What do you get when you cross a Seagate GoFlex Satellite and a Verizon 4G LTE WiFi hotspot? Something very much like the 4G LTE Mobile Wireless Storage device Seagate and Verizon are jointly demonstrating today at CES. Seagate was also showing off two Thunderbolt solutions, each a part of their flexible GoFlex Desk or GoFlex Satellite line that add Thunderbolt capabilities to existing products already in the market. Both Thunderbolt solutions offer connection speeds that top at 10Gb/s, letting the drive inside finally reach its full potential.
What do you get when you cross a Seagate GoFlex Satellite and a Verizon 4G LTE WiFi hotspot? Something very much like the 4G LTE Mobile Wireless Storage device Seagate and Verizon are jointly demonstrating today at CES. Seagate was also showing off two Thunderbolt solutions, each a part of their flexible GoFlex Desk or GoFlex Satellite line that add Thunderbolt capabilities to existing products already in the market. Both Thunderbolt solutions offer connection speeds that top at 10Gb/s, letting the drive inside finally reach its full potential.
The GoFlex Thunderbolt solutions shown off today add the full capabilities of Intel’s Thunderbolt to existing Seagate products. The GoFlex Satellite adapter acts as an end-of-line connection, not allowing daisy-chaining more drives, while the larger GoFlex Desk supports that capability. Pricing is a bit high at under $100 for the GoFlex Satellite and under $200 GoFlex Desk, although neither include the pricey Thunderbolt cables that only Apple sells for a high premium right now.
Like the, Seagate GoFlex Satellite, the new device is a battery-powered, has 500GB of storage and can connect over WiFi (b/g/n) with up to three devices like storage-constrained smartphones or tablets. The new device adds an LTE radio, however, so those connected clients can go ahead and connect to the Internet at LTE speeds. There’s no word on whether the hotspot will revert to 3G CDMA in areas where LTE isn’t available, but Verizon is busily rolling out LTE nationwide. No pricing or availability information has been released.
