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Blogging New York Times: External Hard Drives

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Does your external hard drive need to be beautiful? The New York Times says yes, and highlights the growing trend of designing attractive computer products that we want in our home. The premise is simple, a hard drive is a hard drive. Therefore, a key way for manufacturers to differentiate themselves is to design a prettier hard drive. That's good news for us, as we are quickly gaining lots of design choices to back up our data.

The article contradicts it's design focus, however, when discussing "Dave" a new hard drive from Seagate offering 20GB of storage that is the size of a cell phone. Size, too, can differentiate a drive. Personally we'd rather have something that took up less space, than a big box that is a tasteful color.

Regardless, we like the idea that technology manufacturers are following Apple's lead and thinking about how things will look. Especially in a market where we have a lot of product options, it's good to know we can find something that fits our needs and our style.

 
 

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I'm hohum re: D.A.V.E. 20 G @$200.00. Why not just get an iPod and use it as an external drive? You can store anything on it and at the end of the day it's an iPod...

posted by ebrown on March 28th 2007 at 10:29am
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Good point, but the bluetooth/wireless functionality makes it a bit cooler. But then again, how often would you actually need it? I'm a sucker for bluetooth though...

posted by Kelly on March 28th 2007 at 3:50pm
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I thought bluetooth was all that. Used it sincing my pda, my phone, and my computer. Rarely use it for tha anymore. However, I am considering a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for my new iMac. Of course, the new iPhone may make bluetooth more desirable for me in the future.

posted by ebrown on March 28th 2007 at 5:27pm
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