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Seagate FreeAgent Go External 160GB Hard Drive

FreeAgent Go External 160GB Hard Drive

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Seagate FreeAgent Go External 160GB Hard Drive

  • Reviewed by: mdembski

    08-14-07

    Duration of ownership: 2 Months

    Strengths: Looks good, good price

    Weaknesses:Original disk dies after 4 days, replacement died after 2 hours. Ceedo software is terrible and makes it hard to use the disk.

    Overall Evaluation: First disk died after 4 days, Seagate replaced it (though I had to pay for return shipping) and 2nd disk died after 2 hours. I have had a Maxtor small disk for almost 2 years without a problem. It appears to be much better made and doesn't die.

  • Reviewed by: 4Elemental

    06-23-08

    Duration of ownership: 2 Days

    Strengths: Small and reliable.

    Weaknesses:None.

    Overall Evaluation: I actually have the old version of this drive, but I assume the internal drive is the same. I've had it for a couple years now and carry it around all the time. There have been no problems at all and it has worked flawlessly. I liked the Black/Silver with blue light design better, but this is still really nice. The new version are actually thinner than the one I have with the same great features and reliability.

  • Reviewed by: SDTechDeals

    08-06-07

    Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks

    Strengths: Nice looks; 5-year warranty; no power-supply needed; small

    Weaknesses:Expensive

    Overall Evaluation: I have been a Seagate fan for a while, but have (until recently) never bought their external hard drives. The primary reason was their poor styling and lame warranty. That changed with the desktop FreeAgent that I bought. It was cool to look at, and ran very cool (thanks to a heatsink in it's base). As a result, I decided to try the FreeAgent Go seris, which features 2.5" drives instead of the larger 3.5" drive. I've been extremely happy thus far! It requires no external power supply, as it runs off of your usb port. It's nice to look at (it's about time Seagate!) and runs very cool. Plus Seagate finally backed their product with an industry leading 5-year warranty. Bravo! The drive runs off of USB2.0, which is plenty fast enough for me to do backups on my laptop. I already have Norton Ghost, so have not tried the bundled software. Guess I paid for it, even though I'm not using is...oh well!

  • Reviewed by: kratur

    07-24-07

    Duration of ownership: 1 Months

    Strengths: Small Size. Ease of use.

    Weaknesses:Not enough capacity for everything.

    Overall Evaluation: Overall this is a great product. If you need to back up files on the go, its great. I use this as portable storage between work and home, and its perfect for that (I can back up my entire Laptop hard drive on it as well). With that being said, if you are not planning on carrying it around with you between places, you might as well go for a 3.5" External Drive, as they are about half the price for the same amount of storage. I just with these prices prices fall below $0.50/GB....then it would be worth it to me to buy another.

  • Reviewed by: Adam99

    07-19-07

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: 160gb capacity is nice, VERY small foot print (don't loose it)

    Weaknesses:gets warm after a lot of use, but not as bad as 7200rpm drives, so it's ok (I'm just being thoro)

    Overall Evaluation: Also, 5 year warranty, seagate is great. Got one for my parents too as easy backupDOES NOT NEED EXTERNAL power, so don't confuse with cheaper/bigger drives, right now this is the biggest size you can get that does not need external powercomes with usb cable (has two plugs for pc side, but you only need one for most modern pcs (power issue))when they come down in price, i'd buy another!happy hard drivin!

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