Check it out at my new digs on seagate.com!
Yes, I’m moving on up to a better place in the Mother Ship.
Storage Effect’s location is changing, but not the content. Expect to see more of the same, including the first installment of the continuing saga of my frozen Seagate FreeAgent Go portable drive.
The new url is http://media.seagate.com/center/storage-effect . Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed for the new page.
Hope to see you there soon!
Categories: Random
Tagged: disk drive, FreeAgent Go, frozen, Ice rink, Pete Steege, Seagate, storage effect
BusinessWeek says it’s stylish, affordable, and simple to use
Simplicity stands out in BusinessWeek’s review of the Seagate FreeAgent Go. So true! The biggest challenge with consumer technology in general remains its ability to be used by normal people.
As digital content moves into every corner of our lives, the winning products will be those that meet us where we are, and don’t try to turn us all into techno geeks.
Categories: Backup · Digital Home · Products
Tagged: BusinessWeek, christmas gift, FreeAgent Go, portable storage, review, Seagate
Could technology be moving beyond Geek Chic?
We’ve all seen quirky thumb drives that turn heads. But there are signs that storage and technology in general are moving into the fashion mainstream.
The Bejing Times recently reported on a fashion show at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology that presented outfits inspired by technology accessories. From the caption: “Designer Lyla introduced her designs based on Seagate’s fashionable digital products.”
Is technology fashion moving beyond Geek Chic? Not for a geezer like me. But my 20ish neices carry their cell phones like my mom carried lipstick.
UPDATE: more photos from the event here.
Categories: Random
Tagged: Beijing, Beijing Institue for Fashion Technology, China, fashion, FreeAgent Go, storage, thumb drive
Seagate recently launched two portable drives with very different personalities. Why? One size no longer fits all. But which drive is right for you?
Seagate FreeAgent Go - a great personal drive. It’s the thinnest portable drive in the world, with up to 500 GB and a desktop dock.
I use the FreeAgent Go for my personal data. I can drop the Go into a dock at work and easily use the files on my work PC. I don’t have to mix my personal and work content, but have access to both.
Maxtor BlackArmor – a great business drive. It’s the safest drive in the world, with government-grade 128-bit AES encryption and up to 320 GB.
I use the BlackArmor for backing up my work files. I keep it at home as a simple disaster recovery scheme. There is absolutely no risk of anyone accessing the data without the password, even if it were to fall out of my bag at a hacker’s convention.
Take your pick!
Categories: Backup · Data Security · Digital Home · Products · Video blog
Tagged: 320 GB, 500 GB, Backup, BlackArmor, encryption, FreeAgent Go, Maxtor, portable storage, Seagate
Get your storage on in 11 colors - straight from Seagate
The new Seagate FreeAgent Go from Seagate has been widely available in four colors.
Now Seagate has expanded the patette to 11 colors – available exclusively on Seagate’s website.
Not a revolutionary thing, but a big step for Seagate. Consumers want choice and convenience, no matter how technical the product’s innards.
Storage can be fun!
Categories: Digital Home · Products
Tagged: colors, FreeAgent Go, portable storage, Seagate, seagate.com
For me it’s 1.2 terabytes
In previous posts I’ve added up the storage in my home office and my living room. Now it’s time to go to work:
My first blog post a year ago was about my full drive on my work PC. Since then I’ve expanded to 100 gigabytes. Nothing like my home PC, but work space requirements tend to be lower.
I’m in the midst of changing my backup method from a local desktop backup drive to a BlackArmor portable drive. It allows me to backup my work remotely. It’s got Seagate Secure technology, which means it’s hackproof – no worries about losing sensitive information.
I expect my next laptop to have a Seagate Secure encrypted drive inside as well.
Someday it will be considered stupid – and maybe illegal – to use a hard drive that’s not self-encrypting in a business PC.
Categories: Backup · Business Solutions · Desktop · Laptop PC · Video blog
Tagged: 1 TB, 500 GB, Backup, BlackArmor, cubicle, FreeAgent Go, laptop, Maxtor, notebook, office, Seagate, storage
From under a pound to 300,000 pounds, depending on your media
In the video, I was off by a factor of ten on the height of the one terabyte stack of paper: it would be about 2 1/2 miles tall.
You might wonder what a terabyte will weigh in ten years. Answer: it won’t matter. You’ll want to know what a petabyte weighs by then.
Categories: Backup · Digital Home · Industry trends
Tagged: 3.5" floppy, CD, DVD, FreeAgent, FreeAgent Go, paper, petabyte, storage, terabyte, video, weight
Style, performance and desktop dock made it their #1 portable drive choice
PC Magazine covered some new ground in their review of Seagate’s FreeAgent Go. Excerpts:
The Seagate FreeAgent Go (500GB) is the portable hard drive to beat. Its innovative dock, stylish design, generous five-year warranty, and included software give you just about all you need from a portable external drive.
Let’s hear from owners this drive. What do you think?
Categories: Digital Home · Products
Tagged: 500 GB, FreeAgent, FreeAgent Go, PC Magazine, review, Seagate
Seagate’s dockable drive has spawned a new storage category: desktop companion
The Seagate FreeAgent Go is our favorite portable hard drive to date and takes our award for Editors’ Choice. The drive is well designed and fast, and you won’t find a better value for the price.
CNET’s review and video names the Go as their biggest bang for the buck. For me, the dock rocks. It gives the drive a bimodal function: mobile storage (the thinnest drive on the planet) and a desktop drive (up to 500GB – more than enough to act as my PC’s backup drive).
Categories: Digital Home · Products
Tagged: award, CNET, Desktop, dock, Editor's Choice, external storage, FreeAgent Go
500GB and thinner than a piece of toast
Seagate’s new FreeAgent consumer drives have a rockin’ new look and totally revamped innards.
I got my hands on the anorexic 250GB FreeAgent Go, said to be the world’s thinnest. Just how thin is it?
The Go is very easy to use – a big improvement over the original. It took me 3 1/2 minutes to install, and 30 minutes to auto sync it with my My Documents folder (16 gigabytes’ worth).
Other “firsts” for the FreeAgent line:
The dock is the biggest deal, in my opinion. With AutoSync and Auto Backup, I can drop it in the dock at work and at home to keep my data current. This solves a nagging problem for me for my personal content.
The new FreeAgents are available starting today. Let’s hear your experiences with these drives.
Categories: Digital Home · Products · Video blog
Tagged: 500 GB, FreeAgent, FreeAgent Go, Seagate, thin
