Seagate Reveals 3 Terabyte External Desktop Drive—FreeAgent GoFlex Desk
External Hard Drives
Scotts Valley, CA—Putting more terabytes in the hands of consumers worldwide, Seagate announced “the world’s first 3 Terabyte (TB) external desktop drive”—the 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk, with the capacity to store thousands of photos, 120 HD movies, 1,500 video games or countless hours of digital music.
A key addition to the company’s recently introduced GoFlex family of hard drives, the GoFlex Desk external drive couples immense capacity with the flexibility to adapt its USB 2.0 interface to a USB 3.0 or FireWire 800 connection to meet varying performance and transfer speed needs. And consumers can create, store and access content from either a Windows or Mac OS X computer on the GoFlex Desk external drive, thanks to an included NTFS driver for Mac.
“Consumer capacity demands are quickly outpacing the needs of business as people continue to collect high-definition videos, photos and music,” said Dave Mosley, Seagate executive vice president of Sales, Marketing and Product Line Management. “Seagate has a tradition of designing products that break into new storage frontiers to meet customer requirements and the 3TB GoFlex Desk external drive is no exception—delivering the highest-capacity storage solution available today.”
A recent report by Parks Associates indicates the average consumer household will see its digital media storage needs grow to nearly 900GB by year-end 2014, driven by video downloads, managed copies of Blu-ray Disc and increasing use of DVR capabilities. With this in mind, the GoFlex Desk drive is designed to deliver what Seagate says is “unconstrained, high-capacity storage and automatic, continuous backup with software file encryption to help keep all data safe and secure.”
The drive’s standard USB 2.0 interface can be upgraded to USB 3.0 or FireWire 800 by coupling the drive with the appropriate GoFlex desktop adapter to increase file transfer performance by up to 10x for easier copying or sharing of files.
“As the definition quality of digital cameras increases, playback devices such as digital photo frames and MP3 players proliferate and the use of the Internet for downloading music and video continues to grow, more files accumulate in the home,” said Kurt Scherf, vice president and principle analyst of Parks Associates. “Consumers who are active in digital media creation and consumption will witness their digital media storage needs grow ninefold by 2014, driving the demand for higher capacity, easy-to-use storage solutions.”
The 3TB GoFlex Desk external drive with USB 2.0 adapter retails for $249.99. seagate.com