Ive had a goflex desk 1tb drive on fw800 for about a year now. I have each of my portable hard drives both the seagate goflex and the other ones ive had from before in a case logic portable hard drive case. Apple shook things up today announcing a new line of superfast macbook pros featuring intel i5 and i7 processors, and yet another peripheral interface. Jun 24, 2011 pc or mac computer running windows 7, windows vista, windows xp or mac os 10. Macworld lab received an early production model of the goflex thunderbolt adapter and we ran a few tests using a seagate 500gb freeagent goflex ultraportable drive with three different adapters. The seagate goflex thunderbolt adapter, compatible with macs running osx 10. Hard drives in seagates freeagent line except for the go pro for mac and the go for mac ship with ntfs, a file system designed for windows. I need help getting the new windows 10 update to detect my networked seagate freeagent goflex home drive. Trouble using seagate goflex home external network storage. The goflex desk for mac external drive helps you take full advantage of your macs time machine backup applicationand it works interchangeably with pcs. My mac can see it no problem so its not a device problem. Access your media library stored on a seagate wire. Seagate freeagent goflex using both a pc and a mac tutorial. Seagate goflex satellite wireless media sharing hard drive.
I recommend you purchase one of the case logic portable hard drive cases from best buy to carry your drive. Trouble using seagate goflex home external network storage interesting not something seagate suggested and would have thought that was the first thing to check. The usb ports are where usb sticks or portable hard drives can be attached the unit will read media off of these as easily as it will off of an internallymounted goflex portable drive. The seagate freeagent goflex tv hd media player is a video adaptor which. Seagate goflex satellite portable drive ditches cables for wi. My external drive is a samsung m2 portable 3 media, 500gb. Quickly and easily browse your media library with classic filefolder view, thumbnails or a range of filters. Thunderbolt according to apples press release, thunderbolt technology enables users to daisychain a number of peripherals via this new interface including monitors, printers, and yes external hard drives. Seagate goflex satellite portable drive ditches cables for. The driver provides read and write access for seagate external drives in windows without having to reformat. It refuses to show up in finder or disk utility, but the drive itself lights up like it is connected. Momentus xt and the macbook prowhats seagate doing.
Jul 03, 2011 but getting and sharing media to all of these many devices starts to become a chore, especially when on the go. Features an illuminated led capacity gauge and supports both vertical and horizontal drive orientation options. Seagates goflex satellite is a 500gb drive with a wifi radio inside. Laptops media streamers monitors networking phones 5g. Macgo free mac media player is a totally free media player for mac os x with high definition of up to 1080p4k video and dts5. This software will assist mac os users in copying media file to a seagate wireless drive. Review of the seagate freeagent goflex net media sharing device. Review seagate freeagent goflex net media sharing device. Macs cant natively write to ntfs so you must install a utility and get a. Always mounts when i start up the imac, stays mounted,unless i unmout manually, sleeps when the imac sleeps, and wakes up when the imac wakes. The seagate media app gives you access to all the photos, videos, music, and documents stored on your compatible seagate storage devices. Goflex drives include a program that will allow you to use the drives on a mac or on a pc without reformatting in between. Macworld lab received an early production model of the goflex thunderbolt adapter and we ran a few tests using a seagate 500gb freeagent goflex ultraportable drive with.
Jul 06, 2010 the usb ports are where usb sticks or portable hard drives can be attached the unit will read media off of these as easily as it will off of an internallymounted goflex portable drive. Using a 500gb seagate freeagent goflex drive with its usb attachment, we first tried reading and writing files from the drive onto our macbook air. Downloaded the seagate media app which is pretty poor it has to be said. If you do format the goflex as an ntfs drive for some reason such as needing to constantly share data between a pc and a macbook pro, the builtin paragon ntfs for mac tool gives you a way to. Seagate external hard drive how to set up on mac macos. Feb 19, 2012 i am using the newest macbook air, mac os x 10.
Also next gen sandy bridge chips could appear in future macbook air, quickertek brings back handle for early 15in macbook pro, and more. Note that an external drive must be connected to your computer before you can select the source folders used for seagate media sync. Seagate goflex media app for windows free downloads and. Sep 21, 2010 seagate updates portable hard drive storage to 1. May 27, 2018 i have a freeagent goflex home drive that is connected to my router via ethernet. Hands on with the seagate goflex thunderbolt adapter. May 16, 2011 goflex satellite lets you access 500gb of movies from your ipadiphone monday may 16, 2011 8.
