By Edward F. Moltzen

Seagate’s Maxtor unit may be tasked with focusing on nifty storage products for the consumer space, but its new BlackArmor USB external drive could also take aim at the security-conscious in commercial and government sectors. With 160 GB of capacity in a 2.5-inch drive and case that fits into the palm of your hand, the BlackArmor walks a fine line between a device with mass appeal and a lower-end enterprise solution.

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Maxtor Black Armor; Price: $149.99 Stats: 5.2 x 3.3 x 0.7 inches. Weighs 7.2 ounces. Features: 8MB cache with USB 2.0 interface. 160GB storage. Website: www.maxtor.com

WHEN LAPTOPS ARE STOLEN OR LOST, THE CONSEQUENCES can be serious. One missing notebook held personal information on every texas police officer. Others held data on 26 million U.S. veterans, information on patients in a medical study and secrets from the U.K. Ministry of Defense.

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Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate Technology, and Michael Kanellos of CNET News.com discuss the future of the drive industry, the current economy, and some of the changes he’d like to see coming with the 2008 election.

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Eric Auchard and Kenneth Li cover this year’s CES including some insight from Seagate’s Bill Watkins.

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Jeffrey L. Wilson writes about Maxtor BlackArmor’s hard core security.

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Stephen Pritchard writes about the external Maxtor “BlackArmor” drive that offers full disk encryption.

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Michael Kanellos talks with Bill Watkins about Blue-ray, surveillance, flash and more.

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Joseph F. Kovar covers storage vendors at CES.

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ChipChick.com talks about the Maxtor BlackArmor and new software in development set to run on Shared Storage II networked hard drive systems and future models.

This article is also posted on CESBloggers.com

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