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What critics are saying about the Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB

The Barracuda XT 3TB model began shipping this year and has earned acclaim from reviewers around the globe. With 2TB and 3TB capacities, 64MB of cache, and a 6Gb/s SATA interface, the Barracuda XT is finding its home in systems where both high performance and capacity are desired. RealWorld Labs most recently posted its story and [...]

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“My hard drives get no respect!” – Tales of SeaTools and Seagate support

To paraphrase the late Rodney Dangerfield, “Hard drives get no respect. No respect I tell ya!” And this may actually be a fact, as drives tend to be the first to be blamed when a PC starts acting erratically. Interesting fact, though, is after testing more than 20 percent of the drives returned to Seagate for warranty replacement [...]

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MaximumPC on “How to Buy a Hard Drive: An Essential Guide”

Check out MaximumPC’s “How to Buy a Hard Drive: An Essential Guide” by Loyd Case. It’s a great story that not only discusses the drive types including HDDs, SSDs, and Solid State Hybrid Drives (SSHDs) – and the technologies that make them all work – but it also covers selecting the right storage for your [...]

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The legend of the laptop and the Savvio 15K-rpm drive

Since the introduction of the first Seagate Savvio 2.5-inch enterprise drives back in 2004, I’ve corresponded with many people who would tell me, “If only it was a SATA drive, I could install one of those inside my laptop and get blazing performance along with all that enterprise reliability.” The SAS interface seemed to be [...]

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Performance demo pits Seagate Momentus XT against SSDs and HDDs

At last week’s Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, CA, Seagate had set up its booth with numerous demonstrations that were the talk of the show floor. These real world demonstrations compared the Seagate Momentus XT solid state hybrid drive against a number of SSDs and HDDs in notebook performance tests. The Momentus XT solid [...]

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Seagate at Flash Memory Summit 2011

Seagate will be at the annual Flash Memory Summit at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA next week participating in numerous sessions and showcasing its solid state and solid state hybrid solutions. The conference and exhibit, which runs from August 9th through the 11th, brings together vendors, industry analysts, press, IT pros [...]

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Excited about error management? More behind Seagate’s Pulsar SSD shipping announcement to distribution channel

With distribution channel shipments beginning today for Seagate Pulsar XT.2 and Pulsar.2 to follow later this month, it marks an exciting time for the company, but also for customers including system builders and VARs. But as a system builder or VAR, you may ask, “Why would this necessarily be an exciting time for me?” Well, [...]

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Learning to use Iometer to test your system

CRN provides a great how-to video on Iometer, the standard system performance benchmarking tool that measures any Windows, Linux or NetWare-based machine. Originally developed by Intel over a decade ago, Iometer continues being updated and is now available to download for free via an open source license at iometer.org. Check out the CRN video to [...]

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[Webinar] Seagate & Intel talk Custom Servers: Not All Created Equal

Join Seagate, together with Intel and Everything Channel, for a live webinar on Wednesday June 8th at 11:00AM Pacific, 1:00 PM Central, 2:00PM Eastern  - all about how trends in the IT space are driving custom storage and server strategies for the channel and the SMB customers they serve. Here is the actual description from the [...]

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Thank you channel partners for choosing Seagate

Thank you channel partners for choosing Seagate. Seagate took the top spot in the SATA Hard Drive category of the annual CRN Channel Champions survey. Channel partners rated Seagate highest in each of the three main survey areas: technical, support and financial. Seagate outperformed the competition in the critical, heavily weighted criteria of product quality/reliability and [...]

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