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Chip Chick: Seagate’s Free Agent Theater Media Player Makes Transfers Easy
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): Tick tick tick... significant number of Seagate hard drives failing
VentureBeat: Seagate reports a big loss due to restructuring and downturn
Seagate’s Free Agent Theater Media Player Makes Transfers Easy
Chip Chick —
... Wow your family at those fantastic family reunions with the front-mounted USB port, where you can also plug in your digital camera, USB flash drive or external USB hard drive directly into the FreeAgent Theater for high-quality viewing of photos and home movies of years of bad haircuts and even worse close ups of your Aunt Edwina. Available soon online at Seagate. ...
Tick tick tick... significant number of Seagate hard drives failing
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Wondering if you have one of these drives? You can use the 'more info' button when you select 'About this Mac' from the Apple menu (or just run the Apple System Profiler utility from your Utilities folder -- same result), and click on the Serial-ATA label in the left column. You'll get all your drive model numbers, and the firmware revisions. If the numbers match the bad news provided by Seagate, you'll know you may be living on borrowed time. ...
Seagate reports a big loss due to restructuring and downturn
VentureBeat —
Seagate Technology reported today that it had a net loss of $496 million, or $1.02 a share, for the second fiscal quarter ended Jan. 2.
Revenue fro the quarter was $2.3 billion, which matched the low end of revised expectations for the quarter from Seagate itself. But analysts had expected a loss of just 5 cents a share and revenues of $2.46 billion. A year ago, Seagate’s revenues were $3.42 billion.
Seagate’s loss includes $18 million of one-time charges associated with acquisitions, $94 miillion related to restructuring and ...
SATA3 Expected by the end of the Year
GeekAdviser.com —
... and improves native command queuing, an inherent features of SATA standard, to increase overall system performance and data transfer speeds.
SATA3 is still in the final phase of development and there aren’t any actual products out yet. AMD said it would fully support the technology with a revision of its current 750 chipset and future chipsets.
Seagate estimates however that the first SATA3-based hard drive will be by the end of the year.
Via:Seagate
Portable External Hard Drive Roundup
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
... line Seagate Seagate image 500GB FreeAgent Go For Mac Seagate www.seagate.com PRICE: $239.99 REQUIREMENTS: USB, FireWire 400 and/or FireWire 800 ports [image] Fast. Large capacity. Well designed. [image] Thicker case than the USB-only version due to the height of the FireWire 800 port. [image] ...
Macworld Buying Guides: External desktop hard drives
Macworld —
... ($660); Pro Tools users may consider a Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 Ultra320 SCSI 300GB Hard Drive (street price is between $500 and $600) installed in a SCSI enclosure. Added Features Almost all USB or FireWire external hard drives are compatible with Time Machine, as long as the drive is HFS+ formatted (and, of course, you must be running OS X 10.5, which includes Time Machine). Some drives include extras such as bundled software, one-touch backups, and software encryption. And keep in mind that external hard drives are common targets of ...
Seagate makes backing up data even easier with Replica
VentureBeat —
Backing up your system is getting a lot easier this morning, thanks to an announcement from Seagate.
Most backup systems for computers are pretty easy these days, but most computer users still don’t back up their systems. In fact, only two in three people back up data, according to Parks Associates.
There’s something about backing up data that’s still too intimidating. I recently had two computers fail and a third one is on the ropes. Over the years, I’ve had about four computers fail on me with no backup. Yes, I’ve been ...
Second time a charm? Seagate launches new version of its entertainment player
VentureBeat —
... After an unsuccessful attempt last spring, Seagate is launching a new and improved version of its backup device that lets you play your computer’s videos and pictures on a living room TV. ...
Seagate's FreeAgent DockStar Network Adapter Brings Access To Your Files Courtesy of Pogoplug [Nas]
Gizmodo —
... , from Seagate, and the Network Adapter will bring the drive online for access from across the internet (or just somewhere in your own home network). Seagate's solution also includes three extra USB ports to get three other devices online as well, and will be available for $100, which includes a year of Pogoplug service. Each subsequent year costs $30 per year. [Seagate] ...
