After having my Maxtor OneTouch III 160GB just die (no noise.. just dead) I am leary about external storage.

I would have done some ‘benchmark’ type stuff before you did it.

Considering I was told that it would be over $1,300 to reclaim the data, I am surprised that seagate isn’t a bit more open about using multiple forms of ‘backup’ and that external drives are best for transfering data between systems and not as a typical single source of backup.

I am now going to use hard drives, Mozy and Jungle Disk/AWS to keep my important data backed up as it is still cheaper than disk recovery. As the saying goes, it isn’t IF you drive will fail, it is WHEN.

Looking forward to seeing the results.. make sure you let it thaw and come up to room temperature before running =)

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Momentus 5400.6 and 7200.4 hard drives are now on track to ship in late January.

Will the new Momentus 7200.4 drives come with the 5 year warranties?

Thank you for your time.

Whether or not it’ll work depends on how it was placed in the ice (i.e. did water get in) and how it’s stored in the ice (i.e. in a waterproof container) and how it’s recovered (i.e. will water get in?) The only other thing besides water damage that I could see is having the cold pop a solder joint. So if it’s in a waterproof container or it’s stored and recovered in a non-water-invasive fashion, then I’d guess it’ll run fine.

If water gets in, that’s another kettle of fish. The I’d bet it’s dead from corrosion.

Call us… we’d love to be there when you power the drive up in the spring.

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Thanks for your post.

This is what I can find on Seagate.com

http://tinyurl.com/6lcwr9

Answer is not real definitive.

Clearly, storage has become a fundamental need in today’s economy.

Wal-mart just announced a 7% increase in revenues for the current quarter over the same period last year. Similar to your McDonald’s analogy, people still need to buy stuff, but they are doing it at Wal-mart instead of the high-priced boutiques.

Keep up the good work,

Wilson

Basically, storage budget is about getting a certain amount of capacity for a certain amount of dollars. For those dollars, you also want performance and features. When budgets are tight, it is true that people’s first reaction might be, okay, now I’ll have to go buy that cheap storage instead of the feature-rich stuff from my current vendor. An alternative, though, is to create that capacity on your feature-rich current vendor’s storage, by making that storage affordable through content-aware compression and deduplication. Most shops will find that they can free up at least half of their existing storage footprint with the use of tools like Ocarina, without taking any hit on performance at all…..and still keep their existing vendors, features, interfaces, and processes the same.
Thanks,
Carter George

What are the system requirements for these drives? Can I slap one into my MacBook Pro? Or is it BIOS and Windows only? Or perhaps it needs a special BIOS?

Thanks!

It’s really nice to see this post, since this is a topic I’ve been following since I wrote about it in Storage Magazine a few years back. My hypothesis then was that 2.5″ drives were too small to make up for the physical size and power required in enterprise storage. Sounds like we were on the same wavelength!

Stephen

Personally, I think micro-transactions are the way to do it. Bling, games, unique features a la carte. Here’s an example: if ringtones are an over 4 billion a year industry, surely they can come up with something that will appeal to their customers.

The FreeAgent Go for Mac is the first external storage device to include a docking station. The FreeAgent Go Dock eliminates the hassle of finding an available port and reaching behind your computer each time you’d like to access your music, photos, videos and other digital stuff. With up to 500 GB of storage, you’ll have enough room for up to 160,000 photos or 120,000 music downloads or 500 Hours of Video.

Regarding the difference between Lacie and Seagate, all of the Seagate FreeAgent drives carry an industry-leading 5-year warranty that you’ll not find with Lacie. You won’t get the convenience of a docking station either.

Alan T.

Thanks for your comment.

We expect the Momentus 5400.6 to be available in early November and the Momentus 7200.4 in mid December.

The information shows these drives to be exceptional performers and better than anything else on the market and I am keen to procur one at the earliest opportunity.

I’m looking forward to seeing what the v2 product looks like, v1 from most start-ups is always disappointing to me, I want every cool feature and function from day one!

Seagate Powers Next Generation Of Computing With Three New Hard Drives, Including World’s First 1.5-Terabyte Desktop PC And Half-Terabyte Notebook PC Hard Drives

I always go back to the idea that if a “Server” was so good at processing IO as a target (rather then initiator), then HDS, IBM, EMC, etc would be running disks behind “Servers” and not purpose built Storage Controllers.

In most cases, Server based solutions, require extra copies of a data set in order to protect from single points of failure (look at LeftHands network raid as an example).

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It’s almost exacly 3″ X 5″, and a half-inch thick. It weighs 5.6 oz. Here’s the details: http://freeagent.seagate.com/en-us/hard-drive/portable-hard-drive/Free-Agent.html

BTW - You have a checkbook? And you carry it around with you? That is so 20th Century!

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