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  Seagate announced that they’ve completed the acquisition of Samsung’s hard drive business (HDD). The acquisition was announced in April and as per the terms of the agreement, Seagate will acquire Samsung’s assets and infrastructure like M8 production line of 2.5-inch HDDs, senior manager and design-engineering employees from the Korea facility and more. Additionally, Seagate [...]

  Samsung has unveiled a new high capacity hard drive for notebooks. The 9.5mm thick Spinpoint M8 integrates a total of 1TB storage spread over two platters of 500GB each. Samsung says such high density was achieved by using advanced format technology (AFT) that raises the data storage density per unit area and also helps [...]

  Samsung has introduced a new S2 Portable external hard drive to please the gamers. It’s the S2 Gamers Edition hard drive that gives consumers one month free trial of Blizzard’s StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty game. Other than that, you have the same S2 portable HDD with USB 3.0 support, SecretZone and SafetyKey to [...]

  Samsung has put an end to yesterday’s speculation by announcing a strategic partnership with Seagate. Under the agreement, Seagate will take over Samsung’s HDD business and will also extend the partnership with Samsung over other areas like: – Extending the cross-license agreement between the companies – Co-develop Enterprise Storage Solutions – Disk Drive supply [...]

  Samsung is apparently trying to sell off its loss-making hard disk drive (HDD) business. According to WSJ’s source, the Korean giant is trying to sell the unit in order to tap newer “growth areas.” One of the reasons for the loss is due to the rise of flash memory storage, which are used in [...]

  Samsung today announced a new range of portable and desktop hard drives. Portable hard drives consist of entry-level M2 Portable series and C2 Portable 3.0 that feature storage support up to 1TB, USB 2.0 and SuperSpeed USB 3.0 support. Additionally, M2 Portable has a wave-like matte finish to protect against finger smudges, curved sides [...]

  Samsung has updated its 2.5-inch S2 Portable HDD external hard drive. The S2 Portable 3.0 drive spins at 7,200RPM and features SuperSpeed USB 3.0 that can transfer content at speeds to up to 5Gbps as compared to USB 2.0’s 480Mbps. Additionally, the drive comes with other features like Dynamic Balancing, SilentSeek, NoiseGuard, Auto Backup, [...]

  Samsung has announced a new 3.5-inch environment friendly hard drive. The EcoGreen F4 or F4EG is the world’s highest-density drive that stores up to 2TB of data on its platter of 667GB each. Samsung says F4EG is an apt solution for storage hungry consumers that is able to store heaps of data while consuming [...]

  Samsung is now shipping its 12.5mm 2.5-inch 1 terabyte internal hard drive. The Spinpoint MT2 is said to be ideal to be fitted in portable hard drives, digital TVs, set-top box etc. The Spinpoint MT2 uses 333GB per-platter tech and in addition to storing large amounts of data, the drive ensures better performance and [...]

  Samsung’s G Series HDDs are known for its use of eco-friendly materials and distinctive design. However, not many know how much these drives can endure. Good for us is that Samsung has uploaded a video of the same torturing the G2 HDD and ultimately running it down by Mini Cooper. The expected result should’ve [...]