#seagate security

This month marks Seagate's first ever Security Forum held at the Fairmont Hotel in Makati City. This was participated by Seagate's industry partners in security market as well as government agencies like the MMDA. There are a lot of security threats that face the Philippines but cyber-threats and data security are among the ones that do not attract a lot of attention and concern. This hybrid drive by Seagate looks interesting -- it combines the large capacity of regular HDDs as well as the affordability together with the performance of fast SSDs. The Seagate Momentus XT comes in 500GB capacity with a 4GB SSD integrated with it (that's where the hybrid comes in). Seagate Momentus XT 500GB (ST95005620AS) 500GB HDD 4GB solid state SLC NAND flash storage SATA 3Gb/s 32MB cache 7200 rpm (spin speed) 300MB/s transfer speed The drive monitors which applications or files are frequently used or accessed by the system and it stores them in the 4GB NAND flash storage for better performance. Read more in our articles including "Seagate hosts Security Forum" and "Seagate Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drive".