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Seagate GoFlex for Mac and PC External Hard Drive Giveaway

Posted by on Aug 8, 2011 | 47 Comments

The GoFlex series from Seagate offers a flexible external storage solution to both Mac and PC users with a multitude of different connection options available. For example, one Seagate GoFlex unit can connect with FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 ports with attachments available to connect via USB 3.0 and eSATA as well.

The drive runs on power provided by the bus you connect it to, requiring no additional power sources. Essentially, this means you can carry your drive with you in your pocket without any need to worry about a cumbersome power brick taking up space.

Each GoFlex drive is made up of two parts. The first part is a drive sitting within an enclosure. This drive can be either 5400 for standard editions or 7200 in the Pro version. The enclosure itself is fingerprint resistant so you don’t have to worry about very unattractive fingerprints covering it as you hand it off to your friend or coworker.

Seagate GoFlex for Mac and PC External Hard Drive GiveawayThe second part is what Seagate calls a personality cable. This is a single cable that attaches to the back of the enclosure to create a single external hard drive unit capable of plugging directly into another device. The cables included with the Seagate GoFlex varies from model to model, but you are able to purchase any one of them as an optional upgrade. This works to cut overall product costs as Seagate doesn’t need to include a buffet of cables with each drive.

Unlike previous FreeAgent drives, the GoFlex has a three-year warranty. Even though Seagate has shaved two years off its previous FreeAgent warranty plans, this is still a longer warranty period than what you will find on most portable hard drives.

Seagate has generously offered to give one of these drives away to the LockerGnome community. All you need to do to qualify for this giveaway is leave a comment on the YouTube video (above).

  • http://twitter.com/sobercool Eric T.

    Thank You. At the tip of my nose all my life and now you tell me how easy it is.

  • http://twitter.com/bsousmusic b.sous music

    Okay, This is quite frustrating. The option for “action” in my inbox is not there and I can not remove myself from conversation.

  • Anonymous

    Nice gift. The video was great and if you choose me, I would appreciate it. I am a disabled veteran and would be handy for my computers.

  • Zachary McIlvoy

    did you pirillo YouTube!!? it wont let me post…

  • Manish Agarwal

    Excellent video – really like the earnestness, Chris!

  • John Baker

    Dude, I So need a 1.5 T external! If you and Seagate could hook me up that would be a real blessing.

  • http://twitter.com/SF_Living Suzi Kissinger

    love seagate.. love this solution. Sad story, I killed my HD on my HP laptop while in the middle of a client transaction.. :( switched to my MAC, and on the hunt for, finally!, a backup HD. A Free one would work with my budget!

  • http://www.facebook.com/blakeaweber Blake Weber

    Love the seagate products. I have a desktop model and the bus optons are great.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=519317456 John Cone

    seagate is pretty awesome — I have never had any problems with their drives — and CHRIS LOVE the vids — I have been following you from way back in the day like since 1998 a fellow midwesterner (i am from the dakotas)

  • Chuck Cortes

    Chris comes thru as usual. The dude rocks and this drive has enough space to carry all his videos with you. :)

  • http://twitter.com/rockcampbell Dave Campbell

    I could really use one of those.

  • http://twitter.com/fixgadget FixGadget

    I’ll take one. All my drives are Seagate with the exception of a WD Live NAS I picked up for $80 @ BB.

  • http://twitter.com/fixgadget FixGadget

    I cracked open one of my WD Essentials external USB drive I purchased a few years ago and it had a Seagate 250GB drive in it.

  • l m larson

    ooh, I good place to keep all of my art / music / books !!!

  • http://twitter.com/ElviraGallegos Elvira Gallegos

    As an unemployed student, I could really use this harddrive for my upcoming Sound Design class. It would be great to have something like that to hold and store all my class multimedia projects (which take up a lot of space). I love Seagate!!

  • http://twitter.com/JHCDigital Jesse Catlin

    Just got a new Macbook Pro and this would be a perfect accessory!

  • http://twitter.com/mkartchner Michael Kartchner

    Great review, and I am a big believer in Time Machine!!!

  • http://twitter.com/dhubbart Dustin Hubbart

    Please send it my way! I will take it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/wa0zog Mike Miller

    Nice looking drive! I like the form factor, especially for that amount of storage space. It would certainly be a handy addition to the laptop bag.

