Chip Chick: Seagate GoFlex Home Gives Time Capsule a Run for Its Money

Hot on the heels of their new GoFlexfamily of hard drives, Seagate has released their new GoFlex Home network storage system. This device connects to a wireless router so that everyone in your home can easily access files and also backup theirfiles wirelessly and continuously, whether they’re a Mac or a PC. Yes, the concept here is very similar toApple’s Time Capsule. And this centralized storage system is also compatible with Time Machine, but it also comes with its own dedicated backup software for both Windows and Mac. On top of that, the GoFlex Home also lets user stream photos, movies, and music to most network connected DLNA devices – that includes many game consoles, and the GoFlex TV HD media player.

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Ubergizmo: Seagate GoFlex Home Announced

Seagate has been steadily releasing new products, and this new GoFlex Home is for regular folks with an appetite for storage. Available in 1TB or 2TB, it connects via a local network with Windows, Mac computers (Time Machine compatible) or DLNA devices like the PS3. It can act like a media file server where photos, music and movies can be streamed from, and be used like a backup place for home computers.

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Venture Beat: Seagate battles Netgear in home storage servers

Just a week after Netgear introduced a similar product, Seagate is launching its own new family of centralized storage servers for home use.

While this is complex gear, Seagate believes that families need it because they’re storing so much media, from home videos to digital movie collections. And consumers want to access this media from anywhere in the house or while they’re on the road.

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