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Samsung, Seagate unite hard drive teams in $1.38b pact
Apr 19th
Samsung and Seagate on Tuesday lived up to last-minute rumors by forging a deal for their storage businesses. Under the terms, Samsung will fold its hard drive business into Seagate’s while Seagate will in turn give Samsung drives for computers and other devices. Samsung will bring its flash memory into play and feed not just Seagate’s enterprise solid-state drives but also hybrid drives and “other products.”
Corporate aspects of the deal will see the two work more closely together on enterprise storage as a whole as well as widen their patent cross-licensing deals. Samsung receives some of the best of More >
Samsung may sell hard drive business in wake of iPad
Apr 18th
A source claimed Sunday night that Samsung was looking to sell off its hard drive business. The Korean company had set a target price of $ 1.5 billion but was eager enough to sell it for under $ 1 billion if it couldn’t fetch the intended target. Seagate was the only named candidate from the Wall Street Journal‘s tip, but it wasn’t clear how likely the US company was to land the deal.
Samsung had warned earlier this month that it would see profits shrink rapidly in its winter quarter results. Its hard drive segment was one of those at More >
Tiny new Panasonic DVR has Blu-ray, hard drive
Oct 20th
Panasonic Japan has just introduced what it says is the smallest DVR with both a Blu-ray writer and a hard drive. Dubbed DIGA DMR-BF200, the device can record to its internal 320GB hard drive or burn BD-R or BD-RE discs. The DVR weighs less than 5lbs and is well under a foot wide and long, while just under 2.6 inches thick.
It has support for streaming multimedia and connect to the web thanks to an Ethernet port. Other connections include an HDMI port, RCA jacks and antenna input and output, along with an SD card slot out front. Videos are More >
MacBook Air extras: OS X on USB drive, new CPUs, HDMI cable
Oct 20th
Apple as part of the new MacBook Air launch provided at least a pair of surprises. The ultraportables are the first modern Macs to scrap optical discs for their Mac OS X discs and instead put both the OS and the iLife install on a single USB drive. Its switch means MacBook Air users can finally reinstall the OS without needing to use DVD Sharing to bring a system back to health.
Windows notebooks are behind in this regard. Microsoft has an option of downloading a copy of Windows 7 in a form that can be converted to a USB More >
Seagate trots out 1.5TB portable external drive with USB 3.0
Sep 21st
Seagate this morning reached another record for storage with a 1.5TB version of the FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra-portable drive. The disk is the first 2.5-inch drive to reach the density and still claims a possible edge in speed. It ships with a USB 3.0 cable that gives it a theoretical 5Gbps peak speed, and as a GoFlex drive it can switch to FireWire 800 or another high-speed format.
The cabling is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and effectively gives all owners a free upgrade path if their computers aren’t ready. Seagate formats the drive with Windows’ NTFS by default but still More >