Seagate 750 gig External Drive

First thing to note, its way to bright, what is it with computer related manufacturers don't they know we like to sleep sometimes. Man I mean its bright. I did not care for the included software and I am in the process of removing it. Its been 10 min. now. The problem with the software is that it is inflexible, it expects you to work the way it wants you to. My system is not setup that way.
Good news, the drives light is only on when the drive is active.

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American Scientist - Computing Science

American Scientist - Computing Science

In my hand I hold a metal box, festooned with labels, serial numbers, bar codes and tamperproof seals. Inside the box is everything I have written over the past 10 years—articles, a book, memos, notes, programs, letters, e-mail, shopping lists. And there’s still plenty of room left for everything I might hope to write in the next 10 years. For an author, it’s a little humbling to see so much of a life’s work encompassed in a tin box just big enough for a couple dozen pencils.

The metal box, of course, is a disk drive. And it’s not even the latest model. This one is a decade old and has a capacity of 120 megabytes, roughly equivalent to 120 million characters of unformatted text. The new disk that will replace it looks much the same—just a little slimmer and sleeker—but it holds a thousand times as much: 120 gigabytes, or 1.2 x 1011 characters of text. That’s room enough not only for everything I’ve ever written but also for everything I’ve ever read. Here in the palm of one hand is space for a whole intellectual universe—all the words that enter a human mind in a lifetime of reading.