It's not that I don't want to face Las Vegas' craziness (once a year, I could handle), and I certainly like gadgets as much as the next guy, but if you're looking for enterprise storage products, there's not much to chew on at CES.

Which is not to say that there is nothing on storage at the show; in the twilight zone where consumer electronics and enterprise products intersect, you can occasionally find some tasty storage bites at CES.

For example, Seagate Technology this year announced a new 160GB Portable Hard Drive, defined in the press release as "the industry's first portable drive built with perpendicular recording, an innovative technology that Seagate has employed to deliver the market's highest capacity in a 2.5-inch form factor."

To buy one of these babies, you'll have to wait until February and be prepared to spend around US$350. What really turned my head, however, is the last part of that excerpt; the 2.5-inch drives are also used in laptops, and Seagate had long ago predicted shipments of 160GB capacity drives (dubbed Momentus 5400.3) by this quarter.

Let me connect the dots: Based on the CES announcements, it's reasonable to assume that Seagate will soon begin shipping those Momentus laptop drives with 160GB capacity. Seagate may have already started shipments to major OEMs, and will probably make an official announcement on Momentus availability by the time you read this (or soon thereafter).