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A few minutes on solid state hybrid drive technology with Jansen Ng of DailyTech

This Tuesday, December 6, Seagate’s hosting a webcast about Solid State Hybrid Drives (SSHD), called “Maximizing Performance and Reliability: Fusing the Advantages of SSD and HDD.” DailyTech’s senior editor Jansen Ng will talk about flash trends, “Instant-On,” and changes in the computing lifestyle, along with Seagate’s Jeff Burke and John Moon. (Bonus: one lucky attendee [...]

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Just another company award to brag about?

I’m sure you want to read another blog about how great Seagate is, with all our awards and stuff — and if so, you’re in for a treat! But seriously, I do want to talk about an award, and I promise you this one’s a little different. Seagate was named one of “2011’s Best Companies [...]

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How flash memory is strengthening the market for hard disk drives

You’ve probably heard or read about marketers and vendors who have predicted the demise of hard disk drives (HDDs). Here’s something that digs into the story and reveals exactly why that’s not going to happen. The Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD site recently published an article about how tablets – which use flash memory for storage [...]

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How a Seagate hard drive can help give you a two-week vacation

I was chatting with Seagate’s Momentus XT product marketing manager Joni Clark the other day when I asked her, “So what’s the average difference in bootup time between a standard laptop drive and the current Momentus XT?” “Standard 5,400 rpm will do it in 80 seconds while Momentus XT averages about 40 seconds,” she said. [...]

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

To demonstrate how storage can be more efficient and simple to use, you can do what EMC did in New York last week, and launch 41 new products while talking archive, backup and storage efficiency… But to really make some noise, you can also  “stuff” 26 dancers into a Mini and close the doors for [...]

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What 5MB Looked Like?

As we all now travel with light ultraportables with at least 160GB of disk space, this gives a whole new meaning to mobility… Do you know what this is? In September 1956, IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD).  The HDD weighed  over a ton and stored a ‘whopping’  [...]

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Funny 1998 Product Review: Sony Mavica

Just for fun…in the past I posted images, timelines, anything that was moderately humorous on Friday’s. I stumbled across another great avenue for a few laughs…product reviews from years past.  At least for those of us that remember these products and can remember how awesome it was to have a digital camera that used floppies! [...]

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A nostalgic move from tape to disc

Just for fun. “Be kind and rewind”… no more with this creative way to turn old VHS tapes into a unique external hard drive solution.  I know I still have VHS tapes laying around in the basement.  Everything from E.T. to Karate Kid, to the classics like Rocky I, II, III, IV…maybe Jaws or Caddyshack [...]

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The eras of technology marketing & innovation

Just for fun. Take a trip down memory lane and a glimpse into the future. Check out these ads over the decades and see just how far we’ve come.  Take a look at some of these ads then take a look at the video tour of Intel’s booth at CES.  It’s crazy how far computer technology [...]

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Cassette tapes: a new use for old storage

Just for fun. The beauty of cassette tapes…then and now. http://design-milk.com/cassette-tape-closet-by-creative-barn For more “capacity”, I guess you have to go 8-track, Betamax or VHS. Check it out. Related Posts Just for fun

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