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Sort Results BySort By: AvailabilitySort By: Merchant RatingSort By: Price SEAGATE - ST307504FPA1E2-RK 750GB FREEAGENT SATA/USB 2.0 7200RPM 16MB 3.5IN Best Price:$229.98 Product Rating 3.5 out of 5 Read Product Reviews Internal/External: EXT Speed: 7200 RPM USB INTERFACE: USB2 Merchant & Rating Product Details Price* Sales Tax* Availability* Excellent Return Policy and customer service Read Reviews: 4 / 5 Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750 GB USB / eSATA External Hard Drive ST307504FPA1E2-RK $229.98 Buy it from Amazon WA,ND See Site Free Shipping on most orders over $25 Discount Superstore Read Reviews: 1 / 5 Seagate FreeAgent Pro Desktop Hard Drive - 750GB - 7200rpm - 480Mbps USB 2.0, 300Mbps External SATA - USB 2.0, Serial ATA/300 - USB, External SATA - External $251.57 Buy it from Ecost.com CA,TN See Site Free Shipping on orders over $25 Buy.com Read Reviews: 3 / 5 Seagate FreeAgent Pro - 750GB, 7200 RPM, USB 2.0, eSATA, External Hard Drive The FreeAgent Pro data mover provides anyone who s serious about their digital content with the freedom to stay connected to it. It s all about having your latest files right whe $241.99 Buy it from Buy.com CA, IN, MA See Site Read Reviews: 4 / 5 FreeAgent Pro - hard drive - 750 GB - Hi-Speed USB / eSATA-300 $272.99 Buy it from zones.com CA, IL, MO, NV, OH, TN, WA See Site Shipping Info: $10.54 Dell Home Systems Read Reviews: 4 / 5 750 GB 7200 RPM FreeAgent Pro USB 2.0 / eSATA External Hard Drive See It In Action [Take the 3D Tour]The 750 GB 7200 RPM USB 2.0/eSerial ATA FreeAgentGS= Pro External Hard Drive from Seagate-½ boasts of a large storage capacity of up to 750 GB allowing yo $259.00 Buy it from Dell Home Systems Most States - See Site See Site Read Reviews: 3 / 5 Seagate FreeAgent Pro Desktop Hard Drive 750GB FREEAGENT PRO ESATA USB EXT 2.0 7200 RPM 16MB 3.5IN $271.30 Buy it from Overstock UT See Site Shipping Info: Shipping only $2.95 on Everything! 2.95 Product Reviews from Amazon.com (Rating System 1 to 5) Review Rating Last Updated CRASHED HD crashed after 6 months of use. Same issues as others have reported. I only hope I can get the data back. Wish me luck...but in the mean time don't buy this HD! 1 Today Bad design, overheating problem I am very surprised that the Freeagent Pro 750G get such a good rating, therefore I would have to submit a negative as warning for other customers.I would hate to rate a product with one star just because I have bad luck getting a defective sample but I decided to rate the Seagate Freeagent Pro 750G with one star anyway. My reason is I believe the problem I have is due to poor product design, not simply a defective sample. I like the look of the Freeagent Pro 750G and if it keep working, I would have given it 5 stars. I used the Freeagent Pro 750G drive to store video files from my desktop and laptop. After about one month of use and 150G worth of transfer from my desktop and laptop to the Freeagent drive, it start dying. Windows lost connection to the Freeagent Pro drive. After searching internet, I found out it is a common problem due to overheating of the controller. If you plan to buy the Freeagent series of external hard drive, do yourself a favour, search internet for overheating and decide whether you still want to buy it after you read about that. Back to my drive, I have noticed before that the bottom of the drive (which host the controller) was very hot after 20-30 min of use. The design of the Freeagent series of external drive put the electronic controller circuit inside an interchangable plastic box so that they can sell USB, USB + eSATA or USB + Firewire versions by simply install a different controller box in each model. The problem of this design is the chips inside the controller generate heat and by putting the chips inside a CLOSED plastic box, it is prone to overheating. I believe it is a design problem, not because I bought a bad sample. Back to my drive, after found out the overheating problem on internet, I turn the Freeagent Pro drive side way and blast it with a fan and try to transfer the file out of it. It work for 30 min but after that, it overheat and disconnected again (and it progressively getting less and less time). If the same problem happen to you, you can try to recover your files like this (after overheating, shut it down and let it cool down and transfer again, make sure you re-transfer the file that was interrupted during transfer). There is a video on YOUTUBE showing how to open the Freeagent drive, DON'T follow the procedure, the instruction is not correct for the 750G model. The video is for smaller Freeagent drive, the 750G design is slightly different, you have to remove the 4 rubber cushions in the bottom, then remove the screws underneath and then you can remove the base and work on the controller. If you crack open the plastic box and let the circuit board hanging out, it will partially solve the overheating problem and the drive will work longer before overheat again. You can also disable the lighting on the case by unplug one of the 2 wires inside (forget the color but one of the wire will disable the drive totally, you will know it is the wrong wire right away and simply plug it back, unplug the other wire instead). If you disable the light and let the circuit board hanging out, the drive can probably work OK but it is not a permanent solution for most people but perhaps good enough to recover your files. At the end I have 2 options after recover my files: put the Freeagent Pro back together and ship it back to Seagate for a replacement or take the hard drive out and use it as internal drive. I think the design of the drive is the problem so even if I pay the shippment for replacement, I am going to get another one that will probably die on me in several months, so I decided to use it as internal drive. The case is very hard to open and there are four latches/hooks inside. 