By Mic Mell
Guest Writer, [GAS]
Seagate has revamped its FreeAgent series of external drives. The drives now come with a five year warranty, and a fold out instruction page with less than 1,000 words.
I had the opportunity to test out all three of the drives in the line, The FreeAgent Go, FreeAgent Desk, and FreeAgent XTreme, and I am impressed. With a huge bang for the buck and more data storage than most people will ever need, the FreeAgent drives are definitely a choice to consider if you’re shopping for a portable storage solution.
The software that comes with the FreeAgent is easy to use. It includes some simple diagnostics, and automated backup controls, including setting specific folders and backup times. The software also includes an encryption option. While there are several steps to the encryption and decryption process, it’s nice to know that if someone takes my drive, they won’t get my data. I tested the drives by backing up my 168GB of media, documents, pictures, and studio sessions on all the drives… at the same time. In less than nine hours all three drives were complete When I Copied my music collection (50GB of MP3s) to the FreeAgent go, the transfer was complete in less than 90 minutes.
We’ve yet to see what the new drives’ reliability over time will be, but Seagate’s offerings look good, are easy to use, and are inexpensive – and that works for me! I’m impressed.
(Editor’s Note: [GAS] Contributor Brian Boyko had an earlier version of the Seagate FreeAgent drive – his hard drive crashed on him. However, Seagate promptly replaced the drive, and the replacement has continued working for 18 months so far.)
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