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Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Slim 1TB USB 3.0 HDD Review
Introduction Today’s review is especially for the people who like to take their storage with them where ever they go and for those that otherwise need a lot of external capacity in a small form factor. The latest Seagate drive in the Backup Plus family is the Ultra Slim drive…
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Seagate Ships 10TB Helium HDDs
With the rise of SSDs, hard drive manufacturers have turned to capacity as their major stronghold. Earlier this year, Seagate revealed their first 10TB hard disk drive, challenging Western Digital’s own 10TB drive. Like other high capacity drives, the 10TB model requires the use of helium. The drives have now…
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Seagate Revises Earnings Forecast Down
With each year, the decline of hard drives continues on its inexorable course, bringing down the fortunes of the companies that manufacture them. In light of this, both Seagate and Western Digital have sought to diversify their portfolio to include NAND and other flash storage technologies. For Seagate though,…
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Seagate NAS 8TB (ST8000VN0002) Hard Disk Drive Review
Introduction Just as you wouldn’t use a low-end graphics card for high-end usage, you shouldn’t use the wrong hard disk drive in your storage system either. There is a reason for every product and you should always pick the one suited for the task at hand, especially when you deal…
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Seagate Reveals 10GBps NVMe SSD
Even though they are one of the Big 2 HDD manufacturers, Seagate has not neglected the growing importance of NAND and flash storage. Starting off with their Seagate 600 series of SSDs, the company has focused on bringing their brand to the enterprise flash storage segment. In line with that,…
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Seagate Sends Employees’ Payroll Information After Phishing Scam
Seagate is known for many things, but most of all they are known for their hard drives. I would recommend you look elsewhere if you are looking for something a little more secure I would say avoid them for now as it’s been revealed that employees’ payroll information was sent…
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Seagate Targeted by Ridiculous Class-Action Lawsuit
It is always great to wake up to some news that makes one laugh and today is one of those days as Seagate is targeted with a ridiculous lawsuit. The Plaintiff Cristopher A. Nelson claims that Seagate has an inability to deliver non-defective hard drives that conform to their express and…
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Seagate Launches Their Own Helium HDD
Even as rival HGST started shipping helium based drives several years back, Seagate had managed to keep up in terms of capacity with less exotic technology. That’s all set to change as Seagate has finally launched their own helium based 10TB HDD. The new drive will do battle with the…
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Seagate Enterprise NAS 6TB HDD Four Disk RAID Review
Introduction We’ve already had the pleasure of a single drive review of Seagate’s Enterprise NAS 6TB HDDs and today it has become time for the RAID review. Thecus provided me with five of these drives, but I’ll only be using four in this review today. Four is a magic number…
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Seagate Releases Largest Consumer NAS HDD Yet
Even with SSDs driving the news cycle more and more, HDDs are still around and kicking. One of two major HDD firms Seagate has just launched their highest capacity NAS HDD with a whopping 8TB of storage space. The drive is oriented towards NAS users with NAS-specific features and RAID…
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Seagate Revamps Hard Drive Line-up @ CES 2016
CES 2016: Seagate is one of the leading hard drive manufacturers and renowned for creating high-capacity products at very competitive prices. Their LaCie range targets customers who desire a more luxury finish and prepared to pay extra for a stylish design. During CES 2016, Seagate showcased their flagship LaCie Chrome lineup which…
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Seagate CFO Claims HDDs to Remain Relevant for 15-20 more years
With each passing day, SSDs are growing in capacity and speed while their cost/GB continues to go down. Not surprisingly, HDD shipments have been falling steadily over the last few years as SSDs encroach their territory in storage. Despite the gloomy outlook, Seagate CFO thinks that HDDs will be here to stay,…
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Seagate 6TB Enterprise NAS HDD Review
Introduction When Thecus sent me the amazing N7770-10G NAS a little while ago, they also sent along five of Seagate’s Enterprise NAS 6TB hard disk drives. While they are intended for NAS usage as the drive name already suggests, they still deserve a review on their own. Seagate’s Enterprise NAS…
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Thecus N7770-10G Elite-Class Business 7-Bay NAS Review
Introduction Today’s review is a real pleasure for me as I get to take a closer look and test an elite class business NAS with built-in 10GbE and high availability function. I got Thecus’ N7770-10G 7-bay business NAS on the table and I’m going to give it thorough testing to…
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Seagate SSHD 2TB Solid State Hybrid Drive Review
Introduction When we think storage, we usually think in one of two directions. Either we think of the traditional mechanical hard disk drives with large capacities for a low-cost or solid state drives with the higher speeds but smaller capacity. There is a third group of drives that shouldn’t be…
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