Seagate ST307504FDA1E1-RK FreeAgent Desktop 750 GB 3.5" USB 2.0 External Hard Drive | 
| Brand: Seagate
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $119.89
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 7307
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
System Memory: 8
Hard Drive Size: 750
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 10 x 9.9
Warranty: 5 years warranty
MPN: ST307504FDA1E1-RK
Model: ST307504FDA1E1-RK
UPC: 763649003015
EAN: 0763649003015
ASIN: B00109Z6AE
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 750 GB external hard drive connects to your computer via USB cable | | • | 7200 RPM spindle speed for high-speed performance and fast read times | | • | Footprint is no bigger than a stapler; Just plug it in and you're ready to go | | • | Backup CDs, DVDs or store files and programs for on-the-go | | • | Includes external drive, USB 2.0 cable, AC power adapter, and quick start guide; 5-year limited warranty |
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Product Description
Ideal for allowing your digital content room to breathe, FreeAgent Desktop Drive features a vast capacity with the footprint no bigger than a stapler - just plug it in and you're ready to go!
Amazon.com Product Description
When its time to back up and protect your digital content--photos, music, documents, and more--it doesn't get much easier than the Seagate Free Agent Desktop USB Portable Hard Drive. Simply plug it in to any power source, connect the USB cable to any computer, and you're ready to go. This hip-looking hard drive takes up less room on your desk than an ordinary stapler, giving you more space for your other desktop items. 
Powerful storage device with a sleek new design. | 
Takes up less room on your desk than a stapler. | 
Keep all your digital content in a safe and secure location. | Portable Performance and Security
If you're still relying on your personal computer or back-up CDs or DVDs to store your digital content or vital personal or family documents, you're running an unnecessary risk. Your computer can only hold so many files and can crash at any time, leaving you helpless to access your content. DVDs and CDs have a place in archiving, but they get easily scratched and lost. It's too risky to store everything in your computer, and too time-consuming and cumbersome to have a drawer full of CDs or DVDs. Computers come and go, but your content should always be nearby. With up to 1000 glorious gigabytes, the Free Agent external hard 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. The Seagate Free Agent is big enough to store a huge portion of your digital content in a safe and secure environment, but small enough to let you take that content with you wherever you go. In other words, having the Seagate Free Agent is like having your entire computer with you at all times, but in a package that's a small fraction of the space and weight of your computer. Designed to live peacefully in your home or office, the Free Agent external hard drive is extra quiet and takes up less room on your desk than a stapler. Even the cable ports are base-mounted to help keep your desk free of clutter. We even add a little bit of sophistication to your desktop with the unique espresso brown finish and molten amber illumination. The sleek and slim design of this hard drive--only measures 7.5 x 1.6 x 6.4-inches (H x D x W)--and a weight of less than four pounds. The Seagate Free Agent lets you transfer files seamlessly from your computer via its USB 2.0 connection at a brisk transfer rate of up to 480Mb/sec. The drive delivers a spindle speed of 7,200 RPM, giving you the high-speed performance you need to back your data up quickly and safely. The Seagate Free Agent is ready to use out of the box with a PC, but it can be made Mac-ready in a matter of minutes with Mac OS X's Disk Utility. This portable hard drive is already compatible with Windows Vista (as well as Windows XP and Windows 2000), allowing you to backup your content regardless of operating system upgrades. At this compact size, and with this high performance, you now have the ability to take your data with you anywhere you go, so your digital content finally has room to breathe. A five-year warranty is also included, giving you complete peace of mind.
What's in the Box
FreeAgent Desktop drive, USB 2.0 cable, AC power adapter, and quick start guide.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Disk OK - Mac compatibility NOT existent June 17, 2008
Onaps (Bklyn, NY)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Seagate are by now well aware based on my (and others') many complaints that despite the advertisement suggesting this drive set (Free Agent USB) is Mac compatible, it fails the test regularly. The drive management software for Mac lacks the ability to control the interval before spin down - normally set at 15 minutes, this would not be a problem. However, it often: resets to 60 seconds (!) and resets to USB 1! There is no way to change the value unless you configure it using the PC version of Drive Manager (where the sleep timer setting exists). Otherwise, be prepared for awful sleep/wake activity and super slow transfer speeds. If you have Parallels or other virtual machine with Windows installed, using the PC drive manager seems to set the drive up OK - I have only had it switch back to flaky behavior a few times. The drive itself is very quiet (fanless) and under its regular operation seems to perform well. Buyer beware...
