Data-storage firm Seagate is rolling out a new line of external hard drives for Mac and Windows personal-computer systems.
Seagate, based in Scotts Valley, Calif., and with a major facility in Longmont, described the new version of its FreeAgent Go as the slimmest external drive available.
The drive has data capacity of 500 gigabytes and is 5 inches by 3 inches by 0.5 inch.
“With the amount of content being created and consumed today, the average broadband household will soon need close to a terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of storage to account for their personal media collections on PCs, portable devices and DVRs,” said Jane Shields, a research analyst with Dallas-based Parks Associates.
Seagate also is unveiling 3.5-inch high-capacity desktop units with storage of 1.5 terabytes.
Seagate last year added more than 100 new workers to its 1,600-employee Longmont manufacturing facility, including engineers, quality/reliability product-line managers, marketers and other nontechnical positions.
When Seagate acquired Maxtor Corp. in 2006, it announced it was cutting 650 workers at Maxtor’s Longmont campus.
Steve Raabe: 303-954-1948 or sraabe@denverpost.com
