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6 Gbit drives coming: Chip vendor PMC-Sierra and Seagate announced that they've . . . achieved interoperability between PMC-Sierra's end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS chipset and Seagate's early development 6Gb/s SAS Hard Disk Drives HDDs. This successful demonstration of 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI SAS interoperability provides server and storage system equipment...; Tags: Disk, PMC-Sierra Inc., Serial Attached SCSI, Seagate Technology LLC, Serial ATA, Chipsets, Storage, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late!: Seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late!Bogus Cat Toy PatentMy favorite is a patented method of using a laser pointer to excercise your cat or any curious animal. Lawyers can turn anything into a pile of cat-box-contents.Title: Method of exercising a catDocument Type and Number: United States Patent...; Tags: laser, Seagate Technology LLC; Discussion threads 2008-04-25
Seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late!: Can "prior art" be too prior? Dramatic evidence of America's broken patent system surfaced in last week's lawsuit by Seagate against STEC, the innovative developer of high-performance flash drives. Imagine winning a patent for something invented 10 years before. Seagate may sue SANdisk next. Seagate owns...; Tags: Patent, Disk Drive, Seagate Technology LLC, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-04-25
Seagate files suit against STEC for SSD patent infringement: Seagate files suit against STEC for SSD patent infringementOK ?>>As Watkins says, this isn’t about money. Companies have spent a substantial amount of money on SSD R&D and Seagate is not looking for acknowledgement and cross-licensing opportunities to reduce future R&D costs. This not only makes sense for the bottom...; Tags: Research & Development, STEC, SSD, Seagate Technology LLC, R&D; Discussion threads 2008-04-15
Seagate cuts June quarter outlook: Storage giant Seagate delivered solid fiscal third quarter results, but cut its outlook for the June quarter. Seagate (all resources, statement) reported earnings of $344 million, or 65 cents a share, on revenue of $3.1 billion. Excluding charges, Seagate reported earnings of 70 cents a share, a penny...; Tags: Seagate Technology LLC, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-15

Seagate files suit against STEC for SSD patent infringement: Hard drive giant Seagate Technology has filed a lawsuit against rival STEC Inc, claiming patent infringement. The Solid State Drive SSD turf war has begun. Seagate claims that STEC SSD products violate four patents held by the company. This isn't about money, it's about...; Tags: Seagate Technology LLC, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-04-15
Apple's cookie monster: Safari CRS: Apple's cookie monster: Safari CRSGood ideas are squashed by the big boysA few years ago there was a great company called Mirra. I heard people rave about Mirra backup systems. Then one day Seagate snatched them up. They were quickly buried into the corporate depths and never seen again. Seagate...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Backups, Seagate Technology LLC, cookie, Apple Safari, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, MICROSOFT HAS, operating system; Discussion threads 2008-02-21
Take your tech recession and stuff it: Take your tech recession and stuff itBetter Solution to "H-1b Problem"Currently most H-1b workers are DOL level-one entry level and most of those earn well below $50k salary. In virtually no case are employers required to first recruit and consider qualified American applicants - new grads etc.SOLUTION: Reform H-1b to...; Tags: Workforce management, Seagate Technology LLC, H-1B, talent; Discussion threads 2008-01-23
How smart is SMART?: How smart is SMART?I have to go with Google on thisThrough the thousands of hard drive failures that I have dealt with exactly one drive was diagnosed before failing by SMART.I remember when SMART was first introduced. After a few years I realized that SMART wasn't going to go...; Tags: hard drive, Seagate Technology LLC, Hitachi Ltd., Compaq-India, IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-11-26
Malware found on new hard drives: Here's an interesting story that I found in my inbox.Â The Taipei Times is reporting that around 1,800 new 300GB and 500GB external hard drives manufactured by Maxtor shipped with malware on them.Â What makes this story even more interesting is that Taiwanese authorities suspected that Chinese authorities were involved....; Tags: Hard Drive, Bureau, Trojan Horse, Malware, Seagate Technology LLC, Taipei Times, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2007-11-13
