Seagate Free Agent Go 320GB

When running out of space, an external portable hard drive still seems like

the most practical solution for storing data. Portability and speed remain the

two key factors to consider when buying an external HDD. When talking of speed,

the new 2.5'' FreeAgent GO performed quite brilliantly. At first sight, it looks

like many of the other portable HDDs available in the market. But the

benchmarking tests proved quite the contrary. It gave an average read speed of

21.1MB/s in the HD Tach benchmark and 26.8MB/s in the Everest disk benchmarks,

which are quite good and better than a number of other such devices available.

The machine used to test it was a Pentium 4 extreme edition at 3.0GHz coupled

with 1GB RAM. We managed to transfer an 800MB video file in less than 50 seconds

and a 1GB folder in 55 seconds which is again, quick!

The FreeAgent GO is as silent as vacuum and doesn't gets heated even after

prolonged use. The device supports USB 2.0 interface and apart from data

transfer it also gets powered from the same.

The look of it is neat and feels quite solid. The dotted lights on the

surface pulsate to indicate data transfer. Another thing worth mentioning is

that, it is fitted with a shock absorbing system which ensures the safety of

your data from jerks. As with many portable drives even this one is available in

different colors

Bottomline: A good buy for people looking for a

portable data storage solution.