Pros: Superb drive, it's plug and play so no need to install drivers. Excellent form factor, runs cool, silent, and very high capacity. I've bought 5 of these and will likely buy another 8-12 of them. They totally rock. 10000% better than the bad maxtor externals that failed, and it has a 5-year warranty. Everybody needs to own this drive.

Cons: Only minor 'con' is that you have to swap out a small detachable port on the bottom, if you want to go back and forth between USB and firewire. Not a big minus, but it would've been much better to make the drive bottom a bit bigger and include both, without the need to swap out the hardware.

Overall Review: This is the best drive I've bought, of dozens. Highly recommended. I've made my own external drives, which works great, with seagate 500gig IDE/SATA drives, but for the price this is a much better solution. Less than three hundred bucks for a silent 1-Terabyte external drive, is phenomenal. Two thumbs wayy up on this.

Pros: The packaging made me laugh. This is the easiest external drive I've ever seen in my 14 years as a tech. The manual can be followed whether you're eight or eighty. Setup was smooth and seamless. The LED status light is really cool and a refreshing change from the norm. The power button is a tap switch versus a regular toggle. The rubber feet work great at absorbing vibration and the metal case is impressively solid. I'd give it three thumbs up if I could borrow an extra hand.

Cons: The included backup software won't install on Windows Server 2003. Eh...whatever.

Overall Review: I bought two as part of an off-site backup plan. They swap out seamlessly in seconds.

Pros: Came wrapped really well, Seagate wasn't messing around. Looks super sexy, the black aluminum enclosure is sick!!! Installation was a snap, just plugged it right in and I was up and running. Good speed, small footprint and so far nearly silent. 5 year limited warrenty is also great...

Cons: None as of yet, but I have only had it running two days... I did do some research before buying and herd the eSATA was not very good. While multiple people said this I cannot actually say anything about it. Just wanted to throw that out there.

Overall Review: Looks super cool.... Orange lights are rad... After formatting only about 930gb are available, but that is to be expected. AS ALWAYS, NEWEGG SHIPPING IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!! I ordered on monday night around midnight, got it wednesday afternoon....

Pros: 1394, USB2, and eSATA Using with 1394 and works fine (throughput low, 18 MB/sec.) as a backup. System found it no problem. Drive is warm but not incredibly hot. Nice looking Great value

Cons: Don't waste your time installing the software that comes with it if you have 64 bit Vista. It won't work.

Pros: With Seagates 5 year warranty how could you go wrong? Great transfer rate if you use the eSata.

Cons: Did not come with an eSata cable.

Overall Review: Ran out of room in the computer so external was the way to go. Great product. It's compact and runs very quietly. It does get very warm when in use.

Pros: Great capacity, sleek and gorgeous finish, very quiet and reliable.

Cons: auto-poweroff doesn't work with firewire, gets very hot during long data transfer processes.

Overall Review: switched to Seagate after a few horrible experiences with the WD drives and so far i'm very happy. this drive gets the job done.

Pros: This is my first external hard drive I've bought. I did a lot of shopping around and picked this one. I'm really liking this drive. Seagate packaged everything nicely, each component was in its own static baggies. I like the orange light, although its sometimes hard to see in a sun lit room. It comes with every type of interface you will ever need. Mine didn't have the board you can detach on the bottom, it had all the ports in the one base. It's a very slim, attractive looking drive and looks nice sitting up on my desk. Haven't tried the software yet though...

Cons: None so far...

Overall Review: The next time I'm looking to get another external drive I will definitely be looking into getting me one of these.

Pros: Smaller than my 2 WD 500gig externals I had previously. Sleek, nice packaging, and very easy to plug in.

Cons: Power button seems a little small and stiff, I can't tell if I turned it until I see the lights or hear the window beep. Double clicking on the drive installs the FreeAgent Tools instead of opening the drive which was personally, very annoying. So I just uninstalled the FreeAgent Tools, put all that software and documentation into a backup folder and did a quick format and rebooted, which did the trick.

Overall Review: Except for the annoying double click feature, the drive itself runs fine without any problems so far.