Seagate builds porn storage
Porn storage?
CNN Money recently had dinner with the CEO of Seagate, Bill Watkins. Bill heads up the storage company and is a pretty outspoken Texas chap.
The quote of the evening has to be this:
"Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn."
Genius.
Seagate is readying a swathe of new consumer products to be introduced in January 2007, as Watkins tries to position the company as being consumer led - in other notes from the event he displays a clear admiration for Apple, a company notorious for being consumer focused.
It's great to see that Seagate clearly understands its enthusiast customers! Let us know your thoughts on the co's drives over in the forums.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyI wish removable storage would catch up with hard drives though. It's a real pain in the arse to back up 100+ GB of data onto optical media, I don't have any idea about tape drives, and it's a headache. I'm thinking about getting a stand-alone NAS box and putting it out in the shop in case the house burns down.
I looked at that, but it doesn't really solve the problem, or rather it solves a problem I don't feel I have. I'm not too concerned about having the drive go out since it's already a RAID 1 array and the array is on a seperate physical disk than the OS so even if the OS gets borked or one drive dies I should be ok. What I'm more worried about is physical destruction (or theft) of the fileserver and having to reconstruct the data. I suppose I could physically bring a USB external drive to the fileserver periodically and back it up, but I would rather do it automatically.
mmmm....
....Blu-Ray?
/me runs for cover
still it's basically true what he said... other than the 'buy' bit. ;)
Expect 1Tb drives to be the standard around march.
i like that guy.
no wonder i have 3 Seagate harddrives on my computer.
It's not my business whether other people are into porn or not; however, I would appreciate it if they'd refrain from stupid generalizations.
all that have porn raise your hands!!!
/me raises hand and looks at the enormous crowd of people with their hands raised.
I seriously doubt it's a stupid generalisation. It's probably quite true. I don't think you need to worry so much about it, one of the great things us geeks get from being constantly on the net(and IRC, in many cases) is that you kinda get to realise that pron really doesn't matter. Some people horde it, some people don't, whatever, it just doesn't matter. It can become something that isn't a big deal, which is exactly the mature attitude people need to start taking to the stuff.
QFT
<Raises hand proudly>
thinks
/me raises other hand as well :)