Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 3TB 3.5" Black External Hard Drive

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NONE WHAT SO EVER!!! The unit is a pure Piece of Cow Dung and would serve greater as a boat anchor than something else. I purchased this unit since my four-drive NAS storage unit was possessing troubles and I required to wipe the drives clean. I was going to use the FreeAgent for a quick term Ƒ day) backup for ALL of my files. I felt weary of this but I thought the possibilities of the information loss were low... well apparently not low enough for Seagate. As soon as I transfered the information more than and verified the integrity the unit rebooted itself and lost 99% of issues on it... out of 2.7TB of information I transfered it only kept 143GB. I named Seagate quickly, the first guy HUNG UP on me in the middle of our conversation. The second a single told me that I need to have to buy 财 software that Seagate has for information recovery and that there is no assure for data integrity for their drives... He even pointed out in the warranty exactly where that clause is. Every little thing I ever had in digital form was lost and I am hoping I may be capable to recover it somehow. My wedding, my daughter's birth... Every little thing is gone since the unit is a pure Dung! Seagate is certainly horrible with the customer service. A single of the agents accused me of purposefully sabotaging my device so I could sue them... I've never ever been a Seagate fan but this has re-affirmed my belief that the ONLY drives to buy are Western Digital.

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Looked fantastic Unit I bought had a 800Gb drive inside

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Considering that no drive manufacturer has yet released an internal 3TB SATA drive that could be utilised with a BlacX or similar device, I decided to take the plunge, and crack open the Seagate plastic housing, and turn this back into an "internal" SATA drive. The Seagate case is easy to open with a couple jeweler's screwdrivers (be gentle!). When you have the plastic housing off, peel back the rubber "shock absorbers" to reveal 4 screws that hold the metal shield in place. Undo those, then peel back the foil tape that seals the drive into the metal shield, and you are all set - bare SATA drive to use as you please.The specs for BlacX devices indicate that the max capacity of drive they support is only 2TB. The is in truth NOT correct. On the other hand, you have to select meticulously which SATA / eSATA port you attach this drive to, mainly because not all SATA controllers but support drives more than 2TB. Notably, the Intel ICH10R used on a lot of, quite a few Core i7 / i5 motherboards does not assistance drives over 2TB. Runs hot, this is absolutely a warranty voiding operation! In the open air such as in a BlacX device, this drive must be fine in a standard home or workplace at a standard room temperature of 25C. Probably not a very good concept to run it in a closed room on a hot summer day with no AC! Can't speak of it's operating temps in the Seagate enclosure, as I under no circumstances even powered it up in the Seagate case. four stars since frankly, I consider they could have performed far better with the thermal management. Outside of that, operates fine, and delivers immense capacity at a reasonable value. If your controller does not assistance drives more than 2TB, this 3TB drive will appear as a 750GB (aprox) device in Windows Disk Management. This is your clue that the controller can not handle the 3TB device. Thankfully, the Marvell controllers utilised by several makers to implement eSATA ports perform just fine with this 3TB drive. In my case, I'm using an Asus P6TD Deluxe, newest BIOS, Marvell storage driver 1.two..7103 with a BlacX eSATA device that is almost certainly 1.five years old (definitely not brand new). Recall that when you set this drive up in Windows Disk Management you Must convert it to a GTP disk (right click the disk quantity (ie Disk two), and pick "Convert to GTP Disk". Then you can partition it as a single ~ 2.7TB partition, and format as typical. Or you can TrueCrypt it - TrueCrypt will perform fine in this predicament as well. TrueCrypt formatting speed in the low 90's MB/sec on an i7 980X is in line with 2TB drives from all key makers (format encrypt speed NOT processor limit)

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1st ever 3TB 3.5" single drive. 7200 RPM to boot. More than 150MB/s sequential study and create speeds making use of SATA interface. It's half as rapidly as an SSD for about 1ተth the price. Enclosure is terrible and working with it will most likely outcome in drive failure. Soon after operating a chkdisk for about an hour (want to make positive it's very good just before opening it) I took it out and the surface was 121F (this is soon after I spent 5 minutes locating my Rosewill laser temp scanner). The drive also had that burning solder smell to it. Luckily every thing looked OK. With proper cooling this drive will be a champ, but leaving it in the enclosure is possibly a death sentence. I think Seagate had a massive pile of these enclosures, and knew they sucked, so they're basically giving them away and forcing us to take them.BTW - a two year warranty and having to put it back in the enclosure is a terrible warranty for Seagate. Possibly we're the beta testers and soon after they see how it goes they'll roll out the internals with five year warranty.

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This drive is very easy to set up: Plug and PlayThere is currently a partition and volume on the drive, so you shouldn't have to reformat or prepare the drive. There is some software program on the drive itself, which I like, so we don't waste a lot more paper and material for a CD I in all probability won't ever use. The only issue I am not crazy about is the stand. I laid mine down sideways as I am putting it on top rated of a personal computer than might get bumped after in a blue moon. So, I don't want the drive to fall more than. I would like to have it so there are possibly some tiny gel mats on the sides so if I do lay it over on its side like I am performing, there won't be a lot possibility of slipping, although it seems fairly stable just as it is now. The drive came extremely effectively packaged and protected. There unit itself is protected with removable clear film so it won't come "pre-scratched". That was a nice touch in my opinion. All round the drive seems to be a incredibly good worth for the cash.