Seagate FreeAgent™ (ST305004FDA1E1-RK) 500 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive

The Bottom Line: I have used my drive for over 6 months without a hiccup. The drive capacity is large. Transfer speed is quick.

Review: I have been using my Seagate FreeAgent 500 GB Hard drive with the USB 2.0 interface for over 6 months and have not had a bit of problem with it. My computer sees it immediately upon inserting the USB cable and transfers are very quick.

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The Bottom Line: Very unstable hard drive; avoid it if you can.

Review: I bought the Seagate Free Agent Desktop 500GB external hard drive approximately two months ago. It originally comes formatted in the NTFS file format, which is not really conducive to transferring large chunks of files. FAT32 is a much better file...

Review: I bought this unit at Best Buy. I got it home and it failed to start up on my Laptop and then failed on my Desktop computer. I measured the output voltage on the power supply connector that plugs into the drive and it appeared to be "good to go"...

The Bottom Line: The performance of the drive so far hasn't disappointed me. If you want a reliable, already built external drive, I recommend this FreeAgent drive.

Review: Even though I am usually an external drive builder rather than a buyer of the drive itself, after seeing very good deals on the drive and the trust I have on Seagate brand, I decided to try the Seagate FreeAgent Drive.

I was able to...

Review: I've had my Seagate FreeAgent for several months now and have had no problems whatever. I'm running Vista Home Premium a new Dell Dimension E521 and the drive set itself up so fast I never even saw it set itself up. The unit sits on my desk and is...

Review: My 500 GB Free Agent also failed about a week after I first got it. My problem was with the interface controller, it would periodically shutdown and then restart. I also had corrupted data, lost a few GB of data. I arranged to send it back to...

The Bottom Line: This external hard drive offers plenty of inexpensive easy storage whatever you use it for.

Review: You can store whatever you want on this Seagate 500 Gigabyte External Hardrive. My computer only has 120 gigabyte harddrive, which by today's standards is pretty small. It fills up fast.

What's in the Box?

500 gigabytes of naked...

Review: I needed a good reliable drive to keep my plethora of computers backed up. When I found this SEAGATE 500gb drive I thought I would be set for a very long time. I got the first one home and started backing stuff up. It was slow, but I could afford to...