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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.
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.
Charge my batteries, Hal.
I'm sorry, I can't do that DAVE.
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.