The Seagate Replica is a new external USB storage system aimed at simplifying backups. How does it do it? Simply by backing everything up, including the operating system. The software will self install from the USB drive, there’s not much to do. Read the full article
The Seagate Replica external hard drive has lots going for it: Slim design, a nifty docking base (only with the $200 500GB multi-PC version; a $130 250GB version is available, too), and super-simple software for continuous system backups. In some scenarios, the Replica can perform backups with ease. But unfortunately, in my tests the Replica [...]
If all you want to do with an external drive is keep your complete system backed up, you’ll find no simpler solution than the Seagate Replica. Plug in the drive via USB, click once to accept the license agreement, and the drive does everything else. If you care to, you can click an icon in [...]
Step 1. Plug in Replica (Multi-PC 500GB or Single PC 250GB). Step 2. Click yes to all the licensing stuff and terms of service BS. Step 3. Walk away. Read the full article
There’s nothing worse than that moment when you realize your data is gone. All the music, saved games, instrument presets, documents, and information that you took for granted are now lost forever. When my last hard drive crashed, there was the sickening moment when I realized the data was gone, and it was almost as [...]
Cheetah® 15K.7 and Cheetah® NS.2 HDDs take on 3.5-inch Tier 1 enterprise storage environments with high speed, top capacity, and highest reliability with lowest power consumption SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. – January 13, 2009 – Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced two new members of its award-winning Cheetah ® enterprise-class hard drive family: the Cheetah 15K.7 hard drive [...]
Mac users looking for additional disk storage for their laptops and desktops can now check out Seagate’s FreeAgent Desk and Go drives specifically for the Mac. These external hard drives have been preformatted using Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, include Firewire ports and match the brushed aluminum style of Macbooks and iMacs. Let’s check them [...]
The high-end of Seagate’s FreeAgent line of external hard drives is the XTreme series, which aims to provide “blazingly fast performance” via eSATA connectivity. The drive boasts an eSATA port on its drives (we tested a 1TB version), but ironically it doesn’t include an eSATA port (you have to buy one separately). Read the full [...]
Seagate ships self-encrypting drive ease enough for consumers to install SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-November 10, 2008-Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced sweeping advances in its global push to help secure notebook computer information from theft or loss. To combat growing threats to mobile information, Seagate, the world leader in storage solutions, is now shipping its groundbreaking, self-encrypting notebook [...]
New Savvio® HDD uses 70% less power than competing 3.5-inch hard drives, and is a key component in Seagate’s new Unified Storage™ architecture SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-November 3, 2008-Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today introduced the world’s fastest and greenest drive – the Savvio 15K.2 HDD, the new 15K-rpm addition to the Savvio family of 2.5-inch SAS 2.0 enterprise [...]
