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Seagate and Maxtor Show Off New Stuff To Bloggers

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hot-platters dept.

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."

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  1. Solid State Drives? by Jennifer+York · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is their timetable for solid state disks? I'm really hoping my next laptop has no moving parts...

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    1. Re:Solid State Drives? by epiphani · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Agreed, I don't really care about much else out of storage vendors these days either.

      I want cheep, fast solid state. I don't care how big it is as long as it will plug into a sata or scsi slot and is at least 16 gigs. I can get huge magnetic drives for my large media; I want power-efficient, quiet and fast.

      I would replace my laptop and all my non-primary-storage server drives with those in a heartbeat.

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  2. Re:Battery powered hard drive? by BronsCon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I forgot to ask. Is it just automatically Offtopic because it was a first post?

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  3. Re:The New Stuff I'm waiting for by TheThiefMaster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, they sacrificed reliability for capacity, speed AND price. People buy as big a drive as they can afford, from of whoever offers the largest, not paying attention to how reliable it is. OEMs are the same. The only people who really care about reliability buy special server/raid class drives, and they really pay for them.

  4. Re:Battery powered hard drive? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People want convergence
    I would settle for it just working.

    Actually, I'm not so crazy about convergence. It wouldn't even occur to me to use my phone to listen to music or watch videos, in fact. Or play games. At most, I want my phone to hold...phone numbers. And addresses, and a simple calendar - maybe.

    And I really don't want convergence into a device that costs a fortune. I use my bicycle a lot more than I use my car, and I know from experience that shit will happen. So my mp3 player is one of those 39 dollar 2 gig Sansdisk iPod killers (Fry's) that won't set me back too far if the headphone cord gets caught on the brake lever and pulls the thing out of my pocket and it bounces off the street and under a bus.

    Actually, this has happened and it's still working. I wonder how an iPhone would have fared?
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