Seagate Technology will demonstrate new storage technologies at the Intel Developer Forum today from March 7-9, 2006 at San Francisco's Moscone Center, USA. Too bad I'm right now in Netherlands as I would love to give the 2.5-inch Portable External Hard Drive with a wireless USB connection a go.
According to PCMag, the external hard drive was described as a "demonstration," and it was unclear whether the drive would use an external dongle, or whether the technology would be integrated into the printed-circuit-board used by the drive itself.
Seagate will stage the following product and technology demonstrations at IDF:
Visit the Seagate Technology at Booth 549
* Barracuda 7200.9 low power spin-up drive - The industry's only 3.5-inch low-power spin-up disc drive for external storage enclosures. Built with Barracuda's signature reliability, these drives deliver the industry's lowest start-up current to increase system design flexibility and prevent system crashes or other start-up problems caused by the huge power draw when powering up external enclosures.
* Momentus 5400.3 - Designed for mainstream and high-capacity notebook and tablet PCs, the industry's first 2.5-inch disc drive to use perpendicular recording technology and deliver the highest areal density, 132 Gbits per square inch. The drive delivers up to 160GB of capacity, the highest available in a mobile form factor, and industry-leading shock tolerances.
* Momentus 5400 FDE - A hardware-based full disc encryption (FDE) solution that delivers strong protection for data stored on lost or stolen notebook PCs. The 2.5-inch hard drive, which encrypts and decrypts all data at full interface speed, provides advanced security capabilities for enterprise deployments including strong user authentication, instant erase, and key and password management.
* Wireless USB portable external hard drive - Seagate's popular 2.5-inch Portable External Hard Drive with a wireless USB connection. Wireless USB hard drives will eventually recognize any computer using standard wireless USB chipsets for easy file download and backup.
* CE-ATA interface - CE-ATA is the emerging a standard interface standard for new devices integrating 1-inch hard disc drives. CE-ATA uses a highly simplified, efficient command set and physical interface that will make it significantly easier to integrate hard drives into consumer electronics devices such as PDAs and cell phones. Seagate's implementation supports Intel XScale(tm) technology.
* Momentus 7200.1 100GB Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives - The world's first 2.5-inch 7200-rpm notebook drive with 100GB of capacity, the Seagate Momentus 7200.1 SATA hard drive will be shown powering a small form factor media server. Momentus 7200.1 is designed for high-performance laptops such as gaming and media systems and workstations where high data transfer rates are key.
* Momentus 5400 FDE - Seagate and Wave Systems demonstrating notebook PC data protection integrating the Seagate Momentus 5400 FDE drive with Wave's Trusted Drive Manager, a plug-in module to Wave's Embassy Trust Suite. The suite of security tools provides access to the advanced security capabilities of Seagate FDE drives.
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