51 HDD million sold in three months for Seagate

The American manufacturer Seagate stabilizes, and flows not less than 51 million hard drives this quarter...

Seagate has just published its results for the third quarter of this year. The US manufacturer sold 51 million hard drives in its first quarter fiscal 2012.

The turnover of Seagate reached 2.80 billion (annual growth, but a sequential regression), while profits are $ 140 million. The company will be affected as its main competitor by Thai floods, but in a lesser manner. Seagate hopes to produce between 40 and 50 million HDD over the next three months, what return to the head of the market, even if it will be a victory by package more than other thing.

It should be noted that the European commission has just validate the repurchase by the division of the Korean giant Samsung hard disk Seagate. This operation of $ 1.4 billion was unveiled after redemption of Hitachi GST proposal by Western Digital. However, Seagate filed its folder from EC hours before WD, which allowed him to be tried on a market four and not three actors...

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First 4 TB in Seagate hard drive!

The American manufacturer Seagate unveils the first hard disk up to a record 4 TB capacity.

Seagate had launched the first hard drive of 3 To early summer 2010. The American manufacturer today is the first to unveil a 4 TB hard drive. Once more, we are dealing with an external model. The GoFlex Desk adopts a new industrial design that will soon expand to the rest of the range.

It is provided with a connector USB 3.0, knowing that declinations in USB 2.0 and FireWire will be soon available. There beneath the hull of the GoFlex a 3.5-inch HDD. The latter operates a Serial ATA interface, and it includes 64 MB of cache. Seagate does not (unlike Hitachi) trays of 1 TB, but 800 GB trays.

Therefore in five to reach this new record capability. The latter will reach 7200 RPM, and performance should therefore be at the Rendez-vous (without so far as it was a beast of race). Hope that this Barracuda XT 4 To be proposed only faster than the version of 3 To last year (who had not arrived before March 2011). Seagate sells its GoFlex Desk of 4 To $ 249.99 (€209,99 TTC). For comparison, the 3 To version is still around €170.

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Seagate Momentus XT million flows

The American manufacturer Seagate has sold over a million of its hybrid hard disk drives, the Momentus XT...

The first hybrid hard disk drives had been launched in 2006. Their small amount of memory (about 256 MB) considerably limited their interest, and their success was therefore also very limited. Seagate had revived the concept in May 2010, with its Momentus XT. This 7200 RPM HDD incorporates 4 GB of SLC flash memory. It is significantly more efficient than competing solutions. Only black point is its maximum capacity of 500 GB (when there are now 1 To classical models).

Seagate has just announced have passed more than a million units of this hard disk, which is available in many manufacturers machines (example, Asus ROG G73JH, Sony VAIO VPCSC1AFM/S, Toshiba Satellite E305-S1990X, and Alienware M17X/M18X). IDC analysis firm estimated that approximately 25% sold computers in 2015 will be equipped a hybrid HDD. Seagate can therefore expect to beautiful profits...

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Seagate GoFlex Turbo: 7200 RPM, and USB 3.0

The American manufacturer Seagate expands GoFlex with a new model based on performance...

Seagate continues to decline its range of GoFlex external hard drives. After the slim declinations and mobile, we discover the Turbo version. This model logically adopt a hard drive running at 7200 RPM. American manufacturer will propose two capacities: 500 GB and 750 GB. There a SuperSpeed USB (or USB 3.0) interface of base, and the flow will be almost native. Seagate also tweaked the aesthetics of these famous external storage solutions, including the hull now displays a bi-ton, silver and black colours.

The manufacturer launches its novelties with a two year subscription to SafetyNet service. This offer, reserved for the United States for the moment, to send the HDD to Seagate failure that it attempts to retrieve the data that it contains. It is hoped now that this option soon activities in Europe. Seagate offers the GoFlex Turbo at the public price recommended $ 119,99 (€99.99 TTC) and $ 139.99 (€119,99 TTC).

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Seagate takes Samsung HDD for $1. 375bn

Samsung and Seagate this morning announced a "broad strategic alignment" which will see Seagate to take over the division of Samsung hard drive disk.

