http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/ Engadget Comments for Ex-Seagate employee claims the company stole MIT research, tried to cover up its tracks http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Someone please shut that company down for good now.
They deserve it.]]>Dec 29th 2009 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Dec 29th 2009 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/
Well with the "gate" suffix built into the name of the company, it is only natural for it to be scandal ridden.]]>Dec 29th 2009 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/
Judge Judy is the Best]]>Dec 29th 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/

better than WD for me... those things die out like flies for me. I still have a 5GB HDD from Seagate that is well over 10 years old and still chugs a long just fine]]>Dec 29th 2009 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/
I'm going to back you up, I've got an ancient segate, still running fine]]>Dec 29th 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/I don't have any experience with Seagate, but I've been using WD drives for years without issue. (This includes both internal and external drives, and a NAS.)]]>Dec 29th 2009 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/I have a 1 TB WD that works great and a 250GB seagate external that runs fine as well. As long as it's not Hitachi. ]]>Dec 29th 2009 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Almost lost 500GB of expensive data due to BrickGate's garbage. Never had any problems with Western Digital's HDDs.
Mechanical drives are nearing their end anyway, and the future belongs to SSDs.]]>Dec 29th 2009 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Call me when I can get a 1 TB SDD for $60 and then we'll talk. As long as HDDs offer a cheaper GB to $1 ratio than SDD then they won't be anywhere near done.]]>Dec 29th 2009 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/What you are saying is true. SSDs are currently too expensive and limited in capacity to be used for storing capacious data. Fortunately the cost of gigabyte for SSDs is decreasing as SSDs become more widespread and their manufacturing becomes cheaper. SSDs are pefect for laptops and hosting the OS and apps, everything else can be placed on a regular HDD.]]>Dec 29th 2009 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Dec 29th 2009 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Dec 29th 2009 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/
"SSDs 4 life" and it is the trouble (or part of the trouble), the life of the ssd.
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I agree. The only winners out of all this will be the lawyers.]]>Dec 29th 2009 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Dec 29th 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/
Both still run, amazingly. I've had more issues with Western Digital and godforsaken Maxtor drives. More drives have failed on me during normal usage under those 2 companies compared to Seagate.

Heck, I still have a Fujitsu 4.3 GB hard drive and it runs better than WD and Maxtor after all these years.]]>Dec 29th 2009 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/
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]]>Dec 29th 2009 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Don't get me started on Maxtor. I've had 4 Maxtor drives and none of them lasted much longer than a year. My seagate drive hasn't given me any trouble.]]>Dec 29th 2009 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Dec 29th 2009 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Dec 29th 2009 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Dec 29th 2009 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/
/Is waiting for SSD prices to drop]]>Dec 29th 2009 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Dec 29th 2009 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Dec 29th 2009 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/
Normally, by the time the original patent holders get paid, their company is long dead and Seagate is sailing sans a little pocket change.]]>Dec 29th 2009 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/
The key here is MIT as co-plaintiff as when-on the rare occasion the Institute sues, it always wins.

Time to sell Seagate short!]]>Dec 29th 2009 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Dec 29th 2009 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Some Seagate (FailGate/BrickGate) models have failure rates as high as 40%, confirmed by a middle-level manager at FailGate.
What comes to SSDs, the new ones are perfectly reliable in the long term. And let's not forget that SSD tech is rapidly evolving.]]>Dec 29th 2009 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Dec 29th 2009 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/
"Convolve has also sued Dell, Hitachi and Western Digital in regard to similar technology. That case is pending in a federal district court in Marshall, Tex."

good luck with that boycott]]>Dec 30th 2009 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/What does pending litigation have to do with a boycott? In any event, I was actually considering buying 1000 put contracts - but only if I could rally support :/]]>Dec 30th 2009 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Dec 30th 2009 2:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/ex-seagate-employee-claims-the-company-stole-mit-research-tried/Dec 30th 2009 5:03PM