The Weekly Geek

I attempted to find a direct link to Seagates web site with this information, it came to me in an email from Seagate. We prefer Seagate drives but also use Western Digital (see my previous posts) as they are owned by Seagate. Below is the text of the email to us partners. “As has been [...]

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The flooding in Thailand is causing issue with every life there, their jobs are in trouble too. Western Digital has had to stop producing hard drives for now. 60% of Western digital hard drives are made in Thailand. Also other semiconductor, logic chips, hard drive motors and other technology producing plants are located there too. Expect parts to be [...]

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Many articles have been written about SSD hard drives, Intel recently put out a review of the speeds of these drives new compared to well used and thus fragmented. I would just like to throw my results in to the piles of articles. A year ago this week I built a test Windows 7 64 [...]

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I am a big fan of Seagate hard drives. A couple of years ago, Seagate bought Western Digital. Since then the WD brand has changed the naming convention of its hard drives. Now you can get a “Blue”, “Green” or “Black” hard drive all in the same gigabite size, such as 1TB (terabyte).

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A great big howdy to one and all! I just moved my office back into the dungeon from my living room. During the move I noticed and thus remembered how dirty computers and technology equipment can get just sitting. This reminded me of the “PC Things to do series” I wrote about and has prompted [...]

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