It was the month last than Western Digital acquired Hitachi hard drive for $ 4.3 billion, and now it appears that Samsung and Seagate are team to take on the newly reinforced WD. First rumored yesterday, purchase of 1.375 billion in division of Samsung hard drive Seagate was confirmed at the beginning today. Half price 1.375 billion is to be paid in cash, while remaining half will be paid in shares.

Apart from combining two companies hard drive divisions, the transaction extend also more license agreement reciprocal patent between the two. Other elements of the agreement include an agreement to supply flash memory NAND will see Samsung to provide semiconductor products Seagate for use in SSDs and hybrid SSDs; a drive agreement under which Seagate will provide hard disk drives of Samsung PC notebooks and consumer electronics. supply a partnership between the two to co-develop enterprise storage solutions. and a shareholders ' agreement which will see a Samsung Executive to join the Board of Directors of Seagate.

"We are pleased to enhance our strategic relationship with Samsung to better align the two companies technologies and products,", said Steve Luczo, Chairman, President and CEO of Seagate. "With these agreements, we expect to achieve a larger scale and to deliver a broader range of products and innovative storage solutions to our customers, while at facilitating our relationship in the long term with Samsung."

"Delivery of value to the market and consumers is the main objective of the broad agreement announced today.". "Samsung is pleased to extend our existing strategic relationship with Seagate, to provide creative technology for a wide variety of consumer, business and industrial applications," said Oh-hyun, Kwon, President of Samsung Electronics semiconductor company.

Of course, all this is subject to the usual formalities and regulatory approvals, therefore it is to be signed and sealed for months. Seagate, that the Pact is expected to be closed at the end of the year 2011.

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Seagate to control 40 percent of the market of the hard disk

Research firm estimates that about 652.4 million hard disks were shipped last year. Seagate shipped approximately 195,2 million units and Samsung approximately $ 66.0 million. Seagate will not be able to bridge the gap to WD now, as his rival has recently acquired Hitachi's Global storage and shipped 203.7 and 115.8 million units, leading to a market share of 50%.

The only other player left on the market is Toshiba/Fujitsu, shipped 71.7 million units, which struck a little more than 10% of the market.

"Overall, the reduction from five to three manufacturers significantly improves stability and efficiency of the hard drive industry," said Fang Zhang, IHS storage systems analyst. "However, the acquisition also signals a recognition by Seagate and Samsung that the conditions in the storage space will become more difficult in the future." The acquisition of Samsung hard drive $ 1.38 billion is widely suspected to access Seagate Samsung customers in the Asian market.

"Taken together, mergers by Seagate and Western Digital will be the key to improve the sustainability of the hard disk industry, according to IHS, demonstrating industry agile response to occurring fast"

"changes in the storage environment," says Ryan dog, researcher for memory and storage at IHS.

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Seagate reveals HDD with 1 TB Platters

Seagate Barracuda XT 3 TB HDD will be the first to use TB 1 trays company.

For those who cannot always give with the tried-and-true method in the service of the data on a silver platter, Seagate has revealed a new flagship for 3.5 inch hard disk with a density of 625 Gigabits per inch square with trays of 1 TB. The reader, planned as the "first world" for the average consumer, will be added to the line of the GoFlex Desk company during the mid-2011 and finally offered in four of storage capacity: 3 to, 2 TB, 1.5 TB and 1 TB.

"Organizations of all sizes and consumers around the world are raising digital content at the speed of light, generating the huge demand for storage of digital content of every kind imaginable," said Rocky Pimentel, Seagate Executive Vice President of global sales and Marketing. "We remain fully focused on the provision of storage capacity, speed and manageability that customers need to thrive in an increasingly digital world."

Seagate said that the first model - the Barracuda XT 3 TB HDD - will have enough storage to accommodate up to 120 movies HD 1 500 video games, thousands of photos and almost countless hours of digital music. Compatible with Mac and PC, the player will also come packaged with a NTFS for Mac pilot, to store and access files of Windows and Mac OS X computers without reformatting. Rotational speeds and other physical specifications have not been obtained.

Seagate is the first manufacturer of hard drives to bring new high drives densities to the market, Samsung was actually the first to break the barrier on the storage capacity of hard disks with a terabyte per platter areal density. The tech was presented at the CeBIT 2011 and will be used to create 2 TB hard drives with only two plateaus, the company said.

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