Goflex Portable And Desktop

Seagate has responded to the needs of this growing community by adding Mac-centric storage solutions to its FreeAgent GoFlex family.

Goflex Portable And Desktop

Coming in portable and desktop varieties, and capacities ranging from 500GB to 3TB, the new additions can be used with other GoFlex devices and benefit from cross-platform compatibility.

Whether its backing up an iTunes library or safeguarding your iLife against accidental deletion, the new FreeAgent GoFlex for Mac drives have been designed to make the backup, transport or sharing of files an easy affair for Mac users.

The housing surrounding the new drives has been given a durable soft-touch metallic finish and they can, of course, be used with other devices from the GoFlex range, including the Net media sharing unit and the TV HD Media Player.

Connecting the GoFlex drives to a Mac is catered for by the included FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 adapters and cables, but the storage solution is flexible enough to enable the interface to be changed to USB 3.0 or eSATA for use with PCs.

This version is offered in 500GB (US149.99) and 750GB (US179.99) sizes.

The base adapter shows approximate capacity remaining, but theres also optional software available that displays the units real-time capacity if required.

The Desk for Mac drive has a suggested retail of US219.99 for the 2TB version and US279.99 for 3TB.

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Formatting on a Mac takes less than 30 seconds to take FAT 32 or NTFS to Mac Ext Journaled.

Only on Windows, does formatting become a big deal, like its the biggest step you have taken in your life.

Still waiting for FW800 AND USB 3.0 on hard drives, and looking forward to large capacity external SSDs.

So, why have you spent the last 2 nights reformatting when you can simply download the driver It clearly states theres no need to reformat the drives for use with a Windows system.

It may be the best kept secret of the industry.the difference between the pc and mac version of an external HD (besides the color and price) is about a minute of your time.

But that assumes you know what youre doing of course.for others like idahomeus.THATS why theyre more expensive.its called the MAC TAX and its generally not considered a compliment) FWIW, Ive been using the black Seagate 1TB Flex wFW800 (reformated to HFS ext journaled) for my Time Machine drive and Super Duper backups for a while now and its been great.

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