The CRN Test Center evaluated the Seagate GoFlex Desk, 3 TB storage device. And while nobody will now say that even 3 TB is more than you’ll ever need, this is a product that is designed to replace storage anxiety with big capacity. Now my NAS works like new again and I didn’t have to format the whole thing.Seagate is hoping you can put those memories to bed, at least for now, with the 3 TB of capacity it is providing in its Free Agent GoFlex Desk, a USB-connected desktop storage device that’s designed for significant data storage and PC backup.

Long behold, chkdsk found loads of problems and repaired them without harming the rest of my data. Next, I attached this drive to my PC’s motherboard and ran chkdsk on the disk volume which is surprisingly formatted as NTFS file system. The SATA cable itself needed some trimming work with an exacto knife but that ended up working quite nicely: So I had to digg through my box-o-cables (yes every computer geek’s got one) to find some SATA power adapters narrow enough to fit past the plastic enclosure and reach the sata jack on the drive itself. The thick plastic cover prevents most SATA and SATA POWER adapters from reaching the drive SATA connectors: The problem I ran into with this idea is the proprietary drive enclosure. The idea was to run chkdsk on the drive to see if there were any recoverable file system errors chkdsk could fix. So I ejected the drive from from the base and tried attaching it as a SATA drive to my PC.

Copying data to and from this drive is extremely slow at 6-10mb/sec. When selecting Delete, the system threw a file system error deleting the file.Īccording to the support forums, the only option was to format the entire drive using the web preferences interface, but I did not want to lose all the other data on it. I then accessed the device storage folders using the web based interface and attempted to delete the file this way. It was up-to-date and no errors were logged in this interface whenever I attempted to delete this file using windows Explorer. I accessed the Seagate Dashboard and opened the Seagate web preferences window and checked to ensure that the NAS operating system software was up-to-date.

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