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Seagate FreeAgent™ 1TB USB 2.0 Desktop Drive
 Computers come and go, but your content should always be nearby. It will be, with up to 1000 gigabytes, with the FreeAgent™ Desktop drive that gives your digital plenty of data room to breathe.
The FreeAgent™ Desktop drive is the best place to gather and access all of your important photos, movies, music, games and documents. Simply plug in the power and the USB cable and you’re ready to go. It takes up less room on your desk than a stapler and helps eliminate even the slightest bit of worry.
This Drive Holds
- 424 two-hour DVD-quality movies or
- 1500 hours of VHS-quality video or
- 880 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or
- 373,000 vivid digital photos or
- 2132 action-packed games!
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A Closer Look
| Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 1TB 3.5" External Hard Drive
Reviewed By Our Editors
What if you can have a safe place where you can store up to 1000GB or 1TB of your multimedia files and data? What if you can take all your files literally anywhere you go? And what if, your 1TB of files are stored only in a little box that does not occupy too much of your working space? With the stunning Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 1TB 3.5" external hard drive, you don’t have to ask ‘what if’. All those could be real.
With slim dimensions of 7.5" x 1.6" x 6.4", the Seagate FreeAgent Desktop external hard drive is great in all aspects. First, it is an external device, so mobility is out of the question. You can virtually take your important files and data anywhere you go. Second, the Seagate FreeAgent Desktop external hard drive is completely independent from your computer, so whatever errors your computer gets, the hard disk is free from damages. Now, you don’t have to worry about losing your precious files when your computer crashes.
And of course, there’s the gargantuan capacity of the hard disk. You’ll be amazed just how much 1TB can hold. Here’s a little break down of the possibilities you can do with this box of wonder. Professional photographers or any camera-loving person can keep up to 285,700 6-megapixel digital photos. Are you a music fanatic? Everyone will admire your music collection, especially if you organize them all in this sleek box. 250,000 MP3 songs can be stored in Seagate FreeAgent Desktop external hard drive. This approximation is based on songs lasting four minutes each, with a data rate of 128kbps and 11:1 audio compression ratio. You can also collect as many as 25,000 uncompressed songs, with uncompressed CD quality which is based on 1:1 audio compression ratio.
Keep the art of movies and films alive with the Seagate FreeAgent Desktop external hard drive. With its 1TB capacity, you can store up to 76 hours of Digital Video format movies, regardless of its mode –miniDV, DVCAM, DVC-Pro. This is based on approximation that each movie has a data rate of 25Mb/s, which, in storage terms, translates to approximately 3.5MB/s or 13GB/hr.
440 hours of DVD quality video can also be kept in the 1TB hard disk, assuming each video has a data rate of 5Mb/s which translates to an average of 2.25 GB per hour. Want to go high-def? The 1TB capacity can store up to 120 hours of high-definition videos at 720p or 1080i video output with an 8.3GB per hour recording rate.
Set-up is fairly easy, because there is none. The Seagate FreeAgent Desktop external hard drive is so easy to use that all you have to do is plug it in your computer through your USB port and it’s ready to use. That’s pretty convenient since you can also use this hard disk drive to transfer files from one computer to the other.
Store or back-up your files – possibilities are limitless for this 1TB hard disk drive. The Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 1TB external hard drive runs at a data transfer rate of up to 480 Mb/sec, and is the last hard disk drive that you’ll ever need for a long time.
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| REVIEW BY: TechSuppor Reviewed
Nov 18, 2008 |
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| We've had several of these 750 GB drives for over a year. No problems whatsoever. Work flawlessly. Good performance. We like the 5 year warranty. We would recommend this to anyone and we are buying another 3 1-TB drives ourselves. |
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| REVIEW BY: cw4u Reviewed
Nov 15, 2008 |
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| This drive is by far the worst I've ever seen. I had bought this drive to hold all of my video footage and pictures from a week long tour I did with a choir. The drive failed on me about three days after the tour. I think it only lasted for about 3 weeks. DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE. |
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| REVIEW BY: Toby Green Reviewed
Nov 10, 2008 |
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| I own a photography business and I immediately put all of my digital photos on this drive and it worked for about a month. Now it will not come on and I don't know if the data can be salvaged or not. Do not but this product!!!!! This was a diaster and I am not sure what I am going to do. I am very disappointed with seagate for putting out such a terrible product. I will stay away from seagate in the future. |
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| REVIEW BY: DC Reviewed
Nov 04, 2008 |
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| These seagate drives are a piece of crap my damn drive failed om me after owning it for less than a year.
Now I have to recover my data back which is going to be a hassle. SEAGATE SUCKS stay away from this crap O never had a external drive fail on me. As soon as I recover my data I getting my money back. |
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| REVIEW BY: bbad Reviewed
Sep 30, 2008 |
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| I purchased teh 750 gig unit and backed up all of my drives and then installed a bigger drive. The Seagate Backup worked, lasted a few hours, then failed lost all of my data, luckily, I had the important ones up on another internal disk unit. Run do not walk away from these units. |
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What You Should Know
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Even The Best Hard Drives Die.
