The Seagate GoFlex line seems to be an ever expanding thing, and that’s a good thing as it becomes more versatile and usable through each new product that comes out. The new GoFlex Home is similar to the GoFlex Net that I reviewed not long ago actually, but it’s using bigger drives like 1tb or 2tb sizes and has a different purpose I think. The GoFlex home is meant to be a centralized home based server for backups and media sharing.

Seagate today unveiled the newest addition to its GoFlex™ family of hard drives—the

 

Available in 1TB and 2TB capacities, the GoFlex Home storage system provides plenty of room to help safeguard precious digital memories for the whole family and is ideal for use with home laptops, netbooks, or other devices with limited storage. Unlike other single-drive network solutions, its modular design also enables the included drive to be upgraded when needed by simply removing the drive from the base (no tools required) and replacing it with a higher capacity GoFlex™ Desk hard drive. Families can also add more storage to the GoFlex Home system by simply connecting additional drives to the USB port. Additionally, this same USB port can be used to wirelessly share a USB printer with every computer on the network.

The new GoFlex Home network storage system can be purchased on Seagate.com and select retailers for a suggested retail price of $159.99 for 1TB and $229.99 for 2TB.