Seagate announced its entry into the solid-state disk drive market with a 2.5-in. product aimed at the booming general server and blade server marketplace.
Apple is working on a software update to address hard drive issues affecting its latest 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro laptops. Users are complaining in droves on Internet forums that machines configured with faster, 7,200-rpm Seagate hard disk drives (HDD) make clicking and beeping noises that are often a precursor to slowdowns and freeze-ups.
Following layoffs and salary reductions unveiled earlier this year, Seagate now plans an additional 1,100 layoffs to bolster its cash flow and get earnings back in the black.
Seagate's online support forum has been riddled this week with complaints from owners of the 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive, which in recent months has already drawn complaints that the drive has been freezing up during data transfers.
Experts from IBM, Seagate Inc. and storage interface card vendor LSI Corp. Tuesday said solid state disk (SSD) drive technology will replace high-end Fibre Channel and serial SCSI disk drives for several I/O-intensive applications in the enterprise. However, the industry still needs standards to measure SSD performance and unit price will continue to limit adoption.
Maxtor Corp.'s Central Axis (US$319.99) offers a new way to add a centralized, always-available terabyte of storage to your local network, whether you install it at home to share media files or set it up at work to share proposals among your colleagues. You can even stream your media to UPnP AV-compatible (Universal Plug and Play Audio/Visual) networked entertainment systems without using a computer. Best of all, by setting up an account with Seagate Global Access, you can store and retrieve files from the
Size doesn't matter, or so the old adage goes. Yet obviously it does matter -- or else we wouldn't have both towering desktop PCs and petite portable netbooks. But how about something like a network-attached storage (NAS) device, which is basically a box that sits on a shelf or a desk and never travels, never moves -- does size matter there?
As companies are diving deeper into virtualized storage projects, IT managers are getting a better understanding of the staff skills they need to make those projects s쳮d. The exact talents required depend on the type of storage implementation, but most employers say they're in the market for two kinds of IT worker: technicians with vendor-specific SAN or NAS knowledge, and systems administrators and IT architects who understand the complexities and interdependencies among applications, operating systems
USB 2.0 is the most popular connection technology for external devices, with FireWire (either 400 or 800) a close second. However, if you really want extreme speed, eSATA is the way to go, as Seagate Technologies' new FreeAgent XTreme drive proves.
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* Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter discusses building or buying a NAS system
Periodically we have different "special" projects come up where additional storage would be handy to have. Somethimes we are doing mass upgrades of workstations as new ones arrive. Other times we are doing data recovery from a suspect hard drive that may be failing. Although we can use some storage space on one of the servers but we would prefer to keep the traffic local to us and off of the network. We have thought about buying a NAS box but in the middle of a budget year, if we can use parts we may alrea
If IBM's acquisition of Israeli start-up XIV Information Systems wasn't enough of a surprise so soon into the New Year, there was another surprise from Network Appliance, which bought storage management vendor Onaro. I've always been a fan of Onaro and its SANScreen product, which provides real-time analysis and monitoring of how storage, servers and network devices interact when faced with changes to the infrastructure.
Last night I watched footage of commuters hoofing it across the Brooklyn Bridge to get to work despite the transit strike in New York - a clear reminder of why teleworking can be so valuable. This week we take a closer look at AT&T’s telework program, which has yielded all sorts of benefits - including $30 million in cost savings and better retention of employees.
Telework thrives at AT&T
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BlueArc unveiled a network-attached storage array last week that adds search, indexing, classification and data retention capabilities to its Titan NAS platform. The Titan 3000 Series boasts twice the performance of the company's Titan 2000 and doubles the capacity - up to 4PB.
Everything is getting bigger, disk drives included. Last week Hitachi and Seagate introduced some of the biggest drives - Hitachi topped the 1TB level, Seagate rolled out 1.5TB drives.
A few weeks ago I listed the various storage acquisitions that had taken place during and immediately preceding the holiday season. Little did I know - had my column not been submitted to my editor two weeks prior to publication, I’d certainly have lead that story with a major mention of the fact that on Dec. 21 Seagate announced it was dropping $1.9 billion in stock to acquire rival Maxtor.
Two of the biggest hard-disk drive makers, Seagate Technology LLC and Hitachi Global Storage Technology Inc., both said Thursday that they plan to have drives on the market within the first half of this year that are capable of holding a terabyte (1000G bytes) of data.
Seagate Technology has broken off its distributor relationship with Singapore's eSys Technologies Pte, previously the company's largest distributor, after it denied access to its accounts for an audit, the hard-disk maker said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.