BlueMak

I saw that the Freeagent Pro 1TB is for sale at YoYoTech, and then looked at other sites too out of curiosity, and in general it is at a very low price.

It also comes with a 5 year warranty. So, my question is, has any of you any experience with Seagate external HDDs? Are they well made, using good parts and HDDs, etc.

I am going to need a couple of TB this month so I am looking for something good that has a good record of not failing. Extra important when talking about these capacities.

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Judas

I love all of my Seagate Free Agents.... the PROs are the best due to having usb2.0/firewire/ESata

awesome damn FAST performing HD's...

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Grace

Seagate's Freeagent drives always have a Seagate 7200.XX drive inside. The rest are just a controller circuit which makes the disk accessible through USB etc and a plastic/aluminum chassis.

In general, they are reliable products.

BlueMak

Alright, thank you all. Just trying to decide if I will buy two of those or 1 case that holds 2 3.5" drives and 2 3.5" drives. Reliability is what I am looking for above all else, so it's good to know they are good products. I hate losing 1TB or 2TB of data.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Judas

reguardless of what you do.... you'll never have enough backups

i have the freeagent drives for my main backup of everything.

but i also carry around a USB flash drive that hold all my most up to date backups of the critical files.

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Resurrection

So far, so good

The pricing is unreal

It has been a little bumpy [COLOR=gray](that's the way it goes with 'commodities' - when you are trying really hard to be competitive)[/COLOR]...

...but we have sold a substantial number for less than £100 inc vat [COLOR=gray](i.e. £99.99 !)[/COLOR]

Also attractive is the 750GB model for - you guessed it - £75

At 10p per GB, that's some nutz value

What makes me laugh is that - at some point in the future - SSD drives will hit the same kind of value...

...and we'll be able to power an ultra-cool looking HTPC with a 120GB SSD drive that costs only £12 inc

Bonza

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BlueMak

It's good to hear they are good. I am not touching for at least few years another WD (bought the 500GB Mybook and lost about 120 or so GBs of data in it).
There isn't any 2TB version out there, is there?

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Grace

That was just bad luck. HDDs are mechanical devices and there is a tiny percentage (supposedly less than 1 disk per 10000) of them going wrong in just a few days of use, if they aren't DOA. It could happen with any disk from any company. Only Enterprise level disks (for RAID or other critical systems) are supposedly tested against that, but the percentage never drops to a pure 0.

I have seen disks from any manufacturer that you could name dead after only a few days of use. I do prefer Seagate disks myself just because I believe they are the fewest I have seen dead up to date.

Lookamonkey

what i have heard is that the hd makers do 1000mb to the gig when computers calculate 1024 is a gig so thats where some space goes missing just btw

Grace

Not exactly, but that is true with most disk types and sizes, and true for all HDDs. The number refers to the billions of bytes, e.g. 500GB = 500 billion bytes. But there are 1024 bytes in a kbyte, 1024 kbytes in a Mb, 1024Mb in a Gb and so on. So when you divide the billion of bytes with 1024 instead of 1000 three times, there is a world of difference between the real value and the actual capacity of the drive.

An easy way to calculate how many GBs are the actual capacity of a drive fairly accurately is to remove 7GBs per 100GB of claimed capacity. For example an 100GB drive would actually have 93GBs of free space, a 500GB drive would have about 465GBs of free space (5x7GB), an 1TB drive would have about 930GBs of free space (10x7GB) and so on.

BlueMak

So you have to remove 7% of a named capacity to figure out the capacity available to you.
Which means -140GB for 2x1TB drives...ouch.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.