Seagate, Western Digital shift Hard-Drive Order
Seagate and Western Digital both detailed modifications in their external hard-drive lineups. New external hard drives up to 1TB have been annunciated by Seagate and Western Digital. Seagate’s FreeAgent Go drives have an optional docking base in capacities up to 500GB, and the Xtreme drive tenders 3GB per second transfers. Western Digital’s Passport drives have up to 500GB in two versions with a software capacity gauge.
Western Digital’s announcement centered a new 500GB drive in two flavours - the Passport Elite and the Passport Essential. According to Western Digital, the Essential drives come in 11 colors and weighs in at seven ounces. The Elite drives come in four soft-touch completes and include software to help guarantee file sharing and channel on MioNet-enabled PCs. The drive also includes a software capacity gauge, so users can easily watch how flooded the drive is.