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| Brand: | Seagate |
| Item Height : | 17.5 centimetres |
| Item Width: | 34 millimetres |
| Hard Drive | |
| Hard Drive Size: | 1000 GB |
| Hard Drive Interface: | USB 2.0 |
Technical Details
- Conveniently store all your photos, music, videos and documents in one place
- Enjoy a sleek, modern design that offers the choice of horizontal or vertical orientation
- 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
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Product Description
Product Description
The Seagate FreeAgent family of storage solutions offers a variety of powerful yet simple ways to store, safeguard and easily access all your photos, music, videos, and documents. Choose from a variety of big capacities up to 1.5 TB, and experience the fastest data transfer speeds today with multiple interface options. Environmentally smart utilities help save energy with an auto-sleep mode for inactive periods. Enjoy sleek, modern designs that complement your lifestyle whether you need the ultimate in mobility with the first storage docking station ever, making fumbling cables a thing of the past, or have the never-ending desire to maximize your workspace.
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The Seagate FreeAgent family of storage solutions offers a variety of powerful yet simple ways to store, safeguard and easily access all your photos, music, videos, and documents. Choose from a variety of big capacities up to 1.5 TB, and experience the fastest data transfer speeds today with multiple interface options. Environmentally smart utilities help save energy with an auto-sleep mode for inactive periods. Enjoy sleek, modern designs that complement your lifestyle whether you need the ultimate in mobility with the first storage docking station ever, making fumbling cables a thing of the past, or have the never-ending desire to maximize your workspace.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
42 of 44 people found the following review helpful
So here goes ,
1. Amazon delivered this item 2 days earlier than stated!
The cheek of them free delivery and fast too!
Delivered by Royal Mail no problems there either.
2. I have had a Seagate Freeagent Desktop 500gb since September without problems(touch wood) and due to this decided to go Seagate again with the 5 year warranty as insurance.
The transfer rates are much quicker, the drive took minutes to set up on my PC.
I am currently copying 200gb of video onto the drive with an estimated time of 2hours 35minutes.
This drive is much faster and better looking than the 500gb so I hope it performs as well!
14/2/09
Still going well up to 500gb filled so will be looking to buy a second drive soon ,probably another of the same barring major problems or price drops!
Top marks so far.
3/11/2010
Well just over two years and drive has died, no clicking just dead drive spins and thats it!
1. Amazon delivered this item 2 days earlier than stated!
The cheek of them free delivery and fast too!
Delivered by Royal Mail no problems there either.
2. I have had a Seagate Freeagent Desktop 500gb since September without problems(touch wood) and due to this decided to go Seagate again with the 5 year warranty as insurance.
The transfer rates are much quicker, the drive took minutes to set up on my PC.
I am currently copying 200gb of video onto the drive with an estimated time of 2hours 35minutes.
This drive is much faster and better looking than the 500gb so I hope it performs as well!
14/2/09
Still going well up to 500gb filled so will be looking to buy a second drive soon ,probably another of the same barring major problems or price drops!
Top marks so far.
3/11/2010
Well just over two years and drive has died, no clicking just dead drive spins and thats it!
170 of 182 people found the following review helpful
Simply google "Seagate barracuda 1TB faults" to learn of the huge issue with these drives...you will find scores of critical articles from most of the tech press as well as thousands from affected customers.
My drive died and I lost all my data after a few days with the same "self-bricking" issue whereby your data becomes inaccessible. Spoke with a lovely Seagate lady in California who inadvertently confirmed that it is the same flawed 1TB and 1.5TB drives that are used in these Freeagent series of external drives.
Worse still the firmware update can't be applied to the external drives as the enclosure has to be opened, voiding the warranty.
