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Seagate FreeAgent Go 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive ST905003FAA2E1-RK (Black)

Seagate : ST905003FAA2E1-RK
Price : $103.99
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"User friendly software way better than Verbatim Clon, only does autobackup 1x a day, not all the time" 2010-07-17
By Andrew M.
I got rid of my Verbatim Clon because the Nero software was horrible and I couldn't figure out how to autobackup certain files with it. Seagate makes that super easy, so I'm happy about that. The Nero did have autobackup all the time-- in other words, every time you worked on a file, the Clon could back it up immediately, if you can figure out its dreadful software that is. Seagate implies you can do that when you buy it but it doesn't. It only backs up once a day, or if you ask it to right now. Ok, that bugs me. Other than that, the software and installation is very easy to use and light years better than the horrible klutzy computer programming language style Nero software on the Clon. So I'm very happy about that. On the Verbatim & Nero, it didn't even specify what folders or files to click on to install itself fully or activate the system. I had to guess and poke around, that's stupid. Then once installed, the Verbatim Clon software used un-user friendly language like 'specify target path', and when you tried to get the autobackup function going gave you some folders to click on that didn't correspond to my files and didn't allow me to specify files. Useless. Verbatim also claimed you could burn music and implied you'd get some of the Nero music software, false advertising-- their unit had nothing of the kind whatsoever. In contrast, Seagate gives you a software program in the package, muvee reveal, that allows you to do music and video burning and fiddle with it a bit. Nothing too fancy whatsoever, I have the freeware CDBurnerXP for music which is far superior to my Windows Media on my computer and far superior to this muvee thing, but hey, after what Nero put me through, I'm pleased to see Seagate gave me what I had hoped for there. So if I want to burn music on the hard drive that makes it a bit easier, cool. I can't stress how important it is though to have easy software to manage the backups, at least to me, and I'm pretty computer savvy. With Verbatim, I had to guess a lot and look at their badly written help function until I decided that was ridiculous. With Seagate, no problems there. Put the thing on, and then it pops up all the steps to install easily and then the software guides you on what to do in each function in easy to understand English, and you can choose what files you want to back up properly, unlike Verbatim. That's excellent. Now I'm still not sure about keeping this one since it doesn't have a constant autobackup function, on the other hand, a daily backup is pretty good, but I have to consider how bothered I'd be if the computer went down and I had to redo a day's worth of work. C'mon Seagate, couldn't you have put the all the time autobackup feature on this? Then you'd have the ideal product. I'm giving it 3 stars (really 3 and 1/2) because of that instead of 4 stars.

Seagate FreeAgent Go 1 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive ST910004FAA2E1-RK (Tuxedo Black)

Seagate : ST910004FAA2E1-RK
Price : $155.99
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"User friendly software way better than Verbatim Clon, only does autobackup 1x a day, not all the time" 2010-07-17
By Andrew M.
I got rid of my Verbatim Clon because the Nero software was horrible and I couldn't figure out how to autobackup certain files with it. Seagate makes that super easy, so I'm happy about that. The Nero did have autobackup all the time-- in other words, every time you worked on a file, the Clon could back it up immediately, if you can figure out its dreadful software that is. Seagate implies you can do that when you buy it but it doesn't. It only backs up once a day, or if you ask it to right now. Ok, that bugs me. Other than that, the software and installation is very easy to use and light years better than the horrible klutzy computer programming language style Nero software on the Clon. So I'm very happy about that. On the Verbatim & Nero, it didn't even specify what folders or files to click on to install itself fully or activate the system. I had to guess and poke around, that's stupid. Then once installed, the Verbatim Clon software used un-user friendly language like 'specify target path', and when you tried to get the autobackup function going gave you some folders to click on that didn't correspond to my files and didn't allow me to specify files. Useless. Verbatim also claimed you could burn music and implied you'd get some of the Nero music software, false advertising-- their unit had nothing of the kind whatsoever. In contrast, Seagate gives you a software program in the package, muvee reveal, that allows you to do music and video burning and fiddle with it a bit. Nothing too fancy whatsoever, I have the freeware CDBurnerXP for music which is far superior to my Windows Media on my computer and far superior to this muvee thing, but hey, after what Nero put me through, I'm pleased to see Seagate gave me what I had hoped for there. So if I want to burn music on the hard drive that makes it a bit easier, cool. I can't stress how important it is though to have easy software to manage the backups, at least to me, and I'm pretty computer savvy. With Verbatim, I had to guess a lot and look at their badly written help function until I decided that was ridiculous. With Seagate, no problems there. Put the thing on, and then it pops up all the steps to install easily and then the software guides you on what to do in each function in easy to understand English, and you can choose what files you want to back up properly, unlike Verbatim. That's excellent. Now I'm still not sure about keeping this one since it doesn't have a constant autobackup function, on the other hand, a daily backup is pretty good, but I have to consider how bothered I'd be if the computer went down and I had to redo a day's worth of work. C'mon Seagate, couldn't you have put the all the time autobackup feature on this? Then you'd have the ideal product. I'm giving it 3 stars (really 3 and 1/2) because of that instead of 4 stars.

