Seagate has rolled out the world's first external hard drive to exceed two terabytes of storage capacity. Featuring 3TB, the FreeAgent GoFlex Desk introduced Tuesday will enable users to store up to 120 high-definition movies, 1,500 computer  games, countless hours of music tracks, or thousands of digital photos, the company said.
Priced at $249.99, Seagate's latest digital storage device for home and office applications delivers the highest-capacity solution available today, said Seagate Executive Vice President Dave Mosley.
"Seagate has a tradition of designing products that break into new storage frontiers to meet customer requirements," Mosley said. "Consumer capacity demands are quickly outpacing the needs of business as people continue to collect high-definition videos, photos and music."
Connecting and Sharing Content
The 3TB drive is the latest addition to the GoFlex product line that Seagate introduced early last month. All GoFlex drives include an NTFS driver for the Mac that allows it to read and write to a GoFlex drive formatted for a PC , noted Seagate Product Marketing Manager Greg Falgiano.
"With just a one-time install of the driver on your Mac computer, you can seamlessly go between your Mac and your PC without any headaches along the way," Falgiano wrote in a blog.
Featuring a sleek black, 3.5-inch design that can be seated either vertically or horizontally, the GoFlex Desk ships pre-loaded with encryption software for protecting the security and privacy of the user's files. To increase the device's data-transfer speeds by up to 10 times the standard USB 2.0 interface, users can purchase an optional USB 3.0 adapter for $39.99 or a FireWire 800 adapter for $49.99.
Users can pair Seagate's GoFlex drives with an optional TV HD media player that enables home-entertainment systems to directly access, play and display movies, photos, music and other digital content . Even better, the broader GoFlex storage system even allows access to storage from an iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry and other mobile devices.
Rising Home Storage Needs
Seagate now offers GoFlexNet -- a media-sharing device that works in tandem with hard drives in the GoFlex family to serve up storage on the network as well as from remote locations, noted Seagate spokesperson Nathan Papadopulos. (continued...)
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