Seagateis known for top - nick international storage , and in Booth No . 308 at Macworld 2011 , the company is showcasing a new line of GoFlex hard drives geared specifically toward Mac exploiter .
alternatively of let in three or four different types of connecter , many of which are never used , Seagate ’s GoFlex driving use adapters to connect to USB , Firewire and eSATA . And while meant to be hybridizing platform , they were formatted as NTFS and therefore more attractive to personal computer users . There was , however , some software include to allow your Mac to put on and use the drive too . If you wanted to hightail it Time Machine on a GoFlex , you ’d ask to reformat the drive to HFS+ .
Expo attendant check out the new GoFlex drive that are geared specifically for Mac drug user .
Expo attendees check out the new GoFlex drives that are geared specifically for Mac users.
But with the newGoFlex for Mac linethat the company declare Wednesday , the tables have been turned — these drives come out of the box ready for Macs and can also mould with PCs without having to reformat the drive .
Each drive amount with both USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 adapter with a miscellanea of sizing . The GoFlex for Mac Ultra - portable come in 1 TB or 1.5 TB , the GoFlex Pro for Mac go from 500 GB to 750 GB , and the GoFlex Desk for Mac comes in at humongous 2 TB or 3 TB sizes .
For some users , the novel Mac - centric setup is a large muckle , as I get more than a few visitors to the Seagate booth gloss that they did n’t know how to format an external campaign . GoFlex for Mac eliminates that step all together , as the drives are pre - formatted with the HFS+ Indian file system used in Apple ’s computers , as well as an HFS+ driver for impart Windows compatibility . Not only does this makes things easier for Mac users who desire to utilize Time Machine straight from the get - go , it ’s exploiter friendly for people who do n’t know the ins and outs of Disk Utility .
away from the fresh Mac - centricity of these Modern GoFlex hard drives , the GoFlex Pro for Mac has one notable feature of speech that its siblings do not — a 7200rpm twisting hurrying that Seagate claim boost FireWire 800 performance by 40 percent . We ’ll see when we try out them at Macworld Labs , but it ’s interesting to see that variety of disk hurrying in heavyset , portable reposition .
