Seagate Go Flex 3TB External Drive

I took a trip to the local electronics (somewhat) super store with the goal of pickup another external hard drive. I wasn't even halfway down the first isle before every drive looked like just an ordinary hard drive....but watch out because that's no ordinary hard drive.  That's when I saw the Seagate GoFlex Desk drive.  Not just because I had reached the "S" section of the shelves at this point, but because Seagate has actually made this drive stand out from all the others...

 Sure size matters! With this drive's capacity of THREE Terabytes, it won't be you suffering from drive envy. But it was more than the drive's capacity that got my attention.  After a long enough wait, we're finally seeing some USB 3.0 stuff make its way into the retail chains.  And while USB 3.0 is supposed to be backward compatible,  it was the GoFlex Desk's versatility that really made me stop and read the box.

Highlights

• USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 Plug-and-play
• Easy-to-use pre-loaded backup software with encryption
• World’s most versatile external drive - upgrade to a faster interface with a GoFlex™ Desk desktop adapter
• Includes GoFlex Desk USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 adapter with capacity gauge display
• Offers both vertical and horizontal drive orientation
• 2-year limited warranty

 There's a really nice bonus for the Mac owners. Seagate has included NTFS drivers for Mac which gives flexibility to use this one drive between the two platforms (physical or virtual) with full read and write capability.