Seagate Ships World’s Slimmest, Portable, External Hard Drive
05 Aprile 2011 - 1:59PM
Business Wire
Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced the availability of its new
GoFlex® Slim portable hard drive -- a svelte, 9mm, 2.5-inch
external drive designed for the latest trend of portable, thin,
stylish laptops and netbooks. Initially showcased at the 2011
International Consumer Electronics show in January of this year,
the new GoFlex Slim performance drive is now available on
www.seagate.com, in-store and at select online retailers. A 320GB
version of the GoFlex Slim drive can be purchased for a
manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $99.99 USD.
At an ultra-sleek 9mm, the new 320GB
Seagate GoFlex Slim drive is roughly the width of a pencil and is
available now for under $100. (Photo: Business Wire)
At an ultra-sleek 9mm—38 percent leaner than the current GoFlex
ultra-portable drives—the new GoFlex Slim drive is roughly the
width of a pencil. Sliding effortlessly into a pocket, purse or
messenger bag, the GoFlex Slim portable drive enables transport,
access and enjoyment of personal digital content from anywhere,
making it the perfect complement to today’s mobile lifestyle.
Equipped with a 7200RPM drive and a USB3.0 interface to accelerate
transfer speeds up to 10x faster than USB2.0, this attractive
super-slim drive delivers quick access to large, multi-media files
such as HD movies and video games. The faster drive speed takes
full advantage of the included plug-and-play USB 3.0 interface,
while still maintaining compatibility with USB 2.0 ports. The
GoFlex Slim portable drive also allows for use between Windows and
Mac® computers, interchangeably, without formatting or performance
loss. Additionally, the drive’s included premium backup software
provides automatic and continuous backups and encrypts files and
folders.
“The continued growth of personal digital media stores, our
increasingly mobile lifestyles and the continued proliferation of
mobile devices are driving the demand for slimmer, more portable
storage solutions,” said Patrick Connolly, vice president and
general manager of Retail at Seagate. “Netbooks and slim laptops
are great for consuming media, but are limited when it comes to
creating and storing high-definition films and photos. With the
benefit of using Seagate’s Momentus® Thin drive, the 9mm GoFlex®
Slim ultra-portable hard drive breaks through these
boundaries—delivering a beautiful, ultra-slim, lightweight storage
solution to complement existing mobile computing devices so they
can enjoy even more of the content they love, anywhere they
want.”
The GoFlex Slim portable drive will also be available in a
version for use specifically with Mac OS X computers. The GoFlex
Slim for Mac portable drive will be HFS+ formatted out-of-the-box,
making it fully compatible with Apple Time Machine® backup
software, while maintaining the ability to work across both
Microsoft® Windows® and Mac OS X computers. To deliver a fresh look
that fits seamlessly with today’s Apple product line, the GoFlex
Slim for Mac drive will feature a durable, soft-touch, metallic
finish, which is also designed to withstand scratches, fingerprints
or other marks incurred from travel. A 320GB version of the GoFlex
Slim for Mac drive will be made available in May at Apple retail
outlets nationwide for a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of
$99.00 USD.
“Consumers have a desire to have digital content available at
their fingertips. However, in some cases, personal libraries of
digital content are exceeding the storage capacity available in
notebook PCs,” said John Rydning, IDC’s research director for hard
disk drives. “USB attached HDD storage that is capacious,
affordable, lightweight, and in a slim form factor will be
appealing to many of these consumers.”
According to IDC, tablets, mini-laptops and netbooks are largely
seen as secondary PC devices and are primarily used for information
“grazing,” or as vehicles of content consumption. Additionally,
tablets, mini-notebooks and netbooks have very limited on-board
storage requiring them to have access to additional storage,
whether it is local attached, networked or from the cloud1. The
GoFlex Slim and GoFlex Slim for Mac drives enable people to easily
sync files between their computer and the drive, so that they can
easily store, transport and enjoy hundreds of DVD-quality movies,
hours of digital video, and multiple-thousands of photos or digital
music while on-the-go.
About Seagate
Seagate is the worldwide leader in hard disk drives and storage
solutions. Learn more at http://www.seagate.com.
© 2011 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Seagate,
Seagate Technology, the Wave logo, and GoFlex are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or its affiliates
in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks
or registered trademarks are the property of their respective
owners. When referring to drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB,
equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one
thousand billion bytes. Your computer’s operating system may use a
different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In
addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and
other functions and will not be available for data storage. Actual
data rates may vary depending on operating environment and other
factors. The export or re-export of hardware or software containing
encryption may be regulated by the U.S. Department of Commerce,
Bureau of Industry and Security (for more information, visit
www.bis.doc.gov) and controlled for import and use outside of the
U.S. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product
offerings or specifications.
1 “Tablets: The least of HDD Vendors’ Worries,” John Rydning and
David Reinsel, IDC, October 2010.
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