Seagate’s ‘Shingled Magnetic Recording’ to allow 1st gen 5TB HDDs, to be...
Seagate’s latest 1TB platters for 3.5″ have shrunk read/write heads to a point that cannot get anything smaller, therefore has bumped into a physical ‘bottleneck’. Furthermore, the recording tracks are...
View ArticleSeagate Laptop Ultrathin 500GB ST500LT032 5mm-thick HDD Drive Review
5mm is insanely thin! Even for a mechanical drive. Seagate sent their Laptop Thin drive with 500GB of storage space to boot. It wouldn’t be surprising that other HDD makers would be doing this to...
View ArticleSeagate 600 Series 240GB ST240HM000 SSD Review
I have this Seagate 600 240GB SSD drive for review, and this should be interesting to see how it stands when it comes to performance, especially coming from a company that makes mechanical and hybrid...
View ArticleSeagate and WD released its surveillance-class HDDs
Mechanical storage makers Seagate and WD have announced its lineup of surveillance-class hard drives. Seagate made the announcement first on 25th, but WD immediately announced their ‘WD Purple’...
View ArticleSeagate launches its 6TB Enterprise Capacity 3.5″ HDD v4 spinning at 7200RPM
One of the two largest hard drive manufacturers Seagate just released its 6TB Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 hard drive made primarily for 24 x 7 bulk data storage. What’s interesting is that...
View ArticleSeagate Backup Plus 1TB STDR1000300 USB 3.0 Portable Drive Review
Seagate sent its Backup Plus 1TB USB 3.0 Portable drive for review. The drive has a 12.1mm Z-Axis thickness with plastic shell. There’s really nothing much to talk about, except that the drive uses an...
View ArticleSeagate Desktop HDD ST4000DM000 4TB Drive Review
We had a look with Seagate’s NAS HDD earlier. This time we’re taking a look at its Desktop HDD counterpart 4TB ST4000DM000 drive. Desktop HDDs are available in capacities up to 5TB. Seagate Desktop...
View ArticleSeagate Backup Plus Fast 4TB USB 3.0 Drive Review
I have the Seagate Backup Plus Fast 4TB USB 3.0 drive with me. One main point you should you know is that this drive is a 2x 2TB drive in RAID 0 mode. This is something you’ll not get to see,...
View ArticleSeagate gets a Class-Action Lawsuit over High Failure Rates
Seagate gets slapped with a class-action lawsuit due to high failure rates with its 1.5TB and 3TB hard drives (both internal and external). Seagate’s recent financial report pointed a nosedive in its...
View ArticleCryptocurrency Mining Malware affects flawed NAS units
Many Seagate Central network-attached storage devices are now targetted by a cryptocurrency mining malware called ‘Miner-C’, also called as ‘PhotoMiner’. This problem has started to appear since June...
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