09.21.2010

Seagate Ships First Portable 1.5TB Hard Drive with USB 3.0

Seagate has unveiled a key addition to the GoFlex(TM) family, the new 1.5TB GoFlex

portable hard drive

 delivers ultimate flexibility in how people collect, protect, share and enjoy their digital libraries, all in a convenient compact package. In addition to coming bundled with USB 3.0 connectivity, the

disk drive

 can be used with an array of add-on cables and accessories such as the GoFlex(TM) Net media sharing device and the GoFlex(TM) TV HD media player, that provide the flexibility to enjoy your content on a TV, a network, using a mobile device, or via the Internet, or for data recovery.

All 1.5TB GoFlex ultra-portable drives are compatible with both the Windows operating system and Mac OS X computers. Each drive includes an NTFS driver for Mac, which allows the

hard drive

 to store and access files from both Windows and Mac OS X computers without reformatting. The NTFS driver is simply installed once on the Mac OS X computer, allowing it to read and write files on a Windows formatted drive.

"Today's announcement is a 'triple-crown' of consumer technology--packaging record breaking capacity, blazingly fast USB 3.0 connectivity and the bonus of movie entertainment--making the 1.5TB GoFlex(TM) ultra-portable drive an unprecedented and innovative solution," said Darcy Clarkson, vice president of Global Retail Sales and Marketing for Seagate. "Bringing this solution to market on the heels of our 3TB GoFlex(TM) Desk drive and the Momentus(R) XT

solid state hybrid drive

 is proof of Seagate's continuing technology leadership and tradition of setting storage industry milestones."

"Consumers continue to push the growth of digital music, photos, and video content, and increasingly want access to this content from a variety of CE devices, including a PC," says John Rydning, IDC's research director for hard disk drives. "Higher capacity

disk drives

 in combination with higher bandwidth interfaces like USB 3.0 will help to make a greater number of large multimedia files more accessible from multiple devices in the home."

With the new drive, Seagate inched ever-closer to the physical limit of 2TB of capacity per platter, which is based on the current 512-byte sector standard for areal density adopted by the storage industry more than a decade ago.

Source:www.marketwatch.com