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Seagate wants to turbocharge the hard drive, with a big, pricy catch

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An enormous hard drive. A speedy cache. Storage makers have tried to deliver the best of both worlds to content creators for years now, and Seagate’s Alkemi platform is the latest attempt to provide creators what they’ve been asking for. But there’s a catch. Seagate’s 8TB and 20TB FireCuda Forge external drives are the first to use the Alkemi platform, which combines a traditional “cold” storage drive with a “hot” SSD. But Seagate isn’t supplying the SSD. You are. Interestingly, the FireCuda Forge drives are external, sitting on your desk. (They measure 9.5 x 5.8 x 2.6 inches and weigh over 4…

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    Seagate wants to turbocharge the hard drive, with a big, pricy catch

    An enormous hard drive. A speedy cache. Storage makers have tried to deliver the best of both worlds to content creators for years now, and Seagate’s Alkemi platform is the latest attempt to provide creators what they’ve been asking for. But there’s a catch. Seagate’s 8TB and...

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