| Product Summary | | Manufacturer: SEAGATE | | Mfg Part#: ST305004FDA1E1-RK | | UPC: 00763649003008 | | Buy.com Sku: 204110102 | | Item#: C5S5VY | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25 | | View similar products |  |
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| | | | Product Guides | | | | Computers come and go, but your content should always be nearby. It will be, with up to 500 glorious gigabytes, the FreeAgent desktop drive is the best place to gather and access all of your important photos, movies, music, games and documents. Simply plug in the power and the USB cable and youre ready to go. Designed to live peacefully in your home or office, the FreeAgent Desktop Drive is extra quiet and takes up less room on your desk than a stapler. Even the cable ports are base-mounted to help keep your desk free of clutter. We even add a little bit of sophistication to your desktop with the unique espresso brown finish and molten amber illumination.
| | Features |  | USB 2.0 Interface | | 480 MB/sec | | 500 GB | | 7200 RPM Spindle Speed | | PC and Mac compatible | | 5-year limited warranty |
| | Tech Specs | | Technical Specs | | Interface: USB 2.0/1.1 | | Capacity: 500 GB | | Model Number: ST302504FDA1E1-RK | | Performance Specs | | USB 2.0: 480 MB/sec | | Spindle Speed: 7200 RPM | | Physical Specs | | Product Dimensions: 7.5 tall x 1.6 thin (without 3.2 wide base) x 6.4 deep | | Product Weight: 2 lbs | | Limited Warranty: 5 Year | | Box Contents: FreeAgent desktop drive, USB 2.0 cable, AC power adapter, Quick start guide |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Value |  4.5 | | Performance |  4 | | Ease of Use | 4.5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 4 |
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5 of 5 Perfect Thursday, June 19, 2008
A Customer from NY
This is my second one. my first one was 320gb. Its plug and play basically. I keep mine behind my desk that's how small the footprint is. Its pretty silent, my computer is louder so this hdd is unnoticeable. I don't know wtf that reviewer was talking bout were he said its unstable. it has a nice weight to it and most of the weight is in the bottom so its pretty damn stable. With my first one over a year old, and with 5 year warranties, expect this to work for min of 5 years. But one minor thing with Vista. Vista has issues with everything. Like at first it worked perfectly then after one update it just spazzed out and the hdd was undetechable. This is purely vista's fault and i fixed the problem. Was this review helpful?  
4 of 5 Quiet and fast. Tuesday, June 10, 2008
John from Colorado Springs, CO
I have had this drive for a month and it has been working very well. I find it to be very quiet and very fast. I was disappointed in the backup software that it came with. The software is very limited and can not be customized to back up everything you want. You can't configure it to make multiple backups or anything different then a plain backup. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Fast & Easy Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Dan B. from Green Bay, WI
I've had this hooked up and running 24/7 for a little over a week now and it has performed flawlessly. I formatted it for Mac OS X, connected it to my Airport Extreme Base Station, then set it up as a shared drive. I store all of my movies, pictures, and music on this drive and it's accessible from all the computers in my house. It's quiet and fast and has not overheated at all. I have it on a desk right next to the base station and the unit sits solidly even after bumping the desk a few times by mistake. I am in the process of importing all my CD's using iTunes and have it pointed to this drive as the storage location. Once I finish off the CD's, I will finish up ripping all of my DVD's to store on there as well. Again, quiet, dependable, fast, easy installation and setup. Couldn't ask for any more even at a higher price. Was this review helpful?
3 of 7 customers found this review helpful.
1 of 5 DO NOT BUY....THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST Thursday, June 05, 2008
Rajat Singh from Pullman, WA
I bought this external hard drive in September 2007 and was impressed by the way it looked and was happy with the way it was working initially...but soon realized that the design was flawed...It has no stability at all...The tower design is on a base that seems to be able to keep it upright quite well...But if it gets toppled its gone...I had been working with it while sitting on a carpeted floor. the hard disk just tipped sideways on the floor and started making a galloping kind of sound....which was because of the pin that broke off of the hard disk reading head rubbing against the rotating disk...It damaged it beyond repair and I lost data worth 300 GB that I could not retrieve...This stupid hard drive has caused me so much grief that I find the sites that are selling them and make sure that I tell people how bad a design it has...I am giving it a 1 on all fronts because it might be easy to use initially...but the bad design just negates it all...DO NOT BUY IT..unless you plan to tape it to your desk with padding around it... Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Great buy Monday, June 02, 2008
Reema from Fayetteville, NC
this is our first external hdd and we love it. its fast, makes no noise. I really like it. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Very easy touse Monday, June 02, 2008
Idle Thought from Dallas, TX
Got this product very quick. It was very easy to back-up both my wife and my laptops. The software and hardware work great, plus a 5-year warranty to boot. Was this review helpful?
4 of 4 customers found this review helpful.
2 of 5 not so great for constant use Monday, May 26, 2008
melissa from ann arbor michigan
super easy to set up, runs quiet, lights not to obnoxious like some harddrives
but I use mine all the time and have two set up for redundant back ups
both the drives overheat regularly with my constant use, this slows me down and makes me worry about my data, after an afternoon of processing I will loose one and have to shut down for a while for it to cool off.. . not good..
a slew of other hd's have never had this problem, I replace / fill up 500 gb about every two months, maybe faster, I won't be buying the seagates again
maybe this is just an anomaly and the two I got are bad eggs, but to make it worse I called warranty and to have them SEND a replacment for me to copy my work off of I have to PAY THEM 20 dollars a hd, easier for me to just buy a new set earlier then planned and not buy seagate again disappointed after all the good reviews I've read, maybe most of these people don't use the drives hard core Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Great Hard Drive Monday, May 26, 2008
Karen from Jackson, NJ
This hard drive is not just quiet, it is silent, and it's fast. Easy to use, right out of the box. I'm extremely satisfied with this product. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Quick, Quiet and Stylish Saturday, May 24, 2008
Marshall Masters from Scotts Valley, CA
It comes with Win and Mac install software preloaded on the drive itself. Setup is quick and easy. Between this and the USB 2.0, it is truly a portable save your data drive. Nice performance and power management. Very pleased.
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1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
1 of 5 not good with linux Saturday, May 24, 2008
jeff from Tallahassee, fl
It has a power down option that looses connection with the linux os, which when re-established, is then not recognized as usb 2.0 connection but the usb 1, with a very slow transfer rate. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Like a walk in the park Saturday, May 24, 2008
Kevin from Longmont, CO
This was one of the most simple and flawless installations I've ever had, which is odd because it was installed on SuSE Linux and none of the included software is for that platform. Hooked it up, configured a mount, and it's been flawlessly receiving my backups since.
I don't know how it'll last over time, but in the short term it's been great. Was this review helpful? |
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