SSDs may be faster and more durable than hard drives with spinning platters. But HDDs still have a few things going for them — they’re cheaper on a cost-per-gigabyte basis and the highest-capacity hard drives can store way more data than an SSD. And it looks like that’s going to remain the case for a […]
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Seagate’s future hard drives could be (up to) twice as fast
Solid state drives are faster, quieter, and more durable than hard drives, so it’s no surprise that most laptops and many other PCs ship with SSDs instead of HDDs these days. But hard drives still offer more bang for your buck when it comes to storage capacity, and hard drive makers keep pushing the technology […]
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Seagate Duet is a portable hard drive that syncs with Amazon Cloud Drive
Backing up your data is always a good idea. But you know what’s even better? Making two backups including one that’s stored remotely so that if your house or office burns down with your computer and backup drive in it, you won’t lose all your data. Now Amazon and Seagate have introduced a new portable hard […]
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Lenovo unveils 48TB SSD, Seagate shoots for 60 terabytes, making Samsung’s 32TB SSD seem small(ish)
Comments Off on Lenovo unveils 48TB SSD, Seagate shoots for 60 terabytes, making Samsung’s 32TB SSD seem small(ish)Remember last summer when Samsung introduced a 16TB solid state drive? That’s nothing. This week Seagate announced that it’s working on a 60 terabyte SSD, and Lenovo is also working on a 48TB SSD. Sadly, neither of these storage devices is likely to show up in your next laptop. Both Lenovo and Seagate are positioning their […]
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Lilbits (7-21-2014): Are you ready for 8TB hard drives?
My first desktop computer didn’t have a hard drive. My first system that did came with a whopping 40MB of storage. We’ve come a long way since then. You can buy terabytes of storage for under a hundred bucks. Still, it’s kind of mind-boggling that Seagate has announced it’s begun shipping samples of its first 8TB […]
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Seagate wants to put 500GB hard drives in Android tablets
Flash memory and solid state drives offer a number of benefits over a traditional hard drive. SSDs and flash memory have no moving parts so they generate less heat, make less noise, and can be much harder to break than a hard drive with spinning platters. In many cases, SSDs are also faster than hard […]
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Seagate drops 7200rpm laptop hard drives to focus on SSD/HDD hybrids
One of the world’s largest producers of hard drives is giving up on 7200rpm hard drives for notebooks. Seagate will end production of 2.5 inch drives which spin at 7200 revolutions per minute. The move isn’t surprising — while 7200rpm disks are faster than the 5400rpm drives that you tend to find in cheaper laptops […]
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Seagate GoFlex Satellite offers 500GB of wireless storage
Seagate promised it would launch an iPad companion this month, and the company followed through today with the introduction of the GoFlex Satellite. It’s a 500GB hard drive with a built-in WiFi transmitter that lets you stream media to an iPad using a free iOS app. The Seagate GoFlex Satellite is available for pre-order for […]
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Seagate to launch an iPad companion this month
Seagate, a company best known for making hard drives, has announced that it has something to announce. Yeah, I know, it’s hard to contain your excitement, but this could actually be pretty cool. According to The Register, Seagate will introduce a “perfect companion” for the Apple iPad and other tablets this month. The company isn’t […]
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Seagate inroduces pencil-thin portable hard drive
Seagate has introduced a new line of 2.5 inch portable hard drives which are just 9mm thick — or about as thick as a pencil (or an iPad 2). The Seagate GoFlex Slim is the thinnest portable hard drive of its type offered by Seagate, and it also weighs less than 0.4 pounds. The new […]