Yeah, you listened that right. As of today, those among us who worth apportion over speed in the storage can buy a wholetrifecta of terabytes in a single solitary package. Seagate has only denounced a Free Agent GoFlex Desk (did they have a teenage intern name this thing?), which is a initial 3.5-inch drive to store quite so most interpretation, and it comes with the USB 2.0 adapter that can be upgraded to USB 3.0 or Firewire, depending on your preference (and money pot. Priced at $250, this record-busting storage heart is accessible to buy today approach from Seagate. Full PR after a mangle.
Show full PR textSeagate Breaks Capacity Ceiling With World’s First 3 Terabyte External Desktop Drive

New FreeAgent® GoFlex™ Desk External Drive Packs Unprecedented Amount of Storage for both Mac as well as PERSONAL COMPUTER

SCOTTS HOLLOW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Putting some-more terabytes in a hands of consumers worldwide, Seagate (NASDAQ:STX), a leader in hard drives and storage solutions, currently announced the world’s first 3 Terabyte (TB) outmost desktop drive. Available immediately, a 3TB FreeAgent® GoFlex™ Desk external tough drive helps to meet the explosive worldwide direct for digital calm storage in both a home as well as a bureau. With 3TB of capacity people can store up to 120 HD movies, 1,500 video games, thousands of photos or countless hours of digital song.

“Consumer capacity final have been quickly out-pacing a needs of commercial operation as people goon to pickup high-definition videos, photos and music”

A key further to the company’s not long ago introduced GoFlex™ family of tough drives, a 3TB GoFlex Desk outmost drive couples measureless genius with a coherence to adapt the drive’s USB 2.0 interface to a USB 3.0 or FireWire® 800 tie to meet varying opening and send speed needs. Consumers can easily emanate, store as well as entrance calm from possibly the Windows® or Mac OS X computer on a GoFlex Desk external drive, thanks to an included NTFS driver for Mac.

“Consumer genius demands are fast out-pacing a needs of commercial operation as people goon to collect high-definition videos, photos as well as song,” said Dave Mosley, Seagate executive vice boss of Sales, Marketing as well as Product Line Management. “Seagate has a convention of conceptualizing products that mangle into brand-new storage frontiers to meet customer requirements and a 3TB GoFlex™ Desk external drive is no exception–delivering a highest-capacity storage solution accessible today.”

A new inform by Parks Associates indicates the average consumer household will see the digital media storage needs grow to scarcely 900GB by year-end 2014, driven in large partial by video downloads, managed copies of Blu-ray Disc, as well as increasing make use of of DVR recording capabilities1. The GoFlex Desk outmost drive delivers unconstrained2, high-capacity storage as well as involuntary, continuous backup with program file encryption to help keep all interpretation protected and secure3. The customary USB 2.0 interface can be upgraded to USB 3.0 or FireWire® 800 by coupling a drive with a appropriate GoFlex™ desktop adapter to increase record send opening by up to 10x for simpler duplicating or pity of files4.

“As a clarification peculiarity of digital cameras increases, playback inclination such as digital print frames as well as MP3 players proliferate and a use of the Internet for downloading music as well as video continues to grow, some-more files amass in a home,” pronounced Kurt Scherf, vice president and element analyst of Parks Associates. “Consumers who have been active in digital media origination as well as expenditure will witness their digital media storage needs grow nine-fold by 2014, driving the direct for aloft genius, easy-to-use storage solutions.”

The GoFlex Desk external drive is concordant with both a Windows® operating complement as well as Mac® computers. Each drive includes an NTFS driver for Mac, that allows the drive to store as well as access files from both Windows and Mac OS X computers but reformatting. The NTFS driver is simply commissioned once upon the Mac mechanism, permitting it to review as well as write files on a Windows formatted5 drive. Its neat black, 3.5-inch design sits either plumb or horizontally to accommodate any desktop surroundings.

The 3TB GoFlex Desk outmost drive with USB 2.0 adapter can be purchased upon Seagate.com and by name retailers for $249.99.

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1 “Consumer Storage Opportunities,” by Kurt Scherf as well as Pietro Macchiarella, Parks Associates, March 2010.
2 The GoFlex™ Desk outmost drive has been specifically engineered to strike a Windows HDD limitation of 2.1TB.
3 Included backup program delivered by Memeo and Memeo Premium backup program for Mac.
4 View how a GoFlex family of tough drives functions during http://bit.ly/cMVxOP.
5 Reformatting to HFS+ compulsory to make use of backup program for Mac or Time Machine® software.