One of the biggest limitations of tablet PCs in their current incarnation is storage space. Seagate is attempting to rectify this problem with its GoFlex Satellite, an external hard drive that is battery-powered and connect wirelessly to any device that has wi-fi.

Sleek solution

Effectively, the Seagate GoFlex Satellite hard drive allows you to add up to 500GB of extra storage for your mobile devices, from your iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad, to Android devices, and most any other device that requires storage and has built-in wi-fi.

A Mi-fi like solution for storage

Seagate touts one of the big advantages of this device as allowing tablet PC buyers to opt for a device with less storage, effectively saving money, safe in the knowledge that they can store media content externally. And, with it being battery-powered and portable, you can still carry the content around with you.

Very happy, as expected

As is to be expected, the team behind the Seagate GoFlex Satellite external hard drives is gushing about the range. Vice president and general manager of Seagate’s retail group, Patrick Connolly, says: ‘With the GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage, we wished to create an elegant solution that provides real value to the multitude of iPad users out there by delivering a seamless connection to local storage.’

He continues: ‘With GoFlex Satellite, people will be able to carry their entire media library with them without the need for wires or the web at a fraction of the cost of adding 3G or purchasing or a higher capacity tablet.’

Pricing and availability

With the Seagate GoFlex Satellite costing $200 (around £125) for 500GB of external storage, you might be better of just buying a tablet PC with the maximum storage available to you. Given that it’s priced much higher than other external hard drives with the same capacity, we advise you weigh the pros and cons carefully before jumping in.

True to their word that they would keep investing heavily and rapidly in ever-expanding drive capacity, Seagate this week unveiled the world’s first ever external 3TB external drive.

GoFlex that capacity muscle

Called the FreeAgent GoFlex Desk, this world’s first external 3TB external drive is priced at an extremely cheap $250.

Seagate believes increasing demand for HD film downloads will make the FreeAgent GoFlex Desk an interesting proposition for potential customers. At this capacity, Seagate is claiming it can store 120 HD Movies, using 25GB per film as its reference file size.

Why you may not want this

All is not well, though. From an engineering perspective, having not had hands-on time with the 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk, we cannot rule in favour of or against the Seagate drive. The one very serious problem, however, comes in if you, as a potential buyer, consider this as a replacement for all your storage problems, by storing all your data in one place. Not only is there a serious security risk of having that much data in one place, but if your drive goes belly-up, that’s a lot of data to lose. And, even if you can recover that data, you will likely burn a hole in your pocket to do so. Be weary.

It’s good for consumer storage, in general

The big payoff, however, is for storage in general, with this increased capacity likely to depress the price of external storage solutions in general. External hard drive prices are likely to fall across the board. Good on you Seagate, and here’s to hoping the pricing disruption takes place soon.

If a 3TB external drive is too much storage for you, there are a host of 1TB external storage solutions and 2TB external storage solutions available on the market, too.

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