Do You Back Up?
Businesses of all sizes
are witnessing an explosion in the volume of data they hold. Whether it is
the result of the Internet, email, or increasingly heavy and media-rich
application software, there is a massive growth in the volume of data all
around. Conservative estimates place data growth at approximately 80% per
year. Data is increasingly being recognized as one of the real assets of a
company, and losing this data would cause severe damage to any organization.
Data loss can be very costly, particularly for
organizations in the small and medium business (SMB) market where the
difference between survival and closure can rest on the ability to recover
from a disaster. At the very least, critical data loss will have a financial
impact on companies of all sizes:
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Data type |
Time to re-create 20 MB |
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Sales and marketing |
19 days |
$17,000 |
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Accounting |
21 days |
$19,000 |
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Engineering |
42 days |
$98,000 |
The financial impact on a company is a combination
of loss of business, low productivity, legal action, and the cost of
re-creating data. A study showed that the cost of re-creating just 20 MB of
data can be extensive!
Your best solution, is an external drive as a
backup. You can have multiple drives, and it is much easier restore
from a portable external drive, as opposed to CDs or DVDs.
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Why Do I Have
Less Drive Space?
Your hard drive may show less space than the published specifications due to
a number of reasons.
- The way size is calculated and
displayed.
- Any "Partitions" on the disk will
change the total in a specific partition.
- Hidden files and folders decrease
available space.
- Compression increases the apparent
size, but not the physical size.
- Drives larger than the OS or Drivers
natively supports.
 First, the definition of a megabytes
(or gigabytes) is a unit of data storage capacity measured in 1,048,576
bytes (or 1024KB). The larger the numbers, the more apparent the size
difference will be when listing the size as megabytes (or gigabytes) versus
bytes. Actually, both numbers are correct. The noticeable difference is due
to the 1024KB definition of a megabyte. This is why a 95.3GB hard drive can
also be listed as having 102 billion bytes of total space. Just think
of it as "round off" In the screen shot at right:
The first number is the total number of bytes,
the second number is based on the number of megabytes or gigabytes.
Second, some computers have a
non-DOS hard drive partition that is used for features such as Save to Disk,
Hibernation, or Recovery. This partition is not normally reported by the
operating system, although it can be viewed using a disk partition utility.
This is very common on desktops and laptops. NOTE:
Partition information will be created or
formatted automatically during initial system setup and a system recovery.
Third, by default, all system files
are hidden and cannot be seen. This may adversely affect the reporting of
available hard drive space. You can set your Folder Options so you view
system and hidden files and folders, but do be careful as changes to system
files can adversely affect your system.
Fourth, if you turn on Compression
for a drive, it will increase reported free space and used space, but since
compression is based upon the actual contents, this number is not fixed, but
will change as files are added or changed.
Fifth, older operating systems did
not support some of today's larger drives, so the total space reported may
be much smaller than the drive specifications.
It is also worth noting that bad sectors
are corrected by your operating system and can change the total drive space,
free space, or used space as well.
So as long as a drive is reporting a value
approximately close to the specification value, you can be comfortable that
you received the right drive and that you are getting to correct data
storage. Of course, tuning of your drive's partitions and options can
yield optimal values, but this is not something for the average user to
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What Are BUS POWERED USB Devices?
USB was designed to allow many peripherals to be connected using a standard
interface port, and to improve the plug-and-play features of PCs by allowing
these devices to be connected and disconnected without rebooting the
computer! Another convenient feature includes providing power (also known as
Bus Power) to low-consumption devices without the need for an external power
supply. So Bus Powered means the device is powered by the USB Port, and not
an external power adaptor.
Bus Powered devices offer a lot of flexibility, particularly when used on
laptops and other portable devices. However, you need to determine when “bus
power” is best.
When is Bus Power best?
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You have a desktop with ample USB ports, or
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You have a laptop and you need to take your
Bus Powered devices with you, or
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You only use the device intermittently and
want the simplicity of no external power adaptors, or
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You want to keep desktop clutter to a
minimum, and want to eliminate power cables.
The best example of a USB Bus Power devices
are: USB Thumb Drives, or Passport style USB Hard Drives.
Rules for best results with Bus Powered
Devices:
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Use a good quality USB Cable two feet or
less in length.
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Be sure to directly connect the device to
your computer, instead of through a hub or other device - unless the USB
Hub has its own power.
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Make sure your laptop battery is fully
charged.
Generally speaking, you do not want many
Bus Power devices connected at once, especially on portable devices or
laptops running on batteries. So consider unplugging unneeded devices if
necessary.
Some devices can be powered both by an external adaptor or by Bus Power. As
a general rule, you should use the external adaptor to power the device,
except when you need to use it and external power is not available. However,
higher-consumption devices, such as external optical media burners, and
large hard drives, may work best with external power.
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Manufactured by:
Seagate
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ST310005FDA1E1-RK
UPC No:
763649007945
Box Size:
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Shipping Weight:
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