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Product Features
- GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt Adapter included
- Lets you take full advantage of your Mac computer's Time Machine software so you can automatically save and easily recover up-to-date copies of everything on your Mac
- Use the drive on a Mac and PC computer interchangeably without reformatting
- 3-year limited warranty
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Up to 20x the speed of USB 2.0 and 12x the speed of FireWire 800
Just connect the Thunderbolt adapter to any Seagate GoFlex drive for high speed data transfer
Featuring Time Machine software compatibility for easy backups
Thunderbolt solutions from Seagate for working at home, or on the go
Customer Reviews
This drive has the same beautiful, soft rubber covered chassis as their other MAC versions that come with their non-thunderbolt bases. It really is fantastic aesthetically; seems like that doesn't matter much, but worth noting.
To make it clear, you need to buy a different Seagate base if you want it to run on USB - this particular version ONLY has Thunderbolt ports.
Interesting that one reviewer noted that one can use their docks to dock other hard drives - at least internal drives. I hadn't noticed before, but instead was always somewhat annoyed that although they use standard SATA ports, the female ports on the actual Seagate drives are actually recessed and off to the side so that you cannot use the drive with a third-party dock, and therefore have to buy their bases, making the whole set up what I term "semi-proprietary".
The bottom part of the actual dock is thinner than their other docks, with the part off to the side (to house the extra circuitry?) That is kind of a shame, but may get smaller with time.
In this case, I was actually impressed with Seagate's online support (I usually don't need help with such matters): when I formatted this to NTFS, I quickly realized that Windows 64bit and even Paragon 2010 (out of date) have all kinds of issues with drives over 2.2TB, and surprisingly, Seagate's website had all the information listed concisely, and offered a free tool to format the drive and it now reads easily on all my Win7 computers. I was in a rush at that moment, so I'm grateful I didn't have to do further research.
Like others have said, I am still a bit skeptical of diving into brand new technologies very early, so I'll let that be your judgment call. I usually give standard drives a four, but I guess I'll go with a five this time because I thought Seagate's support was quite adequate when I actually needed it.
Customer Reviews
Setting this puppy up was, of course, easy. The Thunderbolt adapter makes this drive absolutely fly, I've been using USB 2.0 drives for so long that I was unprepared for the raw speed that I could expect from this drive. 3TB is pretty high up there in capacity too, but of course, the bigger the drives, the more there is to lose (assuming you fill them like I do), so as always, keep backups...and backups of backups.
Aesthetically this thing looks great on my desk, even with the adapter coming out over the side. The surface texture of the drive is indescribable, but it feels really cool and soft, almost like skin, without having any give to it. I actually had my coworkers touch it and they were all impressed (a group made up mostly of engineers who are rarely impressed by anything). Odd, yeah, but if it's going to take up residence on my desk, it needs to provide a little something extra. The single sliver strip up the face gives it a bit of style without being gaudy, or without being so featureless that it provides no visual interest to the space it occupies (take note, Western Digital, you need to step up the game on your boring lumps of black glass plastic).
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