Talk:Seagate Technology/Archives/2012

Recently sued
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39290393,00.htm?r=3

This is an interesting addition to the information in the wiki, and it sets a precedent in this case for how companies have been advertising the amount of hard drive space and the old 1000/1024 in a KB argument. I'll leave this to someone more capable of writing this into the article though :-) 87.194.44.145 17:51, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 14:10, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

POV?
The article kind of reads like a company brochure. I personally prefer Seagate drives, but dang. 151.151.21.104 (talk) 17:25, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Recent Announcement of 1.5TB HDD
Seagate recently "unveiled" (paper-launched) the world's first 1.5 TB Hard Disk Drives - from the company's website: "Seagate (NYSE:STX) today unveiled the industry’s first 1.5-terabyte desktop hard drives to meet explosive worldwide demand for digital-content storage in home and business environments. ...marks the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives – a half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1TB, thanks to the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology."

Announcement link

Should it be added to the article in the "Timeline of notable events"? Or maybe it's better to wait for actual availability? (shipment in August)

PluniAlmoni (talk) 11:31, 26 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I took the liberty of updating the article myself, as well as fixing a few problems in that section (misdirected links). PluniAlmoni (talk) 11:31, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Disk or Disc?
Usually, in the world of IT (and personally in my experience), when referring to "Hard Disk Drives", the terminology goes with "Disk" for magnetic platter storage, tape, and media, such as those found in HDDs and the topic of this article, and "Discs" generally pertain towards optical media, such as CDs and DVDs. The article incorrectly uses the "disc" terminology when referring to the Seagate hard disks. 68.6.117.246 (talk) 09:50, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Seagate for whatever reason calls all its products discs. Look at their web page for example. It is like a company tradition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.246.134.37 (talk) 02:58, 4 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Unless the article is quoting from the Seagate website (which, in its current state, could be the whole thing), it should use the common form of the word, "disk". Articles should not play corporate word games. Ham Pastrami (talk) 07:30, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Customer censorship
Seems seagate is censoring cutomer problems on their forum.

http://consumerist.com/5142062/seagate-censoring-posts-about-barrucada-720011-500gb-drive-failures —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.181.253.68 (talk) 20:00, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Written like an ad?
I just cleaned up the article a bit but it doesn't really seem like it was written like an advertisement. Any input on this? Scootey (talk) 19:15, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Multiple issues with article
There are multiple issues with the article at the moment. Right now the page reads like a press release, especially from the History section onwards. Additionally the entire article seems like a press release that constantly praises itself -- again, especially the "timeline" from 1990s section onwards. There also seems there is edit warring/conflict of interest going on, because the article's content constantly fluctuates from large emphasis on their company's or products' problems to having all that content removed and replaced with self praise (like I said earlier). Finally, due to much of the Timeline section seemingly looking like it's been copy-and-pasted from somewhere, it requires major cleanup. --FlyingPenguins (talk) 04:15, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Restored it to a previous state
Vandles took out a huge amount of it. Thank you. revert 209.188.63.194 (talk) 21:02, 13 June 2010 (UTC)


 * IMO, much of what the "vandal" took out doesn't belong in the article, but the HQ is not yet Dublin so I reverted to the last known good state - one further back. Tom94022 (talk) 16:51, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

4 TB Internal HDDs??
Launch date? Please add. Or if there are no such drives yet, when are they expected to come? Naki (talk) 18:44, 12 December 2012 (UTC)