Seagate FreeAgent Desk 1TB USB 2.0 Silver External Hard Drive ST310005FDA2E1-RK

Pros: good looking and quiet

Cons: stopped working at 2 years

Other Thoughts: From some comments, I guess 2 years is a long time for a hard drive. I don't think so. It shouldn't stop working. It sounds like it is running so I wonder if it is just the interface.

Pros: Lasted me only for up to a year (i think). Sleek, portable but bulky. Promising. It helped me quite a bit. Price was somewhere about 80s (expensive back then).

Cons: If I have not mistaken, I purchased this last year that i rarely even used because I have a hard time to sit all day and organize everything. However, I always noticed that it would always make annoying noise which I got used to after a while. Today, I simply just knocked if off to the side which dropped not even more that a foot away and it landed onto a potted plant. I thought the plant have saved it. I was wrong! What a failure of the whole technology that has cost me my money (bought it from costco) and hoped that I would be using this for a long time. No way of returning it since I dont have packaging or receipt anymore. Totally dissapointing. TOO FRAGILE!

Other Thoughts: keep it flat on the lowest surface/shelf that you could possibly place. Once you purchase it, you have to take care of it very well. Safeguard it and you will still get your stuffs accomplished.

Pros: Excellent Drive. Have no reasons to mad at anything about this ex. drive and software.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Software is easy to use.

Pros: I've owned this drive for over a year, didn't buy it off new eggs but I've also never had any real big problems with it, works with windows 7. Had it running for about 72 hours straight, didn't heat up to much.

Cons: after about a year the security on it kicked in, prob. something I did, but basically it only allows my computer to access the actual folders unless ownership of the files are transferred, which is a hassle but not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.. so i guess that isn't a con, probably a way to change that. The tiny rubber legs they give you for laying it flat fall off easily but that's about it

Other Thoughts: great little external, but mine is now full :)

Pros: Good price, nice looking case.

Cons: Difficult to format for use on Mac OS X. Seagate power settings interfere with TimeMachine settings.

Other Thoughts: I bought this drive to replace a smaller Western Digital drive. My setup is to have this drive physically connected to an iMac, and then backup both the iMac and a Macbook (via WiFi) using time machine. The power settings of the Seagate drive continually caused problems, even after installing the fix found at < http://support.seagate.com/downloads/mac/Seagate%20Sleep%20Override%20Utility%20for%20Mac%20OS.dmg >. I have since returned this and purchased a larger WD drive that has worked without problems.

Pros: THIS IS THE FIRST ONE OF THESE I BOUGHT FOR MY WIFE. SHE HAS MANY COMPUTER PROBLEMS. I BOUGHT THIS TO HELP HER AND ME NOT BE BOTHERED AS MUCH WITH QUESTIONS AND NEEDED HELP. IT WORKED FINE!!! THIS EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE IS TOTAL AUTOMATIC.

Cons: NONE!!!!!

Other Thoughts: I LIKED IT SO MUCH THAT I BOUGHT ONE FOR MY SELF. THE PRICE WAS EVEN LOWER. THANK YOU NEWEGG!!!

Pros: SEAGATE FREE AGENT: SO EASY TO INSTALL, VERRY NICE LOOKING, SO EASY TO USE, EASY TO SET UP, AND WORKS EVERY TIME. NEWEGG, SALES, SHIPPING, AND QUALITY IS UNSURPASSED. THANK YOU!!!

Cons: WILL NOT TALK!!!!

Other Thoughts: GOT ONE FOR MY WIFE. I LIKED IT SO MUCH I HAD TO GET ONE FOR MYSELF. GLAD I DID!!!

Pros: Holds lots of data, and still has it a year later, no corruption yet, looks pretty.

Cons: Loses USB connection. Constantly getting a "MSFT.fil delayed write failed" error, and losing the drive mapping. Need to unplug

Other Thoughts: I have the Freeagent 500 for 2+ years, and that thing worked like a champ. Never had a SINGLE problem with it, and would work in any PC I plugged it into. The same design was obviously not carried forward to the Freeagent 1TB.

Pros: Pretty silver case
Average price

Cons: Straight out of the box it made a ticking sound like the disc wasn't sitting properly. It would take forever to start up and then randomly stop. We only used it for our home movie storage so it wasn't moved around once we set it up. Stopped working altogether within a month.

Other Thoughts: I will stay away from all Seagate products in the future.

Pros: Reliable, works, very fast, enough storage for anything and seagate 5 year warranty.

Cons: No power switch, drive spins down when idle after 10-15 minutes to save power. Freeagent desk offers only USB power and no firewire or esata.

The little feet and stand that come with the drive are a bit generic but seem to work.

Other Thoughts: I own 2 of these drives! YES 2! From 500GB and 1TB and never had a problem. I also own 2 of the Xtreme Version of this model which has firewire port and e-sata, also same capacities for a total of 4 drives. Had them for almost 2 years without issues, also have my xtreme drives daisy chained.

People complain that the drive is fragile and it breaks, well thanks for the informative input! It doesn't take a scientist to figure that all hardrives are sensitive with drops/movement or motions, SPECIALLY WHEN IT'S ON!

Ever noticed why it's called "FreeAgent DESK"? It's precisely for that environment and not to carry around or have your stupid pets/babies knock over your equipment and ruin it.

You deserve to loose all your data if you are dumb and not have at least a copy of your data.

If you can't spend money and have copies of "YOUR" precious data, then obviously the data isn't that important if you rely on a single external device.

HDs do go bad because of horrible shipping as