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Scobleizer — ... Next week Seagate will announce some new hard drives on Tuesday — they are pretty cool drives, I got a preview under embargo that’ll run on Tuesday on ...

1.5TB FreeAgent XTreme Anchors Onslaught of Stylish Seagate Hard Drives [Storage]
Gizmodo — ... high-definition video and graphic files, the Seagate FreeAgent XTreme drive is the perfect fit. The FreeAgent XTreme delivers a 3GB per second transfer rate with the eSATA connection. This drive also includes FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 connection options. The FreeAgent XTreme is available worldwide for a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of $159.99 USD for 500GB, $179.99 USD for 640GB, $259.99 USD for 1TB and $299.99 USD for 1.5TB (available in October). [Seagate] ...

Seagate Announces New Line of FreeAgent Drives
I4U News — ... prices up to $299.99. "The first FreeAgent storage solution offering introduced in 2007 unquestionably made a mark for Seagate in the consumer space, demonstrating that hard drives can be designed to provide a stylish complement to a computing environment," said Pat King, senior vice president of Seagate's Consumer Solutions Division. This second-generation of FreeAgent storage solutions takes the extra step of providing easy-to-use technology in a consumer-friendly package." Via Seagate Posted on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:50:44 CDT | by Shane McGlaun ...

Seagate Savvio 15K rpm HDD is the fastest and its green too
Newlaunches.com — ... scalable and RAID friendly. Seagate even claims the drive can provide up to 115 per cent greater system-level performance compared to 3.5in based service-class units. Featuring seek times of just 2.9ms, while idle power consumption is just 5.8W. The 15K.2, which is available with an optional self-encrypting drive, consumes 70% less power than competing 3.5-inch drives. The Seagate Savvio 15K.2 will come in 146GB and 73GB capacity options and is expected to ship by December. Via

Seagate apostará por los discos duros híbridos
Gizmologia — ... , ¿cómo de bueno pueden ser? Pues hasta que no salgan a la venta, no lo sabremos. Pero Seagate esta por la labor, anunciando que esta invirtiendo muchísimo dinero en el desarrollo de memorias SSD. con una vuelta de tuerca para el futuro más proximo. ...

Seagate FreeAgent Desk and Go Hard Drives for Mac Review
The Gadgeteer — Seagate FreeAgent Desk and Go Hard Drives Mac users looking for additional disk storage for their laptops and desktops can now check out Seagate’s FreeAgent Desk and Go drives specifically for the Mac. These external hard drives have been preformatted using Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, include Firewire ports and match the brushed aluminum style of Macbooks and iMacs. Let’s check them out a little closer… Seagate FreeAgent Drives package For about the last six months, I’ve been using a Hammer Storage morespace external USB hard drive as my main backup drive for my iMac. It has been doing an ...

Did I harm my blog by FriendFeeding this year?
Scobleizer — ... this year and has taken up the slack for my blog. Add that into all my new readers on Twitter and friendfeed and I’m happy about my total readership. Seagate deserves a lot of thanks there for sponsoring FastCompany.TV back when there were no viewers. ...

Seagate avoids Scoble Blindness with new HD media sharing and storage device
Scobleizer — ... Here Seagate, our premier sponsor over on FastCompanyTV, shows they get this better than anyone with its introduction of Seagate’s FreeAgent|Theater HD media player ( ...

Seagate learns important PR lesson: keep the customers happy!
Scobleizer — ... promptly, to your email request with appropriate instructions. There is no data loss associated with this issue, and the data still resides on the drive. But if you are unable to access your data due to this issue, Seagate will provide free data recovery services. Seagate will work with you to expedite a remedy to minimize any disruption to you or your business. For a list of international telephone numbers to Seagate Support and alternative methods of contact, please access http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/contact_us/ *There is no safety issue with these products. ...

Seagate Unveils Constellation Enterprise Hard Drives
I4U News — ... storage capacity. Seagate PowerChoice is integrated allowing the drives to decrease power consumption by up to 54%. The 2.5-inch drive is available in 160GB and 500GB capacities in SATA and SAS 2.0 interfaces. The 3.5-inch constellation ES drive will be offered in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities with SAS and SATA versions. The 2TB Constellation is the world's only 7200 rpm 2TB 3.5-inch HDD. The Constellation drives will ship in Q3 2009 and promise up to 1.2 million hours MTBF. Via Seagate Posted on Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun ...

Seagate's FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player Is a Set-Top Dock for Hard Drives [Media Players]
Gizmodo — ... Theater HD will sell for $130. You can also purchase it bundled with a 250GB FreeAgent Go drive for $230, or better still, a 500GB model for $280. [Seagate] ...

Seagate demos 6Gbps hard-drive transfer speed
Crave: The gadget blog — ... In collaboration with AMD, Seagate announced Monday its demonstration of a new hard drive Serial ATA (SATA) interface, tentatively called SATA3, that offers speeds up to 6Gbps, or 600MBps. ...

Seagate and AMD demonstrate 6GB/Sec Serial ATA Hard Drives
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — It’s not all Flash based memory in the world of new storage devices. Traditional HDD’s still have some life in their platters and Seagate and ...

Seagate Replica Launched
Ubergizmo — ... The Seagate Replica comes in two versions: a 250GB for a single PC, and a 500GB dubbed "multi-PC" that comes with a dock. Both capacities seem a bit small, but that should work for many laptops. Seagate.com ...

Seagate Intros FreeAgent Go Mac with 7,200RPM and Firewire
Chip Chick — ... This week Seagate introduced a slew of new external storage devices for their Mac and BlackArmor line. From the new lineup, Mac users will most likely appreciate the new FreeAgent Go Pro™ for Mac Drive which packs in FireWire 800 or FireWire 4000 along with a 7,200RPM hard drive. That makes it fast enough for video professionals to work with, and anyone who needs serious performance. The hard drive also comes with a dock. But what really makes it enticing, is its pricing. You can get a 250GB version for $129, a 320GB for $149 and a $189.99 for 500GB - that makes it much more ...

The Gadgeteer turns 12yrs old – Big birthday giveaway!
The Gadgeteer — Twelve years ago this month (give or take a week or two) I started The Gadgeteer as a goofy little review site on the then free webpage hosting service Geocities. People seemed to like my reviews, so I registered the domain name four months later, moved to a real hosting site – and the rest is history! I want to celebrate this 12th birthday with all of you, because without you, the site would never have grown to what it is today Thank you, thank you, thank you! For a chance to win an HP Pavilion dv4 laptop and lots of other goodies from (Vaja, ...

Seagate FreeAgent Theater Review
The Gadgeteer — ... With all the entries on the media player market, a device has to distinguish itself to rise above the pack.  Seagate’s FreeAgent Theater does what the others do and then some.  If you’ve found shortcomings with other devices, this might be your choice.  I’ll take it through its paces and point out what I believe to be the advantages. … [ ...

Seagate announces new digital-media player
Crave: The gadget blog — ... Seagate on Tuesday announced the FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player. The device enables users to take digital-media content from their PCs and play it on their televisions. All the content is controlled with an included remote. ...

SlashGear Seagate FreeAgent Go HDD giveaway!
SlashGear — ... Whether you use it for backup, for shuttling your media between computers or for archiving old files you can’t quite bring yourself to delete, an external hard drive is always handy. Seagate are celebrating their thirtieth anniversary this month, and they’ve given us a ...