Hard disk maker Seagate surges 11% after a report it may own billions of dollars worth of Ripple’s XRP cryptocurrency

Markets Insider Shares of Seagate Technologies surged 11% Monday after a Seeking Alpha report suggested the hard-disk and memory card maker could own over $ 7 billion worth of Ripple’s XRP cryptocurrency, which has surged more than 30,000% in recent months. Seagate invested in Ripple’s Series A and B rounds. Ripple, which created the XRP to […]

Intel’s Optane Memory hopes to give your aging hard disk a kick in the pants

Last week, Intel announced the first super-fast Optane drive headed to market, the data-center focused DC P4800X SSD. While the consumer versions of the SSDs won’t be available until later this year, the chip maker has something to tide us over — Intel Optane Memory. These little M.2 form factor drives promise to kick your […]