Seagate FreeAgent 500 GB 3.5-Inch USB 2.0 Hard Drive ST305004FDA1E1-RK
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Customer Review: Reliable, fast, dependable hard drive.
Summary: 5 Stars
After going through a number of hard drives, all of which work without problems, my favorite design is this new Seagate "Free Agent" line, which haa a compact and attractive form factor. Prices are highly competitive; consider their even larger 750Gb unit in this line; you always need more storage than you think. It's only a matter of time before 1TB and larger show up in this same attractive form factor; the mind boggles at such capacity, but if one stores music and video it is quickly absorbed. The pricing is almost as low (and still falling) as storing on good quality DVDs, even in compressed DivX format, and the convenience makes it good value. Imagine storing many hundreds of movies or music albums in such a compact physical format.Customer Review: Seagate FreeAgent External Hard Drive
Summary: 5 Stars
In this age of digital photography, hard drives are filling up faster than ever before. Even a 100 gigabyte hard drive which,only a few years ago,would have been considered huge,fills up with amazing rapidity. CD's and DVD's,although useful to an exent for storage do have their limitations. The optimal solution,to date,for the storage dilemma is the external hard drive. Organization of data (including photos) is a breeze and the Seagate FreeAgent 500 GB External Hard Drive not only fills the bill for now, but for many years to come as well. If they do have their problems, I have not experienced them as of yet. I can wholeheartedly recommend this problem as a viable solution to anybody's data,including photo,storage needs.
Dave
Customer Review: Good,Fast, and Inexpensive Solution for Storage
Summary: 5 Stars
I find the Seagate FA 500GB to be easy to use and quickly backed up the files on my 2 computers. That's what I needed and thats what I got. You can keep it connected to do a daily update. I just hook it up from time to time, click on the latest document and photo folders I've accumulated and in less than a minute it's done. Feels much safer knowing I've got all that info stored somewhere other than the computer. In my son's world- the world of late teens and early 20's, there seems to be some real threats to a person's hard drive. He has the same Seagate and uses it more often than not to reload his entire load of files after someone or something crashes his computer online. Mean world out there. Good to have one of these.Customer Review: Still works
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this on Black Friday of 2008 (nov.-dec. 2008) and it still works fine for me. I've read the walls of comments saying that it's breaking down all over the world and bringing dismay into the universe, but so far it's been a good companion that I hope doesn't backstab me.
I'm in college and I use this to store my games, documents, and "pictures". So I also have to carry this in my backpack when I go home, and it's a mildly bumpy trip. But like I said, it still works fine and it's half full.
I suppose an important tip is to give it a lot of space so that it can be air cooled. This is a general tip anyways as you should never put any computers and accessories in closed, cramped places.
Customer Review: Good Drive
Summary: 5 Stars
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.