Seagate GoFlex Desk USB 3.0
This is not a question. Just FYI. It took me days of screwing around with the my new Seagate GoFlex Desk 2 TB USB 3.0 drive (hooked up to a 2009 iMac running OS X 10.7.3 and only has USB 2.0) which I am using as a Time Machine backup to figure out why it does not work. Finally found the answer in Seagate's own forums. Apparently Seagate drivers for the USB 3.0 is not compatible with a Mac with an USB 2.0. A number of problems: finder lock up, Time Machine not able to find the disk, once found, the backup hangs at "preparing for backup", etc. The solution is to use Find Any File (shareware) to find Seagate drivers (I found and deleted all files that contained Seagate) and delete them all (then empty the trash, eject the HD and restart, then reconnect the HD) and let Mac use its own drivers. Works find now. If you are planning on buying a Seagate USB 3.0 drive, be aware. Costco is selling the 2 TB drive for $109, which is a great price but make sure you do the above after reformatting the drive to HFS+ format or it won't work with your Mac. I can't believe Seagate has not said much about this at all. Thank God for forums.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 14 GB RAM
