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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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What storage topic is on your mind? Let’s make it “Your Storage Blog” and win a Seagate drive!

We’ve blogged about storage trends and provided updates on storage technology and products. We’ve offered tech tips as well as shared insight into Seagate’s business. Now we’re interested in hearing from you. Next week we’ll begin a blog for Bright Side of News and we want this to be reflective of ideas coming from you. [...]

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Live Event! Enterprise vs. Client SSDs: What’s the Difference and Why Should You Care?

The topic has been blogged about here previously, but now’s your chance to take part in a live ChannelCast webinar, listen to the experts, and ask questions. SSDs are fast, but not all of them are created equally. Choosing the right SSD and using it properly in servers and storage systems can increase application performance [...]

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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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Steve Jobs eliminated the words, “Delayed Gratification”

Guest post by Joni Clark, Seagate senior marketing manager. We are all aware of how Steve Jobs (and his innovative Apple team) changed our computing lifestyles, but what we may not fully appreciate is how well Steve and Apple also challenged their eco-system of suppliers to innovate and design technology that reaches beyond the norm. [...]

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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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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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