Mirror, mirror: Seagate shows off 1TB data shiny at HDD beauty contest For those of us who like to sport Rolex watches and Montblanc pens Seagate’s LaCie unit has a swanky, sexy new desktop drive - the Mirror portable. Inside is a bog-standard 1TB HDD with a USB 3.0 connection. So what right? Yada yada yada. However, outside is an enclosure encased in Corning Gorilla glass resting on a polished …
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Not happy with Seagate drives. They have about the same reliability as Toshiba, namely not high enough.
Seagate bought Samsung's hard drive unit, and any Seagate-badged drive of Samsung design is OK by me. How do you find them, though, sorting them out from the Seagate-designed dross? Samsung drives have always been pretty good after some initial fits and starts back in the early IDE days.
> You can buy a basic 1TB Seagate external drive for $64.99 on Amazon
I assume that's before sales tax and that the tax rate in the US is around 75%, because Seagate are selling the same drive to us in the UK on Amazon for £75. What was the US/UK exchange rate again?
USA adds sales tax of between 0% (Oregon) & 9.45% (Tennessee) at the checkout, making the drive anything from $64.99 to $71.13
UK adds 20% VAT BEFORE the checkout, making the drive $78 (or £51.47 at today's rate), so you're right. It's a 50% markup for good old "Treasure Island"!
>"Why won't my Macbook Air connect to my Seagate Mirror?!?!"
You should have used the LaCie Rugged with integrated thunderbolt.
There I was, by the edge of the ocean, writing about the the old man and the sea, when suddenly a great white whale leaped into the (Macbook) Air and splashed into the sea. An enormous wave rushed up the beach and crashed over me, soaking me. The MBA was a write-off, but my trusty LaCie Rugged RAID array with IP54 waterproofing never let me down!
True Story.
At least as far as laptop drives go, we've had more failures with WD "blue label" and "black label" drives than anything else. Apparently trying to imitate WD, Seagate's "Momentus Thin" line has been pretty lousy as well. Thankfully, we are no longer buying mechanical drives at all for new machines nor replacement drives.
For that price, the "mirror drive" has to have a mechanical HDD inside, and as such I would avoid picking it up like it was a multiple divorcee with a drug habit.
A simple oled display under the glass giving basic info on the drive would be great. Free space, throughput, up time in hours, power save mode, etc.. A mirror? I'm not a girl, and definitely won't be waving a spinning drive in front of my face, while connected to a pc.
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