Seagate 320GB GoFlex Slim Drive with FreeAgent Software
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 3:44PM
Bob Appleby in Hard Drives, Seagate, Storage, USB, USB 3.0

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Looking for a super small fast USB 3.0, 7200 RPM hard drive to add to your mobile kit bag? Seagate is finally releasing it’s 9mm 2.5 inch GoFlex external HDD. This drive is probably thinner than your cell phone. It has a 3 year warranty and is priced at $99.99. It only weighs 0.356 pounds and measuring 4.91 x 30.7 x 0.354 inches. It requires a special USB cable that is included. It can transfer files at upwards of 40MB/sec when attached to a USB 3.0 system. To put the size into perspective this drive is thinner than a pencil. It is supposed to be shipping now and we do see it SKU’d up now.

The drive will work with both Mac’s and PC’s and the USB 3.0 connection provides speeds up to 10 times quicker transfer times than USB 2.0. The software shipping with the drive includes backup and strong encryption technology.

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