http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/ Engadget Comments for Seagate ships first 3.5-inch perpendicular drive http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/Apr 18th 2006 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/Apr 18th 2006 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/Apr 18th 2006 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/100GB 2.5" portable usb drive, then they started making amazing-but-too-small-capacity 1" ipod drives, after which they jumped straight upto too-large-to-power from USB 3.5".

Someone wake me when they get to the right size, for me.]]>Apr 18th 2006 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/Apr 18th 2006 1:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/Apr 18th 2006 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/
Andrew]]>Apr 18th 2006 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/Apr 18th 2006 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/Apr 18th 2006 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/
You guys realise this was meant for SERVERS, rights?]]>Apr 18th 2006 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/Apr 18th 2006 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/Apr 18th 2006 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/
My head is spinning here. Somebody explain to me why if... OK say you're a drive manufacturer and you come out with a process that enables you to fit more bits on a drive platter. Here's what I want to know: Why would you then screw around for the next year with said technology and make your tiny drives a tiny bit bigger or make your server drives (that count for another small slice of business) bigger, when what you could be doing is MAKING LARGER CAPACITY CONSUMER DRIVES AT A LOWER COST AND LAUGHING AS THE OTHER COMPANIES' SALES FALL OFF LIKE A PROM DRESS?

Now, I'm not one to armchair CEO but these guys are sitting on a gold mine and it's frustrating to watch them squander it.
]]>Apr 18th 2006 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/#14 - perhaps the technology isn't perfected to the point that mass production for consumer consumption is economically viable. Server purchases are driven by performance, where average consumer purchases are driven by space/cost ratio. After they improve the production process from correcting the mistakes made in this server oriented line they'll be able make a cheaper variant, but that's no guarantee that it will be cheap enough for the average Joe.]]>Apr 18th 2006 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/Apr 18th 2006 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/
My guess is they cater to the enterprise market first because the margins are higher (when it's the company that pays, purchasers tend to me a little more lenient) and they can get to their ROI breakeven faster than the low-margin pissing contests in the retail market.]]>Apr 18th 2006 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/17/seagate-ships-first-3-5-inch-perpendicular-drive/a brutal 1 MB per second writes and 2500$
price tags.
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