Product Description

Ideal for accessing your content from anywhere, sharing it with anyone, and syncing it to almost anything, FreeAgent Pro allows you to automatically move your content to multiple locations, share your pictures online and automatically update without even thinking about it, and many more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #208 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Seagate
• Model: ST305004FPA1E3-RK
• Dimensions: 7.50" h x 1.40" w x 6.30" l, 6.00 pounds
• Hard Disk: 500GB

Features

• 500 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
• Footprint is no bigger than a stapler; Just plug it in and you're ready to go
• Backup CDs, DVDs or store files and programs for on-the-go
• Includes external drive, USB 2.0 cable, AC power adapter, and quick start guide; 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/FireWire 400 interfaces, USB 2.0 cable, FireWire cable, AC power adapter, and a quick start guide.

Customer Reviews

500 G HD
Excellent value although you can now purchase a terabite (sp?) for the same price. Do your shopping! These are still excellent HD's

Is a good power button too much to ask for?
This drive seems to work well in both (ubuntu) Linux and Mac OS X after re-formatting it to FAT32 format. Its lack of a power button makes it very hard to tell whether it's on or off after disconnecting it from the computer. That's because sometimes you hear the fan running after being disconnected (or unmounted) and sometimes you don't hear the fan running after disconnection. The so-called power button is a big joke! I wonder which engineers at Seagate thought it was good enough. It works erratically and it's essentially worthless if connecting the drive to the computer after connecting it to the mains supply causes the computer to automatically detect the drive. It would have been wiser to have a mechanical switch if the intent was to have a switch that actually works. In this age of consciousness on energy conservation I think Seagate should have been more deliberate on how to power down the device and power up the device whether or not it's connected to a computer. The device "flanks the test" in this regard.

A lot of problems...
A lot of problems, it freeze every time I try to transfer files and I have to turn off the device and turn it on again, is a painful problem.