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Modern design, maximum performance. Store and safeguard all your favorite files,photos, music, videos, and documents and access them at the fastest speed available today. Compatibility: Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, or Business Service Pack-1; Windows XP Home, Professional, Media Center Edition Service Pack-2.
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 Another superb drive from Seagate! |
| Review Date: November 30, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Ronaldo L. Fernandez, |
I like the fact that this external drive have 4 interfaces. 1 x eSATA, 1 x USB 2.0 and 2 x Firewire 400 making it one of the most well equipped external hard disk drives on the market right now. Performance wise, it again impressed me with its mach speed fast eSATA file transfer rates and solid USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 performance too. Even the included software performed the feat of being both falling-off-a-log simple to use and actually useful.
I am also a big Mac user. I wanted to test how it performs on a Mac OSX 10.5 so I re-formatted using the standard Mac OS X HFS+.
The Firewire 400 and USB connections are flawless. In sub seconds it easily recognizes the drive. eSATA was again shamefully outshined everyone else with its ultra fast connection and transfer rate. I copied a 40 GB file in 9.5 minutes. A 512 MB file in 55 seconds.
Holy smokes I gotta get myself another one of these monsters! |
Great drive if nothing else
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| Review Date: December 19, 2008 |
| Reviewer: A. Stidwell, So. Tx. |
I will start off saying that I am a Mac user so I cannot speak as to how this drive operates in a Windoze environment. I only use this drive as a Time Machine back up and it works for that purpose. I have it hooked to a Mac mini using FireWire and it is fast, silent, and it works. To the one who said it does not work with Macs, it does, but I will say it does take a little bit of Mac know how to get it formatted. You have to first plug it up using USB to format a single Mac OS Extended partition in Disk Utility. Once you do that you can erase the entire drive and format it that way. A little bit of a run around but it will work just fine after that. All in all a great drive that does what you tell it to do.
The Good: It's a drive and it works.
The Bad: If you are not familiar with formatting in OS X it can be a chore. Also you have to format it in USB before switching to another connector in OS X.
The Ugly: Some may not like the "breathing" light but I have no problems with it. |
External Hard Drive
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| Review Date: February 7, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Kim D. Estes, |
| I use as an external drive to DirecTV HR22. A little tricky to make work. Maybe a little too much storage, because it makes the receiver a little sluggish when looking at the playlist. I'm not sure what the problem is, maybe too many programs in one playlist folder. But you can record and keep an entire HD series of shows, plus lots of HD Movies and Sports. The trick to making this work with DirecTV HR22, is to start the HR22 until the light on the FreeAgent drives comes on, then quickly unplug the receiver only, and quickly plug back in, hopefully preventing the FreeAgent drive from going off (the light must stay on). The Drive must be on before the Receiver turns on for the Receiver to recognize the drive, but the drive doesn't come on if the Receiver is off. It took quite a while for me to figure out how to make this work. |
Pretty Darn Good X-Drive
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| Review Date: November 20, 2008 |
| Reviewer: PhotoHound, Alaska |
| Great product - fast access and TONS of space. This replaced two different failed external drives: ACOM Data 320GB and LaCie 500GB. This thing is a beast! |
Great external hard drive
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| Review Date: December 22, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Nick, Boston |
| This external hard drive is wonderful. It was easy to setup and get started. I have instructed it to backup my required files on a daily basis and that's it. It works in the background without you knowing it is there. Couldn't recommend it enough. |
Great external drive for lots of data
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| Review Date: April 30, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Conor P. Cahill, Waterford, VA |
I was a bit cautious about ordering this drive given some of the reviews I've seen here, but given amazon's return policies and a good history with Seagate products, I decided to go ahead with this purchase.
I bought 2 of the drives (both 1.5TB) and I use them for offline backups of my server (which, in addition to day to day data from our laptops, has our entire photo, audio, and video collections). I had been using Seagate 750GB drives for this for the past couple of years, but am outgrowing them and so decided to double the space.
I looked also at the Western Digital 2TB drive, but it was substantially more expensive (almost double of the 1.5TB drive) and I couldn't justify the additional cost for just .5TB more, especially when I'm just outgrowing the 750GB drive.
Anyway, the drive arrived I hooked up power and used the existing firewire cable that I had been using for the old drive and it was immediately recognized by my system (Dell Latitude D830) and I did a backup of the data from my server (which is in the basement) over the network to the new drive connected to my laptop.
I don't use or install the distributed software that comes with the drive -- I use rsync (a Unix command that is available for Windows as part of the Cygwin package) to mirror data from my server onto the external drive in the background while I continue to use my laptop for my work.
Everything worked like a charm from the get-go.
I haven't tried the USB or e-Sata connections (firewire is faster than USB and seems to use less system resources and I don't have eSata interfaces on my system), so I can't speak for them. Firewire, which I can speak for, worked flawlessly from my Windows XP system. |
No problems at all works great
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| Review Date: November 23, 2008 |
| Reviewer: G. Unger, |
| No problems whatsoever, worked just like it should right out of the box. There is no on/off switch but the drive auto-shuts down when not in use for a period of time on its own. I copied 50 gb to it right off the bat without any problem. Seems pretty fast as well! I looked around ALOT and decided on this one. Good choice. |
Seagate does it again
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| Review Date: January 12, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Wayne1952t, st. louis, mo. |
| Seagate just proved to me again why they're the best with the ease of use and storage you can't go wrong' |
Great drive, even for Macs
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| Review Date: January 17, 2009 |
| Reviewer: J, Rochester, NY |
| I use both Macs and PCs and I formatted the drive first on my macbook. It was incredibly easy. All you have to do is go to Disk Utility, click the drive, and hit erase. Since I wanted this to work on both my Mac and PCs, I formatted the drive to FAT32 (MS-DOS). The drive is incredibly quiet and the light doesn't bother me enough to keep me from sleeping. My only complaint is I wish the AC adapter and USB/Firewire 400 cables were black instead of white and there really should be a power on/off button. Other than that, it is a fast, quiet, and reliable drive backed by Seagate and their 5 year warranty. |
excellent drive
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| Review Date: February 9, 2009 |
| Reviewer: J. Martinez, California USA |
| Bought the drive for backing up my 1TB internal. Unit has run great for the last 3 months that I have owned it. I upgraded from my previous 750 GB FreeAgent which still is used for extra storage. Seagate includes a backup software package for backing up your computer. Although the software is pretty good for free, it is more suited for individual file backup rather then full system protection. The unit is fast and quiet. |
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