Seagate FreeAgent Go 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive ST905003FGA2E1-RK (Silver)

Seagate : ST905003FGA2E1-RK
Price : $103.99
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"User friendly software way better than Verbatim Clon, only does autobackup 1x a day, not all the time" 2010-07-17
By Andrew M.
I got rid of my Verbatim Clon because the Nero software was horrible and I couldn't figure out how to autobackup certain files with it. Seagate makes that super easy, so I'm happy about that. The Nero did have autobackup all the time-- in other words, every time you worked on a file, the Clon could back it up immediately, if you can figure out its dreadful software that is. Seagate implies you can do that when you buy it but it doesn't. It only backs up once a day, or if you ask it to right now. Ok, that bugs me. Other than that, the software and installation is very easy to use and light years better than the horrible klutzy computer programming language style Nero software on the Clon. So I'm very happy about that. On the Verbatim & Nero, it didn't even specify what folders or files to click on to install itself fully or activate the system. I had to guess and poke around, that's stupid. Then once installed, the Verbatim Clon software used un-user friendly language like 'specify target path', and when you tried to get the autobackup function going gave you some folders to click on that didn't correspond to my files and didn't allow me to specify files. Useless. Verbatim also claimed you could burn music and implied you'd get some of the Nero music software, false advertising-- their unit had nothing of the kind whatsoever. In contrast, Seagate gives you a software program in the package, muvee reveal, that allows you to do music and video burning and fiddle with it a bit. Nothing too fancy whatsoever, I have the freeware CDBurnerXP for music which is far superior to my Windows Media on my computer and far superior to this muvee thing, but hey, after what Nero put me through, I'm pleased to see Seagate gave me what I had hoped for there. So if I want to burn music on the hard drive that makes it a bit easier, cool. I can't stress how important it is though to have easy software to manage the backups, at least to me, and I'm pretty computer savvy. With Verbatim, I had to guess a lot and look at their badly written help function until I decided that was ridiculous. With Seagate, no problems there. Put the thing on, and then it pops up all the steps to install easily and then the software guides you on what to do in each function in easy to understand English, and you can choose what files you want to back up properly, unlike Verbatim. That's excellent. Now I'm still not sure about keeping this one since it doesn't have a constant autobackup function, on the other hand, a daily backup is pretty good, but I have to consider how bothered I'd be if the computer went down and I had to redo a day's worth of work. C'mon Seagate, couldn't you have put the all the time autobackup feature on this? Then you'd have the ideal product. I'm giving it 3 stars (really 3 and 1/2) because of that instead of 4 stars.

Seagate Barracuda 7200 1.5 TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST31500341AS-Bare Drive

Seagate : ST31500341AS
Price : $199.99
Offer Price : $84.99

"Freed up lots of space. Love it." 2010-07-17
By A. Inthisane (High Point , NC)
I got this hard drive cause i was running out of space. Now I have plenty to put all my photos and videos. Hope it last long. Seems to be good so far so good. Noise level is low. Speed is fast. My C drive was running at 25% free space. So my pc was running slow. I got this drive and moved all my big files over to it so I can free up some space on C drive. Cleaned C drive, Defrag it and it's running fast again. I love it. I highly recommend it.

Seagate FreeAgent Desk 1 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive ST310005FDA2E1-RK (Silver)

Seagate : ST310005FDA2E1-RK
Price : $129.99
Offer Price : $84.25

"Lemon" 2010-07-19
By Nate
This hard drive worked out of the box, but as soon as I started to transfer data to it, a never ending string of clicking sounds started up. I contacted Seagate customer service and was told that this drive needed to be exchanged. I did a little research on Seagate's recent hard drives and there are nothing but terrible experiences from this respected hard drive manufacturer. One person had 3 out of 5 drives fail. I've taken a manufacturing statistics class before, and these kind of odds are not coincidence, unless they have zero quality control measures to prevent such bad batches from reaching the public.

Seagate FreeAgent Go Dock 100521233

Seagate : 100521233
Price : $37.99
Offer Price : $3.99

"FreeAgent is good for scheduled backup" 2010-06-18
By Parker Hallam (Dallas, TX)
For a scheduled back up it is best to have a Seagate FreeAgent Go Dock. For one, there are not much wires hanging out of my desktop, which makes my desk less messy these days. My FreeAgent Go drives work fine without this, but I paid price for an organized and clean desk. It is so compact that you'll hardly notice it is there. The PC would need two USB ports to have this dock station work but this Go dock has just one USB cable. The problem was, however, with my PC being old. For the new one, this USB cable was sufficient. The dock station came with a leather case as advertised but it doesnt look good. Not to flaunt. I have ordered for the silver though I preferred a black.

