Seagate Launches Maxtor Fusion

Seagate Technology today launched its latest Maxtor Fusion personal media solution which is said to deliver a safe, central location on the user's network to hold large amounts of digital photos, videos, music and documents, informs Hardware News.

"Seagate is addressing a growing desire for people to easily manage, share and enjoy their digital content, regardless of media type, from anywhere at any time using a web browser," said Jim Druckrey, senior vice president and general manager, Seagate Branded Solutions.

The Maxtor Fusion solution offers a high-speed Gigabit Ethernet network port and a half-terabyte (500GB) of networked storage that can be instantly accessed via the web and the user can also create "microshares", small circles which are meant to share multimedia content.
Moreover, the Public Site offers a special developed function which can be used to create personal web pages featuring pictures, videos, music and even documents.

"Increasingly, consumers want to easily transform their scattered photos, video and music files into organized, richer multimedia compositions that are personalized for selected groups of people or posted to public sites. The multimedia experience that our new Maxtor Fusion solution brings to consumers represents an important next step in the digital home transformation that's taking place today."

Maxtor Fusion interface can be used for numerous kinds of data such as videos, music, photos and files. Furthermore, every file can be structured by adding tags, date, description, metadata, folders or any combination of these methods.

Maxtor Fusion personal media solution from Seagate is already available at J&R Music and Computer World's flagship store in New York City, and online at www.jr.com at a suggested retail price of $799 for 500GB. The Maxtor Fusion solution will be shipped to other retailers in the U.S. this summer.