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Seagate
(Seagate Technology, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA, www.seagate.com) The largest independent manufacturer of disk drives. Founded in 1979 by Alan Shugart, Tom Mitchell and Doug Mahon, it was the first...
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(Seagate Technology, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA, www.seagate.com) The largest independent manufacturer of disk drives. Founded in 1979 by Alan Shugart, Tom Mitchell and Doug Mahon, it was the first to offer a 5MByte drive using 5.25" platters making it ideal for the burgeoning desktop computer industry. Seagate became the first company to ship 10 million drives.
In 1989, it acquired Imprimis Technology, a CDC subsidiary making workstation and mainframe drives, nearly doubling Seagate's revenue to $2.5 billion. In 1996, it acquired Conner Peripherals bringing combined revenues to more than eight billion dollars. Starting in the mid-1990s, Seagate acquired several software companies and formed Seagate Software subsidiaries in Europe and the U.S. Seagate Software provides products for asset, network, storage and information management. In 2006, Seagate acquired Maxtor Corporation, a rival hard disk manufacturer founded in 1982, and turned it into a Seagate subsidiary.
The ST506
Introduced in 1979, Seagate's ST506 was the first hard disk drive for personal computers. This 5.25\" full-height drive held 5MB and became an industry standard used in CP/M machines and, later, the IBM PC and its successors. (Image courtesy of Seagate Technology, Inc.)
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Hybrid drives go mainstream
Toshiba and Western Digital (WD) will join Seagate in producing hybrid - NAND flash + disk - drives. No dates or prices, but this is good news for customers and the drive industry.
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Seagate buying up controlling interest in LaCie
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Seagate earnings continue to soar through fiscal Q3
Seagate isn't losing any momentum with higher earnings, leading the hard disk drive market as the industry recovers from the floods in Thailand last year.
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Seagate achieves hard drive 'milestone'; storage capacity could soon double
Seagate is boasting that it has become the first hard drive producer to achieve a storage density of 1 terabyte per square inch.
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Thailand floods boosted Seagate to hard drive market race: report
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Hardware makers slog through hard disk drive shortages
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Seagate fiscal Q2 earnings soar despite hard drive shortage worries
Seagate shipped over 47 million disk drives while managing to post solid earnings despite worries about the global hard drive shortage looming.
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Seagate boosting GoFlex Satellite wireless drive without adjusting hardware
Seagate gets around the hardware to fix some pressing challenges on the GoFlex Satellite wireless hard drive.
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CES 2012: New Seagate drives support Thunderbolt, Verizon's 4G network
Seagate's new storage solutions on display at CES this week include products selling in partnership with Monster Digital and Verizon.
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Why drive vendors are cutting their warranties
Disk drive vendors Seagate and WD have cut their warranties by up to 80%. Why now?
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With hard drives in short supply, Seagate and Western Digital slash warranties
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Seagate ups sales outlook, becomes go-to hard drive maker amid shortages
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Seagate wins $525 million from Western Digital
While the hard drive shortage continues, Western Digital suffers another loss.
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Seagate aims to press advantage, simplifies Barracuda line
By cooking down its Barracuda drives to one product with various capacities, Seagate can cut costs for itself and partners.
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Thailand floods to lead to hard drive shortages for months
A flooding disaster in Thailand has hampered the hard drive supply chain and shortages may plague PC, server and storage vendors in the months to come.
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