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Confirming a channel leak, Seagate has announced a 1TB FreeAgent Go, but said the drive will not be used in its notebook product line. Western Digital announced its 1TB Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch drive recently. Up until now the portable FreeAgent Go products have been limited to 500GB capacity, with their 2-platter, 2.5-inch …

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  1. Alex 26
    FAIL

    Total crap

    These things are completely crap. They sit vertically on a small base so if you don't knock them over your kids will. As soon as the thing hits the table top it's dead and you get a "buzz, humm" on startup. Twice this has happened to me and I have the misfortune to have three of these things. Nightmare - never again Seagate

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  2. Kotonoha
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    @Alex

    Maxtor all the way - I've knocked my external disk about 3 feet to the floor while it was running and it continued to do so happily. :V

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  3. exit...quit...bye...quitbye.ctrl-C..ctrlX.ctrl-alt-X...aarrrr*slam*

    500Gb/Platter...

    ...3 Platters/drive, 25 drives per 2 Rack units... *mumble,scribble* one spare *scribble* 36TBytes raw, deducting raid *scribble* around 15TBytes usable capacity per Unit... times 42.... wooohooo.

    That might not be fast, but for MAID solution... my near-line archiving problems are to be considered "solved".

    I´ll have a pallet of those, please.

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  4. Maryland, USA
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    could be useful in the right external backup drive case

    These might fit the external cases available from Other World Computing's (OWC's) Mercury On the Go portable backup drives; I know that these cases can hold 12.5mm disks; that's how they now are able to be sold with 750GB capcacity:

    http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go

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