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."

Comments

Re:Battery powered hard drive?

[QMalcolm]

It won't be perfect in its first generation but I think tech like this is eventually going to take off. People want convergence (look at the iPhone), but they also don't like all their gadgets being locked in. Imagine having a small wireless hard drive that stored your email contacts, phone numbers, music collection, etc. Your Ipod gets your music, your phone can browse your numbers (and you'd never have to delete voicemail, it could just be stored on the disk). There'd be tons and tons of cool uses for something like this once it matures.

Re:Solid State Drives?

[maxume]

If it isn't a problem for your wallet, the future is now:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000927.h tml

Digital Wallet anyone?

[dwater]

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.

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) :| Is it still around?

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 :(

Results 1 of 1,530,000 for onetouch problems

[Archon-X]

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'

Re:Battery powered hard drive?

[Intron]

"No risk of data corruption if you forget to charge it or otherwise let the battery run low, eh?"
Seagate DAVE is conventional rotating disk, it's not volatile storage. Circuitry for shutting off writes during power-up and power-down is standard on hard disks and flash drives.