Seagate Free Agent GoFlex 1.5 TB ultra portable hard drive?

bill y

This drive was advertised as being Mac and PC compatible, but the instructions on how to use it are very limited. I want to use it to encrypt and store files from either a Mac or a PC that I can later decrypt and open on either a Mac or a PC. I do not want to use if for automatic file back-up.

Please tell me in detail how I can do this.
Thanks

Answer
truecrypt could work
http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads
idk if its the best but it have support for both windows 7 and os x
i never encrypted a whole drive befor but this is how i used it
i start truecrypt and make a new crypted file (this work as a containter, think of a chest with a lock on it) which you set a password on.
then you use truecrypt to mount the file and type in the password, wrong password and it wont let you on it.
im unsure if you can crypt a whole drive with a simple setting or if you simply have to make a file big enough for the whole drive (well you can make several if you dont want it all crypted)
windows 7 have its own encryption but idk how it works with osx.

you can also read the beginners tutorial here http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/

Seagate GoFlex for Mac Hard Drive?

GoodMan

Is there any difference between the plain Seagete GoFlex for both pc and mac and the Seagate GoFlex for Mac Hard Drive? I know that the latter one has silver color and the former one has black color (with several other color options), and also the latter one is pre-formatted in HFS+ for mac, but is there any other difference? Because those two hard drives differ a lot in the prices and the GoFlex for Mac is much more expensive (for 1TB, Mac version is about $150, while non-Mac version is about $100). If those two are the only differences, then I have no reason to buy the mac version one, since I can just choose the silver one for the non-mac version and format it to HFS+ on my macbook.

Also, is Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Upgrade Cables only available in black color? No silver?

Thanks ahead.
Any hint would be appreciated :)
SilverTonguedDevil // It seems like many hard drive companies make a separate models for mac but usually the only difference is the format (so it is ready-to-go without having to reformat the drive) and maybe the included software. For the Seagate GoFlex, it allows you to switch the connection type as you want, which is why I'm considering this model since I want a thunderbolt supported hard drive but there isn't any yet, while I need a new hard drive immediately (so I can use GoFlex with firewire for now and then get the thunderbolt add-on from seagate when it comes out).
Oh, also, I'm looking at the GoFlex Ultra-portable ones..

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I think the name is more than just "Seagate GoFlex". Can you read anything else on the case, such as "Desk", "Ultra-portable", "Pro Ultra-portable", or "Slim"????? Knowing exactly what you are looking at would help a lot.

At the Seagate site (link below), it shows "System Requirements: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP or Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later operating system" all for the same drive. It also says "Do you use both a PC and Mac? Then you're in luck because GoFlex ultra-portable and GoFlex Desk drives all work interchangeably with any PC or Mac computer." Also, those two have FW 800 that makes for utra-fast file transfer with all Macs except the MacBook Air and recent MacBook white. They also have eSATA for use with Mac Pro and some modern PCs.

There can be differences in case design and in bundled software, but inside there is a HDD, and all HDDs are identical; there is NEVER any PC or Mac type at all, no matter what brand.

The "GoFlex" name seems to be connected with ethernet / Wi-Fi connection ("NAS") drive cases. Those always need a reduced OS to be installed (not Windows, not OS X, a NAS OS). The drive case is really a tiny computer. I am not aware that any of these come with different case types for different computers. You should be able to connect to the drive case from any Windows or OS X system, but the installer may be designed for Windows or OS X, thus you buy the drive that includes the suitable install software. Seagate does not provide a direct link to download the GoFlex software, so DO NOT LOSE THE CD that comes with the drive case. They will send email with a non-public link to the software if you lose the CD.

EDIT: Finally found a FAQ page about the GoFlex for Mac... unfortunately, it is packed with rhetoric, and lacking substance. The only significant detail mentioned is that the software includes an HFS+ driver for Windows in case you want to share the drive with a Windows system. It seems they took this approach as their one "all systems" approach rather than including an NTFS driver for use with OS X (OS X can read NTFS, but needs a different driver such as NTFS-3G to both read and write to NTFS).

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