Seagate preserves Maxtor brand in sales channel
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Maxtor brand is for low-end hard drives, while Seagate will be for high end.
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(InfoWorld) - Seagate Technology and Motorola both said Tuesday they had invested in the portable storage market, hoping to meet a rising need by users of cell phones and smartphones to carry gigabytes of digital photos and music in their pockets. Seagate unveiled a wireless 10GB to 20GB storage device, intended to fit in users' pockets and allow them to store and share digital files between mobile phones, PCs, and other mobile platforms. This Digital Audio Video Experience (DAVE) uses a one-inch hard drive to trade files with other platforms up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) away using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi networking. The company will begin selling DAVE to telecommunications providers and mobile phone makers in the second quarter of 2007, to be resold under their own brands. Electronics manufacturers will use DAVE to boost storage capacity without increasing the size or cost of retail cell phones, and content providers will use it to deliver video files without latency or coverage problems, since the files can be downloaded to the hardware at leisure instead of streamed live through mobile networks, Seagate said in its announcement at theÂ Demo 07 trade show. Together, those applications will allow DAVE to add fuel to the growth of new wireless music and video services, according to a statement by Patrick King, general manager of Seagate's consumer electronics business unit. Likewise, Motorola announced that its venture capital arm had invested in DARTdevices Corp., a Mountain View, California, software firm whose application is designed to allow consumer electronics devices to share content wirelessly. Users can share applications or music, photo and data files by installing DARTdevices' software on their mobile phones, PCs, PDAs (personal digital assistants), MP3 music players and other platforms. Making those disparate devices interoperable will make mobile computing more seamless, said Tony Palcheck, an investment manager for Motorola Ventures. The timing is right for mobile devices manufacturers to seek new ways of boosting storage, since wireless handsets are becoming portable entertainment hubs, according to the Consumer Electronics Association's 2007 Sales Forecast. Wireless carriers now court new customers by offering complete media content services, including audio, video, news and games, the report said. That trend is pushing fast change in the storage industry, with flash media growing at double-digit growth through 2010, and consumers pushing a transition from CD to DVD media, standard DVD to high-resolution discs, and sinking demand for tape-based media.
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Seagate Technology, the worldÂs largest maker of computer disk drives, said it would invest $819 million in its third plant in Singapore for data-storage devices. Jerry Glembocki, senior vice president of SeagateÂs recording heads and media operations, said the new plant would begin operating in mid-2008 and create 3,000 jobs. Lim Hng Kiang, minister for trade and industry, said in a speech that the new facility was a key development for Singapore, which last year accounted for production of a quarter of the worldÂs disk media.
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Solid-state drives are increasingly an option for laptop purchasers -- but while manufacturers are pushing the option, few consumers are taking the bait.
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In a first-to-market move, Seagate Technology is now shipping its new 2.5-inch notebook PC hard drives with built-in encryption technology. ASI Computer Technologies will be the first laptop manufacturer to incorporate the technology into its hardware.
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NEW YORK  - Seagate Technology , the topU.S. maker of hard drives used to store data in computers, onTuesday forecast quarterly revenue above Wall Street estimateson strong demand for storage for larger business computers.
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Blog: Samsung announces a 1.8-inch, 120GB drive, a 2.5-inch, 120GB hybrid drive and a 3.5-inch 1-terabyte drive, while Seagate goes rugged with an 80GB model.
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Hitachi&#39;s 400 GByte Deskstar got company: Seagate announced it is shipping its Barracuda 7200.8 to retail stores and system builders, also offering up to 400 GByte storage space.
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High prices don't drop demand In brief Disk drive behemoth Seagate is giving a notably large bump to its fiscal first quarter revenue forecast today, citing strong demand, favorably high prices and a better product mix.â¦
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Company's drive is not just for OEMs anymore.
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SL: Seagate Technology has announced that it will begin shipping the world&#39;s highest capacity PC hard drive to retail stores and resellers.
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Slim, sleek storage Review Hard drive maker Seagate continues to try and persuade consumers that add-on drives aren't just for geeks but for everyone. It's latest attempt is the compact and eminently palm-able Go, part of its FreeAgent line up of external hard drives... er... "data movers".â¦
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Hard drive maker Seagate has begun shipping what it claims is the world&#39;s highest capacity PC hard drive: a 400GB beast that&#39;s also the first drive of its class to hold up to 133GB on a single platter.
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The 3-inch Seagate USB 2.0 Pocket Hard Drive has a retractable USB cable and rubber feet designed to keep it still when it's being using with a desktop.
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Ain't no pleasing some folk Seagate's fiscal '08 second quarter net income nearly tripled from a year ago and revenue jumped 14 per cent.â¦
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Stocks to watch on Wednesday: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY :
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Should you buy this Seagate drive? Certainly! The odds are excellent that Windows will never again tell you that you're running low on hard disk space, and that alone might be worth the price of admission.