St905004exa101 - St905004exa101 Works Like A Charm!
By Rick
Since I travel over a 100K miles every year for business and pleasure I try to travel as light as possible with just a laptop. Problem is I have an extensive Powerpoint collection of presentations plus all my digital media for music and photographs. My other consideration was a drive large enough to backup all my documents.
I've had numerous Seagate products in the past and have always been happy with the products and support I received so they were the first place I looked when searching for a external portable drive. The good news is I didn't have to call customer support for any issues. The install was truely plug and play and the drive unit itself is so quiet I have to keep checking to make sure it is on.
The ST905004EXA101 is very light and sleek looking and fits very easily into my briefcase. All in all an excellent value and it's still hard for me to believe you can get a 500GB unit for under $100. Highly recommended.....
ST905004EXA101 Pretty Good, with a Caveat
By Name Withheld
Opened the Amazon box, plugged in the unit, renamed "Autorun.inf" to "-Autorun.inf", copied my favorite portable synch program (Toucan) to the drive, and proceeded to do a data dump. All in all, a quite smooth operation.
Then of course, the thing turned off after five minutes. Downloaded "FreeAgentCN.zip" from Seagate (which was an incredible 72 megs), installed it, set power down to thirty minutes, and uninstalled it. The software created a new "autorun.inf" in the drive's root folder which was also renamed.
Seriously Seagate, an empty 500g disk that requires a 72 meg download and install just to change the power down settings on a portable device? There really should be a tiny PowerSettings.exe on the drive.
Transfer rates seem to be about 1 gig per minute - quite acceptable.
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