Seagate debuts trio of new storage products at CES 2015

[Shawn Knight]

Seagate has descended on the Consumer Electronics Show with a trio of new storage solutions covering multiple market segments.

It starts with Seagate’s new 500GB Wireless drive which, as the name suggests, allows users to expand the storage capacity of their smartphone or tablet wirelessly. Battery life checks in at an impressive nine hours although its use of USB 2.0 means transfers won’t exactly be speedy in nature.

It’ll come in five different colors – green, blue, gray, red and white – starting early next month priced at $130.

In the event you value a compact footprint over wireless accessibility, the aptly-named Seven drive may be more up your alley. Billed as the world’s slimmest portable hard drive at just 7mm thick, it tips the scale at just 0.2 pounds and comes enclosed in an all-steel enclosure.

The 500GB Seven connects via USB 3.0 and even comes with a “premium” braided cable. Best yet, there’s no additional power cable necessary as it draws power from the host device’s USB port. Expect to pay just under $100 for the Seven when it debuts later this month.

Where the two aforementioned drives are primarily aimed at multimedia consumption and sharing on the go, the third – the Seagate Personal Cloud – caters more towards those looking for a home-based solution for the entire family.

The Personal Cloud could be compared to a traditional NAS as it offers a virtual cloud storage solution locally. In addition to storage and automated backup duties, users can stream content to mobile devices, PCs, game consoles or televisions using the Seagate Media application.

Seagate’s home cloud solution will be available in single and dual-bay configurations with storage capacity ranging from 3TB up to 8TB. Pricing will start at $169 and scale up based on capacity.

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[Kibaruk]

This new offerings sound cool but... How is Seagate doing so far? Last I remember their disks weren't very reliable.

 

[Arris]

This new offerings sound cool but... How is Seagate doing so far? Last I remember their disks weren't very reliable.

They bought out Samsung's HDD division a few years back so might be better now. I loved my Samsung Spinpoint drives, and hope newer Seagates use the tech from them.

 

[Guest]

I have had so many problems with Seagate drives that I refuse to buy anything from them.

 

[Guest]

I ditched Seagate in favor of Western Digital last year not because of Seagate's questionable reliability, but because of the lack of hardware encryption support. Of course, I can always use third-party software encryption (e.g. BitLocker, VeraCrypt) in place of it, but after getting my first taste of hardware encryption utilized by Western Digital, I never want to go back to software encryption which is abysmally slow in comparison.

 

[cliffordcooley]

Battery life checks in at an impressive nine hours although its use of USB 2.0 means transfers won’t exactly be speedy in nature.

USB 3.0 has been out long enough now, there is no excuse not to make all products USB 3.0. I will not buy a device that can use USB 3.0, if it comes with USB 2.0.

I'm tired of manufacturers slowing the adoption rates by continuing to produce old outdated ****.

Edit: Ohh and Seagate is my choice for storage.