Product Description

Access your content from anywhere, share it with anyone and sync it to almost anything. The FreeAgent Pro data mover automatically duplicates and moves content you select to multiple locations like email and contacts to your IPod, photos to a Shutterfly account, your entire My Documents folder to FreeAgent, or move it to your own online space for 24/7 access from any browser. Also included is an innovative modular interface to future-proof technology, various models available, up to 750 glorious gigabytes of storage, and even a five year limited warranty.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27327 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Seagate
• Model: ST303204FPA1E3-RK
• Dimensions: 6.00 pounds
• Hard Disk: 320GB

Features

• 320 GB external hard drive connects to your computer via USB cable, eSATA, or FireWire 400
• 7200 RPM spindle speed for high-speed performance and fast read times
• Continuously copies your content to multiple locations; Automatic revisions of your content help keep you safe from goof-ups
• Share pictures online and automatically update without thinking about it
• Includes external drive, Free Agent software (preloaded) and electronic documentation; 5-year limited warranty

Amazon.com Product Description
For the person who needs access to their digital content away from home, at work, or online, while also allowing that same content to be shared in a secure setting, look no further than the Seagate Free Agent Pro Portable Hard Drive. This powerful portable hard drive delivers high-speed transfers, while also giving you the ability to share content with others safely and securely from a remote location or even online.

Powerful storage device with a sleek new design.

This hip-looking hard drive takes up less room on your desk than an ordinary stapler.

Share your content with others safely and securely.

With up to 1 Terabyte and an ultra-slim design for a clutter-free desktop, your FreeAgent Pro external hard drive helps keep you safe from goof-ups by automatically saving new versions of your content that you can easily access if need be. And should something happen to your PC, you can roll back your Windows operating system, settings, and applications to a point in time when they ran smoother, like before a virus attack. Even though the system settings are taken back in time, updates to photos, music and critical data files are kept current.

The Free Agent Pro is also ideal for those who want quick and painless transfers of their data from their computer to their drive, and from their drive to online accounts (such as Shutterfly or email). Simply plug it in to any power source and connect the USB cable to any computer, and you're ready to go. This hip-looking hard drive takes up less room on your desk than an ordinary stapler--1 x 3 x 5.2 inches (H x D x W)-- giving you more space for your other desktop items. Meanwhile, the hard drive only measures 7.5 x 1.4 x 6.3-inches (H x D x W) and it matches its small base.

High Speed Synchronization and Sharing
The Free Agent Pro data mover automatically duplicates and moves selected content from your hard drive to multiple locations, such as copying your contact lists and emails to your iPod, or photos to a Shutterfly account. This feature also allows you to move your entire 'My Documents' folder to the Free Agent, or move it to your own online space where you (or others you choose) can access it from any browser 24/7. The Free Agent software also offers the feature of rolling back your system to better time if something should happen to your PC while automatic revisions of your content help keep you safe from goof-ups.

Move files or other content with either USB 2.0, eSATA, or FireWire 400 allowing a maximum transfer rate of 480Mb/sec for USB, and 3Gb/sec for eSATA, while delivering a high performance spindle speed of 7,200 RPM. The unit also comes with a sophisticated touch point power on/off switch.

The Free Agent Pro software and drive formatting works only with Windows, but the drive can easily be reformatted for a Mac with OS X's Disk Utility. This portable hard drive is also compatible with Windows Vista (as well as Windows XP and Windows 2000), allowing you to backup your content regardless of operating system upgrades. A five-year warranty is also included, giving you complete peace of mind. Now with the ability to take your data with you anywhere you go, your digital content finally has room to breathe.

What's in the Box
FreeAgent Pro data mover drive, Free Agent software (preloaded) and electronic documentation, USB2.0/eSATA/FireWire400 interfaces, USB 2.0 cable, FireWire cable, AC power adapter, and a quick start guide.

Customer Reviews

Fast thruput, sleek looks, runs cool -- feature-rich Editor's Choice
PCWorld's Editors Choice rating persuaded me to plunge into this all-too-often disappointing market. Foremost, the FreeAgent runs cool (just hand warm), it has an external powersupply (critical, as any mechanical device draws lots of juice from USB port - shortening battery life, etc). There is an on-off switch (surprisingly many units lack it); the modular design not only looks good, but provides connectivity options to select USB, USB/eSATA or firewire connection. Nice touch, the drive comes pre-formatted for the NTFS file system. Even after 3+ hours of continuous use (surface scan), the unit became warmer but not hot - a credit to sound engineering design. If you like freebies, there's a trial version of backup software, an offer to store your data via internet, and some other utilities -- personally, I just wipe them out.

The one hitch (not Seagate's problem) is the external eSATA controller; I purchased a Highpoint RR1522A which has 2 external ports and allows for RAID control of two drives. The controller works fine when the machine is awake, but seems to have problems reinitializing after a wakeup call, causing endless pulsating access to the HDD (??boot attempt) and sufficiently heavy power drain to activate the UPS alarm. Maybe have to return to the (slower) USB data link.

Piece of Junk
The concept of this drive was good and early production may have been decent.

Newer versions are a disaster because Seagate quality control has plummeted. I've bought several of these drives in various sizes. The immediate weak spot is the modules that allow the switch from Firewire to USB and SATA.

In earlier production, the module quality was better managed. In the current production, manufacturing quality is dismal and there is no after production quality control. As a result, it is not unusual for a drive to go out with both modules NFG, i.e. DOA.

I made the mistake of buying several of these drives in larger size for backup drives. Each of them had at one module bad and some were both bad. Without them the drive is dead. If it's not dead, there's no assurance that quality control is any better on the drive. Seagate customer service is atrocious and resists replacing bad modules. If the drive is alive with one module or a borrowed module, you're forced to rob the drive of what's stored on it ... and return the whole mess. There's a an equal prospect that the drive is itself bad in which case you'll lose everything not backed up on a working drive.

Competition among drive makers is diminishing and the result is that Seagate, which once did a decent of quality control,no longer has any.

Seagate FreeAgent Pro 320 is a winner
I bought 2 Seagate FreeAgent Pro 320 hard drives for my 2 new MacBook Pro laptops so that I could backup my data on Leopards TimeMachine. They both work great and are completely automatic on the new Macs.