Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analysts Storage23 Apr 2024 | 4
Seagate used bullying tactics to prevent union recognition, claims Unite Staff at Northern Ireland facility voted in ballot that forces drivemaker's hand, union says Storage01 Feb 2024 | 7
Seagate hit with $300m penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei Felt it was on the right side of the law when shipping seven million drives worth $1.1 billion. Oops Storage20 Apr 2023 | 16
Seagate denies it illegally sold hard drives to Huawei While shedding 1 in 12 staff as demand for storage nosedives Storage26 Oct 2022 | 3
Seagate lowers production and sales forecasts amid weakening economy US datacenter demand holding up, floundering in China. Consumers? 'Spending money on other things' Storage22 Jul 2022 |
Seagate demos hard disk drive with an NVMe interface. Yup, one with spinning platters Oh look, it's the promise of multiple actuators again Storage17 Nov 2021 | 48
Seagate finds sets of two heads are cheaper than one in its new and very fast MACH.2 dual-actuator hard disks Looks forward to nicely lowered costs as production ramps up, but they're still hyperscaler-only for now Storage04 Jun 2021 | 43
US-based hard disk drive suppliers face further scrutiny over whether they've shipped proscribed HDDs to Huawei Updated The Wicker man: US Commerce Committee senator questions Toshiba, Seagate and WD Storage12 May 2021 | 8
Seagate claims it shipped its third zettabyte of storage in record time 36 years to hit 1 ZB. Then, like buses, none for ages, then 2 ZB almost at once Storage07 Apr 2021 | 20
Seagate UK customer stung by VAT on replacement drive shipped via the Netherlands Well, Brexit meant Brexit Storage26 Feb 2021 | 323
Seagate says it's designed two of its own RISC-V CPU cores – and they'll do more than just control storage drives Processors are 'critical to future products', set to perform tasks for host systems Storage08 Dec 2020 | 39
Seagate, WD mull 10-platter HDDs as pitstop before HAMR, MAMR time Conventional drives could boast 20TB capacities by 2020 Storage07 Oct 2019 | 17
Seagate spins off a bit of cash from slowing disk drive business Flash? Pa-ahh! Better to put dollars into disk Systems05 Aug 2019 | 6
Big payout for Dell, Apple et al as Toshiba Mem 'prepares' to buy them out ahead of IPO But not Bain; Bain is there for the long haul Storage21 May 2019 | 7
Backup bods Backblaze: Disk drive reliability improving Updated Seagate's spinners stopping spinning more often, though Storage03 May 2019 | 25
WD, Seagate romp over Q3 finishing with glorious sales and profit Oh no, sorry that was another quarter in a different year - top and bottom lines wobble amid corp procurement slowdown Storage01 May 2019 | 2
It's springtime for Springtown as Seagate rains nearly £50m on Northern Ireland plant Developing nanophotonic disk read-write heads Storage26 Apr 2019 | 14
It's a hard drive ahead: Seagate hits the density problem with HAMR, WD infects MAMR with shingles Storage firms' disk drive developments diverge Storage07 Mar 2019 | 43
Nearline disk drive demand dip dropkicks Seagate: How deep is the trough, how deep is the trough? I really neeeeed to learn. 'Cos buyers aren't draining high-cap drive pools Storage05 Feb 2019 | 7
Seagate punts external PS4 drive at the millions who uninstalled their game libraries to fit Red Dead Redemption 2 Up to 4TB spinners to hold *gasp* more than eight titles Storage31 Jan 2019 | 20
Disk drives suck less than they did a couple of years ago. Which is nice Cloud backup bod Backblaze: Failure rates fell for high-cap spinners Storage28 Jan 2019 | 61
WD you like to know the damage? Analyst predicts sales dip ahead for Western Digital NAND revenues and disk drive topline downbound until mid-year - Wells Fargo Storage18 Jan 2019 | 2
Talk about beating heads against brick walls... Hard disk drive unit shipments slowly spinning down This is the age of the SSD Storage10 Jan 2019 | 36
Double denim? Ha! Now you can go triple denim with Seagate's hipster portable drive range Western Digital's CES lineup a tad more composed Storage08 Jan 2019 | 3
Seagate woos NASty folk and other flashy types at CES Slow, small and quick, or big and speedy? SSDs for mini-NAS, thin laptops and gamers Storage07 Jan 2019 | 8
He, He, more gassy whoppers: Toshiba spreads 12TB, 14TB drives across gaming and NAS disks Extremely, er, unspecified helium-filled gaming disk performance Storage06 Dec 2018 | 8
You think you're hot bit: Seagate tests 16TB HAMR disk drive Plans to drop it like it's hot in 2019... Storage03 Dec 2018 | 23
Diss drive: Seagate and IBM bring blockchain sledgehammer to compliance nuts Electronic fingerprints put in verifiable ledger Science09 Nov 2018 | 4
Number-three disk drive maker Toshiba isn't shy about shipping 23.4m spinners in 3Q18 Will it increase capacity in a tuned-in MAMR? Storage07 Nov 2018 |