  • Raven-Christopher Richardson

    Sounds great!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=568030957 Dan Reain

    Thanks, please put me in the running!

  • http://twitter.com/computerbugg Ken Buxton

    Add me

  • Abel Luna

    Awesome. Giveaway

  • Sarah Doxiadis

    Chris,

    Giveaways and discounts really help your fellow geeks have useful geek tools, and give them the hands-on experience to try new products and spread the good words to the less geeky. Thanks to you for sharing. (Well, yes, this is a bit of a suck-up, but I really mean it! I wouldn’t say so if I didn’t think highly of both the man and the brand currently in discussion.)

    Ahh, love those self-powered drives! Just got a new (refurb) iMac and really need to replace my ageing Seagate wall-powered backup with a self-powered one that I could attach to my Airport Extreme. At last, my tiny, cramped desk would have some space on it! (I keep the Airport Extreme up on a dedicated “wireless” shelf above my desk.)

    I could use the older Seagate drive as a dedicated backup to my BootCamp volume, which needs less storage space and right now gets backed up a bit haphazardly onto a groaning thumbdrive.

  • Anonymous

    that would look sweet on my desk!!

  • http://twitter.com/techrob53 Robert Kimball

    Awesome, and no better deal than FREE.

  • Anonymous

    Yes please. Great video Chris. Thanks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/piscitell Jon Piscitell

    I could really use the drive. Mine just died, luckily I was able to back the data up to my friends computer but now he wants his space back.

  • http://twitter.com/Poochiepants David Boyer

    I was listening to some Daft Punk while I was watching your video. Good mashup.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=704780586 Rachel Jenkins

    Sweet! Nice giveaway. I would love to win this for my friend.

  • http://twitter.com/MJHProduction Mark J Hewitt

    Hey Chris,

    Great drive would love it :-) I just sold my T2i and purchased a new T3i and thought I would share with you that you can only record videos for 12 mins due to over heating and 4 gb file size limitation. So if you don’t mind recording and then shutting off your camera and then turning it back on then its a great camera.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UQWQX4CR6D75J7NVWU6NJSPUY4 Eddie Shafer

    Thanks for sponsoring the giveaway!

  • http://twitter.com/gemelv George M.

    This old guy would really like that great piece of technology. Thanks Chris.

  • http://twitter.com/BrijeshMehetre Brijesh Mehetre

    Give it to me.. I need it..

  • http://www.facebook.com/ag.wright1 Allen Wright

    Nice size for a portable drive. I’m still trying to fill my 350 gig drive.

  • Ronald Gerard

    Have One Of these, smaller tho; NOT a bad drive as external.

  • Anonymous

    Please give it to me; I am in need of a means of storage for ‘all’ my music and photographs. This harddrive is amazing and so compact. Very good explanaiton Chris. Thumbs up to you.

  • Robin Potter

    Wow Chris! The drive would be a great addition to my network and allow me to have extreme storage for all of my videos, photos and other graphics.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7XOXRXB4UWXJWO7JMTBCH73QQU R

    Been needing a new external drive. Had concerns about Seagate Drives. However, this sounds like a terrific drive and investment. Thanks Chris!

  • Anonymous

    Have save a lot of your newsletters and links. Ineed a place to put them. Put me in the running

  • http://www.facebook.com/digitalrico Ricky Cardio

    cool! i need this!

  • Adrion Winterhart

    I really like the idea of a external without needing a power supply as well. In school for Interactive Media Design, so extra storage space would awesome. Yes, use the camera. Give one away too!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002401708123 Kyle Stodard

    I really love it and I hope I get it for my Mac. I am a student that works on movies and my old verbatim (NEVER BUY VERBATIM!!) Broke and would love to get this for my Mac.

  • Anonymous

    Hi Chris:

    Nice job on the video. It’s amazing how much storage you can get now. By the way you never seem to age….you look the same as when I first saw you long ago!

  • John Crudden

    I like the idea of a giveaway. It perks my interest. The video explained the drive very well. Even if I don’t get a free one, I will look to purchase one. John.

  • Jack Pangborn

    Most assuredly a positive comment

  • http://www.facebook.com/stepanik Aaron Stepanik

    Never had any NAS device before. Would be nice to get something to try.