Seagate has announced a new type of hard drive called the Free Agent GoFlex drive that promises to provide more flexibility to users than has ever been available before. Personally, I use an external hard drive to save all the files I use so I can work wherever I happen to be at the moment.

That is why this new family of drive is exciting. Gone are the days of needing to decide what type of drive connection (USB FireWire, eSATA) and make sure you have the correct hardware drivers you need for your operating system before you could even think about purchasing an external hard disk to provide additional or portable storage for your computer. Then you have to format the new hard drive to work with your operating system.

The drivers are built into the cables that come with the drive. Imagine, you can update the drive just by changing the cable adapter. You can upgrade your USB 2,0 to USB 3.0, eSATA or FireWire 800 just by swapping the cable. The system is similar to a 12V universal power supply that lets you connect to any device one of it cables will fit that uses 12 volts.

OMG! NTFS for MAC

Seagate is also adding something it call an “NTFS driver for MAC OS X” that will let MAC and PC users access files that use the NTFS file system so they can actually share files directly. This will be a boon for people in computer graphics fields since many of them use both MACs and PCs as part of their everyday working environment.

Seagate is also promising GoFlex drives capable of displaying high definition content on televisions.

Nice going guys. I will definitely look into buying one of these drives.