Unboxing the Seagate GoFlex Home Storage System

Yesterday, Seagate introduced the new GoFlex Home network storage system, part of their FreeAgent GoFlex line of hard drives, which we’ll be reviewing shortly but we wanted to give you a few shots of how the device works and how its setup. We’ve got our unboxing photos after the break.

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The Seagate GoFlex Home package consists of a Seagate GoFlex Desk hard drive that connects to a dock where there is a USB port, Ethernet jack, and power connector. It was fairly easy to set up; we plugged the power adapter and Ethernet cable in and it was ready to use in less than 5 minutes after installing the software.

The drive, which is turned into a simplified NAS (network attached storage) device, is accessible via both your PC and Mac, as well as any web browser from a remote location. The system is also compatible with Time Machine, the backup functionality built-in to Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

We’ll have our full review in a few weeks, but for now we’ve included a few more photos and screenshots below.