Product Specifications
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| Brand: | Seagate |
| Item Height : | 17.5 centimetres |
| Item Width: | 34 millimetres |
| Screen Size: | 3.5 inches |
| Hard Drive | |
| Hard Drive Interface: | USB 2.0 |
Technical Details
- Conveniently store all your photos, music, videos and documents in one place thanks to large storage capacities of 500 GB, 640 GB, 1 TB and 1.5 TB
- Enjoy a sleek, modern design that offers the choice of horizontal or vertical orientation to complement your desktop environment
- Easily protect your data with automatic backup software
- Keep your important files and folders private with powerful software encryption technology
- Sync content between your FreeAgent Desk drive and other portable drives so you’ll always have your current file versions wherever you are.
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Store all your photos, music, videos, and documents with the powerful yet simple Seagate FreeAgent Desk storage solution.The FreeAgent Desk storage solution includes easy-to-use software that helps keep your information safe and private with automatic backup and encryption of your important files and folders. Environmentally smart utilities help save energy by putting your FreeAgent drive in sleep mode once it has been idle for 15 minutes. Its design is sleek and modern, so you can take advantage of its flexibility to lie on its side or stand upright to maximize your workspace.Count on the FreeAgent Desk storage solution to store and safeguard everything on your PC - and to look really good doing it.
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124 of 126 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
fast, secure, easy software - very happy customer,
By Mr Lewis (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Seagate FreeAgent Desk 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
Software easy to set up - even for the IT illiterate - and not mandatory if you do not want to use it; 5 yr Seagate guarantee worth something to me as I don't want the back up drive to fail; About as fast as USB 2 allows; First back up took ages but subsequent runs much faster as it updates changed files; Keep it unplugged and away from your machine and you have inexpensive "off-site" backup.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Better known as Secret Agent than FreeAgent...,
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This review is from: Seagate FreeAgent Desk 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
Yes nowadays people are obsessed with the size of their Hard Drives, yet few have ever filled them up completely!
Hence the reason I opted for a cheaper 500Gb drive, my internal drive is also 500Gb so in total 1Tb is very sufficient. Non-PC types may find that some reading is required to adjust the preferred way of backing up or syncing files. Persons familiar with iTunes should fully understand the 'sync' method of backing up. Basically there are two options: 1. Backup (Makes a complete backup of the system and subsequent backups will copy only files that don't already exist). If you delete files on the PC the same files will remain on FreeAgent. 2. Sync (You setup which folders you want your PC to 'watch', they are copied to FreeAgent like a backup, however the difference is that any changes to the watched folders performed locally ie. on your PC, will result in FreeAgent carrying out the same procedure. For example, on the PC file A is created, FreeAgent backs up file A, on the PC file A is no longer needed and deleted - FreeAgent then deletes file A. It's not as scary as it may sound and my preference is to go with the Sync option because then FreeAgent retains all the files you really want and deletes rubbish as you delete it - that way FreeAgent is tidy and you don't have to delete files twice. Performance wise FreeAgent does its job, covertly copying files as and when required without causing any interuption to you or your PC system - it's a handy piece of kit. Obviously if you archive a lot of video files then 1Tb may be required but for photos, music and general files 500Gb is plenty.
44 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Seagate FreeAgent Desk 500GB - Fast and works well,
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This review is from: Seagate FreeAgent Desk 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
Whilst this external hard drive can be used to perform regular back ups using the included software I bought it to store things like photos that I don't want to lose or delete by mistake and also to store a back up image of my hard drives - should the worst happen.
Easy to connect up, comes with a two pin and three pin power adapter and a quick start guide. Just connected up the usb lead and the power and it installed itself automatically - pretty simple stuff. Initial image back up of my 320Gb system using Seagate's DiscWizard took less than an hour and a half. Good enough for me and the 5 year guarantee gives real peace of mind.
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