Segate announced Portable External Hard drive

Seagate announced today a new portable drive in its FreeAgent GoFlex family, the 1.5TB GoFlex Ultra-portable. The drive not only comes with USB 3.0 standard but boasts 1.5TB of storage, making it what appears to be the largest single-volume portable external hard drive currently on the market.

Largest Single-volume portable external hard drive have been introduced by Seagate. The FreeAgent GoFlex family's portable drive comes with USB 3.0 with 1.5TB Storage.

It has the superflexible design as the GoFlex Pro and it can be used with any type of connection be it USB, FireWire, or eSATA. GoFlex Ultra-portable comes with a USB 3.0 adapter, while the GoFlex Pro comes with a USB 2.0 adapter. These two adapters, like all GoFlex adapters, can be used interchangeably.

As GoFlex Pro supports USB 3.0, we need to buy a separate adapter. The GoFlex Ultra-portable is the first portable external drive in the GoFlex family which support USB 3.0 out of the box.As it can store up to 60 high-definition movies the GoFlex Ultra-portable is a perfect companion to the company's networked media player, the GoFlex TV.


It included 21 movie preloaded on the drive. it has to be activated before viewed using the GoFlex TV or your computer. Each movie costs around $10 to $15 to unlock. If you don't want to purchase simply can be deleted from the "Movies" folder on the hard drive.

This drive is preformatted using the NTFS file system (Windows) and comes with a software driver that allows Macs to read and write to NTFS.

The FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra-portable is available now and costs around $250.