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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

Data-recovery firm reveals top client mishaps

Ant infestations, failed parachute jumps were behind some of the unusual data-recovery jobs faced by computer forensics specialist in 2007.

December 6, 2007 4:49 PM PST

To advance drives, Hitachi changes the head

Hitachi's giant magneto-resistive head will have perpendicular current and will allow the company to increase the density of drives.

October 15, 2007 12:52 PM PDT

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

Study: Businesses falling short on data disposal

Study commissioned by BT Group finds that many organizations fail to clean sensitive data off secondhand hard disks.

September 24, 2007 11:14 PM PDT

Seagate's new line of hard drives

Company announces nine products, including a 60-gigabyte drive for phones and a drive optimized for security cameras.

September 6, 2007 4:00 AM PDT

Laser innovation speeds up hard disks

Researchers claim that lasers can be used to boost read/write speed of magnetic media by 100 times, with prototype due within decade.

July 5, 2007 5:01 PM PDT

Seagate's first 1-terabyte drive to debut this fall

The Barracuda 7200.11 will sell for $399. Rival Hitachi released its version of the drive for the same price in April.

June 25, 2007 12:00 PM PDT

Hitachi touts small drives for big business

The 10K RPM Ultrastar C10K147 takes up less space and consumes less power than standard drives.

April 23, 2007 4:00 AM PDT

SanDisk drops prices with new flash drive

Decline in cost of new drive is chalked up to the drastic pricing reduction experienced by the flash industry.

March 14, 2007 11:57 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

Hard drive vanishes from VA facility

Portable device may have been stolen from an Alabama medical center and may house data on as many as 48,000 vets.

February 5, 2007 10:53 PM PST

Small drives cross performance threshold

Seagate's new 2.5-inch hard drive spins at 15,000rpm, matching a performance feature previously available only with 3.5-inch drives.
Photo: Seagate's new Savvio drive

January 17, 2007 5:58 PM PST

Here comes the terabyte hard drive

With a terabyte drive, consumers can store 250,000 MP3 songs, enough for two solid years of listening without a single repeat.
Photos: Hitachi's terabyte drive

January 6, 2007 5:21 AM PST

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

SanDisk rolls out flash hard drives for laptops

Unlike traditional hard drives, flash memory drives do not contain moving parts, making them less prone to breaking down.

January 4, 2007 9:36 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

Fujitsu prepares 300GB notebook drive

Vendor says product will set a new record for SATA-based 2.5-inch drives.

December 14, 2006 12:17 AM PST

Al Shugart, hard-drive pioneer, dies at 76

The founder of hard-drive maker Seagate was one of the pioneers, and one of the regular guys, of the tech industry.

December 13, 2006 9:00 PM PST

Does new hard drive foreshadow 100GB iPod?

Toshiba's 100GB 1.8-inch hard drives will begin shipping next year, which could lead to larger storage capacity for Apple's music device.
Photo: Toshiba's little hard drive

December 6, 2006 2:36 PM PST