Seagate Shatters Storage Market with 3TB External HDD

Seagate is already known as one of, if not the biggest suppliers of hard disk drives worldwide. Mostly, the company managed to secure leadership either by unleashing droves of new devices one after another, or by inventing some new sort of electronic, such as the Momentus XT HDD/SSD hybrid drive. Some time prior to the announcement of this device, Seagate was said to even be working on a 3TB hard drive. What the company unleashed today is not exactly what that report spoke of, but it is definitely a 3TB drive.

The 3TB HDD that Seagate brought out goes by the name of FreeAgent GoFlex Desk and is an external solution that communicates with the PC via the USB 2.0 interface. Basically, it should be able to cram about 120 high-definition videos inside it, though the connection itself won't exactly make copying to and from the unit overly quick. Still, if anything, its maker can, at the very least, claim to have broken a record in terms of capacity.

“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 FreeAgent GoFlex Desk has a 3.5-inch design, is coated black and is bundled with the Memeo software, which performs backup and file encryption tasks automatically. It is already available for order for the price of $250.

“As the definition quality of digital cameras increases, playback devices such as digital photo frames and MP3 players proliferate and the use of the Internet for downloading music and video continues to grow, more files accumulate in the home,” said Kurt Scherf, vice president and principle analyst of Parks Associates. “Consumers who are active in digital media creation and consumption will witness their digital media storage needs grow nine-fold by 2014, driving the demand for higher capacity, easy-to-use storage solutions.”