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super_tycoon 11/05/2010 6:26 AM
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Good article, but I think next time you should use some kind of abbreviation or acronym system. There was barely enough room for the bars!

compton 11/05/2010 7:12 AM
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I think this is an overall pretty good review. My problem is that now I have a bunch of external storage "solutions" and its getting out of control. I have several 2.5" drives, eSata 3.5", and a WD World Book 1TB network drive. Quite a bit of data exists on more than one drive, but its starting to get annoying. I need one kind of drive that can do everything. I need storage for storage.

jasperjones 11/05/2010 10:18 AM
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good review but there are many pretty obvious mistakes in the graphs (particularly, in the section on read/write throughput)

warezme 11/05/2010 1:24 PM
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ugh, you couldn't give me a Seagate product

huron 11/05/2010 1:26 PM
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It's a very interesting proposition by Seagate to allow us to change adapters and have a great deal of uses for a drive, but it feels like you'd be investing quite a bit in a set of drives that could be outdated quickly, as capacity vs price is continuing to get cheaper.

I'll second the thought that I feel like I have a lot of external drives already, so it'd be a tough sell to someone like myself who already has drives with USB and eSATA, or a NAS.

anonymous 11/05/2010 3:05 PM
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I would be more impressed with hi speed interface that allows expansion or daisy chaining. Then some software to allow migration/backup/cloning and well as redundancy or duplication elimination.

Traciatim 11/05/2010 3:45 PM
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"The TV HD Media Player is a complementary product in the GoFlex line that requires a hard drive to operate."

Are you sure it requires a hard drive? I use mine with a USB memory stick, and it runs fine without anything plugged in to it if you are streaming media as far as I was aware (I haven't run my cable yet to be sure). It works like any small media player device, but also has the option to stick a hard drive in the front. Since it's generally the same price as most other media players this added feature was enough to get my purchase over others with built in space or pre-installed drives that are not easily removable.

nullifi 11/05/2010 3:49 PM
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Desk 1TB USB3
Desk 1TB Firewire 800
Desk 1TB USB2
Ultra-portable 500GB USB3
.. etc. There, you can have room for the graph now.

scione 11/05/2010 5:57 PM
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whats the point of having usb 2.0 at all on these drives? isn't usb 3.0 backwards compatible?

abswindows7 11/05/2010 6:08 PM
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Why would someone buy a Seagate Hard Drive ?
To lose it's data after a few months :)

dEAne 11/06/2010 5:21 AM
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Seagate should concentrate more on their hardware reliability not the looks, I have lots of problems with their drives.

Phoenixlight 11/06/2010 10:57 AM
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super_tycoon :
Good article, but I think next time you should use some kind of abbreviation or acronym system. There was barely enough room for the bars!



Yeah or just write out the product over 2 lines.

BlackPearl 11/06/2010 3:06 PM
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Any idea what could be slowing down writes on eSATA drives?

runswindows95 11/07/2010 3:27 AM
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scione :
whats the point of having usb 2.0 at all on these drives? isn't usb 3.0 backwards compatible?



USB 3.0 isn't mainstream as of yet. Dell, HP, and Gateway, the big three OEM's in major retail stores, do not have a system with USB 3.0 ports. That's why all of them are defaulted to USB 2.0.

Zenthar 11/07/2010 12:56 PM
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runswindows95 :
USB 3.0 isn't mainstream as of yet. Dell, HP, and Gateway, the big three OEM's in major retail stores, do not have a system with USB 3.0 ports. That's why all of them are defaulted to USB 2.0.

What Scione meant is that a USB3.0 device is supposed to work on a USB2.0 port so yes, USB2.0 is probably a waste.

Moreover I think it would have been nice to sell only the base unit because people interested in just Firewire 800, USB 3.0, eSATA or the "Net" thing, are actually paying for the USB 2.0 base station even if they don't want it at all.

thekitty 11/07/2010 2:31 PM
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Two words: Light Peak

Coming after the new year.

iborco 11/18/2010 3:59 PM
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The SATA connector is guaranteed for 50 insertions and GoFlex uses it directly. Doesn't this make GoFlex useless?

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