When its time to back up and protect your digital content--photos, music, documents, and more--it doesn't get much easier than the Seagate Free Agent Desktop 500GB USB Portable Hard Drive. Simply plug it in to any power source, connect the USB cable to any computer, and you're ready to go. This hip-looking hard drive takes up less room on your desk than an ordinary stapler, giving you more space for your other desktop items, but with the capacity to hold the files you need protected. Access to the items on the drive is password-protected, so you can give permissions to whomever you choose without compromising your personal data.
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Rating
Written By nad_masters
Date Written Dec 09 2007
Summary
The Seagate FreeAgent 500 GB hard drive was on sale at Best Buy one day for $99 so I decided to pick it up. I actually needed 2 internal hard drives, but the external ones were on sale for the same price as an internal drive, so I decided to purchase 2...
Strength
None
Weakness
Slow, firmware update failed, cannot use as enclosure
Bottom Line
Run away from the Seagate FreeAgent external hard drives!
Can one ever have enough storage space? I say no, one can always find a use for space and with the prices for hard drive the only thing that seems to be dropping these days, it’s easy to grab an affordable external hard drive for not a lot of green...
Strength
Great performance, attractive slim design; affordable; loads of space.
Weakness
None
Bottom Line
If you want a small footprint, high capacity, affordable external hard drive from a name you can trust, look no further than the SeagateFreeAgent 500GB HHD.
In the world of portable media, it's important to have the storage for whatever files you have. In this particular case, I upgraded from an old Seagate 40GB drive to this newer FreeAgent 500GB. So far, I haven't been disappointed. First, I've shot...
Strength
Sturdy
Reliable
Lots of Storage
Weakness
Don't like the Power Supply
Bottom Line
After dropping this and slamming it, it still works... So I recommend this product. Study, Dependable, and a trusted brand.
Even though I am usually an external drive builder rather than a buyer of the drive itself, after seeing very good deals on the drive and the trust I have on Seagate brand, I decided to try the Seagate FreeAgent Drive. I was able to install the drive...
Strength
Quick installation, cool running, reliable connections and data transfers, and good warranty conditions
Weakness
One-way positioning
Bottom Line
The performance of the drive so far hasn't disappointed me. If you want a reliable, already built external drive, I recommend this FreeAgent drive.
I got mine from buy.com about three months ago, I set it to run every morning at 5am, so I don't have to mess with it. I check to see if it has been doing it's job and it does it. It is great to have it. I will note that if you keep a lot of your...
Strength
Small, works in the background, easy usb connect, easy drag and drop to add files.
Weakness
Does not automatically backup desktop files only from "My Documents" file.
I've had this Seagate FreeAgent for three months. Initially, it worked fine, but lately has been having an intermittant fault where the $Mft file doesn't write properly. That blocks access to all the files on the drive, but I haven't lost any data...
My 500 GB Free Agent also failed about a week after I first got it. My problem was with the interface controller, it would periodically shutdown and then restart. I also had corrupted data, lost a few GB of data. I arranged to send it back to Seagate,...
Just bought it, got home , plugged it in and nothing! dead as a dodo! should have read the reviews here first... won't be getting another - freecom instead I...
Strength
had it worked, I am sure it would have looked great with the yellow led
Weakness
lesson to be learned, buy cheap and live to regret
After I backed up 250GB of data, the power supply failed. I have had this drive for less than a week. Seagate's podcast site also lists a customer who had the same failure. This is still a new drive to the market, so I don't think this problem is being...
I've had my Seagate FreeAgent for several months now and have had no problems whatever. I'm running Vista Home Premium a new Dell Dimension E521 and the drive set itself up so fast I never even saw it set itself up. The unit sits on my desk and is...
