New Seagate 400GB internal, 100GB portable HDs!

[MacHeadCase]

Holy Moly!

Seagate's HD choices has just gotten bigger!

From MacNN:

Seagate debuts 400GB external, 100GB portable drives
Seagate today announced an expanded line of Personal Computing Hard Drives, including new internal and external hard drives with 400GB capacities, a new small footprint portable external hard drive with up to 100GB capacity (due this Fall) and "the world's first pocket external hard drive." The new Barracuda 7200.8 disc drive offers 400GB of storage, a 16MB cache, and a choice of an Ultra ATA interface or native Serial ATA (SATA) interface with native command queuing (NCQ). The new Seagate USB2 Pocket Hard Drive, also due by this Fall, is an ultra-compact USB-compatible 5GB drive built using a "tough-but-cute hard case." The new Seagate External Hard Drive will be on store shelves for the holiday shopping season, while the internal version will ship this Fall.

Whoah!

[diablojota]

That is absolutely amazing!!! Let's hope we see some of those prods in Apple's lineup.

[MacHeadCase]

Well jeez! Those things might just be the right size to fit into our Macs!!!

Picture this:

- What size is your internal HD on your Mac?

- Who me? My little iMac here? The HD capacity is 400GB... But try as hard as I can, I can only put 275GB so far on it. Guess I'll have to try harder!...

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[Mikef]

Slightly puzzled, I've been using external pocket F/W hard drives for a couple of years now. OK they're only 40Gbyte but they do fit in my pocket and don't require an external power supply. AND they're durable and bounce when dropped three feet onto concrete, as I can testify.

I guess these are the first ATA-S pocket hard drives for the dark side - USB drives are ok but a tadge sloooow.

[Mikef]

Did a rummage around the www today - think I see an interesting trend.

Those oldies reading this may recall the days when if you bought a hard disk you bought a SCSI hard disk cos there was nowt else. The along came MS who decided to cut costs and stripped the intellegent controller off and hey presto the IDE drive came into main stream circulation (slower than SCSI but a lot cheaper).
Methinks this is happening again in that the dark side are being offered S-ATA drives as external drives, why bother with the extra expense of a Firewire controller when a S-ATA drive offers the same functionality, is cheaper but probably slower.
When buying most users pay 99% of attention to the cost and 1% to the performance else why would MS be so successful.

Mike

[MacHeadCase]

Darn Mike you're probably right... M$ rides again?

[rparke1]

my hard drive failed and the guy at the store gave me an okay deal on a seagate 100 gig for my tipbg4.
OMG, i know it seems crazy but my pb seems faster than it already was,
only thing, after all the partioning, it gets down to 93 gigs, not that im complaining though

[Mongoose961]

How hard was it to upgrade? I am thinking about doing the same (once my applecare up) to my iBook G4 1.2. I too do alot with music and photos. I have looked at all the books and it doesn't look that hard but as luck would have it I would end up with a paperweight if I tried.

[rparke1]

here is a link to the page that i found for hard drive replacement for the powerbook, im not sure how differant the inards are for the pb and ibook, but if this helps, good :-)

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/powerbook...d_upgrade.html

(ps)
i didnt instal the new hard drive, the guy at the store did.

alex

[zenipeeks]

Nice wallpaper. POTC is one of my favorite movies too. I almost saw the movie 3 times in theaters and bought it right when it came out. Have you heard that theyre making 2 already?

[nana]

It' S Very Nice!