2 of them are designed in such a way that once it was closed, I doubt anyone can open the case without breaking it. So if you decided to open the case, forget about keeping the case, just make sure you don't break the hard drive inside and pry the plastic shell open (the case look like metal but it is actually a very thin layer of metal on top of plastic). I am quite happy with the Seagate hard drive itself but considering I pay extra for the case and all the trouble to open it up, I would think it will be much better to buy the Seagate internal hard drive, buy a decent hard drive enclosure and put the hard drive inside the enclosure yourself. It is still possible that I am just unlucky that my circuit board is more susceptible to overheating than normal and if you buy one and it do not die on you, good for you. But for me, it is too risky to buy a Freeagent external drive unless they change the design and get rid of the closed plastic box that host the electronic circuit. One last thing, whatever you do with the drive, NEVER put it on carpeted floor, that will make the overheating worse. If you already bought one and is just start using it, after you use it for several hours (like if you actually use it to backup another hard drive or run something from it directly), lift up the Freeagent drive and touch the bottom (warning: it is hot!) and ask yourself, do you really think the IC inside that plastic box will survive this type of heat, if your answer is no, then transfer your files to somewhere else and try to return the Freeagent drive if it is still possible. If you think the heat do not bother you, then I wish you good luck but if your have to recover your files later, don't say you were not warned. 1 Today Not up to Seagate's expected quality, probably best avoided, attractive styling but multiple engineering deficiencies I've had a Seagate FreeAgent Pro 500GB drive that has worked satisfactorily since day one, and thus anticipated no problems with this drive. However, the 750GB drive appears to be a different item. Almost from the beginning this drive failed to be consistently recognized using either the SATA or USB connectors. As others have noted, regardless of how soon after you purchase this drive you experience problems, Seagate will only exchange it for a reconditioned unit. That is, you cannot even get the unit you bought repaired by Seagate and sent back to you. If you need to return this product due to defects during its warranty period you pay return shipping and, as noted above, the replacement will be reconditioned and not new. Combine these observations with the fact that drive prices drop and drive technology improves significantly from year to year. Thus, the extended warranty while a nice feature is not quite as attractive as it might first appear. Other user comments as well as my experience suggest that the failure of this drive to be consistently recognized when connected is not uncommon. Other drives installed in external enclosures, on the same system, have never shown this problem. My experience combined with the experiences reported by other users, may indicate a systemic problem in the design of this device's external interface. Some users appear to be lucky enough to never encounter this problem; however, others such as myself are not so fortunate. It was also a surprise to learn that Seagate has decided *not*, at least as of this review, to support Vista 64-bit with their software for this product, so its not possible to use any of the important features otherwise available. Even simple tasks, such as controlling the large light associated with this drive, cannot be handled with the incompatible Seagate software. Seagate apparently has no plans to update this product's software for compatibility with this newer operating system. Thus, a FreeAgent Pro drive is probably not the best choice if you update your systems on a reasonable schedule. Even if you don't own or plan to purchase Vista 64-bit, Seagate's failure to support this software may foretell their approach to support Seagate FreeAgent Pro hardware when even newer operating systems are released. With a greater concern for purchasers, this type of unnecessary obsolescence could easily be delayed. The underside of the drive base gets surprisingly hot, and with no internal fan, drive life might potentially be shortened from this heat. The enclosure does not have an external on/off switch. To turn the drive off you move a finger over a covered "sensor". The sensor is supposed to detect your finger and switch the unit on or off as appropriate. Detection by the sensor has proven to be an intermittent feature, usually requiring many attempts to get the system to recognize your on/off input. Its not clear if this was done to improve styling, add a unique feature, or simply save money; whatever the reason, the design does not work as desired. Seagate products are usually quite well designed. So, its probably particularly telling that at the time this was posted 8 out of 12 reviews, on Amazon's main page for the Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750 GB, rated it 1 star. Sadly, my experience with this product suggests its not up to the usual Seagate quality and is probably best avoided ... particularly, when there is a much wider range of drives available separately that can be added to an external enclosure with fan. If you choose this approach, you can select a drive with the specific characteristics you want, e.g., speed, power consumption, noise, size, MTBF, raid ready features, etc. rather than the restricted set available in the FreeAgent series, and most likely have a more reliable product. 