Seagate GoFlex 1.5TB FireWire 800 USB 2.0 Ultra-Portable External Hard Drive for Mac STBA1500100, Silver Hello there, my name is “Rick” and I’m a location hog. (Insert audience stating, “Hi Rick! “) My midsection name is “Nature, ” and I abhor vacuum pressure, or rather an empty disk drive. Give me a new disk drive and I’ll fill it with backups, “temporary” files and almost every other form of digital detritus I will find. (“Why in your blazes did I spend less THAT? “)
Anyway, my main computers usually are notebooks. As any notebook manager already knows, the hard drives are generally small (“But it sounded so big while i bought this! “) and refill fast. They usually aren’t real all to easy to replace. So I’m one of the people that has to dwell with”Warning! You have less as compared to 5% remaining space” messages appearing.
Then there’s the “OMG! I just lost everything” instant. Ok, so that happens more on my Windows notebook computer than on my Mac notebook, but the point still applies.
Since we can’t just add a second hard drive to our notebooks, we have to get external. I have Seagate GoFlex portable drives in silver with regard to my Macs and black for Windows. That makes keeping them straight a breeze.
Any data that I avoid using often gets moved with an external drive on a “Data” partition. I use Carbon Content Cloner (Mac) along with Easus Todo-Backup (Windows) to clone my entire drive with a matching clone partition while on an external drive. Both programs are no cost. Both make it where by I can boot off the external drive and when need, my internal drive to the stage of the last back up.
Here’s where the GoFlex hard disks excel… USB 2. 0 is pretty much standard. USB 3. 0 is becoming regular on Windows machines. Firewire 800 is regular on Macs and Thunderbolt is standard on new Mac pcs. GoFlex drives have easily-removed interfaces. I now have UNIVERSAL SERIES BUS 2. 0, USB 3. 0, eSATA, and Firewire 800 interfaces that may be put on any regarding my GoFlex portable hard disks. There is also a Thunderbolt adaptor but since i don’t have a Thunderbolt slot yet, I’ve not purchased 1. Read the rest of this entry »