This week, Seagate has revealed more about its plans for future hard drives, with plans to release 16TB HDDs by 2018 with some 12TB and 14TB models coming this year to keep things ticking over. Right now, Seagate offers 10TB drives but the company wants to fill up its drives …
Read More »Seagate launches ‘world’s highest capacity’ USB 3.0 portable drive
Seagate has been stepping up its game recently when it comes to higher capacity drives recently. We have seen a prototype version of the company's 60TB SSD, we have seen the company's largest USB 3.1 portable drive and now today, Seagate has unveiled what it claims to be the world's …
Read More »Seagate’s new Xbox One SSD offers 512GB of fast console storage
Seagate is looking to give you more space and more speed with your Xbox One, with its new Game Drive for Xbox SSD. It comes packing 512GB of storage space, letting you install around 15 games on the device. They should load quickly and efficiently too, thanks to the device's high-speed …
Read More »Seagate IronWolf 10TB HDD review
Seagate's latest behemoth of a hard drive is the 10TB flagship of the companies new Helium based IronWolf product line aimed at Home, SOHO and small business's using up to 8-bay NAS devices. Later this year the IronWolf drives will be joined by the LoneWolf Pro range of products, which …
Read More »Seagate one-ups Samsung with a 60TB SSD
Just recently, Samsung’s massive 15.6TB SSD began selling at retailers for $10,000. The 15TB drive was impressive at the time, but now it looks like Seagate is stealing the limelight with the announcement of its 60TB SSD. Seagate showed off its massive SSD at the Flash Memory Summit this week, …
Read More »Seagate’s new HDD could probably hold your entire Steam library
If you're the type of person that doesn't like to uninstall games, or delete parts of your media collection, then you may want to keep an eye on Seagate as it just launched a trio of hard drives with a huge 10TB capacity, which should probably be enough for that …
Read More »Seagate launches world’s biggest portable external HDD
Today has been something of a minefield for news reporters but fortunately, Seagate isn't trying to fool us with its announcement of the world's highest capacity portable external hard drive, which comes powered by a single USB 3.1 port and houses 8TB of capacity. That is a lot of storage …
Read More »Seagate launches ‘world’s fastest’ SSD
Seagate has just announced what it says is the ‘world's fastest' SSD, capable of 10Gbps throughput. Seagate's new drive is compliant with the Open Compute Project specification and makes use of the NVMe protocol, allowing it to achieve these massive speeds. According to Seagate, this SSD is ‘production ready' so …
Read More »Seagate is releasing an 8TB NAS drive
Seagate has announced that it will be launching its largest ever capacity NAS hard drive, offering up 8TB of space. Being a NAS drive, it is primarily aimed for those wanting to set up a personal cloud or for mass multimedia storage. The drive comes rated for an 180TB/year workload …
Read More »Seagate Xbox One 2TB Game Drive Review
We are all primarily PC gamers here at KitGuru, but that doesn't mean we shy away from consoles. Today, we are taking a look at Seagate's new 2TB ‘Game Drive', made in partnership with Microsoft exclusively for the Xbox One and Xbox 360. While you can freely switch out the …
Read More »Samsung: NAND flash industry will triple output to 253EB by 2020
Samsung Electronics predicts that the NAND flash industry will triple output of non-volatile memory over the next five years and will produce whopping 253 exabytes of NAND in 2020. Although the increase is impressive, total output of flash memory will account for less than 10 per cent of storage capacity …
Read More »Sales of solid-state drives hit $15 billion in 2014
The market of solid-state drives is growing exponentially. In fact, total available market of SSDs hit $15.1 billion in 2014, if the numbers from Transparency Market Research are to be believed. Moreover, SSD sales are expected to grow by 40 per cent next year. According to a new market report …
Read More »Seagate: SSDs will never match per-gigabyte costs of HDDs
Seagate Technology claims that no matter how cheap NAND flash memory will get in the coming years, it will never be able to match the per-gigabyte price of rotating magnetic media used in hard disk drives. In fact, the price of one gigabyte on a HDD will decrease to half …
Read More »Seagate reiterates plans to release 10TB HDDs this year
Seagate Technology confirmed this week that it plans to introduce several new products based on its latest technologies later this year. Among the new hard drives set to be launched are the highly-anticipated HDDs with 10TB capacity for archive applications as well as several other new products. “As we continue …
Read More »Sales of HDDs will drop in 2016, makers may have to cut HDD prices – Analyst
Sales of hard disk drives have been on the decline this year because of slow demand for personal computers and tough competition from solid-state drives. While Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corp. hope that demand of HDDs will pick up in the coming quarters, a market analyst claims that it …
Read More »Seagate: HAMR technology is not ready, still has reliability issues
Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is expected to significantly increase areal density of hard disk drive media in the coming years, which will ultimately help to increase capacities of HDDs to 100TB in 2025. However, according to Seagate, the technology still has issues with reliability and is not ready to hit …
