Seagate Duet portable drive reaches for the clouds
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Between the proliferation of cheap eMMC storage devices, crazy-fast NVMe SSDs, and cloud backup services, users' interactions with platters of spinning rust is increasingly uncommon. Seagate has been straddling the gap between hard drives and SSDs for a while with its hybrid disk drives. Now, the company's Duet portable drive bridges the divide between local storage and the cloud. The Duet offers a 1TB capacity with a twist: software that automatically uploads the drive contents to Amazon's Drive cloud storage platform, along with a one-year unlimited-storage subscription to the service.
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