1 Today You might be ok if you only use USB...but Esata? Run for the hills If you do a google search for "freeagent esata problems" you'll see the masses of problems people are having, over and over again. The esata function of this drive (and the rest of the freeagent PRO line up) is flawed and people are complaining/blogging/forum-ing about it in pretty high numbers. One example... http://blog.noegruts.com/2007/12/seagate-freeagent-pro-esata-problems.html Now this is the 2nd, freeagent pro that has died on me. The first one lasted a month. The 2nd lasted a week. The same exact thing happened both times. I've used it on 2 different computers and it's the same problem. My data would get corrupted and the hard drive would become unreadable. Then the disk errors start coming. Checkdisk would salvage most of my data and temporarily fix it, but then the problems start all over again. Then it starts it's final stage of life. It shuts down, turns on, shuts down, turns on and hangs the computer. Keep in mind this happened on 2 different hard drives and two different computers. It's wasted so much of my time, which is why i'm even writing this. Hopefully some can benefit from my bad experience with the freeagent pro line. Thank goodness I had my data backed up. It's just NOT a reliable product and I only wish I had known about these problems before I bought it. Regarding USB MODE - I have not had problems while using it in USB, other than how slow it is. See the specs on the website above. But if you're only using USB why not save the money and get the FreeAgent Desktop which doesn't have esata? I haven't had any problems with that one........yet. Time for me to look for a better storage solution. 1 Today Very Poor Design The first problem was turning this thing on, the second is turning it off- both require a lot of patience. The power button is awful, terrible, horrible. The unit seems to decide when and if it wants to function. We threw it in the garbage after less than two months. 1 Today DO NOT BUY I bought this Hard Drive to back up a older Hard Drive. All I have to say is that this is the biggest waist of money that I have ever spent money on. Fist off the accrual piece of equipment is not bad. It worked for about 30 days then the USB port broke!! I cant use it I even bought eSATA cords and adapter for my computer! second the customer service at Seagate is by far the worst that I have ever dealt with. they have no way of fixing this it is not covered in the warranty and if they were smart obviously they are not they would sell the little adapter that comes of separately so people can buy them. I have read other reviews about the same problem. it seems that this happens more then just once so be warned. Go with a WD or something else. 1 Today Multitude of problems An admission of partial guilt for the problems I had with my FreeAgent drive before I get into the details of other problems I discovered with this product. The design of the thing is going to cause headaches for numerous owners. The upright stance is top-heavy and on a number of instances the thing fell over before finally having fallen over one too many times, which brought about its demise. So, problem one: unstable design. As you know, bumping a hard drive is an invitation to disaster and that's exactly what happened to me. After the final bump, an intermittent beep could be heard from somewhere within the casing. My computer could no longer find the drive. It makes sense to be able to get into a casing to get to the HD and attach it directly to your motherboard to see if the problem you now face is HD or FreeAgent system board related. Not gonna happen. After looking into it on a number of sites related to numerous people having problems with this drive I discovered that the unit is physically impossible to get into without breaking it, thus voiding your warranty. If you have sensitive data on the drive and you cannot access it to erase the data you are now faced with a conundrum. You can't access the guts to destroy data, and if you open it to destroy it, the casing is ruined and non-returnable. Brilliant. What I came across from other users with problems with FreeAgent machines is a wide array of difficulties ranging from the afore-mentioned wobbliness of the unit, power adapter problems, and general drive failure. The main power adapter problem seems related to the two plugs in the base of the unit (which is pretty easy to get into). It seems not enough power is going into the system to run both the HD and the pretty lighting. People were losing their connectivity to the FreeAgent, but when the lighting plugs were disconnected, it miraculously worked again. Not very upstanding design with the power board there. Quite a number of users also mentioned the system just not working any longer. Quite a few discovered via contact with Seagate that either the FreeAgent controller board had failed (which is very susceptible to the wobbliness bumps apparently) and others just had the HD go after only a few weeks or months of use. Given the days of rework and lost data and rebuilding a new backup drive, etc. that this machine has cost me, and with what I've discovered from other users, there is no way that I can recommend it. Not without a serious re-design where the unit would LIE FLAT and therefore be much safer. That and a re-design of the controller board to be more rugged and better internal powering to run both the cute lighting and the HD. Given the number of users that used the words 'class action suit' in their summaries of disasters, I can't imagine Seagate won't get out of this design without some loss as well. Makes up for the loss of all our data I guess. 