Gadgets and Devices | Seize The Gate and Sea Gates from West Coast Midnight Run

Seagate has been providing PC data storage solutions for decades. Over the years, this group along with recently acquired Samsung and Maxtor have been steadily innovating on more demanding data storage solutions for the mobile platforms markets. Driven by demand from the consumer for more reliable and sturdier drives on the go, that can handle workloads just like the office-bound desktops, Seagate has increased the capacity of its traditional magnetic electro-mechanical drives upwards of 6 TB, unheard of just a few years ago, and has slowly unveiled solid state memory drives (SSD) that are quieter, cooler and less susceptible to shocks, bumps and other every day hazards for sensitive electronics.
Our offices are primarily equipped with systems that run traditional HDD, mostly from Panasonic, Fujitsu, and Hitachi. We decided on equipping our laptops with Seagate internal drives for testing their endurance, and long term reliability. Our laptops were originally equipped with 60 and 120 GB drives and when they started giving us funny noises on bootup, we acquired our first test units at 250 GB, 320 GB and 500 GB. Because the physical size of each drive remains the same, as the stated capacity increases, the density of

For the non-tech individual it may seem amazing and complicated, because it is, how data stored in the data drive results in all of the operations processed by your computer, from crunching a spreadsheet to displaying a photo set or video stream.

When you peruse your drive you see data files, application executable files (programs) and operating system files - files with extensions such as dll, dir, fae, msil, xsd and many other obscure formats that do not remotely resemble your text, word, wmv video or music mp3 files. That’s because these files are being interpreted with a higher level language than binary code.

In reality all of your data is stored on your computer on the drive and in “stasis” inside many of your motherboard chips in binary format - 0 and 1 corresponding to On and Off.

Before we move too fast, a quick reminder, your computer does not shuffle data, images or video. All it does is process, manage, output and repackage electric currents in microvolts. That’s all it does. Your drive does not store binary code nor Zeroes and Ones - none whatsoever.

Huh what? But you just said? We never said it did, we echoed the often stated abbreviation from the pros.