Seagate ST905003FGA2E1-RK FreeAgent Go 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Silver) | 
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| Brand: Seagate
Category: CE
List Price: $249.99
Buy New: $130.39
You Save: $119.60 (48%)
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 231
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 500
Size: 500 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 4 x 6.8 x 2
Warranty: 5 years warranty
MPN: ST905003FGA2E1-RK
Model: ST905003FGA2E1-RK
UPC: 763649008171
EAN: 0763649008171
ASIN: B001FWCDQG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Able to take your desktop environment with you | | • | Save all your private information instead of on the computer | | • | Protect against unathorized use with 256-bit encryption | | • | Windows XP/Vista compatible |
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Product Description
Ideal for letting you carry your desktop environment and your files anytime, anywhere, FreeAgent Go allows you to take your web browser, favorites, passwords, IM client and contacts, email client, cookies, settings and files with you. Save all your private information on FreeAgent, not on the computer you're using!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 FreeAgent Go 500 GB Drive January 7, 2009
I am happy with this drive. It seems to work well and is pretty fast.
 Works on a Mac but... January 6, 2009
This harddrive was easy to set up. I use it on a Mac and I have it partitioned for Time Machine backup and a Bootable mac partition. The drive works well with the Macbook's power management. The Seagate software is only for Windows machines. The thing I did not realize was that the drive uses 2 usb ports. There is a Mac specific version that uses a single firewire 800 port, but I did not think the extra cost was worth it since my Macbook only has firewire 400. So far I like the drive. It is quiet and the lights are cool.
Nice Product January 2, 2009
Very good product so far. Would get 5-stars except that I had to puchase the travel case & docking case separately (should be included for purchase price me thinks).
BY FAR the best hard drive I've ever had. December 17, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Bought this Free Agent Go to replace a Western Digital My Book. Wanted to be able to take my files with me when I travel. I am surprised to say this is BY FAR the most quiet drive I have ever used. It spins silently and quicky. Works perfectly under OS X 10.5.6 and the free dock offer from Amazon made it a great deal. Can't recommend this drive enough! The built-in lighting on the drive is also very cool, it sort of pulses when it's accessing information.
A single USB cable powers it just fine on my new late-2008 Macbook 2.4GHz. Also worked perfectly through the USB hub on my new 24" LED Cinema Display.
Stylish product, dockable, beats my WD Passport drives December 3, 2008
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
I'm a professional photographer who fills up two portable drives a year (I swap the onsite and offsite copies after each shoot). The Western Digital (WD) Passport portables I've been using, at 320 Gb each, are full to the brim with all my 2008 'raw' work. Wanting to preserve the data on them, I went shopping for two more portable drives, and came across the Seagate 500 Gb GO models.
You can't really go wrong with either drive (both companies offer a great five-year warranty), but I like the form factor of the Seagates a bit better (they're a fraction of an inch smaller in all dimensions but LOOK even more svelte than they are). Also, an Amazon promotion currently offers a free dock with the Seagate drives, much like an iPod dock -- just slide the device onto the connector and it mounts on your desktop. Handy and elegant. The WD drives don't have this option.
The downside to using the Seagate dock (and this is why I give this setup 4 stars, not 5) is that, for reasons I don't comprehend, it takes up TWO USB ports on your computer. Those have to be powered ports, so you can't use a non-powered USB hub (at least that doesn't work with my one-year-old iMac and my el-cheapo hub -- your mileage may vary). The alternative is buying a powered hub, OR just not using the dock, instead connecting the drive directly to a single USB port on the computer with the supplied cable.
Speaking of USB connections: Apart from the dock, another advantage of the Seagate drive over the WD Passport is that it seems more power-efficient. At least, I can use the Seagate with my aging Powerbook and a single (supplied) cable, no problems. The WD drives, on the other hand, won't mount on my Powerbook's desktop unless I purchase a special three-plug "power booster" USB cable that (again) takes up two of the machine's ports. This may be a small thing, but it's meaningful to me. With the Seagates, I can finally just slide a capacious drive into a shirt pocket or any other available small space, and use the device on the road, nothing else necessary beyond a standard mini-to-regular USB cable (supplied) -- no booster cable, no power supply.
There is also a Mac version of the Seagate drive. I inadvertently purchased the PC version but it makes zero difference, I believe: the thing works fine, no drivers needed. The Mac version contains platform-specific backup software and maybe a couple of other goodies that I don't need or won't miss.
Due to the idiosyncracies of file systems and how bits and bytes are counted in the computer industry, the usable capacity of the 500Gb Seagate drive is actually just 465Gb. That 'shortcoming' goes for every drive on the market, though -- no big deal, just something to keep in mind.
The Seagate's speed is fine: on my Mac, it took just under 4 minutes to copy 5 gigs' worth of smallish files. So it's neither a speed demon nor a slowpoke.
One more thing about the dock: It comes with a nice enough black leatherette padded sleeve for the drive. That bonus really should have been packaged with the drive instead of the dock, but I'm not complaining. The Passport drives come without a case or sleeve, and I paid another 30 bucks for two Case Logic soft-side cases at the time. I will continue to use the Case Logic cases for the Seagate GO drives, because the Seagates, outfitted with their own leatherette sleeves, fit snugly inside the Case Logic clamshell design -- double protection and peace of mind.
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