You can blame taxes for a profit nosedive, but Seagate... the taxman didn't flatten your sales Seagate reported essentially flat revenues and a fall in profits in its disappointing second fiscal 2018 quarter. Revenues in the three months to December 29, 2017, were $2.9bn compared to $2.89bn a year ago, and $2.63bn in the also-disappointing prior quarter. GAAP net income was $159m, compared to $297m a year ago, a 47 per …
No one wants those old rust disks anymore. But I just bought one for this PC. It was cheaper than getting a SSD. I bought a Seagate HDD too. It is pretty fast for a mechanical disk. I'm getting over 200 MB/S out of it.
# hdparm -tT /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
Timing cached reads: 26068 MB in 2.00 seconds = 13045.46 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 626 MB in 3.01 seconds = 208.20 MB/sec
It is a ST1000DM010-2EP102
So $50 for a TB of storage, what the hey? Down the road someday I'll get one of them fancy SSDs. But it better be a lot faster than the rust I'm spinning now is.
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