Latest reviews about Seagate 250GB FreeAgent Desktop USB

Dread00009 says "Inexpensive cost per GB; modern design; " about Seagate 250GB FreeAgent Desktop USB

Dread00009 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:53:46 GMT

The FreeAgent Go is one of the thinnest mobile hard disks we've reviewed; the size makes it easy to throw in your bag on the run. Its official measurements are 0.5 inch high by 3 inches wide by 5 inches long and only weighs 5.6 ounces. The multicapacity drives (250GB, 320GB, 500GB) come dressed in silver, black, blue, or red models, but the blue and red versions are only available in 320GB. We're not sure why, since they use the same cases.

Aside from their slim figure, the shape of the FreeAgent Go looks like a lot of other external drives. The top of the rectangular case has a brushed metal finish that looks sleek and even passed our scratch test with impressive resilience. The bottom is covered with a slightly rough material that prevents the drive from sliding around on a hard surface.

The only hole on the front is a USB 2.0 powered port that connects the drive to your computer. The top of the Go is perforated on one end and a series of white lights underneath illuminate and pulsate...

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btrfly02 says "Great external hard drive.." about Seagate 250GB FreeAgent Desktop USB

btrfly02 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:41:48 GMT

The Seagate Freeagent line of external hard drives are simply great & reliable. They work right out of the box, making it easy to save all of your important files by dragging and dropping. It has a very large hard drive and comes in larger sizes if you need it. Mine is only 250 gb, but that's more than enough for me at this time. I back up all of my pictures, documents, games, videos, music and files on it, quickly and efficiently. If you don't want to pay extra for a portable hard drive, this one does the job well for less.

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Scylocke says "Reliability and good looks equals a great product." about Seagate 250GB FreeAgent Desktop USB

Scylocke — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:46:52 GMT

Seagate is specifically known for its reliability and hard-drive tools for internal hard-drives, but I had never really seen an external hard-drive provided by them until I went to Sears. Having a gift card for Sears last year, I decided to go ahead and purchase it because I thought it would be nice to have as a backup drive. A year later and it's still running just as well as it did last year, and is only about 50% full. Plenty of space if you're only going to store pictures and music, but may be a little on the small side if you are looking to store video. Pricing is good, I have no regrets about this purchase!

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sunnyhorn says "Best external storage I've ever used" about Seagate 250GB FreeAgent Desktop USB

sunnyhorn — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:44:10 GMT

I bought this device to store music and pictures to free up space on my pc. I have two teens and the amout of space they used up was outragious. I got this started moving files and freeing up space. It has to be the easiest unit I have ever used and I would recommend it to anyone. Great produce!! Thanks Seagate.

Sunnyhorn

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kid-kansas says "An easy way to store those 70,000 mp3's you have" about Seagate 250GB FreeAgent Desktop USB

kid-kansas — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:34:16 GMT

    I started messing with computers back in 1982 and then we used 5 1/2" floppy discs to store stuff on, those things would not even hold a movie on them..lol Here we are now using storage devices that hold Gigabytes instead of megabytes. A gigabyte is 1,000 megabytes, WoW back in 1982 we thought we had something with our 10mb hard drives.

    My son needed something bigger to store all his game, music and school files on. His computer is an older one and only has a 30 gigabyte hard drive. So my wife bought him this Free Agent to help him out. I am more than confident he will have it filled up before Christmas...lol (It was supposed to be a Christmas present, but she gave it too him 2 days ago) Now I want one too.... ;)

    Installation

    If you have a PC then take it out of the box, grab the USB and power cords and plug them both in. Okay your done!! WIndows will tell you it found new hardware and you click a few times and that's it. If you have a Mac you will have to format......

nukewarrior says "Great price for extra laptop storage" about Seagate 250GB FreeAgent Desktop USB

nukewarrior — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:15:45 GMT

Bought to augment my laptop's 100 GB HD. Needed space to save my TIVO recordings. Worked right out of the box. Fairly fast transfer rates. Looks great and doesn't take a lot of desktop space. Great price for an external drive.

Bought it at NewEgg. They always have the best prices. Seagate makes great drives and this is a good addition to their lineup. Highly recommend....

tedsky says "Fantastic easy to use Backup Drive." about Seagate 250GB FreeAgent Desktop USB

tedsky — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:25:37 GMT

I purchased this Seagate FreeAgent hard drive two weeks ago and love the ease of using it. It's really plug and play, especially when I use Windows Vista backup program. I like the speed of the 2.0 usb connection and I did not receive any errors while backing up my files as I previously did with Western Digital backup drives.

This is a very good technical device that is geared towards the non-techie user. A simple setup manual comes with the drive, and honestly, you really don't even need the manual.

In the past I have lost many files from hard drive crashes and other methods of backing up my files (dvds, cds, the old 3 1/2" disks were archaic to me. I needed a lot of them because I have many files.

I know Seagate makes 500GB drives but the 250GB drive has enough memory for my needs. I really have not discovered any downside except there isn't a power save feature. You really should unplug the USB and the power supply according to customer service. So far, I'm very happy with it.
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