Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 3TB 3.5" Black External Hard Drive

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Large. Eliminated my requirement for raid. Can now backup ALL my information. Enclosure. loaded one particular drive for three hrs, then removed it from the enclosure. It was so hot I had to put on gloves! Update: Purchased four of these total, took them out of the enclosures, converted to GPT and formatted, then place in a 4-bay esata enclosure with actual cooling. Appreciate 'em. (must run Win 7 x64 or Vista x64 to do this)

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Purchased this to test it with Linux. Works devoid of difficulty on Ubuntu 9.04 or later, both as a USB drive and when removed from the case and employed with SATA. 3TB of genuine storage. I've been beating on it for a month, keeping it busy, with no troubles -- but I removed it from the c rappy case and installed it into a good Antec Veris case with actual cooling and both SATA and USB interfaces. I have no notion how Seagate thought they could standardize on external circumstances devoid of cooling or shock protection. I hope somebody lost their job more than that. Now they want to stop shipping them. Throw their case away ahead of it fries your drive.Some SATA controllers or SATA port extenders can't deal with ɮTB. Get one particular drive and test it in your configuration prior to springing for lots of drives. You can get a Seagate USB3 adapter for it, which is reputed to be as rapidly as SATA. My old kernel doesn't assistance that with out upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 (which did perform for me in some incredibly straightforward testing).

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This is applied to back up a synolgy NAS just for a redunant backup , its working fine for that goal. none so far

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High capacity, excellent for the price tag. None yet I have an old 500G FreeAgent and really like it. The base got truly hot, but I've utilised and abused that drive for a couple of years with no troubles. I was worried about the mixed critiques on this drive so I decided to try it out anyway. I quickly wiped the drive and reformatted to Mac Journaled. I spent the next many hours dumping data nonstop from a few other drives into it to see if it would get hot like other people complained about. Warm is about all I could get it. a lot of critiques on other sites talked about slow spin ups and sleeping drives. So far the only point I saw was a little hesitation a couple of occasions when I click the drive icon. Absolutely nothing extended and drawn out. I use this drive for media and so far this point has been outstanding. Hard drives die, it's frequent, so for now I'm enjoying my 2nd FreeAgent drive.

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3TB! Thats a lot of Space, I had two.two TB in Data, so this worked out good, its the only 3TB On the Marketplace. Hums a tiny if on a difficult flat surface, no on or off switch.Im not seriously fond of the look, looks like a black matte band help texture and the dock lights are lame seeking to, I like WD single bar meter, significantly sleeker and cleaner but WD does not make a 3TB. I Read reviews of this getting hot, but I sent files to it for well more than 12 hours and it got warm at most. If you are finding a conflict, its likely do to it chose a drive letter already in use, correct click my pc, manage, right click the drive and go to "online" I didnt have this problem but some might have.

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Solid, excellent with 3TB. Upgrade uncomplicated with USB 2. base seriously hot when using lengthy time. Can't locate a leather case for that. So far so excellent...........

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-Barracuda XT ST33000651AS inside.-Easy to open enclosure. -Runs very hot in enclosure -- don't use it! If you're extremely careful, you can open the enclosure with no any evidence. No voiding your two-year warranty!A single fatal flaw kills this drive -- the plastic enclosure. If you get rid of the enclosure from the equation, this is a 5-star value.

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Storage capacity...and as some individuals have accomplished currently, it can be removed from the case and utilized... i heard the rattling noise other persons mentioned, but i fixed that concern...was a minor noisepossibly i am carrying out one thing wrong here, but i was acquiring a transfer rate of 10mb/sec or much less...WITH the usb three....i tried the 2. and got the identical transfer rate...drivers had been updated prior to this...i purchased the 3. adapter seperately it gave me one of these wonderful windows errorsUnsuccessful backup. I/O device error Ɛx8007045D) i feel this was the 1on a side note...my drive sat on leading of my tower with fans blowing all sorts of cool air around it...so it wasnt very warmif all else fails i could often eliminate it from its case and use a unique connection on it

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Inexpensive In the 1 week I've owned this factor it has lost's file technique facts 4 times ultimately resulting in me losing over 2TB of information that is now unrecoverable. Also it appears the USB adapter does some vodoo with the cluster size that makes this drive not play effectively with linux operating systems Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued Client, (Anonymous) This reply is from Seagate Support and I understand your three TB drive is not operating nicely with your Linux method as it has lost the file program four times. If you are utilizing the drive on a monitor or keyboard USB port, I'd try the drive 1 of the major pc USB ports rather. Also it need to be noted that the GoFlex drive computer software is supported for PC and Mac systems only as it is not supported for Linux. It may also be valuable to get in touch with us directly on this problem for some additional troubleshooting if the challenge continues. I have created case � to reference when you contact us so that the technician can bring up your review along with our response.Finest Regards,Seagate Support

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Normal Seagate USB Drive. Superior cost. The included backup computer software will only back up the "C" drive. The listing claims that it will back up "for all your files". That is misleading. They'll sell you usable software program, but they need to tell you the included version is crippled.

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Superior searching, uncomplicated, rapid alter interfaces (optional).Purchased USB 3. interface (Newegg doesn't have but). Just snap it on and go. Broke the case open, this is basically a Seagate 3TB XT 7200 RPM drive. For the price, compared with their 2TB XT bare drive this is a very good deal. Really should come with one thing far better than USB 2. interface. Just ordered a different 1

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A lot of space, terrific price, large name brand. This has been mentioned a lot, the stand is a joke. The drive is really not sturdy and at 7200rpm you can Really feel it shaking in the course of operation.My huge issue is that two drives can\'t be connected concurrently (there are threads about this on the Seagate forums, none of the workarounds worked for me). The usual/terrible software is bundled with it. You will need to have to use this software program to change the default on the drive to NOT timeout and power down. You can also turn off the LEDs (nice feature). Total space offered is 2794.5GB.I wish I would have waited for the WD 3tb external.