Seagate aiming to be a data storage leader in SA
American data storage firm Seagate aims to be the market leader in supplying memory to South Africa's booming data centre industry, expected to be valued at R16.15 billion by 2031.
The company is focusing on providing HDD technologies to boost...
https://www.guru3d.com/story/synology-reverses-policy-banning-thirdparty-hdds-after-nas-sales-plummet/
Synology has backtracked on one of its most unpopular decisions in years. After seeing NAS sales plummet in 2025, the company has decided to lift restrictions that forced users to buy its own...
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Item name (be very descriptive): SEAGATE Ironwolf NAS HDD's
Age and condition: Used, 2 yrs
Do you include packaging: Not original, will be shipped safely
Warranty: NO
Reason for selling: Replacing with Larger drives
Price: See below
Negotiable: Yes
Location: Jeffreysbay...
Hello Friends
I'm seeking some guidance.
Recently, I purchased a 16TB Seagate external Hard Drive from Amazon, which I got last Friday. Unfortunately, it started malfunctioning last night – it doesn't light up, emits high-pitched noises, and is unresponsive on two different PCs. I reached out...
Seagate slapped with R5.4 billion fine for selling hard drives to Huawei
The US Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has imposed a $300-million (R5.4-billion) fine on storage manufacturer Seagate for violating export controls by selling millions of hard disk drives (HDDs)...
Price of 1TB portable drives in South Africa — from 2012 to 2022
The price of a 1TB portable drive has not decreased as significantly over the past ten years as one would have expected as technology advances.
Prices over time in South Africa have only dropped approximately 14% between 2012 and...
Can someone assist
I have a failed Seagate 3TB Skyhawk drive that was used for recording CCTV. It recently failed, and although being under warranty, I cannot trace whether I bought it from FirstTech or whomever.
I have created an RMS with Seagate, however, I have to pay the shipping to the UK...
New Xbox Series X|S expansion cards launched
Microsoft has launched two new Seagate Storage Expansion Cards for the Xbox Series X|S gaming consoles, offering customers more options when upgrading their storage.
In addition to the current 1TB card, Microsoft will also be offering 512GB and 2TB...
Best hard drives in the world
Cloud storage and data backup company Backblaze has published its latest Drive Stats report, revealing which of the hard drives used across its four data centres were the most reliable in the second quarter of 2021.
At the end of June 2021, Backblaze was...
I have an old Seagate GoFlex Home NAS drive that I have some movies, series, photo's and some data on but support is slowly being pulled with some services already discontinued for a while now. It does not work with Windows 10 which I found out when my work laptop was updated from Windows 8 to...
Howdy folks.
I thought I'd post something here that I was wondering "Is this just a coincidence?".
In the past 45 days both our Seagate 2TB SSHDs at home failed (Non-Seagate SSDs are just fine). Now all 3 of our boss's Seagate HDDs failed at the same time. A few clients had the same issue...
New Seagate 1TB drive automatically copies files to Amazon cloud
Seagate and Amazon have partnered to sell an external hard drive that automatically backs up data to the cloud.
Seagate launches world’s largest-capacity mobile hard drive
Seagate has launched the world’s largest-capacity mobile drive available on the market, the Backup Plus Portable 5TB.
I have an old Seagate ST31000528AS 1TB hard drive that has seemingly died - Not detected in Disk Management in Windows or Disk Utility on Mac.
I used a application called "HDD Raw Copy" which detected the drive in Windows - tried to transfer data, but the machine froze - I know my eSATA PCI-E...
Item name (be very descriptive): Two RCT external 3.5" hard drive cases each with a Seagate 4TB SATA3 hard drive. These drives were never carried around and stayed on my desk in a temperature controlled office. They are very fast, copying between then you can reach speeds well beyond 120 MB/s...
Hard drive reliability: Seagate vs HGST vs Toshiba vs WD
Backblaze has released its latest hard drive reliability statistics, which reveal the most and least reliable hard drive brands.
Hi. I need some tech advice on my two issues.
I made the mistake of letting my (now ex) brother-in-law borrow my Toshiba laptop a few years ago but when I got it back, the laptop started up and went to the blue screen of death and shut down repeatedly so I bought a new laptop. I checked the...