Seagate is a manufacturer of hard drives and storage solutions. Seagate's hard drives are used in a variety of computers, from servers, desktops, and laptops, to other consumer devices, such as digital video recorders, video game consoles, and in portable media players and automotive navigation systems. In addition, Seagate designs rugged 2.5-inch hard drives optimized for extreme temperatures, shock and vibration.

Seagate has a history of innovation.  In 1992 they introduced the Barracuda, the industry's first hard disk with a 7200rpm spindle speed. The company followed this with the Cheetah (the first 10,000rpm disk) in 1996 and 2000 saw the introduction of the X15 (15,000rpm). Seagate also introduced the Medalist Pro 7200 range, the first ATA disk with a 7200rpm spindle, in 1997.

In May 2006 Seagate acquired one of its rivals, Maxtor. With the Maxtor acquisition, Seagate significantly increased its scale and expanded its line of retail storage products, tapping the fast-growing home and small-business markets. Seagate's Maxtor OneTouch and FreeAgent line of external hard drives, with storage capacities of up to 1.5TB, are used to store, share, protect and back up digital content like photos, videos, games and music.

With data security becoming a top concern among IT managers, Seagate released a 1TB Barracuda desktop hard drive using government-grade encryption technology (Full Disc Encryption or FDE) in 2007.  Seagate also produced the world's first notebook drive with built-in encryption - the Momentus 5400.4.

Seagate also moved to address another fast-growing market trend, in which corporate data centre managers, faced with soaring energy costs, sought lower-power computing solutions. On June 2, 2008, Seagate announced a 2.5-inch enterprise solution, the Savvio 10K.3 hard drive, which consumed 70 percent less power than traditional 3.5 inch drives and offered 300GB of capacity.

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