Thread: Seagate Free Agent Go-flex Portable analyze

Portable hard drives are a basic product and it’s hard to create them concerning. Accept a notebook hard drive plump it in a bit of plastic with a SATA to USB controller within and presto there’s your drive. If it’s USB 2.0 it’ll read at 33.3MB/s and write at across 29MB/s and if it’s USB 3.0 it’ll read and write at the speed of the automatic hard drive in.

There’s valuable small difference among most external drives which is why we don’t treat all single one to hit the market. But sometimes someone does something new. Last month OCZ slapped a solid state drive in a USB 3.0 enclosure, and it cooked.

Seagate’s mixing it up. The new Free Agent Go Flex drive series proceeds all past the hard drive SATA port onto a detachable controller so the USB 2.0 drive you purchase today can with the increase of a $30 upgrade cable become a USB 3.0 eSATA or Fire Wire drive.

The Go Flex is a plain black bright plastic sheath over a 5,400rpm notebook drive. The cover defends the drive when giving the SATA ports exposed the SATA to USB controllers are clastic and clip instantly to the drive’s SATA ports.

We’re happy sea feather went with standard SATA connecters for its move interface cables rather than some proprietary scheme you can connect your Go Flex drive instantly to your rig’s SATA ports or use the Go Flex's SATA to USB controller to comrade some 2.5-inch SATA drive to your computer via USB. The view of a cheap SATA to USB controller is itself a good motivator to go Go Flex.