I like inovative products and after spending some time with the Seagate FreeAgent DockStar, I think it’s just that. This thing is cool. The concept is simple and thankfully, so is the product. All you do is insert a Seagate FreeAgent Go hard drive in the dock – or use a USB flash drive – and then the dock becomes not only a local network share, but also an Internet-connected storage device through Pogoplug. I’m pleased to report that it works without any hassle, but I still don’t think you should buy it.
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by Matt Burns on October 12, 2009
by Matt Burns on October 12, 2009
The Seagate FreeAgent Go is a 1TB, USB-powered hard drive that works. What more do you wanna know? Read More
by Doug Aamoth on September 21, 2009
Seagate’s just busted through that swing-down arm thing commonly found at tollbooths and for-pay parking lots. In the wake of thousands of little wooden splinters, we observe Seagate sticking its hairy arm out the driver’s side window, fist clenched but for a solitary index finger pointing skyward, as if to say, “I’m number one.”
by Nicholas Deleon on July 10, 2009
Yet another possible glitch affecting the MacBook Pro, this time having to do with “strange clicking and beeping noises.” It seems that several people with the 7200 RPM hard drive (the Seagate Momentus 7200.4) have reported those “clicking” issues, as well as general performance issues. Can’t have that.
by Peter Ha on June 24, 2009
Because Mac users need hard drives more than Windows users. Seagate announced some brand spankin’ new external drives today that include the FreeAgent Go Drive for Mac w/ USB, FreeAgent Go Pro for Mac, a 2TB FreeAgent Desk for Mac and the FreeAgent Go Dock+. The dock is actually really cool.
by Peter Ha on April 27, 2009
Step 1. Plug in Replica (Multi-PC 500GB or Single PC 250GB).
Step 2. Click yes to all the licensing stuff and terms of service BS.
Step 3. Walk away.
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by Peter Ha on April 24, 2009
Quick Version: In short, the FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player Solution from Seagate was made for a caveman if cavemen been around in 1999 when people actually used the DivX codec and only used Windows machines. Not to be completely unfair, but if you’re an avid reader of CrunchGear or a savvy BitTorrenter then this definitely isn’t what you’re looking for.
by Matt Burns on April 21, 2009
Hard drive prices are dropping and dropping. It’s it grand?! We love it. Anyway, newegg has some killer deals on hard drives today. Yup, these are from the same line of drives that had issues last year, but the new firmware seemed to have fixed those problems. These prices are too good to pass up too.
by Dave Freeman on April 8, 2009
Seagate is claiming that their new SV35.5 series is the next step in hard drive technology, though it’s nominally just a new type of drive intended for video surveillance recording and other heavy 24/7 use. Seagate has also stated that these drives are intended for end users that constantly shuffle and read massive files that require a larger processing load. Sounds like your average bittorrent user to me.
by John Biggs on April 1, 2009
Seagate manager Pete Steege tried to store his Seagate Go 320GB hard drive in ice for 100 days in order to prove that Seagate drives can withstand all manner of torture. Sadly, it didn’t quite make it. When he cut the drive out of his ice rink (!!) he cut the bag which wet the drive.
by Doug Aamoth on March 25, 2009
Newegg has a pretty good deal on a 1.5TB external hard drive. The Seagate FreeAgent costs $119, features a 7200 rpm drive, connects via USB, and includes free shipping (the deal ends today). Reviews have been mixed as this drive apparently had some problems early on, although it appears that the kinks have been worked out thanks to new firmware.
Seagate FreeAgent [Newegg.com]
by Dave Freeman on March 24, 2009
Seagate announced a new product line today, the Black Armor NAS. Targeted at small businesses, the new device has hardware level encryption and is available in 2, 4, 6, or 8TB capacities.
by Matt Burns on March 9, 2009
SATA 3.0 is about to bring the goods – and fast. Seagate and AMD partnered together to demo just what the hopeful revision will be capable of with a prototype Barracuda drive and AMD chipset. If Seagate gets its way. – you see, not all manufacturers are signed on just yet including Western Digital – SATA 3.0 will be a full 200% faster than the current generation while still being backwards compatible.
by Devin Coldewey on January 22, 2009
Remember those issues Seagate was having? No, not those issues; everybody has those right now (except Apple and Google). I’m talking about the thousands upon thousands of drives that have been freezing up due to a firmware issue. Seagate released a “fix” a while ago that took fixed the problem by bricking the drive, which was, needless to say, poorly received.
by Devin Coldewey on January 21, 2009
Seagate’s earnings report was released today, and it was revealed that during the most recent quarter, they had a net loss of $496 million. That’s a lot! Of course, the fact is most companies are showing enormous drops in revenue, and are weathering it variously well depending on their volume and incidental costs like restructuring, acquisitions and so on.
