SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Seagate (NASDAQ: STX), the worldwide leader in hard drives and storage solutions, today introduced the next evolution of the company's award-winning FreeAgent® external hard drives-its new GoFlex™ storage solutions. This new family of external drives and accessories introduces a new level of flexibility to traditional USB 2.0 storage that will change the way people store, access, enjoy and share their digital content. The FreeAgent® GoFlex™ storage family includes easy, plug-and-play portable and desktop drives, with an array of interchangeable cables and desktop adapters that allow each drive to adapt to the interface or device being used. GoFlex hard disk drives are also specially designed to provide interoperability between operating systems in order to work with both Microsoft® Windows® and Mac® OS X computers.
Macally Phr-100ac Firewire/usb 2.0 3.5-inch Ata Hard Drive Enclosure
AXIOM USB 2.0 to SATA Hard Drive Enclosure
Extra external hard drives are very useful for expanding your computer's capacity to store and retrieve digital data, but when you start to acquire a number of them, they quickly turn into a messy jumble of cases and ables on your desk. Thankfully, many hard disk manufacturers now produce stackable hard drive enclosures that allow you to turn your mess of cables and drives into a neat-looking tower of storage expanding power. Which of these great stackable hard drive enclosures do you like the best?
StarTech.com 1 Port PCI Ultra Wide SCSI Controller Adapter
Toshiba SCSI-UPG UPG SCSI Card for All Surv 8+CH
39160 Dual Channel Ultra160 SCSI Card with 68-Pin External SCSI
Before SATA became the de facto standard, computers used to interface with large, high-speed drives using a SCSI interface. These large, multi-pin interconnects provided significant bandwidth and robust reliability. Because they are phasing out of popularity, you can find large old disc arrays for sale cheap, but then you will need a SCSI card to allow your computer to use them. Which of these SCSI cards would you use?
Two of these technologies are still pretty nascent. The third is not widely supported despite its maturity relative to the marketplace. Which interconnects will win the format war?
HP DVD Writer Dvd300e - DVD+RW drive - Hi-Speed USB/IEEE 1394
Samsung SE-S084C - DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM drive
PLEXTOR 24X DVD/CD Writer Black SATA Model PX-880SA LightScribe
Iomega SuperSlim DVD Portable Writer - DVD±RW (±R DL)
With modern applications requiring so much disk space, and modern media files getting larger with every passing quarter, it's good to be able to take some of your data off your hard drive by making a backup copy onto a writable DVD. Which of these great DVD writers do you like best for storing data off the computer, in a rewritable optical format?
FreeAgent 500 GB External hard drive - 800Mbps(FireWire800)
Maxtor OneTouch 750 GB External hard drive - 800Mbps(FireWire800)
Firewire 800 is a nice, fast serial port standard, and if you have the right ports for it on your computer, you can connect to specialized external hard drives at blazing fast speeds. The standard is definitely more prevalent in the Mac world, while PCs are much more likely to use the USB standard. Which of these great Firewire 800 hard drives do you like the best?
Rosewill USB 2.0 External DVD Writer Model ROD-EX003-LS
Gear Head 24XDVDINTLS DVD-Writer - Internal Dvd-ram/-r/-rw 24X 6X 16X
LITE-ON USB Black 8X External Top Load DVD/CD Burner Model eTAU208
LaCie Portable DVD±Reader / Writer with USB Interface
Sony optiarc lightscribe DVD burner 24x AD-7241S-bk
Lightscribe is a handy feature that allows some modern DVD writing drives to double as disc labelers, using the data burning laser to etch classy designs on to the front of discs that have been treated with lightscribe's special coating. Which of these combination writing and labeling drives would you most like to connect to your computer for making DVDs with flashy labels?
An external 2TB hard drive will provide you with masses of storage space perfect for storing all your digital media, from photos and songs to movies and documents. These great devices are simple to swap from computer to computer using something as simple as a USB cable. Which of these great drives offering huge amounts of storage do you like the best?
Buffalo MediaStation 12x External USB 3.0 Blu-ray Writer
An external Blu Ray burner makes it easy for one to backup many gigabytes of data onto removable optical media. The benefit of an external drive is that you can easily move it from one computer to the next, ensuring that you can access your optical media and backup routines on all sorts of different platforms. Which of these great external Blu Ray burners do you like the best?
