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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...
Shit, I knew it we forgot something! Thank you, smart Slashdot reader!
- A Seagate engineer.
Uhhh Bill, this is Jim. yea... that part I was supose to work on never really made it into the final spec's so... he might have a point. -The Other Seagate engineer.
What is their timetable for solid state disks? I'm really hoping my next laptop has no moving parts...
Dominant Meme
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.
I forgot to ask. Is it just automatically Offtopic because it was a first post?
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Charge my batteries, Hal.
I'm sorry, I can't do that DAVE.
Yes. We were all expecting some long freaky story about a bizarre sexual experience.
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'
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?
You are welcome on my lawn.
"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.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.