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The ST506 HDD was the first 5.25 inch hard disk drive, introduced in 1980 [3] by Shugart Technology (now Seagate Technology). It stored up to 5 megabytes after formatting (153 cylinders, 4 heads, 32 sectors/track, 256 bytes/sector) [4] and cost US$1,500 (equivalent to $5,547 in 2023). [5] The similar, 10-megabyte ST412 HDD was introduced in ...
3.0 TB 3.5" Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex plug and play external USB 3.0 -compatible drive. FreeAgent is a line of external hard drives manufactured by Seagate. They include FreeAgent Pro, FreeAgent Desktop, and FreeAgent Go. They range in size from 60 GB to 3 TB. On May 20, 2010, Seagate released an updated range of FreeAgent drives.
The Seagate ST1 is a miniature 1-inch hard drive with the CompactFlash Type II form factor, much like IBM 's Microdrive. Unlike Sony and Hitachi and allegedly GS Magicstor branded drives, Seagate developed their technology from scratch. As of 2005 most 5 gigabyte MP3 players in production had ST1 drives embedded in them. Notable improvements ...
For the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One Series, Seagate offers the "Game Drive" which is a 2–4 TB USB 3.0 external hard drive. Additionally for the Xbox One series, Seagate now offers a "New Game Drive" in capacities of 2–5 TB and a "Game Drive Hub" which has a capacity up to 8 TB, both of which also use the USB 3.0 interface. [78]
The Seagate Barracuda is a series of hard disk drives and later solid state drives produced by Seagate Technology that was first introduced in 1993. [3] The line initially focused on high-capacity, high-performance SCSI hard drives until introducing ATA models in 1999 and SATA models in 2002. Since 2001, the Barracuda is Seagate's most popular ...
First headquarters of Western Digital (then General Digital) in Newport Beach, California, pictured in 1971. Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970, by Alvin B. Phillips, a Motorola employee, as General Digital Corporation, initially a manufacturer of MOS test equipment. [12] It was originally based in Newport Beach, California, [13 ...
A 3.5-inch Serial ATA hard disk drive A 2.5-inch Serial ATA solid-state drive. SATA was announced in 2000 [4] [5] in order to provide several advantages over the earlier PATA interface such as reduced cable size and cost (seven conductors instead of 40 or 80), native hot swapping, faster data transfer through higher signaling rates, and more efficient transfer through an (optional) I/O queuing ...
Hard disk drive interface. Hard disk drives are accessed over one of a number of bus types, including parallel ATA (PATA, also called IDE or EIDE; described before the introduction of SATA as ATA), Serial ATA (SATA), SCSI, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), and Fibre Channel. Bridge circuitry is sometimes used to connect hard disk drives to buses with ...