Seagate FreeAgent Go 500GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Black)

A very well designed portable HDD
Seagate have produced an absolute stunner of a portable Hard disk drive here, the transfer speeds are good, the size is O.K. and build quality is just what you would expect from such a reputable manufacturer. All these factors would make this drive good, what makes it outstanding are the optional extras, a multimedia dock (Seagate Freeagent Theater 1080p Multimedia Hard Drive Player including Portable Hard Drive) for viewing movies and pictures on your TV, including full 1080p HD as well as a simple desktop dock (Seagate FreeAgent Go Accessory Pack - Hard Drive Case & USB Docking Station). These extras make this range standout from the crowd.
Back to the actual drive, data transfer rates are consistently high just over 30MB per second meaning a 1.7GB file transfers in just under a minute. This kind of transfer rate is good enough to...

Seagate FreeAgent Go 500GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Black)

The Perfect Portable Hard Drive
This is the Seagate FreeAgent 500GB portable hard drive and features a USB 2.0 connection, a compact sleek design and useful encryption software.

While the hard drive is ideal for the transport of large or multiple files between different locations, it can also be used for backing up the contents of your computers hard drive. My life is on my hard drive, with gigabytes upon gigabytes of photographs, music, personal documents, videos and everything else, I would be lost without them, and being able to backup everything to this hard drive helps me sleep at night.

The transfer speed of files to and from the hard drive is perfectly acceptable and moving large files presented no problems. The storage space of 500 GB is perfect for my own use, and I imagine that unless you deal with a large amount of huge video files then it should be perfect for most users. The hard drive also doesn't produce much use when in use which helps keep the drive within healthy...

Seagate FreeAgent Go 500GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Black)

Huge storage - compact design.
I travel a lot between two locations and I have a desktop computer in both places. I used to carry around a USB-Data-Stick, which was fine for a while to carry around files so I could work on them in both locations.
The space I've needed for data has been getting slowly bigger and bigger and I finally out-grew my USB-Data-Stick.
I decided to shop for something with a much bigger storage capacity so I could carry round all those other files I used to wish I had enough storage for, like: my whole music collection. Now I'm able to constantly update my MP4 player no matter where I am.
As portable hard-drives go, this for me has to be the best. It only costs a little bit more than the next model down, but has twice the storage and is actually smaller.

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