Comments for The Digital Den http://consumer.media.seagate.com Seagate Technology Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:53:12 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Another Great Article on Why You Should Backup Your Hard Drivebackup by Jon Van Bronkhorst http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2009/10/the-digital-den/another-great-article-on-why-you-should-backup-your-hard-drivebackup/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Jon Van Bronkhorst Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:53:12 +0000 http://consumer.media.seagate.com/?p=3649#comment-195 Tom, I have upgraded my own personal system at home to Windows 7 - but it was an easy upgrade since I was on Vista before. See the other comment and reply for some interesting perspective on upgrading from XP to Windows 7 - and keeping your previous version intact and operational. All Seagate FreeAgent products are Windows 7 compatible - you should have no troubles with our products. Thanks! Tom,

I have upgraded my own personal system at home to Windows 7 – but it was an easy upgrade since I was on Vista before. See the other comment and reply for some interesting perspective on upgrading from XP to Windows 7 – and keeping your previous version intact and operational.
All Seagate FreeAgent products are Windows 7 compatible – you should have no troubles with our products.
Thanks!

]]> Comment on Upcoming Windows 7 Release by Jon Van Bronkhorst http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2009/10/the-digital-den/upcoming-windows-7-release/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Jon Van Bronkhorst Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:51:47 +0000 http://consumer.media.seagate.com/?p=3644#comment-194 David, Thanks for the comment. You bring up a great point - there is not a simple path for an XP user to upgrade to Windows 7. Your recommended solution brings a great deal of flexibility to the options that people have when making this upgrade. Having access to virtual machines and versions of operating systems and applications brings powers to the user that we have never had before. Thanks so much for your suggestion. A great use for a Seagate FreeAgent drive! David,
Thanks for the comment. You bring up a great point – there is not a simple path for an XP user to upgrade to Windows 7. Your recommended solution brings a great deal of flexibility to the options that people have when making this upgrade. Having access to virtual machines and versions of operating systems and applications brings powers to the user that we have never had before. Thanks so much for your suggestion. A great use for a Seagate FreeAgent drive!

]]> Comment on Upcoming Windows 7 Release by David Abramowski http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2009/10/the-digital-den/upcoming-windows-7-release/comment-page-1/#comment-192 David Abramowski Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:53:01 +0000 http://consumer.media.seagate.com/?p=3644#comment-192 Thanks for the update on Windows 7 and the availability of Seagate products. There is also a very interesting opportunity here for Seagate & Parallels to help out the XP users while they transition to Windows 7. Since there is only a "clean install option" XP users may lag in upgrading. But with a FreeAgent device & a copy of Parallels Desktop for Windows - the XP users can literally capture their computer as a Virtual Machine on a Seagate drive. Now a notebook becomes a pocketbook! The XP environment is now preserved and applications and user settings are all entact. The user can then install Parallels Desktop on their Windows 7 computer and continue to use the XP applications. It's a simple solution that gives the user the best of both worlds - experience the excitement of Windows 7 while still being able to run/access their Windows XP applications. Thanks for the update on Windows 7 and the availability of Seagate products. There is also a very interesting opportunity here for Seagate & Parallels to help out the XP users while they transition to Windows 7. Since there is only a “clean install option” XP users may lag in upgrading. But with a FreeAgent device & a copy of Parallels Desktop for Windows – the XP users can literally capture their computer as a Virtual Machine on a Seagate drive. Now a notebook becomes a pocketbook! The XP environment is now preserved and applications and user settings are all entact. The user can then install Parallels Desktop on their Windows 7 computer and continue to use the XP applications. It’s a simple solution that gives the user the best of both worlds – experience the excitement of Windows 7 while still being able to run/access their Windows XP applications.

]]> Comment on Another Great Article on Why You Should Backup Your Hard Drivebackup by Tom Lavin http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2009/10/the-digital-den/another-great-article-on-why-you-should-backup-your-hard-drivebackup/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Tom Lavin Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:27:34 +0000 http://consumer.media.seagate.com/?p=3649#comment-191 Does anyone have any experience with upgrading to Windows 7 and FreeAgent Desk? Does anyone have any experience with upgrading to Windows 7 and FreeAgent Desk?

]]> Comment on Another Great Article on Why You Should Backup Your Hard Drivebackup by Dean Hawley http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2009/10/the-digital-den/another-great-article-on-why-you-should-backup-your-hard-drivebackup/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Dean Hawley Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:05:16 +0000 http://consumer.media.seagate.com/?p=3649#comment-186 Jon, excellent article. THX Dean Jon, excellent article.

