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Take your tech recession and stuff it

Investors may be panicking, but Seagate CEO Bill Watkins says business and tech trends paint a different picture than the one on CNBC.

January 23, 2008 12:00 PM PST

Can Seagate steer hybrid-drive market?

Price and industry standardization remain barriers to widespread adoption, but the biggest hard-drive maker could force competitors to keep pace.

October 9, 2007 5:18 PM PDT

Seagate profit down as demand slows

Revenue is lower than expected, but CEO says it's a "short-term fluctuation" and remains upbeat about 2007.

April 18, 2007 12:56 AM PDT

Seagate ships hard drives with encryption

ASI will be the first to sell a laptop with Seagate's hard drive with built-in encryption technology.

March 12, 2007 1:30 PM PDT

Storage giants to push hybrid hard drives

Seagate, Hitachi, Samsung, Fujitsu and Toshiba partner to promote combo of flash chips and magnetic platters. But where is Western Digital?

January 5, 2007 1:51 PM PST

Faster external drives arriving--slowly

eSATA lets external hard drives run at internal speeds. But don't expect to see mainstream PCs with those ports until 2008.
Photos: eSATA drives

December 21, 2006 10:49 PM PST

Seagate bakes security into hard drive

Company pitches "DriveTrust" technology as a simpler way to safeguard data stored on laptops and prevent embarrassing breaches.

October 31, 2006 3:12 PM PST

Seagate preserves Maxtor brand in sales channel

Maxtor brand is for low-end hard drives, while Seagate will be for high end.

October 4, 2006 6:27 PM PDT

Robson or hybrid hard drive? The battle is coming

Faced with two technologies, companies are already picking sides over intregrating flash memory into PCs.

September 29, 2006 6:31 PM PDT

A divide over the future of hard drives

Room temperatures should derail the current line of disk drive development soon, so changes are coming.

August 23, 2006 11:07 PM PDT

Seagate announces new lines of drives

The company's new products include an array of hard drives for desktops, handhelds and laptops.
Photos: Seagate's new drives

June 7, 2006 7:00 PM PDT

Seagate releases perpendicular storage drives

Aiming to prove its credentials in the emerging field of perpendicular storage, Seagate rolls out 3.5-inch drives.

November 6, 2006 11:43 PM PST

Networked storage heads for homes

Storage companies are betting that a technology once reserved for businesses will appeal to consumers juggling many PCs and shared files.

March 21, 2006 3:07 PM PST

Seagate cranks up notebook drives to 160GB

Hard drive maker starts shipping its first drive for notebooks based around perpendicular recording techniques.
Photo: Seagate's mighty Momentus drive

January 17, 2006 6:30 PM PST

Seagate delivers Barracuda upgrade

The disk drive first of 10 new products the company promised back in June.

October 11, 2005 4:35 PM PDT

Seagate buys storage company Mirra

Looks to develop a box that'll let people access their home and small-office content from any Internet-connected PC.

September 15, 2005 12:41 PM PDT

The drive for multidisk PCs

Long-term storage, instant backup and multicore chips are pushing the trend. Will consumers bite?
Photos: Cramming in the hard drives

August 10, 2005 7:26 PM PDT

Home storage to bolster hard-drive growth

The days of the 2-terabyte machines could happen as early as 2009, research firm IDC predicts.

June 30, 2005 1:36 PM PDT

Seagate poised for CE push

As the consumer electronics market urges drive prices up, company identifies digital television and cell phones as areas for growth.

June 13, 2005 11:25 PM PDT

Seagate ups capacity with new hard drives

Company launches a 2.5-inch device using technology that can hold almost double the amount of data of current designs.

June 9, 2005 11:04 AM PDT