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Seagate follows Apple design cues
IMAGES of hard drive makers’ new external line-up have been leaked to Engadget, all with a fruit named company feel to them.
The website has it from a “highly trusted source” that these are the new HDDs to be announced in September. Officially marking that Seagate has finally sold out, by pandering to Jobs' plan for world domination and dropping their own unique design.
To be honest, and we can’t believe we’re actually condoning anything associated with they-who-shall-not-be-named and their dirtymacs, but these do actually look like an improvement on the original.
It’s a distinct shift away from their Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts looking drive that we reviewed last year and can be seen here. With possibilities of more colours being added, much like the Iomega Ego range already has.
These leaked shots appear to be a reworking of Seagate FreeAgent Desktop or Pro and the Go series. No word yet on capacity, although previous models hit max size limit at the time of shipping. So, if continuity is rife 1.5TB HDD could be a nice touch at the launch.
Let’s hope they’ve fixed some of the issues along the way, such as the reported overheating and eSATA dropouts. Seeing as it looks like they’ve sold their collected souls now, perhaps as a trade off we might see a FireWire 800 port thrown in.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious though if the drive comes out NOT being seedymac compatible? Funnily enough, Lucky Goldstar did the exact same thing only last year with the LG External GSA E50N. So it’s not too far off the absurdity list after all. µ
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I'm so sick of this airy-fairy "Mac"-look. A quick viewing of the TV series "U.F.O" or the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" will show how completely lacking in modernity this style is - it's straight from the Sixties. I don't think white plastic goes well with flimsy aluminium; they should have gone with an all-metal design. The more professional-end Mac designs are more appealing to my tastes (just thought i'd add that before I get mown down by a mysterious turtle-necked man riding a segway).
I own a Freeagent and an old One Touch external drive from Seagate, the older drive outperforms the newer one in every respect. It has on on/off button, it powersaves correctly and best of all it actually stacks and doesn't look like a bad turd.
I don't envisage buying anymore Seagate external drives until they sort out their abysmal design practices.
This post sounds typical of The Inquirer, "Officially marking that Seagate has finally sold out, by pandering to Jobs' plan for world domination and dropping their own unique design."
I know most of them "Inquirer Staff" are Linux Hacks but OS X rocks and anyone who has ever used a Mac for any respectable amount of time would agree, unless you are a diehard hack.
Whay in the world a Mac user would want to use some HD backup utility is beyond me.
Open OS X Disk Utility, create a encrypted disk image of your home folder to any external drive large enough to hold the image and you are done with a secure backup. 
Try that natively Linux (with a couple mouse clicks) or Microbloat at all.
I just get a HD housing and slam in my own HD that I want.