Seagate's FreeAgent lineup of data movers hit the market

Although Seagate has long been viewed as a hard drive producer, advocate of pornographic archival (or not), and little more, the company is looking to break new ground by unleashing its family of FreeAgent "data movers." Just under three months after being introduced to the world, the FreeAgent Go Small, Go, Desktop Drive, and Pro are all hitting the market, ready to take your computing comfort zone along with you wherever you may roam. Still ranging in size from 12GB all the way to three-quarters of a terabyte in size, these stylish drives all share a relatively small footprint, USB 2.0 connectivity, and the ability carry your critical documents, bookmarks, passwords, and other personal material from one PC to the next in a secure manner. So if you've been itching for a fairly attractive form of external storage, and don't mind the data moving capabilities being thrown in, you can reportedly snag one of these devices now from around $140 to just under $500.

[Kev50027 @ Mar 27th 2007 4:35PM]

The real thing that sells external drives these days is price, not features, so as long as they can get bottom of the barrel prices (like Western Digital Mybook line), they may be doomed.

Had Seagate made external 500 GB drives a few weeks ago, I wouldn't have gotten my 500 GB WD.

[Marco @ Mar 27th 2007 5:50PM]

They've been available online for awhile now... I've had my 500gb for ~month now and everything has been great... Wish I got the pro eSATA version tho...

[eugene @ Mar 27th 2007 6:13PM]

is this really new? the local Frys has been selling this thing for several weeks. Its even been in their newspaper ads....

[blts @ Mar 27th 2007 6:20PM]

Too confusing -- how exactly does this significantly differ from a standard external HD? Software?

I smell a flop - I just don't think consumers will "get it"...

[Alex @ Mar 27th 2007 6:59PM]

To current owners of FreeAgents:

Does the orange stripe along the bottom or the orange logo light up? The pictures are always misleading to me.

[Carnaval13 @ Mar 27th 2007 7:09PM]

To current owners of FreeAgents:

It looks like the drive can only be used in this vertical position on what looks like a foot/base. Can the foot be removed and the drive lay flat?

[SaNcTuS @ Mar 27th 2007 7:29PM]

my dad bought one of these last week. 500 gbs for $140 i believe, pretty small, nice, sleek, and great price.

[nikster @ Mar 27th 2007 8:03PM]

hmm, the flash site is full of snazzy animations but short on info..
- The Pro version comes with online storage of equal size free for 6 months. What does it cost after? This may be very interesting for me. I would love to keep all my crap on some remote server.
- Does the Pro have a FW800 option? Are there eSATA ExpressCards out there?

[nikster @ Mar 27th 2007 8:18PM]

Just read this - the bottom part on this drive doesn't come off, so you have exactly one choice of putting it on your desktop which is upright. Also, the orange lights glow and glow more when the drive is in use. Reviewers on Newegg listed this as "pro" but I really prefer subtle indicators, I don't need a light show on my desk.
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