VPN: STAC2000103
Product ReviewsSeagate FreeAgent Goflex Desk 2TB USB3.0 3.5IN External Hard Drive
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With 13 User Reviews
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 Rating: Review Date: 08/01/13 |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/09/13 |
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Effortless setup, special USB three. cord backward capable to USB two. Has options to use lights in front or not--I opted for lights on. Connections firm Blazing rapid back ups in the background a lot of space with or without having compression. Get a excellent back up application like Acronis Drive Image with Drive Manager for a complete arsenal for the best USB backup drive. Connected to a surge protector want I had yet another battery outlet on my UPS. Backup program on challenging drive but you can download Disc Tools from Seagate related to Acronis Drive Image so Seagate gives a free of charge solution that can't be beat also. Price tag and delivery is wonderful! Difficult drive base could be wider for a bigger foot print assuring it wouldn't fall down effortlessly. USB cord could be longer. Plenty of length even though for power cord. Incorporated software program could have Disc Tools incorporated. Otherwise very nice. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/02/13 |
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Fantastic drive quickly quiet and cool but seagate apparently does not have the time to verify the components of their merchandise ahead of sending them to clients. I got my new never opened drive opened it and took every thing out and found every little thing but a usb three. cable. Right after driving to staples and buying one particular the drive is now functional. no cable Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued Buyer (Anonymous)I'm with Seagate Help and I realize your GoFlex Desk model STAC2000103 did not come with a USB3 cable. Generally this cable is situated within the kit box along with the power provide. There may possibly be a piece of cardboard about the USB3 cable that you have to remove to see the cable. Please check the packaging once again given that this could have brought on you to miss it the initial time. Finest Regards,Seagate Assistance |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/03/13 |
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Substantial size and affordable but absolutely nothing else. This is the second seagate drive I bought (after returning the 1.five terabyte drive) and this drive is not only getting difficulties it randomly disconnects in Linux. Seagates answer: They don't help Linux. It's a harddrive with a USB attachment how can it not help linux? Regardless I'm currently getting clicking problems and the drive "sleeps" and calls for me to turn the drive off for 30 seconds ahead of I can use it once again, essentially generating it needier than my last girlfriend. Honestly I can't ever suggest seagate external drives to anybody once again. You save possibly บ and it ends up costing you considerably substantially additional than that in the future. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/12/13 |
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Massive CapacityFast Caution, this external drive gets Very, Very Hot.Affordable Plastic Case with NO fan and NO ventilation.Affordable Plastic case turns out to be fantastic insulation which keeps all the heat inside the enclosure. Have only had it for a couple of weeks, but in my 20+ years of encounter in the IT field I have under no circumstances observed a drive run so really extremely hot just before. If you have currently purchased this drive, I Very propose you set up application to regularly monitor its temperature! As for me, I program to return the one I bought for a refund. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/28/12 |
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Quiet, Quick None Functions as expected. Incredibly fast throughput. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/15/12 |
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Fantastic thermal/space packaging, USB 3. connectivity for supported motherboards. USB three. only twice as rapid as USB 2. for big transfers, see beneath. Expected far better functionality. Simple speed check. Most recent motherboard and USB three. drivers in use.Baseline: 100GB File continuous write, 1.5TB Sata3. to 1.5TB eSata3. - Common 86.2 MB/sUSB two.GB File steady write, 1.5TB Sata3. to 2.0TB (FreeAgent) - Average 24.6 MB/sUSB three.GB File continuous compose, 1.5TB Sata3. to 2.0TB (FreeAgent) - Average 48.2 MB/sDidn't anticipate total SATA speed, but I was expecting the overall performance to be at least triple USB2..Oh nicely, I’ll nonetheless take a reduction from ㅐ to 12 hours to fill the whole drive. |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/03/12 |
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This drive for the price I'm impressed. Its fast and no heat issues. quiet as well... software program is effortless to use for backups.I like how I can change out the base to suit my requires. Computer/Mac friendly. no problems so far I cant believe of any other then the case isn't cool searching. I got this drive simply because I stream anything to my PS3 and Television from my Laptop or computer. It operates fantastic for my needs. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/10/12 |
