I usually have good luck with electronics, so I got this drive for it's low price despite several one star warnings.
Twice I've plugged it in to back-up data.
Tonight I plugged it in to run another much-needed backup, and the drive won't power on. All it's done for a few months is sit here unused.
Just hope nothing terrible happens between now and when I can get another backup drive :
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Never ever touch this junk! Hard to believe this design is in production line... think about the heat ventilation grill on the bottom of the base which is always blocked whenever it stands. It takes me 2 month to talk with tech support and have tried more than 20 solutions provided by them and internet to fix the famous "can't read" problem. After 20 up mins operation, the harddrive is overheated and refuse working. I searched on internet: some handy guy even open the cover and remove the light (trying to decrease heat accumulation, crazy...). I really don't understand why this model is still on market. Seagate wants to train its support staff and test their(and customer's) patience?-- this is the only reason I can imagine.
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I've got a pair of these sitting on my desk (with a 1 TB model to back them up). Seeing as my C: drive is only 160GB, just one of these drives serves as a backup of all my important documents and files, plus holds a TON of music, pictures and video.
And because these are so affordable, it's well within reason to have a second one at its side backing up the first.
That's just what I've done and I couldn't be more pleased with the results. These drives are super easy to set up - if you can plug a digital camera into your computer you can set one of these up - operate fast and are nice and quiet. No muss, no fuss, and without bundles of unnecessary bloatware to clog up your system. Just a good, solid hard drive.
Oh, and they're darn spiffy looking, too.
I own THREE of these models and they've all chugged along without a kink. Mine see use for data storage, backups, to serve media to my Xbox 360, and to transport large amounts of data between computers.
Solid stuff. Recommended.
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This was a great buy. The Seagate FreeAgent 500 GB is about the size of a book. Sits on my desk top and takes little space. I plugged it into a USB and it was ready to backup and save me in case of a Blue Screen of Death. I am happier with it than the big unit it replaced. The service and price were just great.Don't lose your files, pics and music the Seagate Free Agent 500 GB will save your butt. I would reccomend this item from this seller to any one
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