External hard drive capacities become bigger and now has reached three terabytes. Seagate became the first manufacturer to produce hard drives with that capacity by releasing 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk, Tuesday (06/29/2010).
With that much capacity, the owner can use it to store HD video files up to 120 movies, 1500 video game titles , thousands of photos, or music files for hours. Actually three terabyte or 3000 gigabytes was far above the average requirement for personal storage media which, according to Parks Associates research is only 900 GB in late 2014 . However, these needs continue to rise because of the increasing trend of multimedia needs. The more video quality and good movie quality HD and 3D technologies so that need greater storage capacity.
3TB GoFlex supports Microsoft Windows operating system and Apple Macintosh. The interesting thing is that this external hard drive already equipped with NTFS driver for Mac so that the files are stored can be read in its entirety either when used on Windows-based computer or Mac OS X. In addition, this product is very easy to adapt to the needs of data transfer according to availability whether it is a USB 2.0 interface, USB 3.0 or FireWire 800.
Practical size with a width of 3.5 inches and can be installed vertically or horizontally. GoFlex 3TB. Selling price is around 250 U.S. dollars.