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Take your tech recession and stuff it

January 23, 2008 12:00 PM PST

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

Data-recovery firm reveals top client mishaps

December 6, 2007 4:49 PM PST

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

To advance drives, Hitachi changes the head

October 15, 2007 12:52 PM PDT

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

Can Seagate steer hybrid-drive market?

October 9, 2007 5:18 PM PDT

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

Study: Businesses falling short on data disposal

September 24, 2007 11:14 PM PDT

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

Seagate's new line of hard drives

September 6, 2007 4:00 AM PDT

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

Laser innovation speeds up hard disks

July 5, 2007 5:01 PM PDT

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

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

June 25, 2007 12:00 PM PDT

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

Hitachi touts small drives for big business

April 23, 2007 4:00 AM PDT

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

SanDisk drops prices with new flash drive

March 14, 2007 11:57 AM PDT

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

Seagate ships hard drives with encryption

March 12, 2007 1:30 PM PDT

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

Hard drive vanishes from VA facility

February 5, 2007 10:53 PM PST

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

Small drives cross performance threshold

January 17, 2007 5:58 PM PST

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

Here comes the terabyte hard drive

January 6, 2007 5:21 AM PST

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

Storage giants to push hybrid hard drives

January 5, 2007 1:51 PM PST

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

SanDisk rolls out flash hard drives for laptops

January 4, 2007 9:36 PM PST

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

Faster external drives arriving--slowly

December 21, 2006 10:49 PM PST

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

Fujitsu prepares 300GB notebook drive

December 14, 2006 12:17 AM PST

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

Al Shugart, hard-drive pioneer, dies at 76

December 13, 2006 9:00 PM PST

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

Does new hard drive foreshadow 100GB iPod?

December 6, 2006 2:36 PM PST

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