Seagate Expansion 1 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive ST310005EXA101-RK

Seagate : ST310005EXA101-RK
Price : $103.99
Offer Price : $79.99

"1.5tb seagate expansion drive" 2010-07-12
By Raymond (Danbury, CT, US)
i have a total of 7 expansion drives.i recommend Seagate Go for game play and videos even storage but use the seagate expansion 1.5tb as a backup to save everything in case a smaller drive ever crashes.only negative about the expansion drive is uses a separate power source and sometimes reading or watching video clicks and the video freezes for a moment where the smaller 500g seagate gos never have this happen.so i use it for backup.still a good drive though.i use smaller drives like 250 for game play so i keep the main pc very clean and plug in what i want to use at that time.

Seagate FreeAgent Go 640 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive ST906403FAA2E1-RK (Tuxedo Black)

Seagate : ST906403FAA2E1-RK
Price : $139.99
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"User friendly software way better than Verbatim Clon, only does autobackup 1x a day, not all the time" 2010-07-17
By Andrew M.
I got rid of my Verbatim Clon because the Nero software was horrible and I couldn't figure out how to autobackup certain files with it. Seagate makes that super easy, so I'm happy about that. The Nero did have autobackup all the time-- in other words, every time you worked on a file, the Clon could back it up immediately, if you can figure out its dreadful software that is. Seagate implies you can do that when you buy it but it doesn't. It only backs up once a day, or if you ask it to right now. Ok, that bugs me. Other than that, the software and installation is very easy to use and light years better than the horrible klutzy computer programming language style Nero software on the Clon. So I'm very happy about that. On the Verbatim & Nero, it didn't even specify what folders or files to click on to install itself fully or activate the system. I had to guess and poke around, that's stupid. Then once installed, the Verbatim Clon software used un-user friendly language like 'specify target path', and when you tried to get the autobackup function going gave you some folders to click on that didn't correspond to my files and didn't allow me to specify files. Useless. Verbatim also claimed you could burn music and implied you'd get some of the Nero music software, false advertising-- their unit had nothing of the kind whatsoever. In contrast, Seagate gives you a software program in the package, muvee reveal, that allows you to do music and video burning and fiddle with it a bit. Nothing too fancy whatsoever, I have the freeware CDBurnerXP for music which is far superior to my Windows Media on my computer and far superior to this muvee thing, but hey, after what Nero put me through, I'm pleased to see Seagate gave me what I had hoped for there. So if I want to burn music on the hard drive that makes it a bit easier, cool. I can't stress how important it is though to have easy software to manage the backups, at least to me, and I'm pretty computer savvy. With Verbatim, I had to guess a lot and look at their badly written help function until I decided that was ridiculous. With Seagate, no problems there. Put the thing on, and then it pops up all the steps to install easily and then the software guides you on what to do in each function in easy to understand English, and you can choose what files you want to back up properly, unlike Verbatim. That's excellent. Now I'm still not sure about keeping this one since it doesn't have a constant autobackup function, on the other hand, a daily backup is pretty good, but I have to consider how bothered I'd be if the computer went down and I had to redo a day's worth of work. C'mon Seagate, couldn't you have put the all the time autobackup feature on this? Then you'd have the ideal product. I'm giving it 3 stars (really 3 and 1/2) because of that instead of 4 stars.

Seagate Expansion 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive ST905004EXA101-RK

Seagate : ST905004EXA101-RK
Price : $89.00
Offer Price : $73.89

"Great for the price, kinda breakable" 2010-07-20
By Ben
This was great for a long time, I bought it about 6 months ago and I was really happy with more storage than I really need, I have digital copies of about 10 tv shows (every episode) and 35 movies and it still has a long wat to go until its full. It works great with my home theater which has a usb input for movies and I love how it charges via the same usb cable data is going through so it is extremely easy and portable and you dont have to plug it in to have it work. It is very quiet, and the only downside is its durability. The case is pretty sturdy and its not easily broken except for the mini-usb plug that has a tendency to come loose if its hit hard enough, which for a little was a big problem because it wouldn't connect to my computer but after jimmying it carefully forward its working again. I'd say if you need a good portable drive with a ton of storage this is the way to go but make sure you don't damage the usb input. This is by far the best I've tried though, since my 250gb LACIE drive can't hold nearly as much, it was way more expensive, and you have to use 2 usb cables (one for data one to charge it) if you're going to use it portably, not to mention its quite a bit bigger.

Seagate Barracuda 7200 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST3500418AS-Bare Drive

Seagate : ST3500418AS
Price : $76.99
Offer Price : $44.46

"Freed up lots of space. Love it." 2010-07-17
By A. Inthisane (High Point , NC)
I got this hard drive cause i was running out of space. Now I have plenty to put all my photos and videos. Hope it last long. Seems to be good so far so good. Noise level is low. Speed is fast. My C drive was running at 25% free space. So my pc was running slow. I got this drive and moved all my big files over to it so I can free up some space on C drive. Cleaned C drive, Defrag it and it's running fast again. I love it. I highly recommend it.

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