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In Australia i had to pay a $170 premium for a Firewire Mybook. $299 for FW, $130 for a USB 500gb drive. bah.]]>Sep 15th 2008 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/
I hope they arent loud, it seems to be hit and miss which External drives will sound like a tractor and which are quiet.]]>Sep 15th 2008 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/
1.5Gbs for a 70$ premium? Amazing.]]>Sep 15th 2008 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/Sep 15th 2008 4:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/Sep 15th 2008 5:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/Sep 15th 2008 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/
I'll probably pick up the Mac version since it has Firewire ]]>Sep 15th 2008 4:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/
Ever heard of WD Passport ? Seagate's FreeAgent ?]]>Sep 15th 2008 5:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/
This new FreeAgent Go is the first drive to have a dock. Other 2.5" drives only have a cable.

Do you even know what a dock is?]]>Sep 15th 2008 5:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/lol, old people… :D
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do more research and make it better for windows . .


hahahhahaaa :)]]>Sep 15th 2008 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/Sep 15th 2008 6:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/
K.]]>Sep 15th 2008 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/
But Engadget, please please please proofread your articles, I mean, the XTreme is $259.99 USD for 1TB and Home is $229.99 USD for 1TB

RTFA XD]]>Sep 15th 2008 6:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/Sep 17th 2008 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/
I bought a 500GB drive at Office Max last spring for a great deal($119)!
I used it for about 3 months. I left it on for 3 days and my lovely pile of dog $hit had its brains fried!!!
I talked to customer service and they wanted like $1000 to fix their junk and retrieve the data. Lucky for me I had most everything backed up on my computer.

If you look closely at the design, the Fan is on the bottom. The sea gate morons are too stupid to realize that heat rises. :(

If you have any thought of buying one, PLEASE CHECK THE REVIES!!!!

(PS don't be a grammar nazi)]]>Sep 21st 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/
I've got a Seagate Freeagent 250GB drive and whilst it can be a bit loud (just put it on a rubber mug matt to muffle what vibration there is - it's literally just resonance from the desk) it doesn't get hot, is superfast and super reliable. I even quite like the brown.

I /did/ read the reviews - one pointed out, quite rightly, that over the years harddrive manafacturers have come and gone, some have risen, some have fallen - and yet Seagate have remained very strong. Not to mention that some weird twist of economics means they put their top end Caviar drives into all of the Freeagent externals - great performance for the cost.

Can't fault them. I'm not going to be a grammar nazi, because you asked nicely. I'll be a fact nazi instead - you're just plain wrong!]]>Sep 15th 2008 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/
1) Seagate didn't provide total connectivity like their new models using 1394, USB and eSATA.
Meaning, if you want to use 1394, you had to unscrew the bottom unit to replace it.

2) All these units suffer from over heating conditions! Meaning, anytime you transfer videos, or want to defrag the unit, it's going to cause memory write errors, due to the slowing up of bandwidth here, as the USB/eSATA bottom unit heats up. It gets so hot you can cook eggs on it! My wife couldn't touch it.

3) Then there is the stupid switch to turn on and off the unit. Meaning, you must play around with turning the unit on or off, as by just touching the switch, it's a sensing touch thing, that doesn't work right, which causes you to try many times over and over.

4) Seagate didn't make it easy to replace the internal hard drive, should it fail too.

Recommendations, for anyone having bought this, be sure you use a quiet fan aimed at the bottom of the unit, where the USB unit is located when in use, so you don't get or experience memory write errors when hot.

I just cut out two slots in a cardboard box, dropped in both drives, on their sides, exposing the both units for better fan cooling, which resolved the issues at hand. A 5" fan did the trick... no matter what I through at it now, like copying 700GB from one drive to the other, mirroring them all at once, works without any issues... when using the 5" fan here aimed at the usb units... ]]>Sep 15th 2008 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/seagates-freeagent-drives-get-official-go-desk-extreme/


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The gotcha: you can't put the old units on a carpet or anything else that blocks airflow.

These new ones look even better!]]>Dec 9th 2008 4:16PM