Comments on: Review of Seagate GoFlex Home Network Storage System

By: azbest

azbest — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:01:00 +0000

damn.. thats bad news, i need a drive that can be connected directly to a tv via usb or ethernet cable.. this looks like it could fail at streaming video into a tv if it connects at all.. this is too bad..

By: egon

egon — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:34:00 +0000

Agree. I’ve been on the forum and found out that I guess I was the “lucky” one, that had my NAS goflex storage up and working for 2 months before it started with several issues. Espesially slowly transfer rates. Seagate even manage to trick me into buying a new router and seagates Upgrade Cable — USB 3.0/2.0 which does not work at all by the way. Their tech-support are terrible and they take no responsability for releasing a product that is not proper tested and does not work at all!!! DO NOT BUY!!

By: Fool 4thecity

Fool 4thecity — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 20:48:00 +0000

It is sloooooow. Make a folder and drag in much faster. I have used on Win pc for years. My Win computer drive crash. Restored to my new mac mini flawlessly. Access from anywhere. Wireless to every thing, PS3, iPad, 2 Window pc’s,this thing is cool

By: Phoenix Dad

Phoenix Dad — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:29:00 +0000

I’ve been running the 2TB GoFlex home for 6 months. We
regularly back up a desktop PC and a laptop to it. Actually they backup
automatically, which sometimes adds to the computer and the network load when
it is not convenient. We also store so much that I added a 3TB expansion drive
to the USB. We also use it as a family cloud, which is especially handy with our adult children that live on their own and in different cities. I can be a real time saver to be able to retreive files and documents remotely. We’ve been overall very happy with it.

By: Pmarker

Pmarker — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 06:59:00 +0000

Terrible. Tried to connect to Yamaha Rx-V671 receiver so that I can play my stored music but the Seagate will not recognise it. Is it too much to ask for a simple “plug and play” and not always having to read the troubleshooting pages or websites like this to find out what is wrong with the new technology device I just bought. I HATE technology. Give me a betamax machine and tape recorder any day!

By: Calmado

Calmado — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:43:00 +0000

hi i have seagate 2tb and is working good i got latop desktop android and tv and it work on everything a got windows 7 i can even conect my phone to my drive from the internet

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:41:00 +0000

The Seagate GoFlex Home is just too slow. I am running on wired gigabit network and it took 3 days to backup 500 GB. It issue appears to be the file management. Even a 100 byte takes almost 2 second to backup. The same time as a 100 KB file. Also, does not accept all of the file management commands, so utilities like Microsoft SyncToy do not work. This makes it hard to use other backup software.

By: Lindamoga

Lindamoga — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:11:00 +0000

I have the GoFlex drive installed on my computer and want to access my files from my android phone. I have Goflex app installed on my phone and it asks for the GoFlex Home Name; Unsername: and Password. Where do I find this. I don’t remember if I installed any names to these three catagories.

By: Bert

Bert — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:03:00 +0000

I had the same; it didn’t show anymore in my network. The Seagate wizzard at their support pages kept me busy for a long time, but after they reffered me to Goflex Home Preferences in the Seagate dashboard and Amininistration; Software updates, I updated, rebooted and then it worked again. A crazy way to get the support, but finally it was back in my network. I’m using it to back-up my xvid files, but it’s very slow on wifi and slow with wired cable to router. Not my best choice and just when I started to back up my Seagate Goflex 2 TB hard drive, I can not access it any longer; that drive was just a few months old. No more Seagate in the future……

By: SuzukiJay

SuzukiJay — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:54:00 +0000

This product sucks because it doesn’t work after the first few days of running Win 7, the tech support is useless or apathetic at best, and Seagate does not want to admit that there are software bugs disabling the NAS on certain users’ machines.

I happen to be one of those users.

Firstly, the software interface is slow and clunky when it could have just used a setup wizard to map the drive during setup. Instead, it uses third-party software which doesn’t always work, and when the software fails, the drive is not visible to the system and cannot be mapped manually. Tech support from Seagate has been totally ineffectual in helping me with this issue.

I am very,very angry and feel cheated out of my hard-earned 150 bucks. I am a tech services technician for a big-box computer retailer, and feel that I know my way around my network settings fairly well; I have been wrestling with trying to get this POS NAS drive to work for over a month.

It worked for 3 days, then one day just stopped appearing in my network map, and the Seagate Dashboard software could see my drive, but threw me a vague error code in a dialog box when I tried to access my 150 GB of files I had transferred to it ! DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE: IT WILL SUCK OUT YOUR SOUL!

By: JX

JX — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:16:00 +0000

Should have read more remarks before I’ve bought this device… But OK, just to be fair, there is some good points:

+’s:
Having your own home share-drive with LAN/WIFI
Supposed to have your own wireless printer (haven’t tested)
Able to access to your own files via web browser from outside your home

-’s:
SeagateShare is the most stupid share app I’ve ever used (e.g. cannot access to sub folders)
Super slow (I really mean that… you must be very patient to access to your own files, especially via SeagateShare)
No support from Seagate
Recommended software too expensive (you need 1 license per PC, and app’s are not integrated, means you need to buy several app’s and yet multiple licenses to make it work; unless you know other better software)

By: VincUK

VincUK — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:30:00 +0000

Hey Akajain, Could you please explain why you think this drive sucks? Not saying it doesn’t, but the review on this blog seemed pretty confident that the product was good. I’m actively looking for a home NAS solution with Wifi access and fully compatible with Time Machine / Mac OS X. If you have any other suggestions, please share them!

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:14:00 +0000

Dude I’m Asking my self the same question why te hell did I buy the goflex! Should of just brought the apple extrem base station!!!!

By: Akajain

Akajain — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:14:00 +0000

Dude, do not give false review. Check the seagate forum.. so many people facing issues with this drive… This drive sucks…

I am thinking to myself Why the helll i purchase this

By: Neil Postlethwaite

Neil Postlethwaite — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:59:00 +0000

As with most of these single drive NAS devices, Time Machines etc, if the drive fails in this unit you are stuffed, and could loose everything. Perhaps a GoFlex Home NAS base unit that can snap in 2 or more of the Ggo Flex Hard Drive Modules, running in assorted RAID configurations ?

Like the GoFlex Net Media share device, using the smaller portable drive modulesk, but RAIDed