Seagate NAS infected with mining software
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Monday, 12 September 2016 11:50

Seagate NAS infected with mining software


Making cash on the back of your network

Owners of a Seagate NAS might like to check to see if it is not infected with Mal/Miner-C, also known as PhotoMiner, which is infecting the devices and using them to mine for the Monero cryptocurrency.

Seagate creates 60 TB SSD
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Wednesday, 10 August 2016 12:28

Seagate creates 60 TB SSD


It keeps getting bigger

Earlier we told you how Seagate had started shippig a 10 TB SSD which was pretty cool, if not rather expensive. Well no it seems that Seagate wants to keep beating records by release an SSD which can store 60TB.

Seagate fires three percent of staff
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Thursday, 30 June 2016 10:58

Seagate fires three percent of staff


Cloud not making up for the loss of PC business

Hard-disk drive maker Seagate Technology is cutting more than 1,600 jobs, or three percent of its workforce, as the company looks to cut costs as interest in PCs continues to shrink.

Hard-drives on their way out
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Wednesday, 04 May 2016 13:31

Hard-drives on their way out


SSD is king


HDD shipments across the board for all HDD applications were down 12.3 per cent over the prior quarter, despite the fact that the average HDD capacities increased.

Seagate starts shipping 10TB He Enterprise HDD in volume
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3.5-inch helium filled HDDs for datacenters

Seagate has announced that it has finally started to ship its 10TB enterprise-class helium-filled HDDs.

Seagate launches world's first USB-C powered 8TB external HDD
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Available later this month for $349

On Wednesday, Seagate announced Innov8, the world’s first power adapter-less USB 3.1 Type-C external hard drive for desktops. The drive is available in an 8TB storage capacity and does not require any power cable to operate, using only a single USB Type-C connector as a source of both power and data.

Seagate to launch world's fastest NVMe SSDs this summer
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Open Compute Project (OCP) and NVMe compliant

In an effort to keep up with the ever-increasing high performance storage demands of datacenters and enterprise customers, Seagate has announced it will launch the world’s “fastest ever” solid state flash drive this summer with throughput performance of 10 gigabytes per second (GB/s), according to a new press release.

Seagate unveils new 7mm 2.5-inch 2TB Mobile HDD
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Thursday, 18 February 2016 18:54

Seagate unveils new 7mm 2.5-inch 2TB Mobile HDD


To provide high capacity and amazing value

Seagate has introduced its new Mobile HDD line of internal HDDs meant to provide high capacity, high performance and amazing value, all in a standard 2.5-inch 7mm-thick form factor.

Seagate launches 10TB helium-filled hard drive for datacenters
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Helium for low-noise, turbulance free for enterprise environments

The race is on for low-power and low-noise enterprise hard drives that can pack in as much density as the laws of innovation allow while delivering an effective and reasonable price-per-terabyte ratio to enterprises all around the globe.

Seagate announces 2TB on 7mm thick HDD
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Thursday, 03 September 2015 16:41

Seagate announces 2TB on 7mm thick HDD


Ye cannae change the laws of physics

Every week we here of a new hard-drive technology which appears to bend the laws of physics by stuffing more into less.