Western Digital and Seagate to reduce hard drive warranties in 2012

Seagate and Western Digital are reducing hard drive warranties for hard drives shipped next year. Now is the time to buy hard drives to get your warranties locked in. The Western Digital Scorpio Blue, Green and Caviar Blue will be available with only a two year warranty rather than the current three year warranty. WD will however allow you to have ...

Seagate is Shipping their 3TB Enterprise Hard Drive

Seagate’s has a new SATA6 3TB enterprise hard drive. The 3.5-inch, 7200RPM Barracuda XT ships with a 64MB cache and Seagate DiscWizard software that allows older computers to create a 3TB partition. The specialized software loads a driver for your 3TB hard drive so that it can be seen correctly by your older system. The ST33000651AS just started shipping at ...

1.5 Terabyte drive and External Drive Dock Deal

Newegg Deal 1. Seagate ST31500341AS: $119.99 2. Thermaltake N0028USU: $36.99 Combo Discount: -$36.99 Combo Price: $119.99 1. Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive show details 2. Thermaltake BlacX N0028USU External Hard Drive SATA Enclosure Docking Station 2.5" & 3.5" USB 2.0 - Retail show details

SATA3 Expected by the end of the Year

AMD and Seagate are collaborating on a new hard drive with a Serial ATA (SATA) interface, tentatively called SATA3. SATA3 offers speeds up to 6Gbps, or 600MBps. (SATA3, or SATA 6GB/second, was developed by the Serial ATA International Organization under the Serial ATA Revision 3.0 specs.) In the current market most consumer-grade computers use either the SATA or SATA2 interfaces. These interfaces ...

Seagate provides a fix and free data recover for Barracuda drive owners

After a torrent of angry Seagate Barracuda owners voiced concern over their failing disk drives, Seagate has fessed up to the issue. According to Seagate, a firmware bug in DiamondMax 22, Barracuda 7200.11, and Barracuda ES.2 SATA drives could make the disks "inaccessible when the host system is turned on." Seagate assures owners that their data is not lost (it's ...