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pocket-lint.co.uk - 11/6/2008

NEWS: Seagate CEO hints at SSD tech to come

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5 November 2008 2:33 GMT / By Katie Scott Seagate's CEO has confirmed that the company is working on its very own line-up of Solid State Drives in a briefing with Pocket-lint. Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate, gave a rare hint at what kind of SSD technology the company is pumping resources into. ...

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electronista.com - 11/6/2008

Seagate to develop hybrid line of solid-state drives?

— electronista.com — Memory device maker Seagate is investing as much as $100 million into developing a new type of... solid-state drives (SSDs), according to a Wednesday report . According to company CEO Bill Watkins, Seagate is trying to resolve certain issues with the ... (more) Seagate to develop hybrid line of solid-state drives?

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tomshardware.com - 11/11/2008

Seagate Responds to Freezing HDDs

— tomshardware.com — Last week Tom’s Hardware had covered a bit about the freezing problems with Seagate’s Barracuda 1.5TB drives.... We would like to update readers with the response that Tom’s Hardware has gotten directly from Seagate. “Seagate is investigating an issue ... (more) Seagate Responds to Freezing HDDs

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tgdaily.com - 11/10/2008

Dell ships laptops with self-encrypting hard drives

— tgdaily.com — Seagate is more aggressively pushing its full disk encryption (FDE) hard drives and said that McAfee is... now providing enterprise management level tools. Dell is the first manufacturer to ship these new drives in a 320 GB (500 GB available soon) flavor ... (more) Dell ships laptops with self-encrypting hard drives

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Seagate developing mutant hybrid SSD tech to bring costs down
Engadget — Filed under: StorageWe'd heard that Seagate was prepping its first solid state hard drives, but there was no plan for consumer-friendly products in that vein anytime soon because solid state drives cost far more to produce than the conventional variety. Recently, CEO Bill Watkins hinted that the company intends to overcome that problem by combining relatively inexpensive (but unreliable) multi-layer cells with pricier (but dependable) single-layer cells in some kind of hybrid drive technology. It's all very pie in the sky right now, but surely ...

Seagate Invests $100 Million in a New SSD Line-up
techPowerUp! — ... Seagate will try to create a new technology that combines both single-layer cell (SLC) and multi-layer cell (MLC) tech, making better, faster and cheaper SSDs, the drives we all want. Seagate's senior vice president of global marketing Pat King also revealed that the company is working on a network attached storage solution for the home. Unfortunately, that's all the information we have. Hopefully this new line-up will be a big step in the SSD industry. Source: Pocket-link.co.uk

IN BRIEF: Seagate Invests $100 Million into Development of Solid State Drives
X-bit labs — ... of the fact that the market of solid state drives still represents a small fraction of the market, Seagate, the world s largest maker of hard disk drives plans to spend at least $100 million to develop both reliable and cost-efficient solution. We'd love to have an SSD range, that's why we're investing (as much as $100 million), as there are a lot of things that we like about them. But there are also some problems, said William Watkins, chief executive officer of Seagate, reports Pocket-lint web-site. But since SSDs are much more expensive than HDDs, many expect incredible ...