When I read that Seagate's new FreeAgent GoFlex is the biggest external hard drive in the world, I got excited. I imagined the coming winter months, with me having ditched my bed and instead just sleeping with my mattress atop the warm, humming box. Or maybe leaving my apartment and moving straight into the giant enclosure full time, with nothing to do but dodge the enormous read/write head as it swings by my delicate head every few nanoseconds.
But alas, the size refers only to the massive storage: four terabytes. That's big enough, if my math doesn't fail me as usual – to hold the contents of four (4) 1TB hard drives, or eight 500GB drives.
You can hook up this almost bottomless drive, which will surely never fill up, via USB 2.0 or worse, and you can also opt to swap out the adapter section for USB 3.0 or FireWire 800 for an extra fee. As it is, the GoFlex will cost a reasonable $250, which is about the going price for the top end of storage capacity, whatever that happens to be this month.
The GoFlex is available now.
FreeAgent GoFlex drive [Seagate]
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