Pete Steege

Pete Steege

I’m Pete Steege, a Global Segment Manager at Seagate Technology. I’m based in our Shakopee, MN design center.

Looking for connections where they’re least expected is a passion of mine. My curiosity has led me to a variety of roles on three continents working for very large (IBM Corp.) and very small (Optical Specialties Inc.) technology companies – and several sizes in between.

This blog is about storage and its growing value – for those that create it, integrate it, use it. Being employed by Seagate informs my blog, but won’t define it.

Enter the Dragon: Seagate Cheetah 15K.7

Xbit Labs performed the mother of all SAS drive tests.  Seventeen SAS 3.5″ drives run through the gauntlet on performance, capacity, power – you name it.

It’s like Enter the [....]

Two Cheetah 15K.7 drives do the work of ten

The history of the disk drive industry is a long series of relentless “firsts”.  The latest Seagate Cheetah 15k drive stands out as a particularly impressive milestone.

Barefeats was [....]

Four ways enterprise storage looks like Healthcare

Healthcare brings out a lot of passion in people these days. Many of the topics stridently debated are surprisingly relevant to enterprise storage:

Universal coverage

All business data isn’t created equal, but [....]

Seagate SSD JIT

In 1980, many said that IBM was missing the boat in the nascent personal computing market.  The Apple II was selling like hotcakes. Even Radio Shack was beating them with the [....]

Green without the ‘gotcha’

Reducing power consumption in the data center has  moved from a nice-to-have to a necessity.  No surprise that a ‘green’ drive sounds appealing for servers and storage systems.

Drive manufacturers have [....]

All 6Gb/s SAS, all the time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s like HDTV. 

First we had HD televisions without any content.  Then we had some HD broadcasts, and some HD DVDs in the stores.

Then – inflection point! – all the pieces were there.  [....]

Benchmark Reviews: Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 “dominant”

Benchmarkreviews.com has a lot to say about the Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 – - twelve web pages worth.   In sum, they were very impressed.

The Cheetah 15K.7 drive scored 8.75 out of [....]

Avoid data spills with encryption

TechGadgets created an arresting visual image in my mind as they described the problem being solved by Seagate’s new self-encrypting enterprise drives:

“There isn’t an organization, large or small, [....]

Labeling a hard drive “Enterprise” does not make it so

Fast hard drives are not always Enterprise drives, just as high capacity drives can be Enterprise drives under the right circumstances.

What makes a drive an Enterprise drive?

What some [....]

Data center encryption for the masses

Seagate took a big step in the history of disk drives yesterday, although it may take a while for it to be seen as such.

Seagate announced the availability [....]