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Seagate To Pay $300m Penalty Over Huawei Exports

Ouch. Seagate to hand over $300 million in fines after it exported 7.4 hard disk drives to Huawei, despite US export restrictions

Report reveals worryingly amounts of personal data still held on second hand drives for sale

How big? Life still left in magnetic platters as Toshiba launches a 8TB HDD for power users

iSuppli has found that disk drive manufacturers are shifting to more power-efficient 2.5-inch drives

IDC figures confirm that natural disasters in both Thailand and Japan impacted the HDD industry in 2011

Toshiba and Western Digital have reached an agreement that will see the two trade hard disk drive facilities

Cloud

Seagate snaps up Samsung's hard disks, and the pair gear up for the solid-state drives that will replace them

Samsung is considering offloading its hard disk business as tablets drive huge growth in solid-state technology

Cloud

Demand for cloud-based storage is soaring, and vendors are responding by offering more capacity for free

The ZeusRAM SSD is aimed at enterprises deploying heavy-duty workloads that need ultra-low latency