Technologizer

Seagate Plugs Into Pogoplug for FreeAgent Go

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

A few months ago I reviewed Pogoplug, a gizmo that lets you connect USB drives directly to the Internet for access from anywhere. I said the best thing about it was the slick, simple service that let you get to your files from any browser. Seagate seems to like the Pogoplug service, too: It’s announced [...]

Talk About School Gadgets, Win a Half-Terabyte of Portable Storage

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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[UPDATE: The contest is over--thanks to everyone who entered. We'll announce a winner shortly; if you have a comment here, you're in the drawing.] Hey, it’s back-to-school time! I’m just glad I’m not going back to school myself, and I’m kind of amazed that it’s here already–back in the day, I don’t remember school starting until [...]

How’s Your Hard Drive Doing?

Thursday, June 4, 2009

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Hard drives are about as dependable as a teenager promising to come home by midnight. The more you know about your drive–the brand-specific idiosyncrasies and the diagnostic sounds that drives produce–the better prepared you are for the inevitable crash. * Hard Drive Inspector is a handy tool to monitor your drives for spin rate, seek time, [...]

Seagate’s New Drives, and the Resurgence of the Mac Peripheral Market

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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Hard-drive kingpin Seagate announced a refreshed lineup of FreeAgent external hard drives yesterday. The new models offer all the stuff you’d probably guess they would: more capacity at lower prices with a redone industrial design. The company also introduced what is, as far as I know, the first USB dock ever offered for hard drives–an [...]