Seagate won't issue a product recall saying the Firmware update fixes current known problems on the internal drives-BUT THE UPDATE CAN'T BE APPLIED TO THESE EXTERNAL DRIVES AND THEY ARE THE SAME DRIVES, JUST IN AN EXTERNAL HOUSING SO YOU WILL ALWAYS BE UNEASY SO LONG AS YOU USE IT WAITING FOR IT TO FAIL. If you RMA to Seagate they will send a refurbished (and probably faulty according to reviews) drive back. All your data will be lost.
Seagate will not provide free data recovery services and this is very costly. You can only use Seagate's expensive offering as using any other company will void the warranty.
Seagate also reduced the warranty (see their website) on all non-retail pack drives in early Jan '09 to 3 years from 5 (read into that what you will re confidence in their products!) The warranty on OEM drives is just 1yr. I informed Amazon re the false warranty length information on some of their pages but they have done nothing.
My drive died and I lost all my data after a few days with the same "self-bricking" issue whereby your data becomes inaccessible. Spoke with a lovely Seagate lady in California who inadvertently confirmed that it is the same flawed 1TB and 1.5TB drives that are used in these Freeagent series of external drives.
Worse still the firmware update can't be applied to the external drives as the enclosure has to be opened, voiding the warranty.
Seagate won't issue a product recall saying the Firmware update fixes current known problems on the internal drives-BUT THE UPDATE CAN'T BE APPLIED TO THESE EXTERNAL DRIVES AND THEY ARE THE SAME DRIVES, JUST IN AN EXTERNAL HOUSING SO YOU WILL ALWAYS BE UNEASY SO LONG AS YOU USE IT WAITING FOR IT TO FAIL. If you RMA to Seagate they will send a refurbished (and probably faulty according to reviews) drive back. All your data will be lost.
Seagate will not provide free data recovery services and this is very costly. You can only use Seagate's expensive offering as using any other company will void the warranty.
Seagate also reduced the warranty (see their website) on all non-retail pack drives in early Jan '09 to 3 years from 5 (read into that what you will re confidence in their products!) The warranty on OEM drives is just 1yr. I informed Amazon re the false warranty length information on some of their pages but they have done nothing.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
I bought one of these at Xmas 08. Been using it weekly all year without any mishap or niggle. When I connect it to my pc, it gets found quickly (unusual for Vista) and within seconds I'm transferring files. I'm looking at this product and its reviews because I want to get another one. My experience so far: Perfect.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Regret another failed Seagate FreeAgent Desk
Regret I support the previous bad reports as my drive has suddenly failed after less than 2 years use. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Richard Glenister
Only buy if you want to lose your data forever!
Bought one of these around three months ago and it has just failed. It will start to boot up then stop. Read more
Published 8 months ago by diggy
So far, so good. Recommended.
I must have bought this over a year ago. So far it has served me well. It hasn't been used a lot, but I do trust it with my most precious data. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mr. Long H. Lam
Hard Drive
Did not actually use this item as it was not AUTO backup. it was returned for a Go Flex Seagate drive with auto backup software.
Published 18 months ago by Norman SM Moor
Seagate FreeAgent Desk 1 TB usb2
Easy to set up and use. Robust construction and small desk footprint when on side mounting.
Published 19 months ago by Mr. M. R. Philippe
Seagate FreeAgent
Had it for just over a month and it has been very good so far. I wanted it as a back up for photos on Windows 7 which it appears to do very well. Read more
Published 20 months ago by P. D. Brennan
lasted 5 months
Bought in may 2010 , packed up august 2010 along with all the stuff I had on it , have had expert trying to recover data for last 4 days to no avail
Published 20 months ago by aristotle
external hard drive
Had it for a few weeks, so far an excellent product. Ntsc memory makes it easier to transfer large data.
Published 20 months ago by D. jenkins
dont buy
one little drop and the power input port breaks. and when I mean a little drop I mean 45 cm.
Published 20 months ago by Mr. D. Carmichael
AVOID!!!!!
Please, please, PLEASE dont see this review as one of the rare negative ones. Every single person who has rated this drive as 1* has had the same problems as i have. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mike
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