Seagate FreeAgent Pro 500 GB

Seagate is a trusted brand name, a friend of mine referred to me a year ago, when I was looking for a hard drive. Since I have many documents and electronic files stored in my internal hard drive of my desktop, I barely have enough space to have all of them. So, I desperately need an external hard drive for extra space. A 500 GB is big enough to store all the files that I treasured. This Seagate free agent provide a valuable price in the market then; $115 with 5 years quality warranty. It was reliable, I guess. To install it was pretty easy, all you need is a USB port in your desktop or laptop computer. Plug it in, and the default software would run ...  Read the complete review

I picked up two of these, very cheaply I think at just over £90 each from BT Shop. They are the same price at Dabs, as they are the same company. The hard drive comes nicely packaged and has the cables supplied in the box too, so ready to go. Situating the drive on my desk was very easy. The built in stand provides a very stable base. It also looks better than most hard drives, with a lovely black finish, and orange accents. You can connect this drive via eSATA, USB 2, or my choice Firewire 400. This provided me the fastest connection to my Mac. I then joined the two drives together via another Firewire cable and set them up as a Mirrored Raid. You do not need ...  Read the complete review

This external hard drive just couldn't get more attractive. It has a great look to it with its illuminated orange band on one side that informs us if it is on or not and the sleek black case just fits anywhere. Now on the inside which is the important part the software it coes with is simple to install and simple to use. The hard drive has an amazing 500GB capacity with various sub folders already included which allows you to choose and arrange you files. As soon as you install it you get the option of backing up every file on the pc to it so it makes life much easier by just getting to the point. The only problem I see is that after a while it slows down to conserve ...  Read the complete review