I just bought a 500 GB Seagate FreeAgent Go portable USB hard drive. It works perfectly on a last-generation MacBook. Sean Penney. While we’re talking about hard drives, here are two questions I’ve often wondered about. …… The drive is a little louder than the old stock Hitachi 5400 rpm 120 GB, but there are no issues with heat. (By “louder” I mean there is some noise. Silence is my benchmark and goal, which is why I love the Mac Mini). … Read more…
The Seagate FreeAgent Go 500GB portable hard drive is amazingly designed and fast too. The included software is packed with useful features to realize the true potential of the drive in today’s home. This product is worth our recommendation … Hard drives and external drive enclosures can be sourced cheaply through a wide variety of retailers. The FreeAgent Go portable hard drive is a new-comer to Seagate’s drive family of external storage solutions and in an age where … Read more…
just changed hard drive in my new Aspire one with hard drive from Walmart. Used drive from 320G Free Agent Go also from Walmart. Downloaded Seagate Disc Wizard to clone installed drive. Pride open side of agent’s disc case, Inserted guitar …… I’ve found this Samsung M5 160GB 2.5″ PATA 5400RPM 8MB HDD on http://www.ox.lt/lt/product/48931 and i’m wondering could i replace the crapy ssd and put in this hdd? i’m from Lithuania, so sorry for my mistakes if there is any :) … Read more…
The battery and the hard drive are behind the same panel on the bottom. Go to the MacBook Pro Design page on Apple’s site http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/design.html. [On the middle left] is a link to View the interactive gallery. …… FireWire debate, I ran the tests on my MacBook using an external drive that supports both FW400 and USB2.0. Here’s the results: Mid-2007 MacBook 2.16 GHz, 2GB RAM. Disk: Seagate FreeAgent Pro 500GB (supports both USB2.0 and FW400) … Read more…
Seagate, the world’s leading provider of storage solutions, unveiled today a gift idea that will keep on giving for years to come. Originally introduced in September with a choice of four colors, the new award-winning FreeAgent Go portable hard drive is now available in all the colors of the rainbow, including: think pink, ruby red, solar orange, spring green, forest green, royal blue, sky blue, champagne gold, titanium silver and tuxedo black. The initial color options … Read more…
My Macbook is one of the original black ones, and the Seagate Momentus 5400.2 drive just failed….completely. No noise, just not there anymore. Not accessable through an external enclosure…nothing. So I’m taking it in to a shop tomorrow. We’ll see what they say. Brian Rutter …… One strange thing that I observed was that the Seagate Momentus 500GB 5400.6 drives operate much cooler than the 120GB or 160GB 5400RPM drive supplied with the FW400 MacBook plastic. … Read more…