THX

Dean

]]> Comment on Seagate DockStar – Networked, Access and Share – Your Personal Cloud – In Your Own Home! by Storage Means Business » Portable NAS for small business http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2009/09/the-digital-den/seagate-dockstar-%e2%80%93-networked-access-and-share-your-personal-cloud-%e2%80%93-in-your-own-home/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Storage Means Business » Portable NAS for small business Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:02:40 +0000 http://consumer.media.seagate.com/?p=3620#comment-180 [...] instantly turn them into a NAS (network attach storage). What a concept for small businesses or home based businesses that have maybe 1-5 [...] [...] instantly turn them into a NAS (network attach storage). What a concept for small businesses or home based businesses that have maybe 1-5 [...]

]]> Comment on The World’s First SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive by David Burks http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2009/09/the-digital-den/the-worlds-first-sata-6gbs-hard-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-174 David Burks Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:56:16 +0000 http://consumer.media.seagate.com/?p=3629#comment-174 Good point. The suggest retail price for this product is $299. What price you find it for on the web might be a bit lower... Good point. The suggest retail price for this product is $299. What price you find it for on the web might be a bit lower…

]]> Comment on The World’s First SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive by Sushil Agarwal http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2009/09/the-digital-den/the-worlds-first-sata-6gbs-hard-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Sushil Agarwal Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:58:54 +0000 http://consumer.media.seagate.com/?p=3629#comment-159 Why the technology items r not said what price it is avilabel, So it can be recommended to somebody, it least to me price is certainly a deciding factor. however better is the product, ofcourse it has to be affordable. Why the technology items r not said what price it is avilabel, So it can be recommended to somebody, it least to me price is certainly a deciding factor. however better is the product, ofcourse it has to be affordable.

]]> Comment on Backup Made Simple – Seagate Replica by Jon Van Bronkhorst http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2009/04/the-digital-den/backup-made-simple-%e2%80%93-seagate-replica/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Jon Van Bronkhorst Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:22:39 +0000 http://consumer.media.seagate.com/?p=3430#comment-106 The issue with cloning a hard drive from one system to another - in this example, from a desktop to a laptop - is that the drivers required are completely different. We tried this recently, taking the drive image from one notebook and then restoring it on another, and had issues with all the drivers. The most serious of which was the video driver. It took a while, and a lot of booting into safe mode, to get the video driver correctly set. Only then were we able to work on all the other drivers that had to be removed and then added. So while it CAN be done, it is not for the faint of heart. The issue with cloning a hard drive from one system to another – in this example, from a desktop to a laptop – is that the drivers required are completely different. We tried this recently, taking the drive image from one notebook and then restoring it on another, and had issues with all the drivers. The most serious of which was the video driver. It took a while, and a lot of booting into safe mode, to get the video driver correctly set. Only then were we able to work on all the other drivers that had to be removed and then added. So while it CAN be done, it is not for the faint of heart.

]]> Comment on How’s your DVR space? by David Fox http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2009/05/the-digital-den/hows-your-dvr-space/comment-page-1/#comment-69 David Fox Fri, 22 May 2009 03:39:56 +0000 http://consumer.media.seagate.com/?p=3485#comment-69 Well, I never had a *real* TiVo (how is that capitalized anyway?) but I had a DVR for a while when I subscribed to Dish Network. (I moved, got Direct TV two years ago and they don't offer a DVR option, at least they didn't when I signed up, so I never pursued it). But the DVR / sat tuner combo that Dish Network used at that time (2006) had a capacity of at least 200GB. I'm guessing here because of the apparent capacity of the drive: I never actually took a look inside the unit, naturally. My brother also has Dish Network and he has the HD DVR and I'd imagine there is much bigger capacity here, simply because of HD recording. However, for some reason, Dish Network charges an unreasonable cost for turning on their USB so you can add in a second drive. Pity. Well, I never had a *real* TiVo (how is that capitalized anyway?) but I had a DVR for a while when I subscribed to Dish Network. (I moved, got Direct TV two years ago and they don’t offer a DVR option, at least they didn’t when I signed up, so I never pursued it). But the DVR / sat tuner combo that Dish Network used at that time (2006) had a capacity of at least 200GB. I’m guessing here because of the apparent capacity of the drive: I never actually took a look inside the unit, naturally.

My brother also has Dish Network and he has the HD DVR and I’d imagine there is much bigger capacity here, simply because of HD recording. However, for some reason, Dish Network charges an unreasonable cost for turning on their USB so you can add in a second drive. Pity.

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