• Thai floods catapult Seagate into hard drive market lead

  Monsoonal flooding in Thailand last year helped Seagate Technology recapture the worldwide lead in hard disk drive shipments in the last quarter of 2011, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli.

• Seagate: Shortage of disk drives to continue through 2012

  Seagate Technology said Tuesday that supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) this year will continue to fall short of demand, leading large customers to look to long-term agreements to ensure supply after devastating floods in Thailand.

• China wants Western Digital to address monopoly concerns

  After winning the approval of regulators in Europe, Australia, and Japan, Western Digital may have hit a snag in its bid to acquire Hitachi's disk drive arm. Chinese regulators are concerned that the deal could hurt hard drive competition.

• Seagate completes acquisition of Samsung's HDD business

  Seagate Technology said Tuesday it has completed the acquisition of the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics, after it recently received approval for the deal in Australia, China, and the European Commission.

• Small PC makers hiking PC prices on hard-drive shortage

  The early brunt of a hard-drive shortage resulting from widespread flooding in Thailand is falling on small PC makers, who are raising computer prices to stem losses.

• Seagate GoFlex packs streaming and backup punch

  Seagate has announced a new network attached storage (NAS) drive for the 'Terabyte home', the GoFlex Home.

• Bigger is not always better with hard drive storage

  Seagate announced a breakthrough in hard drive storage -- blowing past the previous 2.2 Terabyte limitation to develop the first 3Tb hard drive. While that is impressive from a technology standpoint, 3Tb is a lot of data to entrust to a single device. It may not be wise for businesses to place all of their data 'eggs' in a single 3Tb (or larger) 'basket'.

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