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Take your tech recession and stuff it

January 23, 2008 4:00 AM PST

Investors may be panicking, but Seagate CEO Bill Watkins says business and tech trends paint a different picture than the one on CNBC.

Can Seagate steer hybrid-drive market?

October 9, 2007 10:18 AM PDT

Price and industry standardization remain barriers to widespread adoption, but the biggest hard-drive maker could force competitors to keep pace.

Seagate profit down as demand slows

April 17, 2007 5:56 PM PDT

Revenue is lower than expected, but CEO says it's a "short-term fluctuation" and remains upbeat about 2007.

Seagate ships hard drives with encryption

March 12, 2007 6:30 AM PDT

ASI will be the first to sell a laptop with Seagate's hard drive with built-in encryption technology.

Storage giants to push hybrid hard drives

January 5, 2007 5:51 AM PST

Seagate, Hitachi, Samsung, Fujitsu and Toshiba partner to promote combo of flash chips and magnetic platters. But where is Western Digital?

Faster external drives arriving--slowly

December 21, 2006 2:49 PM PST

eSATA lets external hard drives run at internal speeds. But don't expect to see mainstream PCs with those ports until 2008.
Photos: eSATA drives

Seagate bakes security into hard drive

October 31, 2006 7:12 AM PST

Company pitches "DriveTrust" technology as a simpler way to safeguard data stored on laptops and prevent embarrassing breaches.

Seagate preserves Maxtor brand in sales channel

October 4, 2006 11:27 AM PDT

Maxtor brand is for low-end hard drives, while Seagate will be for high end.

Robson or hybrid hard drive? The battle is coming

September 29, 2006 11:31 AM PDT

Faced with two technologies, companies are already picking sides over intregrating flash memory into PCs.

A divide over the future of hard drives

August 23, 2006 4:07 PM PDT

Room temperatures should derail the current line of disk drive development soon, so changes are coming.

Seagate announces new lines of drives

June 7, 2006 12:00 PM PDT

The company's new products include an array of hard drives for desktops, handhelds and laptops.
Photos: Seagate's new drives

Seagate releases perpendicular storage drives

November 6, 2006 3:43 PM PST

Aiming to prove its credentials in the emerging field of perpendicular storage, Seagate rolls out 3.5-inch drives.

Networked storage heads for homes

March 21, 2006 7:07 AM PST

Storage companies are betting that a technology once reserved for businesses will appeal to consumers juggling many PCs and shared files.

Seagate cranks up notebook drives to 160GB

January 17, 2006 10:30 AM PST

Hard drive maker starts shipping its first drive for notebooks based around perpendicular recording techniques.
Photo: Seagate's mighty Momentus drive

Seagate delivers Barracuda upgrade

October 11, 2005 9:35 AM PDT

The disk drive first of 10 new products the company promised back in June.

Seagate buys storage company Mirra

September 15, 2005 5:41 AM PDT

Looks to develop a box that'll let people access their home and small-office content from any Internet-connected PC.

The drive for multidisk PCs

August 10, 2005 12:26 PM PDT

Long-term storage, instant backup and multicore chips are pushing the trend. Will consumers bite?
Photos: Cramming in the hard drives

Home storage to bolster hard-drive growth

June 30, 2005 6:36 AM PDT

The days of the 2-terabyte machines could happen as early as 2009, research firm IDC predicts.

Seagate poised for CE push

June 13, 2005 4:25 PM PDT

As the consumer electronics market urges drive prices up, company identifies digital television and cell phones as areas for growth.

Seagate ups capacity with new hard drives

June 9, 2005 4:04 AM PDT

Company launches a 2.5-inch device using technology that can hold almost double the amount of data of current designs.