Ford and General Motors may have the headlines now, but the recession has hit tech almost as hard. Among the recent losers:

Now you can add hard drive maker Seagate (NYSE:STX) to the list. At this week's Barclays 2008 Global Technology Conference, executives lowered fourth-quarter revenue guidance to $2.3 to $2.6 billion. Seagate had previously expected $2.85 billion to $3.05 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Reuters, meanwhile, says that Seagate will shutter some facilities for the holidays to save money. CEO Bill Watkins didn't try to spin the news. "We actually had a pretty decent October and we started seeing the pullback about in the second week of November," Watkins said. "There is a lot of fear out there. I don't think anyone is very comfortable about where they are."

And yet our 120,000-strong Motley Fool CAPS community is comfortable betting on Seagate:

Metric

Seagate

CAPS stars (5 max)

*****

Total ratings

852

Bullish ratings

810

Percent Bulls

95.1%

Bearish ratings

42

Percent Bears

4.9%

Bullish pitches

142

Bearish pitches

5

Note: Data current as of Dec. 11, 2008.

"Seagate is down and disk drives have lost favor. Seagate is so savvy that when Flash equals or overtakes hard drives -- Seagate will acquire one or more of the ailing flash players and win," wrote CAPS All-Star GreatDruid last week.

I'll add that, judging by its historic levels of free cash flow, Seagate should be able to sustain its 9.40% dividend yield, offering a rare margin of safety to tech investors who've become used to cold comfort.

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