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Bigger is Better 2

Why Size Does Matter

Our society has a history of always wanting “bigger” whether it’s cars, televisions or other things for which some may feel size are a relevant factor. Bigger is better also applies to hard drives. With our recent release of our 4TB internal hard drives as an update to our Seagate Desktop…

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I Don’t Want a Tablet

I don’t want a tablet! I don’t want another device to cart around to meetings, parties, family gatherings, church, school, grocery shopping and especially not the bathroom.  I don’t want the ability to quickly access photos, music or videos that I most likely have already on sites such as Facebook, YouTube or Flickr. I don’t [...]

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Gaming in the Clouds

In my heart of hearts, I’m a gamer. I have been since I was a kid and my mother bought my father an Intellivision. It was something I took to almost immediately. He did a great job playing sports games with me, but with scores like 84-7 in football, I figured it was going to [...]

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Getting My Feet Wet

Hi, my name is Jonathan and I’m the latest addition to the Seagate Family managing  Social Media for the consumer product line. In this day and age, that likely won’t be a head-scratcher for you, but in case it is, it means that I put together content that will go onto this blog and talk [...]

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The DIY urge, and the power of technology in music

As a hobbyist musician, I love seeing stories about how technology has helped empower people and get them recognized. YouTube has opened the doors for numerous artists and entertainers, with Justin Bieber perhaps being the most well-known as the world’s biggest teen pop sensation. Love him or not, there’s no denying the impact of YouTube [...]

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Thoughts on the vision of Steve Jobs and Apple

I wasn’t a fan of Apple products – at least not when I was a geeky-teenager growing up in the 1980s. I loved my IBM Turbo XT clone, which had no hard drive by the way and instead used two 5.25” floppy drives. Part of what I enjoyed about that computer was the feeling that [...]

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LAPTOP Magazine awards “Editor’s Choice” to Alienware notebook powered with Momentus XT storage

Alienware has earned its solid reputation and loyal following by specializing in providing gamers with systems optimized especially for them. With the compute-intensive needs found in the latest games, delivering systems that offer a powerful combination of components inside is critical during both design and integration. Alienware’s latest M11X R3 notebook provides just that with [...]

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Tablet with more storage and less cost is a win-win for consumers

With their ease of use, portability, and low cost, tablets remain a hot category. How hot? Gartner reported that in 2010 there were 17.6 million tablets sold, but they expect 2011 sales to skyrocket to 69.5 million units. So it was only a matter of time before a tablet maker would make their products even [...]

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New Xbox 360 Runs Cooler, sort of.

One thing you learn in the hard drive industry is that heat is the enemy! I once witnessed a hard drive equipped surveillance system in a fast food restaurant mounted right above the deep fat fryer. And the proprietor was wondering why he was getting recurring failures! It’s not just hard drives… for virtually any advanced electronics [...]

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Advanced Format Drives with SmartAlign

A while back I wrote a short primer on the pending transition to 4K sectors in the hard drive industry, now officially anointed as Advanced Format by IDEMA (the standards body managing the coordinating this change in the industry). Advanced Format is a good thing for the industry because it will help delivery higher capacity drives with [...]

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