Product Description

Ready to work, so you can play. Store and safeguard all your favorite filesphotos, music, videos, and documentsin a stylishly designed desktop storage solution that's as powerful as it is beautiful. With its huge capacity and sleek design, the Mac-ready Seagate FreeAgent Desk storage solution delivers a powerful yet simple way to help safeguard all your photos, music, videos, and documents. You can get up and running quickly thanks to Mac formatting and Time Machine-readiness, then enjoy blazingly-fast tr...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2726 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Seagate
• Model: ST305004FPD2E3-RK
• Released on: 2008-08-26
• Dimensions: 1.48" h x 7.28" w x 5.98" l, 2.20 pounds
• Hard Disk: 500GB

Features

• 500GB FreeAgent Desk for Mac FireWire 8
• 500GB FreeAgent Desk for Mac FireWire 800/USB 2.0, Silver

Manufacturer's Description
With its huge capacity and sleek design, the Mac-ready Seagate FreeAgent Desk storage solution delivers a powerful yet simple way to help safeguard all your photos, music, videos, and documents. You can get up and running quickly thanks to Mac formatting and Time Machine-readiness, then enjoy blazingly-fast transfer of your content with FireWire 800 and USB interfaces. Enjoy a modern design that complements your Mac system, and take advantage of a vertical profile that maximizes your workspace. Count on the FreeAgent Desk storage solution to store everything on your Mac"and to look really good doing it.

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Customer Reviews

Easy to use, no probs so far
I've had a 1TB version of this drive for some time now, and have had no problems (so far!). My previous LaCie external drive had suffered occasional intermittent errors, making it unreliable as storage or back-up. So when I needed extra storage, I bought this 500GB version of the Seagate FreeAgent.

The Firewire 800 connection makes it extremely fast, and disk access is pretty indistinguishable from accessing my Mac Pro's internal hard drive, except for the few seconds it takes to wake up if it's gone to sleep. It looks good, doesn't take up much desk space when stood on end, and is very easy to set up, coming with all the necessary leads etc., so just plug it in and go. It's also very quiet.

One quibble is related to the supplier rather than the drive - I ordered this drive described as being 'for Mac' (through Amazon and supplied from RL Supplies Ltd), and the drive I received was formatted for Windows. Not a big deal to reformat for Mac: open Disk Utilities, select the new drive (making very sure it's the right one!) and select Erase, make sure Mac OS Extended Journaled is selected, and confirm.

Excellent drive for Time Machine
I chose this as lots of people had reported problems with the Western Digital equivalent, the Seagate was also cheaper! Runs perfectly, I use it almost exclusively for TimeMachine, it goes to sleep when not in use and wakes without problem when my iMac performs its hourly TimeMachine updates. I also use it for storing temporary BBC iPlayer downloads (I partitioned the drive) and this also runs smoothly. Very quiet and attractive, highly recommended.

Excellent
Very happy with this drive. Whisper quiet. Very fast data transfer (FW800). Instantly recognised by Time Machine. The only minor gripe is that the 'on' light is quite bright. Mine resides on a shelf under my desk so it doesn't bother me but if you plan to have it within your visual field it may be a distraction.
May buy the 1TB version for storage and use this one for Time Machine.