Hitachi GST will begin shipping its 4TB-based G-RAID and single-drive G-DRIVE drives with eSATA, FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 ports in October, with the Thunderbolt-packing models shipping in Q4. Seagate's 4TB GoFlex Desk Drive is available from the Seagate site now for US$249.99, with a GoFlex Desk for Mac, which sports FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 connectivity, set to hit Apple stores by the end of the month. The drive is Windows and Mac OSX compatible and comes with automatic backup software for both OS's. A Thunderbolt adapter base is reportedly also on the way (which is definitely something we'd like to see sooner rather than later). The included base features a four LED capacity gauge and USB 3.0 connectivity, but FireWire 800/USB 2.0 bases are also available - as is an adapter base that turns a GoFlex drive into a network drive. In keeping with Seagate's GoFlex line, the new 4TB drive can be paired with an adapter base that can be swapped for bases providing different connectivity options. Works interchangeably between a PC or a Mac ® computer. Simply pair the desktop hard drive with a GoFlex USB 3.0 or FireWire ® 800/USB 2.0 adapter to increase your performance by up to 10 times. Obviously looking to steal a bit of Seagate's thunder - or should that be Thunderbolt - the very next day Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) demoed its own 4TB external hard drives at IBC 2011 in Amsterdam in a two-drive, 8TB, RAID 0, G-RAID unit with Thunderbolt, FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 ports. The GoFlex Desk external drive gives you plenty of storage capacity and its easy to upgrade to any interface you choose. Now on my XP machine the diagnostic tool shows that all is well.On Wednesday, Seagate announced it was shipping the world's first 4TB external hard drive in the form of the 4TB GoFlex Desk Drive, which offers a high speed USB 3.0 interface. I have called seagate helpline for Asia pacific (I live in Australia) but they are not listening to me and telling me to download the seagate diagnstic tools for WINDOWS and run them as they dont have any diagnostic tools for Mac. I took the hard drive and macbook to apple store genius, who looked at it and was unsure what is wrong as the drive worked perfectly fine on one his new 11" macbook air. (I deleted the time machine back up and formatted it so i can check it on my PC) I checked it again the next day and my macbook wont recognise the hard drive, and for some for strage reasons this drive works perfectly fine on my old XP machine but shows the same problem on my wife's work computer (lennovo) running Vista. I tried again and it wont recognise the hard drive, after a few attempts finally my mac recognised the drive and completed the time machine backup. It started doing the backup and after around 75% it gave me an error message as if if i have removed a USB drive without safely ejecting it. I purchased a 500GB FreeAgent GoFLex to use as a time machine backup on my snow leopard 10.6.8
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