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Seagate and Maxtor Show Off New Stuff To Bloggers
Doggie Fizzle writes "Seagate held an event for bloggers and other media in the NYC area yesterday and rolled out some of their new items for show and tell. DAVE, the battery powered portable hard drive for WiFi/Bluetooth phones was being demoed. Some of the new FDE series of laptop and desktop drives with full (hardware based) disk encryption were on hand. And Maxtor's fourth generation of OneTouch external drives were on display and available to take home."
No risk of data corruption if you forget to charge it or otherwise let the battery run low, eh?
Naw. Not at all...
Still, a cool idea, I suppose. But another device to carry around with you; unless you leave it in the glove box (can it run on a DC supply?) and, perhaps, use your phone (with the, perhaps built-in, FM transmitter) as an audio headend in the car.
Sorry for the run-on and any grammar issues. Actually, I'm not. It happens. Deal. And no, I did not RTFA; as I've said alot lately, I'm not that new here.
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What is their timetable for solid state disks? I'm really hoping my next laptop has no moving parts...
Dominant Meme
Charge my batteries, Hal.
I'm sorry, I can't do that DAVE.
Sorry, it's called exhibition or demo or trade show, but no way in hell its an "event for bloggers".
or am I the only person who is suddenly reminded of M$ Bob.
But does it run Linux? Err wait. Yes, it does......
All 2001 jokes aside... seriously. When can I purchase a DAVE? Either from Seagate or from whatever branding company contract they have set up. Jeeze, I want some awesome bluetooth storage for my Nokia 770! I can store lots of music and video and stuff, perfect for when I travel. I did some searching and couldn't find anything related for sale... Stop showing it off and start selling it!
Just sell it to me already! I can't even get one of those BluOnyx things yet either.
Hopefully, somebody will respond by saying "Hey, you can buy one here" and I can go on with being modded down.
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't
I already store music, photos and critical reference files on my phone using SD MMC memory cards and a USB adapter to fill up the cards. The capacities seem to get bigger every time I walk in to the store. (Okay, like many slash-dotters, I don't get out much)
DAVE sounds awefully like a Digital Wallet which I had several years ago. It had a PCMCIA interface for you to plug cards into, but it was incredibly useful. It used Firewire for connection to the PC so was very fast too (faster than DAVE, probably). It was only 6GB though.
:| Is it still around?
:(
I guess that was ahead of it's time. It worked wonderfully for me.
IIRC, it was produced by a company called "Minds At Work" - which seems to be http://www.mindsatwork.net/, but it isn't loading for me (I'm in China, so it's not unusual)
Ah, here's DPReview's page on it : http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/digitalwallet/
It's a shame when good products don't make it, only to be successful later for some other company
Max.
is reliable drives. Most HDs are garbage now. I don't have any statistics to back this up, but the quality of drives seems to have gone down in the last few years. I don't expect hard drives to last more than 2 or 3 years now. How about working on the quality of your 3.5" magnetic drives, instead of putting all your effort into hype-filled cell phone external bullshit drives, you assholes. Tons of people have lost so much valuable personal and commercial data. Anyone who's gone through a failure without any backups knows the sickening feeling, and it can actually send people into depression. I'm wondering if anyone has actually committed suicide because some fucking suit over at Maxtor decided to sacrifice quality for for a few cents in manufacturing and QA costs.
LS
There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
These drives are the devil.
I bought one. It exploded spectaculally. I rang 'Maxtor' [ie Seagate] - they didn't want to have anything to do with it.
3k in data recovery later. This seems to be a common scenario, I know of two others failing on friends - just google.
This may not be the case for all of their drives - but 'Buyer Beware'
OK, Seagate has announced (again) that they'll have full disk encryption. The last vaporware announcement went nowhere and, in the interim, I chose to use Flagstone drives when I needed full disk encryption in hardware.
Now, just maybe Seagate is going to produce a real product that I can buy. Does anyone want to take a stab at comparing/contrasting the tech used by Seagate and Stonewood? The biggest desktop Flagstone drive is 80 gigs and I'd love to have something as trustworthy in a larger size.
A buying decision is coming up again for me quite soon. This time, I hope I'll have some choice.
Just curious as to the view of /.ers..
I use TrueCrypt quite a bit and, generally, love it. I store a VM inside a TrueCrypt volume (using twofish encryption) and notice practically no slowdown in performance. Backing up volumes, drives, etc, is as simple as copying a big file elsewhere. Mounting this volume is done via keystroke shortcut. enter my 15 char password, and blammo, it's up and running.
With hardware encryption I would have to fall back on utilizing software encryption for any network backups that place the data beyond the scope of the hardware encryption (the local drive).
The only advantage I can see with on-disk hw encryption is that your swap file gets mangled with everything else.
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I for one welcome our new battery-powered bluetooth enabled overlords.
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