1 Today Excellent Drive, Lackluster Software I like this drive, but it has some "issues" that you will have to work around or live with. NO CABLE. This external FreeAgent drive does not come with an eSATA cable. You will want to get one. The problem is that there are a LOT of companies on the internet that are selling SATA products as eSATA products. There's a BIG difference. If you don't know what to look for, you can be fooled easily into buying something you'll regret later. You want to be informed before you buy any accessories. Use your favorite search engine to read up on "SATA vs. eSATA" or "SATA I vs. SATA II". ADAPTER CARD. I have an older computer which has the slow-interfacing PCI card slots, and does not have USB 2.0 or eSATA ports. I could not find a PCI adapter card in this country with USB 2.0 and eSATA ports together on the same card. I bought one off of eBay, which was shipped from another country. Though the included drivers did not work, I subscribe to DriverAgent, Touchstone's driver update service. Their website was able to provide compatible drivers that do a fantastic job with the adapter card and this FreeAgent external drive. You might wonder why anyone would consider feeding this high-speed drive with its high-speed eSATA connection, through a slow PCI card slot. Surprisingly, it performs VERY well! Transferring 45GB of my backup files from one drive to another normally takes about 8 hours. With this FreeAgent external drive, it only took 1-1/2 hours! It can take in data as fast as my computer can feed it. If fed through AGP or PCIe card slots, your data transfer rate will be even better than the results I got. BACKUP & UTILITIES SOFTWARE. Backup software is included on this drive, and is set up to install as soon as the drive is plugged in. Of course, you are given the option to say "no". For me, the problem with this backup software is that it's lackluster. There are no "wow" features that would make me recommend this software over anyone else's. Furthermore, it's not disc-imaging software, my preference. If you decide to store backups on this FreeAgent external drive using the included software, you cannot use this drive as additional storage space for your music files, photos, etc. In the process of creating a backup, the software will destroy anything already on it. You could partition this drive and use half for storage, and half for backups, but I did NOT experiment to see if the backup software destroys partitions. Sorry, I cannot answer that for you. In Windows 2000, if you decide to NOT install the included software, you cannot remove the software files from the drive. Otherwise, if you do, the drive icon will turn to a white blank page. (This problem does not exist in Windows XP.) Using your computer's registry, there's a way to fix this problem AND remove the software files from the drive. It's too involved to discuss here. Search the internet for "customize drive icon", using your favorite search engine. Another failure of the included software is that the Utilities do not work if this FreeAgent external drive is connected to your computer with an eSATA cable. The only function you get is "Run Drive Diagnostics". Then when you run it, you get a red diagnostic code telling you that your drive has a serious problem and needs servicing (it doesn't). Seagate is aware of this problem, and so states it on their website's Knowledge Base. If you wish to adjust the case lights and sleep interval of the drive (default is 15 minutes), you must install the included software, connecting this FreeAgent external drive to your computer via a USB 2.0 cable. Only then can you run the Utilities and make adjustments to the default settings. One final caution: since this is still somewhat new technology, your favorite backup or disc-imaging software may not work if you have this FreeAgent external drive connected to your computer with an eSATA cable. 4 Today One of the worst out there, beware of the Seagate warranty!!!!! The Seagate FreeAgent is the last external harddrive I would store my precious data on. I bought this drive and it was bad out of the box. I contacted Seagate support. We ran through formating, restoring the drive, trying on a different computer, etc. I can appreciate that something can be defective, but Seagate "policy" is to replace it with a refurbished drive. I have only had this drive for a week!!! If you bought a new car and had to take it back for service and the dealerships response was "We will swap it out with used car", you would be furious. Beware of their warranty policy!!!! 1 Today external drive product is very fast, works perfect with XP. 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