Read More »Seagate: We shipped four million SMR HDDs, happy with SMR tech
Seagate Technology has been shipping hard disk drives based on media featuring shingled magnetic recording technology for about two years now, but so far the company has not shipped a lot of such drives. Nonetheless, Seagate seems to be happy with SMR and plans to expand shipments of SMR-based hard …
Read More »Seagate begins to sell 1TB SSHD for Sony PlayStation
Constrained amount of internal storage is one of the major limitations of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 video game system, but fortunately the hard drive of PS4 is user upgradeable. Specially for those, who want not only to expand internal storage capacities of their PlayStation 4 consoles, but also to speed …
Read More »Seagate unveils 2TB 2.5-inch/7mm hard drive with 1TB platters
Seagate Technology has announced a unique hard disk drive for mobile computers that can store 2TB of data and is packed with exclusive technologies. The new ultra-slim HDD features shingled magnetic recording platters with extreme areal density as well as all-new mechanics. The new 2TB HDD from Seagate comes in …
Read More »Chillblast switches all its gaming laptops to SSHD
We'd expect a drive vendor like Seagate to be overly enthusiastic about its SSHD drives, but Ben's interest is solely on delivering Chillblast gaming laptop customers with the best experience possible. Here he is explaining – and demonstrating – his company's mobile storage choice. We recently had Ben in the KitGuru …
Read More »Seagate Personal Cloud 2 Bay Review
The Personal Cloud from Seagate is essentially a NAS system, but it is not marketed as such. Aimed at families, it allows users to store all their files in a central location and access them anywhere. With plug-and-play functionality, you simply attach the Personal Cloud to your router via an …
Read More »Seagate: Initial HDDs with HAMR will feature only 4TB capacity
Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology is expected to enable hard disk drives with considerably larger capacities compared to HDDs available today. However, the first hard drives featuring HAMR will not offer any breakthroughs since they will largely be designed to evaluate the tech and learn about mass production of such …
Read More »Seagate 2TB Backup Plus Slim Portable Drive Review
The Seagate 2TB Backup Plus Slim Portable Drive is, as you have probably figured out, a 2TB USB 3.0 external hard drive. Aimed squarely at the modern computer user, it is thin, portable and even allows users to back up their phone's storage over WiFi. Priced at a shade under £75, …
Read More »Seagate is making an external HDD specifically for Xbox One
One key thing setting the PlayStation 4 apart from the Xbox One this generation is the fact that Sony allows users to replace the hard drive found inside of the console, either for a speedier SSD or just for extra space. Microsoft on the other hand is a little more …
Read More »Micron, Seagate unveil jointly-developed SSDs with up to 4TB capacity
Micron Technology and Seagate Technology on Tuesday introduced their first jointly-developed solid-state drives for datacentres. The new SSDs are designed for enterprise applications, such as data analytics, financial transactions and media streaming. The Micron S600DC-series and the Seagate S1200.2-series drives use Micron’s advanced NAND flash along with Seagate’s SAS-related technologies. …
Read More »CEO of Seagate: Nobody uses SSDs for storage
The attitude of hard disk drives makers to solid-state drives is well known: they claim that such devices can only serve certain niche markets and cannot really compete against HDDs. On Friday chief executive of Seagate went on to say that nobody uses SSDs as storage devices. Nowadays solid-state drives …
Read More »Seagate cuts HDD sales forecast amid weak demand for PCs
Seagate Technology, the world’s second largest maker of hard disk drives, on Monday slashed its forecast of hard disk drives sales in the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2015. Seagate expects shipments of its HDDs to hit a five-year low, a bad news for the whole high-tech industry. Seagate …
Read More »Seagate demos HAMR HDDs, vows to start shipments in 2017
Seagate Technology this week demonstrated a NAS packed with hard disk drives that use heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology. While the company claims that the NAS worked flawlessly, Seagate again reconsidered the launch timeframe for its HAMR HDDs and delayed them to 2017 – 2018. Nonetheless, the company is already …
Read More »Seagate unveils world’s first 2.5-inch 4TB HDD with 800GB platters
Seagate Technology on Wednesday introduced Samsung Spinpoint M10P hard disk drive, which features 4TB capacity and 2.5”/15mm form-factor. The drive will initially be used inside the company’s external HDD products, but HDDs based on the same leading-edge platters will address other applications eventually. Seagate, which acquired hard disk drive manufacturing …
Read More »Shipments of hard disk drives hit multi-year low in Q1 2015
Shipments of hard disk drives tanked significantly in the first quarter of the year due to sharp declines of sales of both PC and non-PC HDDs. Western Digital Corp. retained its position as the largest supplier of hard drives, Seagate Technology came second and Toshiba Corp. was the distant third. …
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