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Seagate Re-enters Consumer SSD Market With BarraCuda
Seagate Release Successor SSD to the 600 As one of the two hard disk drive giants, Seagate has a huge presence in storage. On top of their HDD business, the company has a strong presence in the SSD market. However, those drives have been restricted to the enterprise save a…
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GoXTreme Barracuda 4K Action Camera Review
GoXTreme Barracuda There’s very little we like at eTeknix better than to have the change to check out and review quality gadgets and in recent years, the ability (or wish) to record oneself has become very popular. Particularly for those who participate in action sports or pastimes such as cycling or…
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LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C 2TB Portable HDD Review
Introduction There can be multiple reasons why you will want your portable storage drive to be a rugged one. You might be on the road a lot for business or pleasure or perhaps you are just a clumsy user who tends to drop and spill things. You might also just want…
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Seagate Launches 5TB 2.5-Inch BarraCuda HDD
I remember that I’ve recently said that the HDD capacity was stagnant when it comes to 2.5-inch drives, but that’s probably mostly due to me paying more attention to enterprise class drives and also that Seagate hasn’t made a big deal about it. While they created their amazing new 10TB…
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3TB Seagate Hard Drives Have 43% Failure Rate
Cloud storage provider Backblaze, in its 2014 ‘Hard Drive Annual Failure Rate’ graph, reports that the 3TB Seagate Barracuda drives it used for its storage service had a 43.1% failure rate over 2014. Other Seagate models also performed badly, with the 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 failing 23.8% of the time. It must be…
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