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Seagate Warranty Void Checklist

Seagate reserves the right to return the product un-repaired or impose repair charges on product returned with warranty voiding conditions. Such conditions include, but is not limited to, the below examples of warranty-void conditions. Seagate also reserves the right to modify or add to the existing criteria list when new conditions requiring voiding of our warranty [...]

Seagate Technology Limited Consumer Warranty

The following “Limited Consumer Warranty Information” describes Seagate’s standard limited warranty. For complete warranty information, consumers should review the warranty materials included with their product. Warranty coverage may differ depending on jurisdiction.

What Do Our Warranties Usually Cover? Our limited warranties cover defects in material or workmanship in new Seagate or Maxtor products. Only consumers purchasing Seagate [...]

Faster Barracuda escapes from Seagate

Seagate is launching the first 6Gbit/s 2TB drive, the Barracuda XT, and altering the Barracuda naming convention at the same time.

Seagate’s Barracuda XT features a 2TB capacity

Instead of the ‘Barracuda 7200.11′ and ’7200.12′, with the suffix signifying the 11th and 12th generations of a drive spinning at 7200rpm, the new drives will be the mainstream ‘Barracuda [...]

Seagate sweeps in self-encryption

Seagate has extended its range of encrypting drives to cover all its enterprise products.The Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option is now available across theSavvio 15K.2, Savvio 10K.3, Constellation and Cheetah 15K.7 productranges. These drives should work with users’ encryptioninfrastructures. Seagate says Intel and LSI are now shipping local keymanagement and 6Gbit/s SAS products. These have TCG-based (TrustedComputing [...]

Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA III HDD With 6Gb/s Unveiled

Seagate announced that it is first to ship a SATA III desktop hard-drive with the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA III HDD (ST32000641AS).

The Seagate Barracuda XT is a 7200RPM HDD featuring 2TB of storage capacity and the new blazing fast Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gbcond interface. Of course to leverage the new speeds you need a new [...]

Seagate to whip out 1TB 2.5-incher

It seems that you can buy a 1TB 2.5-inch FreeAgent Go drive frommorecomputers.comfor £150, including VAT. The only small problem is that Seagate hasn’t announced it yet.According to morecomputers, the drive spins at 5,400rpm, has a USB2.0 connection, and its model number is ST910004FAD2E1-RK. Don’t bothersearching for it on Seagate’s web site: it isn’t there. Morecomputerslists [...]

Samsung gets ‘stupid fast’ in gaming grab

Samsung is pitching its fast 256GB solid state drive (SSD) atdesktops and notebook gamers and cites a YouTube blogger saying it willmake their systems”stupid fast.”The drive uses 2-bit multi-level cell technology to produce its256GB capacity and this is twinned with a Samsung-developed controllerusing an ARM processor core. The SSD reads data at 220MB c and writesit [...]

Seagate closing Singapore plant

Seagate is closing a hard disk drive facility in Singapore, making up to 2,000 redundancies as it strives to reduce costs.

The one-million-square-foot site at Ang Mo Kio became operational in 1997. Seagate says it makes all of the company’s mission-critical hard drives – understood to mean enterprise drives. There are about 4,000 employees at the plant.

Seagate [...]

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11

Their capacity ranges from 160 GB to 1,5 TB. They support SATAII only. Codenames are Moose (earlier revision) and Brinks (later revision). Their buffer size is 8 MB, 16MB or 32MB.

This family has introduced many firmware (microcode) bugs:

* Disks may not show and utilize all the cache.
* FLUSH_CACHE commands may timeout when NCQ is used.
* There [...]

Speed bump ahead with SATA 6G!

David Burks

July 31, 2009

There is a speed bump looming down the road in the desktop and notebook storage market.  It’s called SATA 6Gigabit/second or SATA 6G for short – and it’s not the kind of speed bump that will slow you down! On the contrary, SATA 6G will bring a whole new level of performance to [...]