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January 10, 2013  7:44 PM

Storage Big — Really Big — at CES



Posted by: Sharon Fisher
data storage, flash drives, seagate, terabyte hard disk, thumb drives, usb

You know what they say about guys with big thumbs.* The Consumer Electronics Show was this week in Las Vegas, and while I didn't go (do you know how much walking around that involves?) it wasn't hard to figure out that, with all the music and movies and pictures and so on that consumers are,...

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November 15, 2012  8:10 PM

Exabyte, Zettabyte, Yottabyte…Then What? Opinions Vary



Posted by: Sharon Fisher
big data, data storage, intel, seagate

When I first started this blog almost two years ago, I called it "yottabytes" because that was the term commonly accepted for the biggest size of storage (1000^8, or a 10 followed by 24 zeroes, compared with, say, 1000^4 for a terabyte). But as people are actually starting to refer to petabytes...

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November 27, 2011  12:54 AM

Arbitrator Awards Seagate $525 Million in Western Digital Trade Secrets Case



Posted by: Sharon Fisher
intellectual property, seagate, western digital

What the hell can one guy know that's worth half a billion dollars? That's Western Digital's reaction to a decision this week of an arbitrator to a case where a Seagate employee who joined Western Digital is accused of having brought trade secrets with him. Though it was Western Digital's idea...

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July 24, 2011  1:14 PM

I Want a Terabyte On My Laptop



Posted by: Sharon Fisher
samsung, seagate, terabyte hard disk, western digital

Okay, I don't usually talk about speeds and feeds here, but this is cool. Western Digital has designed a hard disk drive that lets you have a 1-terabyte drive on a notebook. Heck, the brick I do my backups on isn't that...

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April 18, 2011  8:28 PM

Another Big Storage Sale — Samsung to Seagate?



Posted by: Sharon Fisher
hitachi, samsung, seagate, western digital

A major Asian manufacturer is looking to get out of the storage business so it can invest in new areas. Didn't we just hear about this? In this case,...

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