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The “Secret” of Barracuda Green’s performance (read the review)

Who would have thought that a 5900 RPM drive could “practically” match the performance of a 7200 RPM drive? Well, Hardware Secrets claims that based on their tests, Seagate’s Barracuda Green does just that. Given the Barracuda XT 2TB drive used in the test is almost 2 years old (the 2TB version was introduced in [...]

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Need a 3.0TB ready motherboard?

The Barracuda XT 3.0TB drive is here, and you can be sure there are more 3.0TB drives coming in the months ahead. The question being, is your PC ready for it, or if you are in the market for a new desktop, what should you be looking for in terms of a system capable of [...]

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Best Buy customers ask for SSHD

Best Buy’s recent announcement of a new series of laptops by Sony and Toshiba under the exclusive Best Buy Blue Label program feature a whole host of innovations that, according to Best Buy, “consumers asked for”. The slogan at the top of the Blue Label webpage says it all: So what did customers ask for? [...]

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A Momentus XT story of a system overheating

I’m not about to inundate you with all of the positive stories about Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid drive, but this one on geeknewscentral.com caught my eye.  Probably because of all the activity around Momentus XT and upgrading MacBook Pro systems. Why this particular story caught my interest was the fact that this particular user [...]

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Barracuda XT – What the experts are saying

Barracuda XT 3.0TB “Going back on today’s review in some of the tests the Barracuda XT 3TB SATA 3 HDD proved to be more than just a match even for the Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 3TB which is quite impressive for a non-enterprise-class drive and so if you don’t care about having a drive with the [...]

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What you need to see all 3 terabytes

Seagate announced a 3.0TB version of its Barracuda XT high performance line of desktop hard drives. You can check out all of the specs here. What separates this product from the rest of the 3.0TB pack is that it is “Industry’s Easiest To Deploy” as the press release states.  For the past year Seagate’s website andblogs have been talking about [...]

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If They Build it… Will You Come?

In IT, there is a mantra: “build it and they will come” and Cloud Computing is no exception. Everyone is gearing to “doing something in the Cloud” – building it, servicing it, delivering it, reselling it… Vendors, distributors, channel partners are all getting ready to participate.  Cisco just launched their new Channel “cloud” go-to-market strategy, [...]

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Measuring the Cost of Security

Right when RSA 2011 was going full speed last week in San Francisco, Seagate celebrated a huge milestone, reaching the 1M mark of self-encrypting laptop and enterprise drives shipped. Data is becoming companies’ most important asset and, in turn, a great currency. Social security numbers, health records, credit card information …data is vulnerable, and cyber [...]

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Solution Providers (Cloud) Optimistic for 2011

Everything Channel’s IT spending survey, published in January, gave me a sense of optimism.  One, because most of them said they will spend more, but two, because where they plan to invest may directly address customers’ real pain points. The 380+ senior-level managers surveyed in North America are upbeat about 2011 spending. The IT market for [...]

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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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