Seagate Announces World's First 4TB Hard Drive

Seagate announced Wednesday the world's first 3.5-inch 4 terabyte hard drive joining in Seagate's GoFlex Desk external drive family. 

The drive, which is available now for $249.99 from Seagate's website, features 4TB of storage and ships with USB 3.0 connections, which is also compatible with USB 2.0. The new announcement will join in with Seagate's family of GoFlex Desk drives which also feature 1TB, 2TB and 3TB storage options. The new form factor of the 4TB GoFlex model will also be seen in the other capacity options "in the coming weeks."

"Yet another industry first for Seagate, we have reached a new high-capacity in the 3.5-inch hard drive form factor. At Seagate, we are committed to pushing the limits of our customers and will continue to adapt and innovate our products based on consumer needs," said Patrick Connolly, vice president and general manager of retail products for Seagate, in a statement. "This latest GoFlex Desk drive offering, with its new industry-leading capacity point, is a statement of our continued commitment to meet consumer needs."

The new massive hard drive is currently only available from Seagate's website for $249.99 but other retail options and configurations are expected soon. As always with the GoFlex family the bottom of the external drive is a removable adapter to customize with different connection types. A GoFlex Desk for Mac is expected to hit Apple stores by the end of September with both FireWire and USB 2.0 options.