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."

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Re:Battery powered hard drive?

[suv4x4]

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.

Solid State Drives?

[Jennifer York]

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

Re:Solid State Drives?

[epiphani]

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.

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.

yessydO ecapS A : 1002

[BrunoBigfoot]

Charge my batteries, Hal.

I'm sorry, I can't do that DAVE.

Re:Battery powered hard drive?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes. We were all expecting some long freaky story about a bizarre sexual experience.

The New Stuff I'm waiting for

[LS]

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

Re:Battery powered hard drive?

[PopeRatzo]

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?