Disky business: Seagate hyperscale customers slow to 'digest' inventory Analysis Antacid, anyone? Storage06 Nov 2018 | 2
Seagate HAMRs out a roadmap for future hard drive recording tech 100TB by 2025/26? Bring it on Storage02 Nov 2018 | 20
Seagate and Western Digital neck-and-neck at the nearline drive-in Seagate ships more units, WD more capacity – it's a wash Storage23 Oct 2018 | 2
Seagate passes gassy 14TB whopper: He He He, one for each of you Misses no one: PCs, NAS, workstations, enterprise, surveillance Storage10 Sep 2018 | 46
No pain, no $1.3bn Bain gain: Seagate slips Tosh/WD chippery into Nytro SSD ranges NAND that... is how you get skin in the flash game Storage09 Aug 2018 |
So solid spinning crew Seagate on hunt for new chief beancounter Plus: Splashes profits on dividends and share buy-backs, according to latest figures On-Prem30 Jul 2018 |
Western Digital wonders why enterprise isn't keen on its solid-state drives We must sell more! Storage27 Jul 2018 | 21
Seagate's Barracuda SSD bares its teeth at PC, laptop upgraders SATA flash drives to put low-cap disk on endangered list Storage04 Jul 2018 | 19
Quantum seems to go through CEOs like a hot knife through butter That's the fifth head honcho in six months for tape survivor Storage27 Jun 2018 | 4
Unclip your pager and bag from your belt: We need to make room for a battery-powered 1TB HD Only works with HTC's VR headsets and mobes, sadly Storage25 May 2018 | 7
What a pain for poor old Bain: Toshiba $18bn flash chip biz sale stalls + Comment Memory business deal could be sunk Storage09 May 2018 |
Who needs NAND when rust never sleeps? Seagate dines out on nearline disk drive boom Getting fat off the NAND's just a flash in the pan... Storage02 May 2018 | 5
Eat your damn storage news, child! Look, we even chopped it up into little digestible chunks Eat it *shakes fist* Storage30 Apr 2018 | 4
Non-shingled and ready to mingle: WDC catches up with 14TB disk rivals HC530 takes on Seagate's Exos X14, Tosh's MG07ACA Storage18 Apr 2018 | 5
Seagate's HAMR to drop in 2020: Multi-actuator disk drives on the way Fast and slow high-cap disk lines coming Storage21 Mar 2018 | 18
He He He: Seagate's gasbag Exos spinner surges up to 14TB Technical gubbins still mostly under wraps Storage20 Mar 2018 | 40
You can blame taxes for a profit nosedive, but Seagate... the taxman didn't flatten your sales Cue dramatic music as activist investor joins board Storage29 Jan 2018 | 1
Seagate's CES splash, ClusterStor-like dash and Ripple crypto-cash Bumps out new array and brags about quarterly results Storage09 Jan 2018 | 3
Cool disk drive actuator pillar, Seagate – how about two of them? Analysis Full platter access parallelism performance-doubling... we ask around Storage04 Jan 2018 | 39
Seagate's lightbulb moment: Make read-write heads operate independently Multi Actuator arms will boost data access as capacities grow Storage19 Dec 2017 | 88
Seagate: Happy Xmas, staff – thanks for everyth... um, you 500. Can we have a word? 'Tis the season of glad tidings, goodwill – and job cuts On-Prem12 Dec 2017 | 10
Seagate's 'AI' disk drive: Just put slightly higher numbers on the specs Surveillance hardware purpose-built for deep learning, analytics Storage30 Oct 2017 | 7
WDC results great and all but Milly's bummed out about Toshiba Updated Threat to NAND supply if talks fail and court favours Tosh On-Prem27 Oct 2017 | 1
Seagate's at it HAMR and tongs for growth as revenues shrivel again Flash? Anybody? No? Storage24 Oct 2017 | 1
Stealthy storage startup wants to fly read-write heads closer to disks Which means higher capacity, according to L2 Drive Storage09 Oct 2017 | 22
Seagate fires NASty volley of 12TB spinners with lifebelt for fried data BarraCuda Pro and IronWolves get a capacity jump Storage05 Oct 2017 | 10
Helium's for balloons and squeaky voices, not this 10TB Toshiba beast Gas-free drive war with WDC and Seagate ramps up again Storage27 Sep 2017 | 46
Whoosh, there it is: Toshiba bods say 14TB helium-filled disk is coming soon Arriving by the end of 2017 Storage05 Sep 2017 | 63
Seagate preps Nytro with layers of flash and boom... SAS and NVMe SSDs use more and faster flash fuel Storage08 Aug 2017 |
What's the price for flinging your workers' private info at crooks? For Seagate, it's $6m That was one expensive email for the storage specialist Security28 Jul 2017 |
Yeehaw! And welcome to another rootin'-tootin' storage pony wrangling Bring some Vaseline because you're gonna have a rawhide Storage28 Jul 2017 |
Flash, aaaaaah! Western Digital waggles sales in nemesis Seagate's face How's business on the other side of that $2.4bn void? Storage28 Jul 2017 | 14
Seagate offloads ClusterStor data-nomming plaything on Cray An HPC product line is for life, not just for Christmas HPC27 Jul 2017 |