Seagate made
the first 7200 rpm hard drive, the first hard drive with the Fibre
Channel interface, the first 15,000 rpm hard drive; and the list goes on
and on. Along with the amount of innovation they’ve brought to the
table, they’ve also had some of the highest quality drives as well –
consistently ranking higher than comparative drives, and constantly
winning various awards from different sources. One feature of this GoFlex drive, is that
straight out of the box it can be used on either a PC or a Mac. No
messing around with different drivers and what not – it’s truly plug and
play on both
systems.
The
4TB GoFlex is USB 3.0, which means the transfer rates are wonderfully
fast – however there are a number of adapters out there that will allow
you to hook it up to FireWire, eSATA, or even USB 2.0. The
included USB 3.0 adapter is pretty cool, as it has four white LEDs on it
– each light represents 25% of the storage space on the drive, so you
instantly have a rough idea of how much you’ve used. Memo Backup is pre-installed on the
drive in order for you to backup your system. Honestly, Memo is pretty
much junk – there’s a LOT of better options out there. Memo Backup lets
you do basic things for free, but then wants to charge you for any
advanced features. In any case, no matter if you use backup software or
not, the drive really is quite zippy. When testing it’s write speed,
it ran at an average of 88 MBps, and it’s reading speed is a nice 100
MBps.
Seagate made
the first 7200 rpm hard drive, the first hard drive with the Fibre
Channel interface, the first 15,000 rpm hard drive; and the list goes on
and on. Along with the amount of innovation they’ve brought to the
table, they’ve also had some of the highest quality drives as well –
consistently ranking higher than comparative drives, and constantly
winning various awards from different sources. One feature of this GoFlex drive, is that
straight out of the box it can be used on either a PC or a Mac. No
messing around with different drivers and what not – it’s truly plug and
play on both systems. 
The
4TB GoFlex is USB 3.0, which means the transfer rates are wonderfully
fast – however there are a number of adapters out there that will allow
you to hook it up to FireWire, eSATA, or even USB 2.0. The
included USB 3.0 adapter is pretty cool, as it has four white LEDs on it
– each light represents 25% of the storage space on the drive, so you
instantly have a rough idea of how much you’ve used. Memo Backup is pre-installed on the
drive in order for you to backup your system. Honestly, Memo is pretty
much junk – there’s a LOT of better options out there. Memo Backup lets
you do basic things for free, but then wants to charge you for any
advanced features. In any case, no matter if you use backup software or
not, the drive really is quite zippy. When testing it’s write speed,
it ran at an average of 88 MBps, and it’s reading speed is a nice 100
MBps. 
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