Seagate intros 1 TB Maxtor home NAS for $329.99
Seagate's latest portable, external storage device -- a black desktop unit in a distinctive, semi-tapered shape -- was accurately described by Seagate's own representatives yesterday as a trapezoid.
NEW YORK CITY (BetaNews) -- At Pepcom's "Digital Experience" event last night, Seagate rolled out Maxtor Central Axis, a rebranded edition of the earlier Maxtor OneTouch home network storage drive which adds a remote access capability, introduces a new form factor, and raises capacity to one full terabyte.
"The OneTouch looked sort of like a block," admitted Nathan Papadopoulos, Seagate's corporate communications director, during an interview with BetaNews at the annual Pepcom press event.
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| Seagate's new Maxtor-branded Central Axis external storage device. [Photo credit: Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews] |
More importantly from the standpoint of functionality, for a price tag of a mere $329.99, the new network attached storage (NAS) device provides 1 TB of capacity for storing video, music, photos, Microsoft Office files, and other any other content that lends itself to storage in the digital home.
Through Seagate's new remote access service for Central Axis, you can log in via a Web browser from just about anywhere to access information stored on your home network, according to the PR rep.
"If you wanted to, you could even download a movie from home while you were on the road," Papadopolous told BetaNews. "But I think people will generally use [Central Axis] to download documents that they forgot to bring along with them -- or maybe some tunes that they want to hear."
Central Axis works with any Web browser, according to the Seagate rep. There are no browser plug-ins or separate applications to install.