Seagate settles hard drive lawsuit, but who's going to fill out the claim form?: Seagate settles hard drive lawsuit, but who's going to fill out the claim form?Microsoft should be sued for 20GB XBox 360 driveImagine my surprise when I turned on my XBox and found that I only had 14GB free! The rest is taken up by system updates, a CDDB database, and...; Tags: hard drive, Seagate Technology LLC, decimal math, Microsoft Xbox; Discussion threads 2007-11-05
Seagate settles hard drive lawsuit, but who's going to fill out the claim form?: Seagate recently settled a customer lawsuit with Michael Lazar and Sarah Cho over the definition of a gigabyte.Â Gigabyte class hard drives are inflated by 7.37% because the storage industry uses decimal billion instead of binary billion.Â Since we now have terabyte drives and storage devices, the advertising will be...; Tags: Hard Drive, Lawsuit, Seagate Technology LLC, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-11-05
Can Seagate steer hybrid-drive market?: Can Seagate steer hybrid-drive market?Yet another pointless gimick.I was reading an article somewhere possibly on zdnet that compared the Seagate Momentus drive in question with a 32 gig SSD and a 7200 rpm standard HDD, the Momentus 5400 benchmarks were mediocre at best and it was even resoundingly hammered by...; Tags: Backups, Seagate Technology LLC, hard drive; Discussion threads 2007-10-08
HDD Repairer Seagate Demo (Barracuda 7200.7) (rar): Software designed for Seagate HDDs: The utility wholly developed for restoration and data retrieve of Seagate HDD. You can do what others can't do with this powerful utility. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Hard Drive, Seagate Technology LLC; Software downloads 2007-09-13
Flash drives get a fight from disks: I used - and loved - a Windows flash disk notebook for 5 years. The flash drive doubled my battery life and gave me a better sleep mode better than any I've had since - PC or Mac. I've been excited to see flash drives moving into the notebook mainstream....; Tags: Notebook, Disk, Seagate Momentus, Performance, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., USB Flash Drive, Bottom Line, Seagate Technology LLC, RPM, GB Mtron, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2007-09-11
News to know: iPhone; Seagate drives; Chip price lists: News to know: iPhone; Seagate drives; Chip price listsGetting a bit out of control alreadyIts amazing how much things have changed in the past 10 years. When I was in high school beepers were the big craze these little brats have cell phones, ipods, and now of course the Iphone...; Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Apple iPhone, Chip Price, Seagate Drives, Seagate Technology LLC, chip; Discussion threads 2007-09-06
Seagate's new line of hard drives: Seagate's new line of hard drivesWhat about SPEED?????We're reaching the point where hard drives are actually big enough (at least for current uses!) and small enough (the 1.8" 60G in a pocket size drive for streaming is a neat idea), but they're not getting any faster! Other than WD's...; Tags: Seagate Technology LLC, disk, hard drive; Discussion threads 2007-09-06
HDD Repairer Seagate (rar): Software designed for Seagate HDDs: The first utility wholly developed for restoration and data retrieve of Seagate HDD in the world. You can do what others can't do with this powerful utility. Free update: HDDR Seagate PRO will offer free software update online to its registered users when a newer...; Tags: Hard Drive, Seagate Technology LLC; Software downloads 2007-09-05
Seagate points to higher hard drive prices: Seagate points to higher hard drive pricesHigher for which drives?500GB SATA drives are down to 20 cents/GB and 750GB drives are 25 cents/GB. A year ago September, the Seagate 750GB drives was selling for 47 cents/GB.I know that laptop LCDs and Core 2 Duo mobile chipsets are in somewhat restricted...; Tags: Notebooks, hard drive price, Seagate Technology LLC, hard drive; Discussion threads 2007-08-30
Seagate's visible firmware problem: Seagate's visible firmware problemZFSI don't know if you have watched this video. Jeff Bonwick and Bill More are presenting ZFS at BayLISA. (I saw them live at a different event. It was really great!!!)http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8164805665567899891&q=ZFSAt around 1:17 they are talking about Disk Firmware. (Slide 13 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/losug/zfs-technical-jeff-bonwick.pdf )Really interesting talk...Comments from article...; Tags: firmware, Seagate Technology LLC, disk, firmware problem, ZFS; Discussion threads 2007-08-29