Seagate’s newly upgraded Momentus XT drive now sports 750GB of storage and 70 per cent faster performance. The drive claims boot-up and application launch speeds comparable to full SSD’s despite only having 8GB of solid-state storage for only $US245. More »
Hard drive prices are creeping upwards rather rapidly, so if you need storage, it’d be wise to buy now. Big W’s advertising a special on the Seagate 2TB external expansion drive for $88 until tomorrow. A few months ago that might have been unremarkable; now it’s quite cheap. [Big W]
With recent floods the price of hard drives is likely to go up, so it might be wise to get your backup and storage deals sorted now. Amazon has Seagate’s 3TB USB 3.0 drive for $US123.95 delivered, which is fair value (although you may need a plug adaptor and/or stepdown transformer as well). [Amazon via OzBargain]
Seagate’s finally launching its GoFlex Satellite 500GB drive in Australia for $219. I spent some hands-on time with Seagate’s media drive. Is it worth getting all that excited about an external drive? More »
Heads up: Apple has officially acknowledged a 1TB Seagate hard drive failure issue affecting iMacs sold between May and June 2011. Hard drive replacement is free, so just click the source link for all the info. [Apple Australia] More »