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Price tag and size. Both Windows and Macintosh software program. Paragon NTFS driver to permit Mac to write to drive. My laptop or computer area has a constant hum so I have to go with guessing that it's very, It's hooked to a iMac via 2. Hub speeds seem fine. Have not completed any benchmarks. No point yet. I am actually a Seagate Partner and have had high regard for their drives even with some of the existing problems with firmware some of the drives have had. I have partitioned the drive using OSX Disk Utility into two 1TB partitions. No difficulties there as long as the drive hasn't idled out and spun down. I'm giving it four stars and hope to transform that to 5, if I can, when i study a lot more about it's idiosyncrasies. Set up the software program or the drive will maintain dropping off the desktop. If it idle's out or goes to sleep it will drop off the desktop. It will commonly reappear, but I as soon as had to kill power to get it back. There is some analysis going to be involved receiving it to be stable. Heat has not been an issue, actually feels only slightly warm. I have other concerns to deal with, a dying MyBook, purpose for this buy was to save the data! Nothing like possessing to figure out the new device to save the old information! So it goes!!! Also check your console and see if soon after installing their software package that you are obtaining constant drive status updates. This continual polling might be a work around to stop the idle issue. I like to be able to plug things with each other and they just work. Yes I know who doesn't! I produced my living for many years based on the truth that they don't. Place I had gotten employed to Seagate getting that way and however it appears that this 1 will confuse some users. The high number of individuals reporting failures is disconcerting but I have learned that for every single 100 that function fine there will be not one of them post a positive post, but you will get every bad expertise posted. So reviews are hardly ever balanced. Wish me luck that it doesn't go poof! |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/05/12 |
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Handy dock for USB 3. or two. attachment Purchased 2 units. Seeing USB disconnects in Linux/Ubuntu with USB 2. attachment. Seeing huge Smart read failures/reallocations (�) on one particular drive.Other drive showing many read failures and interface timeouts.Two fails out of two implies these cannot be relied upon for backup, my principal goal for obtain.Immediately after carrying out advance replacement (at ร.99 price) for "expedited shipping", 3 small business days later the replacement drive has nevertheless not shipped. Warranty plan appears to not be incredibly reliable. Although USB drive help in Linux is not rock solid, USB disconnects seem to be a symptom of underlying drive issues as I get ATA interface resets even when attached direct to SATA.No viable eSATA path. This actually demands an eSATA dock and the Seagate eSATA Powered adapter cable does not function well with this (higher powered) three.5" drive. I could not get it to spin up the drive with a powered eSATA adapter card. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/14/11 |
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QuietHigh throughput Not 7,200 rpmHeat?This drive is not identified to be the pinnacle of reliability. Typical sustained throughput is 100mb/sec. 140 at the beginning of the disk.Surprisingly rapid for a 5,900 rpm drive. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/23/11 |
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Cheap, Modular, Big vol. Drive appeared to work fine initially. I've had other seagate drives, and bought largely on my previous experience. I loaded some of my media from various other sources, raw video and images etc. The drive began behaving erratically immediately after a week or so. It will regularly stop operating. There is no mac support as far as I can tell for the drive setting software program, so it will periodically make a decision to sleep with out consultation from the main laptop. This is a difficulty when editing video or images stored on the drive. ultimately, I bought the usb2./firewire800 base and now it works reasonably. It is even so the slowest usb 2./firewire800 drive I have ever used. not as slow as 1 or firewire 400... but definitely does not compare to any of my other drives (iomegas, a lacie & older seagates)Moreover consumer service has all but disappeared at seagate. They have lately released a "mac" version that comes formatted for mac witht he 800/usb2. base. do not purchase. It's not worth it. read the support forum for this drive.http://forums.seagate.com/t5/GoFlex-GoFlex-Desk-GoFlex-Pro/bd-p/UPHD_and_PU Manufacturer Response:Hi Matthias,This reply is from Seagate Support and I would like to address some of the concerns you have raised regarding your GoFlex Desk. If you want to disable the sleep setting for this drive on your MAC, this can be completed by installing our GoFlex diagnostic utility listed on the internet address listed below:KB205911The GoFlex for Mac (also obtainable on Best Acquire) does not have the sleep function enabled by default so our diagnostic utility would not be needed in that case.The GoFlex Desk drives are developed to work in a mixed environment of each Windows and MacOS. We support the drive in both environments and it ought to work nicely on both. If the drive continues to suffer slow information transfer rates please give us a call and we will be pleased to discuss these problems in much more depth to arrive at a remedy. I have produced case � for your reference when you call in. Here is a web address that lists our get in touch with info for support:supportGreatest Regards,SeagateExternal Link(s): KB205911| support| |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/04/11  |
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Pros: Price. Drive size. USB 3.0. Base allows quick swapping of other GoFlex drives. Comment:
I love this drive. I started with a 2TB usb 2.0 external from seagate which is absolutely attrocious (apparently there is a design flaw which causes incredibly slow reads) so I decided to switch to a GoFlex and I love it. I have usb 3.0 which future proofs my drive and it just feels so much more solid than other external drives. |
Speed and compatibility.I essentially purchased three of these on sale for each. I have already transferred properly more than 3TB of data on the drives and nevertheless operating quick.I get a burst speed of 115MB/s and average of 75MB/s transferring big files 鲤MB or larger) I cant seem to get the LEDs on the base to show capacity. I could not have installed the computer software.