Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1.5 TB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive ST315005FPA2E3-RK (Black) by Seagate
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Digital camera reviews of Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1.5 TB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive ST315005FPA2E3-RK (Black)
Digital camera Review: FA-X as a DVR expander
Summary: 4 Stars
After many hours of frustration, I finally got my HDR-21 DVR from directv to find the external esata drive. It is somewhat tricky since there is no on/off switch. But after receiving some help from a forum board member it has performed flawlessly for weeks now. I have yet to turn it off. If you are searching for a drive for this purpose I would recommend an different setup. But it is working fine......knock on wood.....
Digital camera Review: a product with lot of uncertainties
Summary: 3 Stars
just bought one yesterday.
pros: very quiet, very thin. looks pretty nice but,
cons:
1) once powered up, it'd gradually become very hot, has to use a mini fan to cool it down; really makes me wonder the plastic enclosure would stand such high heat;
2) the software is not quite useful but a nuissance! already saved many stuff, but next time when i decide to delete them all, i'd just click on the drive's icon and format it with FAT32 to clean up all the crappy software from seagate! i should format it like i format my compact flash memory card anytime i want to clean up the files and make it as a simple plug-n-play external hard drive!
3) default 15-minute power saving mode actually froze and crashed my windows, and this stupid seagate 1.5tb drive won't even start, only showed no external drive connected to the computer, but the power was on, the usb connector never removed. the desktop computer just looked like dead! couldn't even turn it on or turn it off, the flat screen monitor also looked like totally disconnected from the desktop! had to press the power button 5 times to get the windows back on. the whole external drive just looked dead, but when i touched it, i still felt the power was on inside the enclosure. have to unplug the power and the usb and took it to connect with a laptop, then suddenly it came back from the dead like having a resurrection! and i didn't even have to install the stupid 'seagate manager'! but i have to open the seagate software and copied it to a flash drive and then connect it to the desktop, reinstalled the darn seagate manager software, then went to add/remove programs to click on the "seagate" program and click add/remove, then chose 'repair' to get it work again!
this hard drive really gave me a lot of trouble! got two external hard drive mini towers, one is 1tb, the other 2tb, never had such weird problem, nor needed to install any software to make them run, just plug-n-play. yet this seagate external hard drive is just like those desktops and laptops bundled with lot of crappy manufacturers' pre-installed junk which i often considered they are nothing but malicious junky software that i could always do without!
by the way, i've found a way to prolong the live of either an external hard drive or a laptop. first, you've got to think about why a desktop needs internal fan(s) to cool down and exhaust the heat generated from the processor, hard drive and video card. based on such premises in realization, for your external hard drives' and/or your laptop's life span, just get mini fan(s) to blow cool air directly to the external drive or your laptop's a/c adapter once you activate or turn on them, keep them cool. place the laptop's a/c adapter closer to the laptop, the fan will keep both of the a/c adapter and the laptop cool.
Digital camera Review: Espectacular
Summary: 5 Stars
Es un disco con muy buena capacidad y versatilidad...lo mejor que he comprado en almacenamientoDigital camera Review: Great Drive for home/office backups
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been looking for a hardware backup solution for a while. The last time I had to reinstall windows it took over 2 days to get the system back to a comfortably working state (what with Visual Studio 6, 2003, 2005, 2008, the Windows SDK, several 3rd party drivers and libraries, Windows Resource Kit, Windows Debugging Tools, etc...).
This drive functioned perfectly without hitch on 2 laptops (one running Vista x64 the other running XP). Via firewire it took 65mins to backup 87GB of data (no compression). One thing I've noticed is that the software used to make the backup can really make a difference so slow performance some reviewers have seen may not be due to hardware.
The only negative thing I can say is that the vertical stand is a little flimsy.
Digital camera Review: DO NOT BUY THIS
Summary: 1 Stars
This is the worst HD I've ever bought.
Less than a week of usage and a lot of bad signs:
1. "windows delayed to write"
2. "windows was unable to save all the data for the file $Mft" which is the master file table and that my friends is really not a good sign.
3. Then the click of death "click, click, click"
The folks at Seagate should get arrested for selling this.