Seagate Unveils World's Thinnest 2TB External Drive

[exfileme]

Seagate has updated its Backup Plus Slim external drive portfolio.

Seagate Unveils World's Thinnest 2TB External Drive : Read more

 

[rohitbaran]

Good product, but too pricey for a HDD, especially the 500GB and 1TB versions.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

If you remove the cover, will it fit in the Next-gen consoles?

 

[ralanahm]

I had a similar drive a few ago when the fist 1tb came out and it had no sata connection that part of the drive went strait to usb3.

 

[danwat1234]

So it has 4 platters and is internally a 12.5mm thick drive? Makes sense since drive manufactures has added 1 platter to every thickness form factor (2 platter=7mm, 3 platter =9.5mm, 4 platter12.5mm. I wonder if they'll release an internal version, hopefully as a hybrid drive with 16GB of cache so it can be used as a system drive.

 

[anonymous_user]

So they now have 4TB laptop (portable) drives? Do they sell the internal drive standalone?

 

[10tacle]

This won't be the end of Target/Supertarget. They have great merchandise and some excellent sales. They are a step above Wal Mart/Super Wal Mart. Their stores are cleaner (notice the shiny floors in Target vs. dull and dirty floors at Wally World) and more organized and tidy (Wally World shelves and merchandise presentation look like a rummage sale). With that said, I will not be shopping there again until full confidence is restored in their security. I missed this hack by just three days (IF the starting date of 11/27 is accurate even).

 

[10tacle]

Whoops how did my Target post wind up here? The website timed out when making a post on this Seagate drive and this posted instead?? WTH? Anyway I just purchased a 2TB Seagate Backup Plus 3.0 and would not pay double for the convenience of no power brick and a slimmer design. This design is essentially for portable purposes.

 

[firefoxx04]

Its not that much smaller than my WD but its over twice the price. I prefer seagate personally but damn.

 

[hitman40]

@10tacle, uh, any external HDD is designed for portability. That is why it is external. You expand your desktop's HDD by adding more internal drives, and if you are talking about using an external with an HDD, well then this design is for portability...lol My friend nearly shot himself after he kept having to plug in his HDD at our school.

 

[hitman40]

external with laptop*

 

[10tacle]

@Hitman - uhhh, not everyone wants several HDDs in their PCs, especially those who high overclock like me on air where internal case temps (and airflow) are crucial. Further, the larger capacity external hard drives that use power bricks are not, by definition "portable." They were never intended to be.