Samsung’s HDD business unit which is owned by Seagate, has started shipping Samsung branded wireless media device for mobile devices. The Samsung Wireless looks to be a variant of Seagate’s Wireless drives and enables users enjoy all their movies, music and other content right from the Wireless device drive. The Samsung Wireless can store up […]
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Seagate completes acquisition of Samsung HDD business
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 develops 1TB HDD for notebooks
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 releases USB 3.0 S2 Gamers Edition Portable HDD
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 extends strategic alignment with Seagate, will sell HDD biz and more
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 […]