downgraded its results forecast, blaming falling demand for 3.5-inch disk drives. Seagate says it is still running to tight production and is not suffering from ballooning inventory — which remains "under...
[April 11, 2007, 14:49]
Seagate to buy Maxtor
News Storage giant Seagate is buying rival Maxtor, in a deal worth $1.9bn (£1.08bn). If approved, the new company will still be called Seagate, with today's Seagate shareholders owning approximately 84 percent of the combined company.
[December 21, 2005, 12:25]
Seagate invests in nanotech
News Seagate Technology, a company that designs, manufactures and markets hard drives, announced on Wednesday that it will invest over $300m m) at its two manufacturing plants in Northern Ireland over the next four years.
[December 14, 2005, 16:25]
Seagate shows full-disk encryption for laptops
News Hard-drive maker Seagate Technology on Monday provided more details on encryption technology designed to make life tougher for computer thieves. If a password is lost, the drive could be reset by Seagate, but there would be no way to get to the data.
[October 31, 2006, 8:00]
Seagate to give IPO a second go
News Seagate Technology announced Friday that it has filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Seagate is one of the leading manufacturers of hard drives for large businesses as well as for consumer electronics...
[October 14, 2002, 15:10]
Adaptec, Seagate plot Ultra2 SCSI 80Mb/sec raid
News Adaptec and Seagate will early in February take the wrapping off Ultra2 SCSI, a backwards-compatible extension of SCSI-3 that takes the storage drive interconnect technology to an 80Mb/sec bandwidth in "wide" 16-bit mode.
[January 28, 1998, 14:26]
Seagate launch drive with 500GB on single platter
Blog Seagate and Toshiba both launched new disk drives this week offering 500GB capacity which is emerging as the new industry standard for a basic disk drive. The Seagate drive offers 500GB on a single platter of its 3.5in, 7200RPM Barracuda 7200.12 HD...
[January 7, 2009, 11:47]
Seagate pushes faster class of small drives
News Seagate announced a new, faster class of 2.5-inch hard drives on Tuesday, an important part of the effort to get the smaller devices to replace the 3.5-inch drives that currently prevail in much of the server market.
[January 17, 2007, 8:35]