I might have accidentally disconnected the hard drive without ejecting it first. Seagate media app gives you access to your photos, videos, music, and documents stored on compatible seagate storage devices. It is available to share files to anyone on our network. The goflex slim for mac performance drive is the optimal capacity addition for portable devices with limited storage. Goflex ultraportable drive formatted for mac, goflex thunderbolt adapter, thunderbolt cable, quick start guide, 3year limited warranty. Anyone having problems with seagate freea apple community. Almost all kinds of media formats, like dvd, videos, audios and photos can be played with it. Seagate media sync is a free and crossplatform application that enables you to copy images, videos or music or documents between a device to the goflex satellite or seagate wireless hard drives. But getting and sharing media to all of these many devices starts to become a chore, especially when on the go. Now when i run disk utility and click repair disk it says. The driver loaded automatically when we connected to a inch macbook pro. The seagate drive settings application for macos is included on the goflex for mac series of drives. Freeagent goflex drive software for mac artistsgirlgema.
Apr, 2017 how to set up seagate external hard drive on macbook pro, mac mini, mac laptop, apple computer this process will work with all. Quickly and easily browse your digital library with a classic filefolder view, thumbnails, or using a range of filters. Unlike cloudbased streaming options, the goflex doesnt require you. Devices are wirelessly connected directly to the goflex satellite drive by use of the free goflex media appavailable now on itunes and the apple app storeor a web browser. The goflex desk for mac external drive features a unique adapter that lets you instantly upgrade or change the drives interface for faster transfer speeds. Connect to it wirelessly wherever you are and partake in the movies, shows or music stored within. Seagate promote goflex as being pc and mac supported and time machine compliant, unusually. Seagate wireless seagate wireless plus seagate personal cloud seagate goflex satellite seagate central please visit. Original software for macos that was loaded on the goflex for mac, goflex desk for mac, or goflex pro for mac drive, including the driver for the capacity lights for goflex desk for mac only and seagate diagnostics. In the atto disk benchmark for windows, the seagate freeagent goflex ultraportable drive achieved a maximum read speed of 98. Quickly and easily browse your digital library with a classic file. I have a freeagent goflex home drive that is connected to my router via ethernet. Jan 19, 2015 seagate freeagent goflex desk external hard disk repair and data recovery 9zh9p9 raa st3520a duration. I know the drive is functioning correctly as i can see it and access it from my mac.
This is a way too thorough look at the seagate freeagent goflex external hdd and a comparison to the previous generations. Seagate freeagent goflex home drive not detected with. For firewire 800 testing, we used an apple macbook pro 4,1 with sata ssd and 6gb ram, running windows ultimate 64bit and mac os x 10. After that, i just downloaded the free goflex media app and i was good to go well, almost see below about file formats. Seagate goflex to adapt to apples thunderbolt technology. Seagate freeagent goflex home drive not detected with recent. Seagate goflex to adapt to apples thunderbolt technology apple shook things up today announcing a new line of superfast macbook pros featuring intel i5 and i7 processors, and yet another peripheral interface. Disk utility cant repair external hard drive macrumors forums. The drive is currently connected by an ethernet cable to my router and is available to the network. Unveiled at ces 20, seagates wireless plus won cnets best of ces for networking and storage category for a reason. Things been rock solid as my media drive for itunes.
Access your media library stored on a seagate wireless device, no internet needed access content stored on your seagate personal cloud. I have a macair and a macbook pro for different purposes. Seagate freeagent goflex home drive not detected under. Okay it streams files that are in the correct format, but thats about it.
Seagate goflex external hd not mounting apple community. Goflex satellite lets you access 500gb of movies from your ipadiphone monday may 16, 2011 8. Feb, 2012 recently bought a goflex satellite drive for taking with me offshore for use with my ipad 2. I have been using the drive for about 8 months on my 2008 black macbook running 10. Help with seagate goflex satellite drive macrumors. It seems that seagate are treating the gfs more like a simple storage device, and although the goflex media app lets you get to the files, it sucks as a media player. Macbook pro performance, macbook air a cash cow, trim. Free mac media player best media player for avimkvmp4mov. I had wanted to get a thunderbolt drive for my mac but they were too expensive for me.
Youll experience up to 10x faster performance than usb 2. Since the windows 10 update, my laptop can not see it. When i read that this adapter would work with an existing goflex drive i bought it. It was fine from my windows 10 pc until the update that went in the last few weeks. Seagate backup plus, slim, central,fast, 200gb 300gb 400gb 500gb. Seagates goflex satellite hard drive ditches cables for wifi and a builtin battery and it can stream media to three ipads at the same time. In the time it took to write one very short email, i transferred a 7 gb file. From the manufacturer up to 20x the speed of usb 2. Seagate media quick start guide, installation, troubleshooting tips, downloads. Recently bought a goflex satellite drive for taking with me offshore for use with my ipad 2.
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