From Hollywood’s blockbuster movies, to the photos and videos we share with friends and family on our social networks, from servers that form the backbone of big enterprises, to desktop and notebook computers that fuel our personal productivity, Seagate storage devices, including hard drives, solid–state drives and hybrid drives, are all around us.

They are in video–surveillance equipment that protects people and assets around the clock, as well as in the DVRs, game consoles and media centers that have taken center stage in family rooms around the world.

Digital content is ubiquitous, and Seagate is at the heart of how the world creates, distributes, shares and enjoys it.

1 Billion–and Beyond!
Founded in 1979, Seagate is the leading provider of storage devices–in 2008, we became the first hard drive manufacturer to ship 1 billion hard drives–with the industry’s broadest product offering. Our products include 2.5–inch and 3.5–inch hard disk drives, solid state drives and hybrid drives (which incorporate both rotating media and flash memory) for compute–intensive enterprise environments that demand high performance, low–power consumption and proven reliability.

In 2009, Seagate developed its first solid–state drives (SSDs) that leverage non–volatile flash memory instead of spinning magnetic media. Seagate’s first SSDs were designed for enterprise environments utilizing blade and general server applications. We followed that up in 2010 with a solid state hybrid drive for laptops–a product with a unique algorithm that enables the drive to “learn” which files are needed most often and then places them in the drive’s on–board flash memory for lightning–fast access.

Seagate’s products enable high–performance desktop and laptop systems, along with ultraportable devices such as netbooks and thin laptops. We delivered the industry’s first 2TB, 7,200–RPM desktop hard drive, along with the world’s first 7mm, 2.5–inch form factor drive. These innovative storage products deliver super–sized capacities, industry–leading performance, encrypted security features and more.

Cloudy with a Chance of Storage
Increasingly, Seagate hard drives can also be found in the “Cloud.” As more businesses look to improve their flexibility and lower their costs by running their applications over shared data centers, the demand for storage is growing–according to market researcher IDC, storage is the fastest–growing Cloud service.

That’s because applications in Cloud data centers run 24×7, with high workloads that require enterprise–class storage devices. Seagate’s Unified Storage architecture is aligned with the shift to Cloud Computing–an approach that we developed over three decades of enterprise storage leadership to help companies reduce their complexity and achieve greater scalability.

It’s an approach that delivers powerful, yet simple enterprise–class storage solutions for the wide array of applications in today’s data centers. These solutions span the highest–capacity 3.5–inch drives for I/0–intensive cloud servers and storage arrays, to 2.5–inch drives for systems where power savings is a big concern.

Store, Share, Enjoy
Seagate solutions aren’t just for businesses. We’re helping people store, share and safeguard their most precious digital assets–from family photos and videos, to games and music. We’re also giving people a lot more flexibility in how they use their storage.

Our FreeAgent GoFlex family allows easy upgrading of interfaces (from USB 2.0 to FireWire 800 and eSATA) for faster transfer speeds on a PC or Mac. This product family also lets people access stored content on a home network, on their TVs or on the go.

Seagate’s consumer electronics offerings also include power–efficient, high–capacity drives for DVRs, home media centers and video–surveillance systems. The Pipeline HD hard drives, for example, deliver up to 1TB of capacity, enough room for up to 200 hours of high–definition video.

A key to Seagate’s ability to deliver the industry’s broadest storage line is our strategy of owning the key components, including heads and media, which underpin those products.

Without reliance on third parties to supply our technology, we have complete control of our entire development process and product roadmap. As a result, product quality, performance and time to market are vastly improved–enabling Seagate to quickly meet the quality, reliability and supply demands of our customers.

Data Recovery Services
Seagate Recovery Services transform inaccessible data into accessible data from any brand of hard disk drive, server applications data storage technology and virtualized environment. Leveraging the engineering design and technology resources of the world's most trusted and reputable name in storage technology, we offer the most advanced data recovery services available today.

Our solutions serve thousands of consumers and cross-industry business clients (including government agencies), and support forensic investigations. Our portfolio spans from cutting-edge remote data recovery services, 24x7 onsite critical data recovery as well as in-lab recovery.

For more information, visit Seagate Recovery Services.

Thinking Green
From our product design to our manufacturing processes, Seagate is “thinking green,” committed to developing and maintaining sustainable, responsible practices in everything we do. Rather than a reactive approach to environmental compliance, Seagate has created a proactive product development process that integrates environmental care into the entire lifecycle of our products.

Our enterprise drives, for example, are designed to reduce data center power and cooling costs by up to 92 percent, while our external storage solutions include streamlined packaging to reduce waste and fuel costs while being 100 percent recyclable. We believe in transparency throughout our supply chain, with visibility to the substances used in making our products. We go beyond what many manufacturers are willing to do, an approach that has earned Seagate recognition as a global leader in green manufacturing and production by BusinessWeek, Newsweek and the ChemSec and CPA Report, among others.

Seagate has been at the forefront of the storage industry for over 30 years. With executive offices in Scotts Valley, California, we employ more than 52,000 people around the world–all contributing to the development of breakthrough storage products. From the first 5.25–inch hard drive for the PC to the development of perpendicular recording technology, Seagate has pioneered new industry standards that have fueled advancements in the digital information age.

Through technology leadership and innovation, Seagate continues to help individuals and businesses maximize the potential of their digital content in an ever–evolving, on–demand world.

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