Mini Portable Hard Drive
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Product Description
Free Agent GO Drive - 320GB 5400RPM 8MB Cache USB 2.0 up to 480MB/s - MAC Formatted… More >>
i want to get a macbook pro for university in the fall. i will be moving away from home and i like everything that it can do. plus its extra long battery life is nice. but i am wondering why the ram and hard drives for these laptops are so small. only a 160gb hard drive? is that enough?
I'm trying to install adobe photoshop cs4 on my laptop. I get past the first two stages (where you enter in the serial number and choose which programs to install, respectively) and I click next/continue, and a message pops up telling me to insert the disk into the E drive to continue the installation. But the disk is ALREADY in the drive. What am I supposed to do? People have suggested copying the files onto my hard drive or desktop and then running setup from there. Is that right? Does that work? Thanks!
Are there any good programs (free) for formatting only empty parts of your hard drive? like if you have credit card info on a notepad then you erase it because you got a new card, or any other thing like that? just want to ensure my filed are completely gone and not retrievable.
I accidentally re-set my computer back to factory settings. How do I recover my data since it's still on the hard drive?
The world is over-populated and resources will run out eventually (this is not the debate). Yet we continue to bring children into this world. So people can afford to, both financially and with all the resources required to raise a healthy educated child. Some people simply can't even feed themselves yet still continue to have countless children. Regardless of these two conditions I wonder why we have children. I know there is a biological drive but besides that what are we really contributing to the world. They are expensive, they take up a lot of time, energy and resources. Some kids are extremely difficult and don't even appreciate anything you have done for them. They cause countless amount of stress on yourself and the family and so forth!! Besides the biological drive the only thing I can think of, is that we have children so that we are not lonely, so that we have some meaning in our lifes. But this is selfish. So what are some non-selfish reasons why we have children? I am a 24 year old female, well educated and from a Western country. However, I am thinking very hard about whether I want to have children and what the greater benefit is. I am not trying to start some debate, just more trying to gather opinions to help me to expand my way of thinking, because right now I feel a little boxed in and I want to have an open-mind. cheers
February 5th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Mac OSX 10.4.11, Powerbook G4
The 320 GB USB/Firewire drive is simply excellent in ALL respects! No complaints. For me, the light is not a disturbing factor; if it was, I would simply block it with a shade of some sort. It’s quiet, fast, reliable (so far), and the desk cradle is a nice touch. I heartily recommend this product!
February 5th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
only problem I have is that I don’t have a fw800 jack on the back of my mac mini! But it does come with enough cables to make up for it.
February 5th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Put simply, the ideal external drive should have, good capacity, reliability, speed, and ease of use.
- At 320 gigs (and 500 gigs in a slightly larger model), this offers decent capacity - though terrabyte drives are being sold, as well. It’s nearly perfect for holding my media collection.
- Seagate has a sterling reputation for putting out reliable drives. It’s 5400 spin speed isn’t quite as quick as its more expensive 7200 rps competition, but faster spins mean a greater chance of disk problems.
- This drive is widely known for the rarity of disk problems, and mine has worked quietly and uneventfully for some time now.
Here, you have the choice between USB and Firewire; the latter means you can pull the cable after use without incident. If you opt to leave the cable attached, you’ll notice a small amount of residual heat - which wears down a drive - so Firewire is an attractive option. This drive allows you to use its dock only when using Firewire 800, not 400. In either case, the speed is close to tops in its class.
The drive comes with a set of short cables and a leatherette case for the drive itself.
February 5th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
As the title says, piece of junk. Worked just long enough to outlive the 30 day return policy. Quickly became unreliable in recording data, and soon after didn’t work at all. Don’t waste your money.
February 5th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Seagate FreeAgent Go Dock and Case 100521233 (Silver/White)
I happened to purchase this drive and dock bundled together by Seagate (along with a case too) from another vendor, but I wanted to share my experiences here with you. I have a MacBook Pro, Intel chip, purchased January 2008. It has both FireWire 400 & 800 as well as two USB 2.0 ports. I wanted to replace my older, much physically larger Seagate backup drive with a portable drive and have been looking for a FireWire one that was reasonably priced. I was able to get this bundle for $109, a super deal. These Seagate FreeAgent Go for Mac drives in Silver are a stunning accessory to your aluminum MacBooks. They are small, lightweight, and very portable
One of the great things is this drive is already set up for Macs, so there is no changing the drive format from Windows to Mac. I’d been using Time Machine (part of Mac OS X Leopard) to do backups on the old Seagate drive and wanted to move the backups from that drive to this one. There were very easy instructions to follow in the Apple Support Discussion forums on how to do this using Disk Utility. I was able to move it easily (though it did take quite a long time-just be patient). Because this drive can use FireWire 800, all future backups will be much faster than the USB connection I’d used with the old drive.
A few things to note:
1. this Mac formatted drive is available in several different GB sizes.
2. you can connect it in several different ways, and the various cables needed are packaged with the drive. The fastest way is to use FireWire 800. The drive itself can connect to your computer with any of the following, going from fastest to slowest:
A. FireWire 800
B. FireWire 400
C. USB 2.0
If you wish to use the available dock, you must connect with FireWire 800 as the cable is hardwired to the dock, and the connector on the other end is only FireWire 800. I honestly don’t know if you could use an aftermarket adapter to change the connection to FireWire 400 (if that is all you have), so check with Seagate if that is of importance to you.
If you don’t use the dock, you can use the supplied cables to make any of the above mentioned connections. However, while the drive is powered through the FireWire cables, to use USB requires you to have TWO available USB ports as one port is used for the data transfer and one is used for the powersupply. The proper cables are supplied, but just know this will be a much slower data transfer than if you can use FireWire.
I then wanted to use my old Seagate external drive as a bootable disk, should disaster strike my Mac. It isn’t a simple process to create such a thing with Mac supplied software, but there are several freeware/shareware programs that are mentioned in the Apple Support Discussion group that are easily available online and once I’d downloaded one it was a snap to create the bootable disk.
I am thrilled with this purchase, and commend Seagate for making such an exceptional product. Oh, did I say it has a FIVE year warranty? Happy Backups!