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Seagate FreeAgent Go 120 GB USB External Hard Drive ST901203FGA1E1-RK | List Price: $159.99
Discount Price: $62.29
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Brand: Seagate
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 5 years warranty
Features: - 120 GB portable hard drive connects to your computer via USB cable
- 5400 RPM spindle speed for speedy performance
- Protect against unauthorized use with encryption for sensitive files; Leave no trace of your last session on a borrowed computer
- Keep your most current data with you - synchronize data from your most frequented PCs
- Includes portable drive, Free Agent software (preloaded) and electronic documentation, USB 2.0 cable, and a quick start guide; 5-year limited warranty
great buy, Seagate is the best there is right now. [Posted on 2008-07-18]
Great products don't need reviews, but I made an exception this time.
I could have gotten more drive space for my money, but not with the piece of mind that buying a Seagate gives you. Drive has run flawlessly.
Plus Seagate has the best warranties in the industry, 5 years
Although, I do not use the software, I just let windows/Linux detect the drive as normal.
Great MASS STORAGE for Car Stereos (MP3s, WMAs, WAVs) !!! [Posted on 2008-07-18]
I have a Pioneer DEH-4000UB car stereo with USB input & bought this drive to use as a 120GB MASS STORAGE device for all my music files. It holds somewhere around 40,000 SONGS and works GREAT! It's pretty simple to do:
1) Totally reformat the drive to FAT32 using SwissKnife V3 or other software. This will erase EVERYTHING on the drive (including all the crappy CEEDO software).
2) Transfer all your music files from your PC to it, creating folders and subfolders if you like!
3) Get one of those little DC to USB adapters for the 2nd USB (this harddrive uses 2 USBs) rated at 8V 2A (2000mA) that you will plug into your cigarette lighter or Power Point outlet in your car. A "standard" car USB adapter only draws 500mA or 700mA and that is not powerful enough for this drive. Be sure you plug the DATA USB into the car stereo, and plug the POWER USB into your car's cigarette lighter or Power Point outlet. I keep this harddrive in my glovebox!
4) ENJOY!
The best portable drive out in the market - but try to spend a few $s more and get a bigger drive [Posted on 2008-07-24]
First of all this is a great hard drive, but if you spend just a few $s more you can get twice the capacity, so look for atleast a 250 GB drive.
Note: If you want to skip the long review, you can go to the last paragraph of this review where I have some useful tips on how best to use your portable drive and how to keep ideal data backup.
It is a given fact that any portable drive you buy in the market today is going to perform good in the short term - maybe 3 months, 6 months or even a year.
But when you are buying a portable drive - you have to look beyond 3-5 years because thats how long you are probably going to keep your drive. You have to look at the reliability of the drive - to not lose any data because of hard disk failures.
I have used various drives - Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi, Samsung .., but I can vouch for the fact that Seagate is the numero uno when it comes to drive reliability. I have had many laptop & portable drives give up on me, but Seagate has never let me down.
Seagate is usually bit more expensive than others - but very reliable.
About this particular drive:
+ It is light weight, has a dim light indicator on one of the sides which tells that the drive is plugged in
+ Neat sleek casing which makes it look good
+ Thick and flexible USB cable which makes it easy to plug the drive without any fear of breaking/twiching the cable
+ Very light weight drive
+ Comes with the Ceedo software which will make your desktop applications portable (I have never used it myself, but there are good reviews about this software on the internet)
What I do not like about the drive:
- I wish if it was packed with some better backup software like SecondCopy
Tip #1: Backup software
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Ok, now that you have a backup drive, how do you plan to use it to backup your data on your laptop/desktop ? I use a software called SecondCopy - which I found to be very addictive to use:
- Once you have this software installed, you can select all the folders on your desktop/laptop that you want to backup and also select the destination where you want to backup
- You can configure the backup profile in such a way that either automatically or manually, the software will find the differences between the 2 drives and display the differences to you and let you backup data from your laptop/desktop on to your drive.
Tip #2: Secondary Backup
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+ Now, that you have all your backup setup and you throw in your drive in your laptop bag and unfortunately you leave your laptop bag in your car and your laptop along with your backup drive is stolen, what do you do in this case where you have lost your primary data as well as your backup data - there are 2 options
- Do not keep your portable drive in the same bag in which you carry your laptop, which is a bit of an inconvinience
- Or, you buy another drive - you can either buy a similar drive or buy a 3.5" big hard drive(which needs external power supply) and keep it at home and keep your backups on both the portable drive as well as the big drive which you have at your home - this way even if you lose your laptop bag or even if you lose your big hard drive at home, there is another backup from which you can retrieve your dear data - your photos, your projects, your movies, music ...
Tip #3: Network drive
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This is the ultimate nirvana of any drive. Basically you will have to buy a network drive device and connect this to your hard disk, once you do that and do some additional configuration, you can let your drive be available on your home network - this way, you can listen to your music/watch movies that are there on your hard disk from any computer in your home/from an Apple TV .... Or you can even leave your hard disk at home and access the data from outside of your home(from office/anywhere else there is internet). The network drive comes with its own security settings etc, so you do not have to worry about a hacker accessing your drive.
Does exactly what I wanted! [Posted on 2008-07-26]
I bought it to save all my music as I was running out of room on the internal hard drive. I have not used any of the software that came with it nor am I intending to. I just save music and it does it fast and flawlessly.
Awesome [Posted on 2008-08-19]
This prodcuct has worked well for me...I had bought an older model of these hard drives and it died within 2 years of hardcore use...well enoguh for me....
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