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Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme Ext Drive

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With the rise of 'digital entertainment', the amount of data in the form of

photos, music, movies etc that a user saves everyday has increased drastically

and so have storage requirements. FreeAgent Extreme from Seagate has a compact

design with jazzy light effects and can be kept both horizontally or vertically

depending on the space available. Under the sleek black color casing of this

product is placed a shock absorbing mechanism that can easily be felt while

moving around the device, when in use; thereby protecting data from perilous

effects of jerks. The external drive is also extremely silent and emits

negligible heat while in operation. The Xtreme provides users with three

interface options: USB 2.0, FireWire and e-SATA for lightning fast transfers

between itself and the computer but one has to shell out extra money for the e-SATA

cable as it is not shipped with the product. It also comes with software which

lets one control the time after which the drive goes into sleep mode, creates

backups and also has security features such as file encryption. We tested the

drive on an AMD Athlon X2 dual core processor based machine with 2GB DDR2 RAM

using HD Tach, WinBench99 and Everest benchmarks. The avg read speed with HD

Tach was 46.1MB/sec which is quite good as compared to other external HDDs we

reviewed in past. It managed to get 14.8 and 34.1 MBps on the Business disk and

high-end disk tests respectively on the WinBench99 benchmark. The avg access

speeds were around 13.2 ms.

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Price: Rs 14,500 (5 yr warranty)



Key Specs: 1TB, 7200 rpm, USB2.0,
FireWire 400, e-SATA, Lock slot



Contact: Fortune Marketing, Delhi


Tel: 26414468


Email: sales@fortune-it.com


SMS Buy 131199 to 56677



Bottom Line: This drive is not just an artist's delight but also high

on performance and features.

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