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• Seagate's pulsar drives bring SSD to enterprise primetime

  Seagate jumped into the SSD (solid state drive) market today with the unveiling of its Pulsar drives. SSD drives have been a growing segment, but Seagate adds significant credibility and opens up new possibilities for the nascent technology.

• Seagate's FreeAgent DockStar: instant NAS, just add hard drive

  The scoop: FreeAgent DockStar, by Seagate, about $US100

• Comparison: Three NAS devices offer efficient backup for small offices

  Network-attached storage (NAS), once only available (and affordable) for enterprises, is becoming more common for small business and even home use. And necessary - if you are looking for secure backups for your data, a single backup disk collecting data once or twice a day is no longer enough.

• Seagate, Western Digital go green with new 2TB drives

  Capitalizing on the buzz around green IT, Seagate and Western Digital have released new "green" hard drives designed to use less power (in part by spinning more slowly than the latest generation of drives) and produce less heat (thus requiring less cooling).

• Review: Hard disk vs. solid-state drive -- is an SSD worth the money?

  Solid-state disk (SSD) drives are all the rage among techies. The drives use non-volatile NAND flash memory, meaning there are no moving parts. Because there is no actuator arm and read/write head that must seek out data on a platter like on a hard disk drive (HDD), they are faster in reading and, in most cases, writing data.