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Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 3TB USB Drive Smashes Through the Ceiling

Seagate today adds yet another new drive capacity - an amazing 3TB - to its GoFlex line of external hard drives. Like its portable sibling , the GoFlex line is a modular drive system that can connect to USB 2.0, USB 3.0 and Firewire 800 base stations available as separate purchases.

The 3.5" 3TB drive, which comes with USB 2.0 as standard adapter, is new and has been equipped with a special MBR hack that allows the device to report to 4K clusters to the host operating systems. Windows XP, still one of the most popular operating systems today, is not able to handle drives past 2.2TB.

The 2TB hard drive has been the size champion for a long time. The new champ tricks XP into reading the drive by altering the MBR table with regards to cluster size. This is only needed to appease XP as Vista, 7, Mac and Linux has long since adopted a new style of partition table that is well past that limit.

So, this breakthrough is sadly only truly a breakthrough in its accommodation of Windows XP. The new FreeAgent GoFlex 2TB is available now with all the aforementioned GoFlex connectivity options for a very reasonable

Source: Lenta.ru