# Seagate Technology

> Seagate Technology is a publicly traded storage company whose core business is designing and manufacturing hard disk drives, especially high-capacity models used by hyperscale cloud providers and enterprises. Its portfolio stretches from Exos data-center drives and Mozaic HAMR technology to IronWolf NAS, SkyHawk video, BarraCuda and FireCuda consumer products, LaCie creative storage, enterprise systems, Lyve data-transfer services, and S3-compatible Lyve Cloud object storage. Seagate earns most of its money by selling storage hardware through large customers, OEMs, distributors, retailers, and direct channels, with services adding a smaller capacity-based recurring-revenue layer.

- **Founded:** 1979
- **Headquarters:** Fremont, United States
- **Founders:** Alan Shugart (Co-founder), Tom Mitchell (Co-founder), Doug Mahon (Co-founder), Finis Conner (Co-founder), Syed Iftikar (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** More than 30,000 employees
- **Products:** Exos and Mozaic enterprise hard drives, IronWolf and IronWolf Pro, SkyHawk and SkyHawk AI, BarraCuda, FireCuda and Game Drive, LaCie creative storage
- **Notable:** Introduced the first 5.25-inch hard drive for personal computers in 1980., BarraCuda became the first 7,200 RPM hard drive in 1991., Introduced the industry's first 10,000 RPM Cheetah drive in 1996.

## Products & services

- **Exos and Mozaic enterprise hard drives** — High-capacity nearline HDDs for hyperscale cloud and enterprise data centers; the HAMR-based Mozaic 4+ platform supports drives up to 44TB for qualified hyperscale customers.
- **IronWolf and IronWolf Pro** — NAS-optimized hard drives for small businesses, creative teams and enterprise network storage, with vibration management and drive-health features.
- **SkyHawk and SkyHawk AI** — Video-optimized drives engineered for continuous surveillance recording and AI-enabled network video recorders.
- **BarraCuda, FireCuda and Game Drive** — Internal and external consumer storage for PCs, gaming libraries, backup and expansion, including licensed console accessories.
- **LaCie creative storage** — Premium portable, desktop and RAID storage aimed at photographers, filmmakers and other media professionals.
- **Seagate Systems** — Rack-scale storage systems including Exos and Corvault arrays for enterprise data centers.
- **Lyve Mobile and Data Transfer Services** — Rugged, high-capacity devices and managed services for moving large datasets from edge locations to data centers or clouds.
- **Lyve Cloud** — S3-compatible object storage sold on capacity-based monthly or reserved plans, with standard and infrequent-access tiers and no separate egress or API fees.
- **Rescue Data Recovery Services** — Recovery coverage and laboratory services bundled with selected drives or sold to help retrieve data from failed storage devices.
- **openSeaChest** — An open-source suite of cross-platform command-line utilities for drive health, diagnostics, configuration, firmware and secure erase.

## Achievements

- Introduced the first 5.25-inch hard drive for personal computers in 1980.
- BarraCuda became the first 7,200 RPM hard drive in 1991.
- Introduced the industry's first 10,000 RPM Cheetah drive in 1996.
- Demonstrated areal density of one terabit per square inch using HAMR in 2012.
- Shipped more than one million Mozaic HAMR drives by 2025.
- Qualified Mozaic 4+ drives up to 44TB with two leading hyperscale cloud providers in 2026.
- Held 3,703 active U.S. patents, including 592 active U.S. HAMR patents, in the company's latest published statistics.
- Produced 550 exabytes of storage in calendar 2024.
- Generated $12.195 billion in fiscal 2026 revenue, up from $9.097 billion in fiscal 2025.
- Extended the lives of approximately 1.52 million HDDs and SSDs through circularity programs in FY2025, avoiding more than 700 metric tons of e-waste.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Reported fiscal 2026 revenue of $12.195 billion and fourth-quarter revenue of $3.629 billion, driven by cloud data-center demand.
- **2026-06** — Announced the redemption of exchangeable notes as part of continued balance-sheet management.
- **2026-04** — Introduced refreshed One Touch, FireCuda X Vault and LaCie 8big Pro5 products for backup, gaming and AI-assisted creative workflows.
- **2026-04** — Reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $3.112 billion, a 46.5% GAAP gross margin and $953 million in free cash flow.
- **2026-03** — Announced Mozaic 4+ qualification and volume production with two hyperscale cloud providers at capacities up to 44TB.
- **2026-01** — Began global channel and retail shipment of 32TB Exos, SkyHawk AI and IronWolf Pro CMR drives.
- **2025-10** — Relaunched its global partner program with tiers, training, deal registration and market-development support.
- **2025-06** — Introduced a 4TB Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S.

## Links

- Website: https://www.seagate.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seagate-technology
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/SEAGATE
- GitHub: https://github.com/Seagate
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/SeagateTechnology
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seagate/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seagate

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