Another week, another external HDD from the people at Seagate. This go ’round, it is the GoFlex Turbo taking the stage, positioned somewhere between the GoFlex Slim and Satellite relating to depth. It is the outfit’s first drive to ship with two free years of SafetyNet, which nets you a single data recovery attempt should something go haywire in the course of the honeymoon period. Tucked within, you will find a 500GB / 750GB drive (7200RPM), a USB 3.0 port and support for eSATA / FireWire 800 connectors via an optional interface adapter. Per usual, it’ll hum along just fine on both Windows and OS X, and will be snapped up today at Best Buy for $119.99 / $139.99, respectively. Full release is after the break, and if you are curious, we managed to look consistent USB 2.0 rates of 30MBps to 40MBps (read / write) during our brief time with it.
An Industry First, The hot GoFlex® Turbo Performance Drive Features a Recovery Plan on your Data
CUPERTINO, Calif. – August 08, 2011 – Seagate (NASDAQ: STX), today unveiled the GoFlex® Turbo performance drive with SafetyNet™ data recovery services (DRS). SafetyNet data recovery is the primary recovery service offering by a tough drive manufacturer to be included as component to the acquisition price of an external drive. With the newest super speed USB 3.0 interface and RPMs clocked at 7200, the GoFlex Turbo drive is supplied to deal with transfer hastens to 40% faster than that of its USB 2.0, 5400-RPM siblings. This latest addition to the GoFlex family was developed with the certainty that individuals who place a high value on their data must have the reassurance that their data is much more secure despite what unforeseen incident might occur to the drive. The hot GoFlex Turbo performance drive features two-years of SafetyNet data recovery services and is now available from Best Buy for a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of $119.99 for 500GBs and $139.99 for 750GBs.*
“With this new GoFlex® Turbo performance drive, it’s our aim to offer more peace of mind for the folks who choose Seagate to back up and store their valued digital assets,” said Patrick Connolly, vp and general manager of Seagate’s retail product group. “When our products are used as a backup to a main system and even as supplemental storage, people should know that they are able to get a different layer of assurance that their data shall be there once they need it.
“Seagate is now bringing to market an answer that shelters our customers, who purchase the GoFlex® Turbo with SafetyNet™, from the aptitude thousand-dollar cost of recovering lost files. Seagate is providing an answer so they can now not cost thousands of greenbacks to recover files. SafetyNet™ DRS provide an additional layer of protection in your content.”
SafetyNet™
SafetyNet Data Recovery Services are included with the recent GoFlex Turbo performance drive that offers additional protection inside the event of knowledge loss. Many stuff can contribute to data being inaccessible from a drive and Seagate is now providing a safeguard against mishaps reminiscent of: physical damage to the drive, human error and software viruses. The GoFlex Turbo performance drive includes two years of SafetyNet Data Recovery Service, a service which separately often comes with a cost tag of hundreds to thousands of greenbacks. The SafetyNet service covers one recovery attempt in your GoFlex Turbo performance drive within a two-year period. Seagate’s Data Recovery Specialists will determine whether remote or in-lab service is the way to recover the information.*
*The SafetyNet program provides one data recovery attempt within the first two years after date of original purchase. Not all data can be recoverable. For additional info, see SafetyNet program terms and stipulations at seagate.com/safetynet. SafetyNet service currently is offered only to legal residents folks.
GoFlex® External Hard Drives
First introduced in May of 2010, the family of Seagate® GoFlex® drives and accessories have introduced a brand new level of flexibleness to external storage which has changed the best way people store, access, enjoy and share their digital content. The GoFlex storage family includes easy, plug-and-play portable and desktop drives, with an array of interchangeable cables and desktop adapters that permit each drive to conform to the interface or device getting used . Seagate GoFlex Turbo performance drive and the complete family of GoFlex ultra-portable drives are the primary to satisfy the brand new Universal Storage Module (USM™) specification1. GoFlex hard disk drive drives also are specially designed to supply interoperability between operating systems which will work with both Microsoft® Windows® and Mac® OS X computers.
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