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Everything USB Mar 25, 2009

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 and ideal for those users who are both on the go and...

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PhotonPanda

This is one of the slimmest available retail drives out there (as opposed to buying a hard drive and installing it into an enclosure) at about 12mm. You can easily fit many of these into a small carrying case for several TB of portable storage. They get a little warm during use, especially if...

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ilias54a

I got the 250GB white version a few years ago and been using it for my main music storage (which means it is in use most of the time) and for transfering files between computers. Works like a charm, i keep a backup of all my files but never had any issues with this drive and i trust it 100%.

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athene8

Due to having many computers, user accounts for each member of the family on each, this HDD is the primary storage for our collected music library, videos, photos, and archived documents. (NOTE: It is mirrored weekly to a 2nd HDD for backup) It may not be a speed demon but it is simple to use...

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