Seagate External Hard Drive – Seagate FreeAgent Desk 1 TB

By Andreas Lee

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Here’s another inexpensive storage with latest back up technology that is manufactured by Seagate, namely Seagate FreeAgent Desk.

The smooth design and silver metallic brushed metal of this 3.5 inch Seagate external hard drive makes it match to stand in any place. FreeAgent Desk not only gives simple storage solution with its 1 TB capacity, but it also help safeguard all of your documents, videos, MP3, and another files with easy-to-use software which back up your files automatically and encrypt your private files and folders. The software is also able to schedule your back up anytime.

Pros

If you are not using this Seagate external hard drive for 15 minutes, environmentally smart utilities of this device will switch itself into sleep mode to save energy.

It is able to stand vertically or lie horizontally to maximize workspace flexibility for you. In the other side, the top of Seagate external hard drive FreeAgent desk can be used as a space to place your stuff or another external drive, this means that you have nothing to lose with your workspace.

Now, let’s take a look on its specification. It can be said that FreeAgent Desk almost has all the best specifications of another Seagate external hard drive. The maximum of most external hard drives spindle speed 7200 rpm enables to access your data faster, the best 480 Mbps transfer rate and high speed connection USB 2.0 for data back up purpose, and one Terabyte storage provides more space for your present and your future needs.

Seagate FreeAgent Desk

Its best specification is that it works very quiet, and simply attach to power supply and plug USB connector or firewire to the computer to run it.

Cons

One thing which I dislike from this Seagate external hard drive is no comfy to take handy and requires more space if you put it inside a briefcase or a bag.

Specs

• Capacity : 1 TB (1000 GB)
• Rotational speed : 7200 RPM
• Transfer rate : up to 480 Mbps
• Connector type : USB 2.0
• Software/system requirements : drivers (included in the package), Windows XP/ Vista
• Box included : FreeAgent Desk hard drive, Base stand, attachable feet, USB cable, power supply, quickstart guide, and FreeAgent software pre-loaded on drive (Windows only)
• Warranty : 5 years warranty

You can get this 1 TB storage for just around $115, means that 8 Gigabyte just cost around $1, very low-priced for your external drive investment. I give 5 stars for this Seagate external hard drive for its price and everything that it has.

I suggest you to check out my other guides on: hard drive recovery, ATA hard drive, and Western Digital internal drive.