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Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

astagarat — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:54:45 EDT

Ummm...$200 ? And it has no video, no audio and it might go dead unless I recharge it?
No thanks, dudes. I've got an iPod with video, audio and 30Gb for a smidge more than DAVE.
Oh, and the one cool thing might be to be able to dump your camera onto it, but my CF is 4Gb and I also have a USB adapter for my iPod for more storage. So....why, why, why???

astagarat

Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

EQC — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:28:46 EST

Well, considering I can get a 16GB flash-based USB thumb-drive for just a hair over $200 on NewEgg, I think the hard drive in this is already pretty close to being obsolete. Flash drives seem to be getting bigger/cheaper faster than hard drives right now, so I'd imagine there'll be a $200 32GB flash-based thumb-drive sooner than a similar hard-drive based model.

EQC

Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

1of3Stooges — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:23:18 EST

HAL: I'm sorry DAVE, you are neat but will be obsolete

1of3Stooges

Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

joshw27 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:53:05 EST

This device is the same as Bluonyx by Agere Systems.

joshw27

Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

kludgist — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:11:14 EST

Remember when Intel (IIRC) was pushing their wireless Personal Area Networking (PAN)? This is just the (really small) fileserver for it.

Personally, I'd want something like this but with flash slots- say a CF and SD (SDHC) or two. That way I can have all my preferences around (bookmarks, Outlook folders, other documents, etc.) available on whatever computer I walk up to.

Yeah, data security becomes an issue...

kludgist

Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

ideaman2020 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:57:19 EST

I would say this is hardly ground-breaking.

My Creative Zen Sleek has a 20GB hard drive and it only measures 2.3" x 3.9" 0.63"...

[Yeah, no BT or wifi, but hey, man, it's older, too, ya know...]

ideaman2020

Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

FrankenPC — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:25:36 EST

I'm no camera man...but put the GUY IN FRAME!

FrankenPC

Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

gregero — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:07:45 EST

@ huygir

You don't see any value in a wireless portable HD in a small form factor?

The main issue is while its a cool little device, it will be obsolete as soon as all the next gen portable media devices start to do the same thing.

gregero

Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

georgi55 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:07:27 EST

Scobleizer, that would be fine if I'm at home on my 15mbps connection but I'm at work on overloaded single T1 line; the only thing we can get out here other than dial up.

georgi55

Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

Aberracus — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:29:27 EST

This thing is perfect as iPhone companion, you can have it in your pocket and wifi or bluetooth connected with the phone to have all your pics and music there......

awesome

Aberracus

Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

huygir — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:28:49 EST

Ok, other than the built-in peer-to-peer sharing, what's the big deal here (considering I'm already carrying around a 60GB iPod that looks to be about the same size)?

Sales pitch was WAY too long - couldn't watch it all - they need to learn that the market they are after also has a very short attention span for anything other than music, video and electronic social interaction.

huygir

Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

Scobleizer — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:55:45 EST

Georgi: the video player has a little bar that lets you scrub through the video (move forward through it). Click on that little bar and drag it forward. Stop when you see an image of the product.

There's a good shot at about 3:20 into the video with it next to a dollar bill.

Scobleizer

Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

MosH8ed — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:55:24 EST

OMG mrwolf710 I was going to reference the same exact Farley quote even before I read your comment! That's F-ing freaky man!

"So, remember when you said, 'The love you take, is equal to the love you make?' Is that true?"
-Chris Farley

Scoble = Farley - Coke - Innate Sense of Humor

MosH8ed

Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

georgi55 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:28:15 EST

Talk about bad video taping, 2 minutes in the video and the still haven't shot the damn thing close up, just the Seagate guy waving it so you only get 1 second of viewing it. I give up.

georgi55

Seagate D.A.V.E.: Tiny Hard Drive packs 20GB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

mrwolf710 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:00:15 EST

Does Soble remind anyone else of Chris Farley's character from SNL where he'd interview people like Paul McCartney and say "hey, re-remember when you were in the Beatles? that was awesome!".

mrwolf710