Seagate FreeAgent Go 500GB External Hard Drive Review
Performance Comparison
Now here is a quick comparison of how this drive stacks up against a flash drive and a high performance desktop hard drive.
Conclusively we see the FreeAgent Go being faster than your average flash drive, while being understandably slower than a desktop drive. Not to worry though as its purpose does not dictate a need for speed but instead its main attribute is ultra-portable mass storage.
Personally I prefer to roll my own external drives. I always think it is a rip off that products like this one do not include an e-sata port on them, like my Vantec NexStar CX housing does and it wasn’t an expensive housing either.
To be fair to Seagate, they are hardly the only vendor of pre-built external drives that don’t include e-sata, but that is still no excuse when you consider the profits over the bare drives these external products rake in for the vendors.
Well I would imaging that some of the products of this type would support e-SATA but that is where it comes down to you, the consumer. Either shop around for what you really want or you make do with an option that fits your pocket.
I also had an enclosure that had both USB and e-SATA support but for some really strange reason, I have never been able to get my e-SATA working. Weird!
What I’m really waiting for is for Seagate to move the industry to total solid state drives.
hi, great blog post. will come back later.