Given the fact that multimedia files are getting bigger and bigger these days (just take a look at those high-resolution photos or HD movies you've just recorded and you'll see exactly what we're talking about), the need for extra storage space has become more and more dire lately. And in order to quench the users' “thirst” for more GBs and TBs, Seagate has just announced the world's largest external HDD, which offers an impressive 3TB of available storage space.

A key addition to the company’s recently introduced GoFlex family of hard drives, the 3TB GoFlex Desk external drive couples immense capacity with the flexibility to adapt the drive’s USB 2.0 interface to a USB 3.0 or FireWire 800 connection to meet varying performance and transfer speed needs. Plus, this large-size HDD is quite a sight for sore eyes, since its sleek black, 3.5-inch design sits either vertically or horizontally to accommodate any desktop environment.

It's also important to point out the fact that consumers can easily create, store and access content from either a Windows or Mac OS X computer on the GoFlex Desk external drive, thanks to an included NTFS driver for Mac.

“Consumer capacity demands are quickly out-pacing the needs of business as people continue to collect high-definition videos, photos and music,” said Dave Mosley, Seagate executive vice president of Sales, Marketing and Product Line Management. “Seagate has a tradition of designing products that break into new storage frontiers to meet customer requirements and the 3TB GoFlex Desk external drive is no exception–delivering the highest-capacity storage solution available today.”

The 3TB GoFlex Desk external drive with USB 2.0 adapter can be purchased for $249.99 via Seagate's usual channels, which makes it an extremely appealing offering, if we are to take into account the price/GB ratio.


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