Good overall, significant annoyance when Hibernating a Windows machine June 14, 2008
K. Littlefield (Mountain View, CA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Works fast and seems to be reliable. Setup was very easy and it runs a lot cooler than my previous external drive. Personally, I like the power-saving spin-down feature, as it prevents the drive from spinning idly for days on end (as sometimes happened with my previous drive when I forgot to switch it off). The downside of this is that it doesn't have a power button that you can press to manually turn it off.
Obviously, it has the advertised size and connection options (750G/USB only). The included USB cable is a bit on the short side, and since it's a mini-USB connector on the drive side, it's not a simple matter of just swapping in any old USB cable you have lying around.
For another 50 bucks you can upgrade to Seagate's next tier of drives with additional eSATA Seagate ST307504FPA1E2-RK FreeAgent Pro 750 GB USB/eSATA External Hard Drive and Firewire Seagate ST307504FPA1E3-RK FreeAgent Pro 750 GB USB/eSATA/FireWire400 External Hard Drive connection options. Not worth the extra cost to me. I primarily use my external drive for full-disk backups of my two internal hard drives. Whether I'm getting 30MB/s over USB or 300MB/s over eSATA, it's still going to take a non-significant amount of time to backup an entire hard drive and then verify the backup image. Plus, right now my backup speed is gated by CPU for compression, so I doubt I'd see any difference at all.
Finally, for the aspect of this drive that I find really annoying and why I gave it a 3. When you Hibernate a Windows machine with the drive attached, it takes an extra 5-10 seconds to restart. At some point early in the boot process it blocks waiting for the drive to spin up. This can not be avoided without physically disconnecting either the USB or power cable. Using "Safely Remove Hardware" in Windows before hibernating doesn't make a difference - it still blocks the boot process (although the drive isn't available in Windows after resuming). A very annoying and unavoidable waste of time.
 Meh, it's an external, nothing special.. June 27, 2008
Loraksus (Portland, Oregon)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
For the price it wasn't bad.
The light bar is only visible from the right side, which is worthless if you have it to the right of you.
The drive takes about 5 sec to spin up, which is annoying on bootup (especially when you have a few of them) and annoying when you are accessing it. Not a huge deal, but dumb design.
Speaking of dumb design, they use a small usb connector - no clue why they didn't put in a full size B connector. Again, not a big deal, but you have to pack the cable if you take it somewhere because chances are, people won't have a mini usb cable.
Hope it lasts.
The esata versions of this drive are terrible, the reviews speak for themselves.
Decent external drive September 18, 2008
Vishal Verma (3rd rock from the Sun)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have this one for more than 6 months now and am satisfied overall.
Perhaps, the important thing to note is that this works well with Linux. I'm using Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 and it worked out of the box. I didn't reformat the drive to ext3. Works fine in NTFS mode.
It's good to have plenty of space to store music and videos, take backups and throw whatever bulky trash that might be lying around on your laptop on this one. It devours it all... and doesn't burp. It has a built-in idle timer, which puts the drive to sleep, if it's not in use. This helps conserve power, as well as drive life. A welcome feature. Also, it has a cool yellow backlit strip in the front, which demands attention, esp if you keep your room dark. If you are accessing the drive, the yellow light alternately lights up and fades out, which is kinda cool. The power adapter is slim, which means you don't waste additional sockets on your power strip.
You do need to plug this one into a power socket to operate it. Just USB doesn't power it up, which is quite expected. It is not the quietest external drive I have seen. And don't expect this one to be ultra-portable either. If you are thinking of carrying this around in a suitcase, consider something else. The base, kinda makes it bulky and you don't want to be lugging the power adapter around anyways. I would say this is for your server/desktop at home. A mildly annoying (bug?) of this drive is its wake up time. It takes a good 10 seconds or more to wake up on a Linux system (should be similar on Windows), once it sleeps. But, I can live with it. It's not my primary drive after all.
No Problems Yet November 4, 2008
Brian Koch (MI United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In my ever growing need to store more and more large image files and thousands of mp3s I continue to buy larger and larger drives. So this drive replaces 2 250 Gig externals that I had been using, I still use those to back up the data from this which is now my main drive. I'm using it on a 6 year old computer with a measly 80 Gig internal drive, so really this drive is all of my data. I have used it for about a year now with no problems and I like being able to plug it into other computers to transfer stuff over since it is way quicker than trying to do it over my network. My only complaints are that it has kind of a large base thingy that is not removable so you have to stand it up on end as shown in the pictures and also if it is in sleep mode it takes a few seconds, maybe like 5-10 to get up to speed and give you your data. But I use it every day and have about 320 Gigs worth of data on it and it does what I would expect. So if you are looking for an external drive you should definitely consider this one if the price and size meet your needs.
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