Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 500 GB 3.5" USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 500 GB 3.5" USB 2.0 External Hard Drive | FreeAgent 500GB

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	Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 500 GB 3.5" USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Seagate Seagate average customer review:based on 187 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

With a footprint no bigger than a stapler, the Seagate FreeAgent is an external desktop hard drive that can fit anywhere. The FreeAgent is designed to conveniently hold all of your digital content in one place. This drive can hold 500GB worth of data and is ready to go as soon as you plug it in. Mac Compatibility - Power PC G3, G4, or G5 running OS X 10.3.9 (or higher), or Intel Core Duo or Core Solo running OS X 10.4.6 (or higher) (drive is formatted NTFS, you will need to reformat for Mac using Disk Utility) 5-Year Limited Manufacturer Warranty Unit Dimensions - 7.5 (h) x 1.6 (w) (w/o 3.2 base) x 6.4 (d)

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Great product and buy.

I am very satisfied with the Seagate FreeAgent hard drive I purchased. I got great service, quick delivery, and a great price. I have several Seagate drives and have yet to have a problem with any of them. I would recommend this drive very highly.

FreeAgent 500GB

This deal was pointed to in a Twitter post by Dave Winer, and I am grateful for his direction. Well spotted!

Good Drive

Purchased this drive from amazon some months ago; so I've had plenty of time to learn the drive/features.

Noise - the drive is totally silent. My PC is watercooled, so no fans to mask any noise; the drive is just very quiet. This I enjoy.

Energy Savings - drive by default will sleep when not used for a period of minutes, takes about 10 seconds to spin up when you want to access it. Draw is ~10-14w when being used; much less than many other USB2.0 drives.

Stability of transfer speed - I use the drive for large files 1-2GB mostly, 5GB takes about 25 seconds; excellent.

No negatives whatsoever to mention, completely happy with the drive.

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A Perfect Drive For The Price!

Just a quick review of one of the best purchases I've made on Amazon.com! The Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 500GB external hard drive was incredibly easy to set up and has not given me one bit of trouble! I have used it 10-12 hours a day consistently since I installed it over 6 weeks ago and it has been a huge help to my work. The compact 3 and 1/2 inch design fits perfectly at my desk and looks great! At this price I definitely got the bang for my buck that I was looking for!

Great value but buggy sleep mode.

I bought this in April and it as worked fine except for chronic EventID 51 errors (An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\D during a paging operation) in WinXP when it wakes from sleep mode. Sleep defaults to every 15 minutes the drive is idle and the error occurs when the drive wakes. Seagate support offered little help other than suggesting that I disable sleep mode. That fixes the issue but leaves the feature unavailable.

Another unexpected glitch was that the workstation to which I attached the drive took a very long time to boot after I added this drive. Disabling USB legacy support on the BIOS setup fixed that, but I would have to reinstate that feature if I ever wanted to boot from this drive or access it outside of windows.

On the plus side, this drive works great with the free Seagate DiscWizard software which is a stripped down version of Acronis TrueImage that you can download for free. It's very useful for imaging drives and I have images of four different computers stored on it. Also it's fast enough to be able to comfortably view video movies that are stored on it. And with an Amazon promotion for $15 off any purchase more than $100, this was a true bargain.

I'm reasonably satisfied and it's a good value, but if I had to do it over again, I would seriously consider opting for a true network drive instead of USB.

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