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Seagate FreeAgent Go for

Didn’t buy this on Amazon… thank god I can return it in person tomorrow instead of shipping it away.

First time plugging it in, CLICK CLICK CLICK of death. The R/W heads were clicking and the drive was making some odd powering up noises.

I immediately unplugged, waited for the platters to stop, and plugged back in. No more clicking, and I could connect to my PC. I transferred a few files over for testing and let it sit.

After 24 hours of having it on and playing around with file transferring:
- the clicking returns and goes, when transferring and just idling;
- the drive disconnects itself, and then reconnects itself at random intervals;
- file transferring stops randomly during transfers. Sometimes it continues and sometimes it does not.

I have 2 LaCie USB2.0 externals, a Maxtor USB2.0 external, and a Seagate FlexAgent GoFlex portble USB2.0 connected and working 100% perfectly.

NOW I decide to look up other reviews online, and it seems I’m not the only one having these problems. I’m going to get a Seagate GoFlex instead, same price but with a speedier platter speed, upgradeable to USB3.0, and without the reliability problems reported by ALL SIZES of this model.
Seagate Expansion 500 GB

Seagate FreeAgent Go 320 I have purchased 5 of these drives. They are good drives – I love how small they are. However, it is frustrating that they keep making them cheaper. The first two I bought (~2008?) had a …

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Many years ago when discussing apple vs IBM compatibles as the pc was known then, mac proponents only argument was “you don’t need to be a techie they’re that easy to use, just as a computer should be.” This statement fits the Seagate Replica. Plugged it in right from the box. The installed software runs and a few clicks later and my thinkpad was getting backed up. Next day, the desktop and another notebook after that, all running XP pro. This is exactly what I want. Once a week I plug it into the usb ports and the backup file is refreshed with changed and new files. Once you decide to use this disk as a backup it can’t be used for anything else but that is exactly why I bought it, solely for backups. I’ve used Norton’s Ghost and Acronis, this solution is the best by far. Life it too busy these days to be monkeying around with backup tapes, remote disks, stacks of CD’s or NAS. This has turned out to be the perfect backup solution for me. Every so often will also remind to reconnect drive to refresh/update the backup file on the drive. Great product.
Seagate Replica 500 GB

It does what u expect. 200GB of storage with high speed read/write speed. although it’s a bit noisy.
Seagate L01V200 Maxtor 200