Thailand, which is responsible for a quarter of the world’s hard drive production, has been devastated by a series of floods. As a result, hard drives from manufacturers like Western Digital, Toshiba, Seagate, and Samsung have seen more than 200% increase in prices.

Seagate has tried to merge a SSD and a traditional hard disk into one with the Seagate Momentus XT. The Seagate Momentus XT has a 2.5-inch form factor, and will feature 32Mb of DRAM cache. Seagate calls the Momentus XT a “Solid State Hybrid Drive”.

Seagate – one of the world’s most popular Hard disk manufacturer – has confirmed that they are working on a 3 TB drive. According to Seagate, they will be “announcing a 3TB drive later this year

Seagate – a popular hard disk manufacturer – just launched the FreeAgent GoFlex series of external hard drives. The FreeAgent GoFlex series of external hard disks can connect to various ports like USB 2.0, USB 3.0, Firewire 400/800, and eSATA.