I’d be more worried about their actual hard drives than their business performance if I were you. Billion dollar multinational corporations don’t usually just seize up and die — unlike Seagate’s recent 1TB and 1.5TB hard drives.
by Devin Coldewey on January 14, 2009
Looks like Seagate is being dashed on the rocks by the worldwide financial gale as much as anyone else. In addition to cutting nearly 3000 jobs, they’re changing course by giving their CEO the boot.
Not only are sales down, but their flagship line of hard drives has been plagued with failures (including this bargain drive, which I urge you not to buy at the moment). And just lately the failures have been revealed to span not just the 1.5TB HDDs, but the perhaps more common 1TB ones.
by Matt Burns on January 14, 2009
No matter how you feel about Seagate’s reliability, you have to admit that this is a heck of a deal. For only $129, you get a 1.5TB drive with a 32MB buffer. What a steal! Better hurry, these Amazon deals usually don’t hang around that long.
by Matt Burns on December 4, 2008
When will companies learn that if you treat people badly, it will appear all over the Internet? According to this chat transcript between a Seagate hard drive owner and an online tech, Seagate has an interesting warranty policy that states the advertised one-year warranty doesn’t start when the drive is purchased, rather when it left the factory. So if the drive sat on retailer’s shelves for four months, the purchaser would only have eight months left to claim the warranty.
- Brandon R.: You have a one year warranty for the time the retailer gets the drive. That is what is covered by our warranty policy. Any extended warranty from that point will be covered by the retailer
- Chad Miller: How can one possibly know when the retailer got the drive? Do you timestamp the box?
- Chad Miller: If i’m in a store and see a Maxtor/Seagate box, I have to find out when they shipped it to the store?
- Brandon R.: The warranty is tied with the serial number, so when we ship the drive out from the assembly plant it is entered into our system. It also makes a difference on who buys the drive, retailers. Different drives will have different warranties based on what Seagate and the retailer agree on.
- Chad Miller: Yeah. So, how can I know when I pick up a box whether the warranty expired yesterday?
Nice. Seagate’s Warranty Policy.
Official Seagate response after the break.
by Devin Coldewey on November 21, 2008
This superb slideshow at Tom’s Hardware shows the facilities and processes by which the hard drives we so often take for granted are created with unbelievable precision. The Springtown facility in Ireland is one of their primary sites. The yellow light is, I’m guessing, a wavelength that doesn’t affect the raw wafers’ surface. The processes are explained in some detail although some technical knowledge is necessary to get the full effect. Still, how about this for breaking it down:
If the read/write head were a Boeing 747, and the hard-disk platter were the surface of the Earth:
The head would fly at Mach 800
At less than one centimeter from the ground
And count every blade of grass
Making fewer than 10 unrecoverable counting errors in an area equivalent to all of Ireland.
The whole tour is very interesting, and the photos by Matthieu Lamelot are excellent.
by Devin Coldewey on November 10, 2008
“According to the United States FBI, a notebook computer is stolen every 53 seconds.” Also, twenty million kids are eaten by bats every second. That’s not according to the FBI, but it’s still relevant. Moving on, it appears that as the notebooks (of all sizes and persuasions) begin piling up in our society, there are predictably more and more lost. In an effort to predict at least the data on them, Dell and Seagate have both started making secure hard drives widely available.
The drives have onboard hardware encryption, and at least on the Seagates, the drive pairs with a McAfee encryption/decryption client that’s, I assume, always running. With luck it’ll be unobtrusive and there won’t be too much of a performance hit. The hard drives are available in 160GB, 320GB, and soon a 500GB version as well. What can I say, it all sounds pretty good to me!
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