Seagate builds porn storage

Author: Wil Harris
Published: 1st December 2006
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Seagate builds porn storage

Porn storage?

Not much of a massive story, but an interesting look at the inside of the technology business world!

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.
Quote sinizterguy 1st December 2006, 11:47
Wonder what new hard drives are coming out in Jan 07 .. I would like to see the price of the current 500GB and 750GB drives dropped.
Quote DougEdey 1st December 2006, 11:55
I want to see the bigger drives drop a lot in price aswell.
Quote lord nicon21 1st December 2006, 11:59
yeah i want the 750 to be 200 or less :| i want 3 of them
Quote Cthippo 1st December 2006, 12:01
Well, what did they THINK we need a 1 TB drive for? :|

I 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.
Quote Mother-Goose 1st December 2006, 12:10
Why not put an ide or sata internal in an external caddy and get some backup software to automatically do it?
Quote Cthippo 1st December 2006, 12:34
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mother-Gooser
Why not put an ide or sata internal in an external caddy and get some backup software to automatically do it?

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.
Quote Iago 1st December 2006, 12:57
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cthippo
Well, what did they THINK we need a 1 TB drive for? :|

I 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.

mmmm....

....Blu-Ray?


/me runs for cover
Quote webbyman 1st December 2006, 13:04
lol, from the title i thought seagate had made a drive which you could competly wipe within a second, emergency porn deltion by a special external button or something :O

still it's basically true what he said... other than the 'buy' bit. ;)
Quote rupbert 1st December 2006, 13:09
Quote:
Originally Posted by sinizterguy
Wonder what new hard drives are coming out in Jan 07 .. I would like to see the price of the current 500GB and 750GB drives dropped.

Expect 1Tb drives to be the standard around march.
Quote Djpuk 1st December 2006, 13:12
You have to admire his honesty, what is next? Michael Dell comes out and says our machines are going dual core so that you can have multiple porn movies running at one time?
Quote _DTM2000_ 1st December 2006, 14:12
Dells are great for porno apparently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQMJv3EDzvY :)
Quote Redbeaver 1st December 2006, 14:14
read the Money article as well. very good read.

i like that guy.

no wonder i have 3 Seagate harddrives on my computer.
Quote specofdust 1st December 2006, 14:15
Heh, it's funny because it's true. Hopefully he'll realise that some of us are still a bit unhappy with the sweetspot being 300/320GB drives and he'll do some work to get that up to 500.
Quote mmorgue 1st December 2006, 14:27
I hope we see a lot of firm growth and solid figures in the hard disk area
Quote DXR_13KE 1st December 2006, 14:39
i hope seagate hard drives don't die so often...... or else you will loose your pron.
Quote dragontail 1st December 2006, 15:24
Quote:
Originally Posted by mmorgue
I hope we see a lot of firm growth and solid figures in the hard disk area
i don't know if to laugh or cry... =P
Quote ch424 1st December 2006, 15:40
Cry.
Quote Veles 1st December 2006, 15:57
I want my water hard drive that can store the entire internets :(
Quote kye 1st December 2006, 16:02
I want my flash drive before vista.
Quote Aankhen 1st December 2006, 21:24
I resent the implication. I filled up nearly a terabyte's worth of hard disks, and had to keep restraining myself from doubling that since I didn't have the space; exactly 0% of that was porn.

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.
Quote DXR_13KE 1st December 2006, 21:47
more than half of the people that have big HDs on they PCs have at least some kind of porn.

all that have porn raise your hands!!!

/me raises hand and looks at the enormous crowd of people with their hands raised.
Quote specofdust 1st December 2006, 21:49
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aankhen
I resent the implication. I filled up nearly a terabyte's worth of hard disks, and had to keep restraining myself from doubling that since I didn't have the space; exactly 0% of that was porn.

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.

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.
Quote Cthippo 1st December 2006, 23:11
Quote:
Originally Posted by specofdust
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>
Quote speedfreek 1st December 2006, 23:25
Its people like this that are in touch with the consumers. :D
Quote HourBeforeDawn 3rd December 2006, 22:12
okay just came across this article and that was great, ya Im hoping for a nice 1tb drive ^^ get a couple of those for my HTPC and I would be a happy camper.
Quote Ryu_ookami 3rd December 2006, 22:52
/me raises hand

thinks

/me raises other hand as well :)
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