January 23, 2009 – 9:33 am
January 15th, 2009 by Beth Pariseau
More than 20 users have posted to a thread on Seagate’s official Community Forums reporting that their 1 TB 7200 RPM Seagate Barracuda desktop drives have failed. The drives failed soon after purchase, from as little as 2 weeks to as long as seven months; several users reported the problem to be the drive becoming undetectable to the BIOS. Users reporting failed drives on the thread also said the drives had been manufactured in Thailand.
Freezing problems were previously reported for the 1.5 TB version of the 7200.11. Seagate issued a firmware fix for those drives in late November.
Seagate officials did not comment when contacted by Storage Soup today.
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January 15, 2009 – 9:16 am
December 31, 2008
2008 will go down in history as a year of extraordinary financial upheaval, but for storage users, it was also a year of major technological change, as technologies such as solid state drives (SSDs), data de-duplication and pNFS entered the mainstream, while the economic backdrop had users clamoring for any technology that could help them make better use of their storage environments.
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January 8, 2009 – 11:01 am
Symwave is expected to show off the specification for transferring data to and from external storage devices at CES in January
By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek, December 31, 2008, 9:40 AM
Symwave Inc. claims that next month it will become the first to demonstrate the use of the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 specification for transferring data to and from external storage devices.
Symwave plans to showcase the new spec at the Consumer Electronics Show, which runs Jan. 8-11 in Las Vegas. The semiconductor company said in a statement that the demonstration would highlight “streaming data to and from external storage devices at speeds previously unattainable.” The demo is being done in collaboration with test, cable, component, and hard-drive manufacturers.
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January 8, 2009 – 10:44 am
The latest products’ multi-interface support simplifies file sharing for designers collaborating on projects from different systems
By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek, January 5, 2009, 7:00 AM
Hardware manufacturer Verbatim Americas on Friday launched two external, quad-interface desktop hard-disk drives.
The drives, one 500 GB and the other 1 TB, offer Mac and PC users “plug-and-play” support for the leading interfaces, USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, and eSATA II, the company said. The drives are aimed at digital content professionals, consumers, and small businesses looking to store audio, video, photos, and graphics files.
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December 23, 2008 – 12:24 pm
By Paul Travis, December 19, 2008, 11:15 AM
Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC), the world second-largest maker of hard drives, says demand for its products has weakened significantly and that its revenue for the second quarter ending Dec. 26 will be below expectations. As a result, the company says it will lay off 2,500 workers, or 5 percent of its workforce, cut executive pay, and shut down some of its factories during the holidays.
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December 23, 2008 – 12:20 pm
The latest InformationWeek Analytics report profiles new technologies that can protect the business without breaking the bank
By Howard Marks, InformationWeek, December 22, 2008 12:45 PM
Disasters happen, and when they do, IT had better be prepared, since businesses depend on information and the technology that manages it. For midsize companies, however, planning and equipping for disasters has been problematic. Where large enterprises have an array of specialized disaster-recovery systems from which to choose, and small businesses often can make do with ad hoc measures, midsize companies frequently have been caught in the middle–not able to afford big-bucks systems, yet needing more than just sending tapes off-site.
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December 19, 2008 – 9:47 am
By
Erica Ogg, CNET News.com
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 08:34 AM
Samsung Electronics has unveiled a 256GB SSD solid-state drive (SSD) less than 10mm thick.
Samsung said its 256GB SSD is 2.4 times faster than traditional hard drives and production will start this year.
The new SSD “represents a bold step in the shift to notebooks with significantly improved performance and larger storage capacities”, the company said in a statement.
Longer battery life is one of the principal benefits of using solid-state drives, as well as faster boot times and reduced weight allowing notebook makers to slim down their laptops. In addition, the lack of moving parts makes an SSDs more rugged.
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December 18, 2008 – 2:19 pm
By Tom Jowitt, Techworld
The UK storage industry is split on the impact that the current economic downturn will have on IT’s purse-strings, according to a new survey from Hitachi Data Systems.
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