External HDDs News

The hard drive market is reacting to the heavy floods in Thailand.

As part of its quarterly earnings call, Seagate said that it has begun putting 1 Terabyte per platter hard drives into production.

Seagate may introduce a 5TB external hard drive using five 1TB platters in January 2012.

Seagate has released a new GoFlex Desk external drive sporting a sleek new look and a fat 4 TB of storage. That's enough space to contain over 2,000 HD movies, claims the company.

Hard drive manufacturers shipped 167.1 million hard drives in the second quarter of this year, up 4% from 160.5 million units in Q1, according to market research firm IHS.

This "modern art" supposedly houses $5 million dollars' worth of pirated software including AutoCAD 2011, Adobe Creative Suite and numerous console ROMs.

LaCie today unveiled a couple of USB 3.0 HDDs as part of a collaboration with Porsche.

Here's a 100 GB hybrid device that will store your files both locally and in the cloud... for a fee, naturally.

Here's a good way to really expand the capacity of your wireless device

Following the acquisition of Samsung's HDD unit, Seagate will be holding about 40% of the global hard drive disk market, according to IHS iSuppli.