Storage

by Rafael Hernandez on July 26, 2004 · 0 comments

Seagate is extending the warranty for most of their hard drive lines manufactured after June 1st. The coverage length for drives is now 5 years instead of the rather short 1 year period which most drive manufacturers had adopted as…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 29, 2004 · 0 comments

Think Computers has a look at the Vantec NexStar external hard drive chassis. The sleek unit can take most any 3.5″ hard drive and allows you to access it by either of its two Firewire ports or the USB 2.0…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 15, 2004 · 0 comments

Seagate has been playing spoil sport recently with its entry into the micro hard drive market and now a 400GB, 7200RPM native Serial-ATA hard disk. They also toss in 16MB of buffer memory in this behemoth of a drive. Their…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2004 · 0 comments

Yahoo! News has details on Seagate’s planned entrance into the micro hard drive market which had been, for the most part, the sole domain of Hitachi’s (formerly IBM’s) hard drive division. Competition spurs innovation and pricing pressure, a good thing…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 17, 2004 · 0 comments

TheTechLounge took a look at the Seagate ST3160023AS, a 160GB, 7200RPM hard drive that uses the Serial ATA interface. The SATA connection offers a few advantages over the old Parallel ATA setup speed wise but, for the moment, its greatest…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 30, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has tested Western Digital’s SerialATA WD740 10kRPM drive against Seagate’s monster of a Cheetah X15.3 15kRPM Ultra320 SCSI drive. Doesn’t seem like a fair contest but when you figure in price-to-performance ratios the SerialATA drive isn’t a bad looking…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 28, 2004 · 0 comments

vnunet.com has a bit on Seagate’s Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording technology which could boost the capacity of magnet storage drives (hard drives to you and me) to insane proportions. They think their technology can scale to 50Tb per square inch…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 2, 2004 · 0 comments

t-break has stumbled on one of the hotter tech deals around and has an informative little guide on the subject. It boils down to the Creative Muvo MP3 player, which retails for around $200 USD, contains a 4GB compact flash…

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