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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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Less choice means more? Behind the simplified approach of Seagate’s latest Barracuda

The new Barracuda family was announced today – you can check out the press release here – and it takes a different approach than previous Seagate products. You’ll notice that this Barracuda doesn’t tout itself as being the “greenest” like the Barracuda Green or the “fastest” like Barracuda XT. Nope, those drives are actually going [...]

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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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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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It’s data that continues to drive the industry, says IDC

We blogged about Q2 2010’s data growth last September, and it’s hard to believe it’s been another year already! And maybe more surprising to some is that there’s not been any “doom and gloom” in our industry this year – even with a challenging economy – as IDC has reported another year of explosive storage [...]

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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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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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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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“Aha” Moment

What will the SMBs focus on in 2011? The SMB Group shared their Top 10 predictions and no big surprises:  mobility, cloud computing, unified communication and social media were all on the list. The surprise for me was their predictions around content.  As the latest Digital Universe study from IDC pointed out:  1.2 zettabytes of [...]

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Changing the Way We Speak to SMBs

Clearly SMBs today have other priorities than keep up with the latest technology… Particularly when there are new technologies announced every day, and they are all presented in a hyped, confusing, geek-speak, jargon. How about talking about the three things that will help SMBs expand their business? Harris Interactive put out a new study (sponsored by [...]

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