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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+118I will be buying nothing but Seagate hard drives from now on.
- RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+108This guy is awesome:
What he said about the media: "People worry that newspapers are going out of business. So what? It's the content that's important. No one gives a s**t about the delivery mechanism. Think about mail. You had the pony express, truck delivery, airmail, email. You don't care how it gets to you. I read more now than I ever did, but I get it off my PC. I don't need to go down to the end of the driveway and pick up the newspaper. It's the content that's most important." - NoNom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+104Who knew an interview with a CEO could be so entertaining.
- jcounterman, on 10/12/2007, -6/+73Burried because you type like a 12 year old girl on a sugar-buzz.
If you are a 12 year old girl on a sugar-buzz, please disregard. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+62Lol! could you imagine the board meetings?
VP Marketing: "This is perhaps the wave of the future in storage technologies!!"
CEO: "But how much more porn can we store on this thing? How many high def movies are we talking here?"
VP Marketing: "Lots!"
CEO: "Giddy! Giddy! Giddy! Giddy!" - PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -8/+61In my case, it's definitely the "watch porn" option.
- hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -4/+50At least we know Seagate won't be producing a smug cloud any time soon.
- kooft, on 10/12/2007, -11/+56He must be an avid porn 'user' otherwise he'd have lumped porn in with crap. Interesting distinction he made.
- Ascendant, on 10/12/2007, -3/+46If you buy one of Seagate’s drives, down the side there’s a vertical list of one word sentences written in 100-point font that describe what you can put on their drives: “Work. Music. Games. Movies. Stuff.”
I always wondered if “Stuff” was really just a euphemism for “Porn.” Now we finally know the answer. - RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44He could have phrased it like "We help you store the music, videos, and documents you care about" but that would have been *****.
- mntpng, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44This is why all my hard drives are made by seagate.
- draxenato, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42Seagate - It's Not Just Our Drives That Are Hard
- contradictator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31@thespace
I think you mean "Gigitty". - monkeyrun, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30Well, that's the truth of the whole truth.
He's just too honest about it :P
I'll make only buy seagate hard drives from now on. - OverloadUT, on 10/12/2007, -8/+34Maybe the distinction he's actually making is that most people don't "buy" porn anymore...
- jcounterman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28The engineers I work with on a daily basis are handing literally 700 - 900 gigs of data...in single datasets. Having that data on one external drive would be a godsend for them, as they are all-too-often lugging computer towers up and down the halls to meetings and such. I don't see terrabyte drives as being immediately useful to the everyday consumer, but for business, science, and research? There are thousands of applications.
- omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30The internet is for porn!
The internet is for porn!
Why you think the net was born?
Porn! Porn! Porn! - jcounterman, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29yes, as a matter of fact, it is.
- JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Seagate is the most reliable. I have a terabyte RAID 5 that is all Seagate. Their drives have a 5 year warranty when most of the other manufacturers have 1 or 3.
Then again, I'd be mightily embarrassed if anyone saw what I kept on my Seagate drives, so I'd probably never make a warranty claim. :) - coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22It's pretty funny to see a CEO not let PR get in the way of saying what everyone wants to hear. Either that or he has a great PR manager that knows that most of the people who actually buy hard-drives separate from computers are people who would generally appreciate this kind of open humor.
- xoineg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20It pays to know your customers....
- RGCook, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18My next hard drive will be a Seagate. :-)
- orlyfactor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18He could be my CEO anytime...
- ActionableMango, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13At 9.5gigs per hour for HDTV recordings, I think lots of people will need terabyte drives.
Also consider there isn't a decent way to archive HDTV recordings, so you have to keep all of the shows you want to rewatch on the hard drive instead of archiving to DVD. - sinner0423, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17A CEO acts like a normal human being and it makes the news. Go figure.
Whatever happened to regular people running business? - alwaysmc2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12It's nice when big business can be honest. ^_^
- YourTechSupport, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Well. That's what I want to hear from a CEO.
If Katuragi had said something like that instead of "Our fans are stupid, loyal, and wealthy, and will buy anything we throw to them" he would still be president of Sony.
As for a 1tb HD, let me know when I can get a six-pack. - bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Thats hilarious. I'm glad to see someone in the business world with the balls to truly speak his mind and make good products at the same time.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11TMI
- zeiben, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8o-8-=
(hee hee, when derrekito checks for responses to his message, the lame ascii porn above will write to his internet cache. 5 bytes of porn... FTW! ) - fornulf, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I like his style. Honest, brutal and funny.
- FunkyWorm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Reminds me of what happened to Gerald Ratner here in the UK.
Ratner made a speech at the Institute of Directors in April 1991. During the speech, he said:
People say, "How can you sell this for such a low price?" I say, because it's total crap.
The speech was instantly seized upon by the media, an estimated £500m was wiped from the value of the company, he was given the boot 18 months later, and in 1994 the Ratner name was expunged from the company,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner - dezmd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Western Digital vs. Seagate is like K-Mart electronics department vs. Fry's Electronics.
Cheers. - cell00, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5stop saying "lets face it". no phrase annoys me as much as that one - except for "maybe, maybe not" as a comeback.
- will0861, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7"The engineers I work with on a daily basis are handing literally 700 - 900 gigs of data...in single datasets. Having that data on one external drive would be a godsend for them, as they are all-too-often lugging computer towers up and down the halls to meetings and such. I don't see terrabyte drives as being immediately useful to the everyday consumer, but for business, science, and research? There are thousands of applications."
It's funny that while Science and business really have the most significant use for huge drives, it will probably be the home user storing porn that will drive the push for larger and larger drives. That really says a lot about our society that we value seeing some chick get a pearl necklace and a hot carl over curing cancer, or discovering where the universe came from.
Oh well I'm off to bangbus.com....... - clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Segate may not be my first choice in harddrives. But there's no denying they are running a heck of a business.
Just from that statement right there, other CEO's should take note. There's something sweet and simple to be learned here.
He knows what his customers use their products for and what customers want in future products. No bull *****. No corporate glossing over.
Do that and you have half of what being a CEO is all about. - ArmandoM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Sticks and stones Katemonster.....
- stray, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Seagate CEO gets +5 EXP for brutal honesty.
- theokandroid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7At least he's honest.
- laserdisc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Nice to see a CEO I can like, and because of this interview all my future hard drive purchases, be it for personal, business or for friends will be Seagate drives.
- Petronski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You have 56 gigabytes of pr0n?
Dude... - ArmandoM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You had to check to make sure you didn't have any porn?
- rohcky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I've been building with Seagate for years.
- ryodoan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Ahh yes.... The video with that song set to WoW characters is a classic.
(yes I know it was from a broadway play first) - sithlordoflanc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Dugg for the broadway reference.
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3There are still CEO's like this in almost every industry, they are the ones who build the industry before the lawyer like folk inherit it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Made my freakin' afternoon. I need articles like this on Friday.
- wintermute0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Dugg for hillarious honesty. And for cliffosakajapan being useful. Two things that are rare but appreciated.
- stonedgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good show. The world needs more real people.
No more WD for me. - Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I have over 2 Terabytes of hard drive space, and 0 bytes of it is porn... and I actually had to go check to make sure... but most of them are Seagate. I know better then to go with WD, they are noisy and crap out more often, in my opinion.
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