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To think, it seems like only last holiday season that we were setting up our 4 TB Seagate BlackArmor NAS box, outfitted with a 4 x 1 TB drive configuration. The beast retailed in the four-figure range and finally gave us the sort of capacity and security we wanted for our primary data backup. Now, a seeming blink later, Seagate gives us the GoFlex Desk 4 TB.

We’ve lost too many files over the years to ever trust a single drive with anything ever again, so we won’t recommend this capacious black monolith as a primary storage device, although with USB 3.0 speeds, it can certainly serve in that role. Rather, in a single-user environment where a network-attached storage device is less needed, we would use this sexy behemoth as a backup target for all of our internal drives, including bare metal backup of the boot volume. Naturally, this assumes that your internals will all fit in a 4 TB drive. If not, well...let’s hope Santa can afford two.
Speaking of bare metal backup, a word of caution: we love GoFlex drives, but the bundled Memeo Instant Backup software does not support system imaging, only file backup. To get bare metal, Seagate would have you buy the Autobackup software with its Replica drives. See the software matrix here. You’ll need to bring your own bare metal app if you want to pursue this function. That aside, the Memeo bundle and Seagate’s Dashboard management software are excellent. We particularly like the Memeo apps for file/folder synchronization and sending jumbo-sized files. Note also that the GoFlex Desk can encrypt your stored data with 192-bit Triple DES, so your data will stay private even if the drive is stolen.
- Ultrabook: Acer Aspire S3-951-6646
- Flash Drive: Super Talent USB 3.0 Express RC8 50 GB
- Monitor: Dell U2410 24”
- Custom PC: Falcon Northwest ICON2
- Networking: Linksys E4200 v2
- External Storage: Seagate GoFlex Desk 4 TB USB 3.0
- Network Storage: Thecus N5200XXX
- Mouse: Microsoft Touch Mouse
- Mini PC: Zotac Zbox nano AD10 Plus
You must be in your teens. Not all readers here are kids you know...
Why? Because I can mount it on the back of the TV in the lounge for the family and stream my media files to it from my home server.
I can then throw in an external BD drive and boom, fully capable home entertainment system, which is even capable of light gaming.
Of course.. I'd reserve my gaming for my gaming rig!
as usual, the one with the monitor is the best because she resembles mariah carey.
blonde one is ok, redhead is too old.
But I enjoy it too...
You must be in your teens. Not all readers here are kids you know...
Falcon's Icon2 reminds me of Silverstone's Raven series with much need improvements.
The N5200XXX sound like a great addition (and I like the model's poses too
No. Some of us like women.
saving to my PC....
In fact I demand that you do more articles like this one ... please?
Can you please post a few more pictures of the Supertalent USB drive ... move the drive down a bit and zoom in ... its a bit fuzzy from here.
If other users agree please rate my post up so the reviewers can guage interest in these products !!!