Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1.5 TB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive ST315005FPA2E3-RK (Black)

by Seagate

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 1.3 x 6.9 inches ; 3.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001FWCB8Q
• Item model number: ST315005FPA2E3-RK
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (76 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

Capacity: 1.5 TB

From the Manufacturer

With its huge capacity and the fastest file transfer speeds today, the FreeAgent XTreme™ storage solution helps easily safeguard all your photos, music, videos, and documents and access them with maximum performance. Included, easy-to-use software helps keep your information safe and private with automatic data backup and encryption of your important files and folders. Environmentally smart utilities help save energy by putting your FreeAgent drive in sleep mode once it has been idle for 15 minutes. And you can take advantage of its flexibility to lie on its side or stand vertically to maximize your workspace.

eSATA, USB 2.0, Firewire 400 interfaces

Pre-loaded software — no CDs! Safeguards all your files

Tripple Interface
With its huge capacity and the fastest file transfer speeds available, the FreeAgent XTreme storage solution helps easily safeguard all your photos, music, videos, and documents and access them with maximum performance.

Automatic Backup Software
Included, easy-to-use software helps keep your information safe and private with automatic data backup and encryption of your important files and folders.

Easily stackable, maximize your workspace.

Space Saving and Energy Efficient
Environmentally smart utilities help save energy by putting your FreeAgent drive in sleep mode once it has been idle for 15 minutes. And you can take advantage of its flexibility to lie on its side or stand vertically to maximize your workspace. Plus, multiple drives can easily stack on top of each other.

Key Features

• Conveniently store all your photos, music, videos and documents in one place thanks to generous storage capacity.
• Experience blazingly fast data transfer with eSATA, USB 2.0, and FireWire 400 interfaces.
• Enjoy a sleek, modern design that offers the choice of horizontal or vertical orientation to complement your desktop environment.
• Easily protect your data with automatic backup software.
• Keep your important files and folders private with powerful software encryption technology.
• Sync content between your FreeAgent XTreme™ drive and other portable drives so you’ll always have your current file versions wherever you are.
• Get started quickly with pre-loaded software. No CDs!
• Save energy with an environmentally smart utility that can put your drive in sleep mode once it has been idle for 15 minutes.
• Enjoy peace of mind with a 5-year limited warranty from the worldwide leader in storage solutions.

What’s in the Box
FreeAgent XTreme™ external hard drive, FreeAgent software pre-loaded on drive (Windows only), base stand, attachable feet, USB cable, FireWire 400 cable, power supply, and quickstart guide

Product Description

FreeAgent I Xtreme Desktop Drive-1.5TB 7200 RPM USB 2.0/eSATA/FireWire

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars xtreme storage, November 7, 2008

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Jaime Moreno (Farmersville,CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1.5 TB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive ST315005FPA2E3-RK (Black) (Personal Computers)

Way better than the older freeagent external drive it replaced so far. It's smaller and lighter and the software to turn off the drive light actually works in Vista x64 now. What I really like is how the light stays off even when the power is completely off until you switch it back on. Previously you had to turn off the light every single time.Runs quiet and cool. No stuttering or failures so far. Pros - more than 2x as much space as my older external. Included software way better than older freeagent drives and works in Vista x64. Cons - doesn't come with esata cable so I wouldn't know if esata problems are as bad as suggested. It does come with firewire and usb cables and I'm using the faster firewire and works great with that as I said. Included stand crud and not worth using. Choice of white contrasting power and connection cables poor. Only 1.36TB formatted:( and if you are using nvidia nforce chipset even less space will show up in Vista due to bug:
1.5TB (ST31500341AS) or larger SATA hard drive only showing 1.1TB capacity in Windows Vista
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Backup program is still not that great and not intuitive at all. I tried using the encryption feature and it's not worth using since it takes a long time to decrypt if you have thousands of files!

Don't know why this 1.5TB drive from Seagate is so much reliable than their normal 1.5TB retail drives?
The other 1.5TB Seagate drive I have installed inside my PC is making terrible screeching sounds like it's about to die anytime now :(
Already had to RMA several internal 1.5TB Seagate drives :(

32 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Mac users -- avoid this drive, March 4, 2009

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Paul Vail "afterhoursconsulting.org" (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1.5 TB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive ST315005FPA2E3-RK (Black) (Personal Computers)

Like others here, I am a long-time Mac user. Stidwell's instructions are a good starting point, but I've been through 2 shrink-wrapped boxes of this drive, and while the USB interface worked reliably, the Firewire (1394) did NOT always work. What is so odd about this drive is that if one unplugs the power and usb cord, and plugs in the firewire cord FIRST, then the power, the drive will often mount. But there were times I could not replicate a proper procedure to have this mount reliably EVERY time. This on an intel Mac mini and an older PPC G4 Cube. I repair Macs for a living, so I don't mind adventures with equipment, but for the general consumer, I would stay away from this particular model. Seagate still makes top notch product, but this model is not for the general Mac user.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another superb drive from Seagate!, November 30, 2008

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Ronaldo L. Fernandez - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1 TB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive ST310005FPA2E3-RK (Black) (Personal Computers)

I like the fact that this external drive have 4 interfaces. 1 x eSATA, 1 x USB 2.0 and 2 x Firewire 400 making it one of the most well equipped external hard disk drives on the market right now. Performance wise, it again impressed me with its mach speed fast eSATA file transfer rates and solid USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 performance too. Even the included software performed the feat of being both falling-off-a-log simple to use and actually useful.
I am also a big Mac user. I wanted to test how it performs on a Mac OSX 10.5 so I re-formatted using the standard Mac OS X HFS+.
The Firewire 400 and USB connections are flawless. In sub seconds it easily recognizes the drive. eSATA was again shamefully outshined everyone else with its ultra fast connection and transfer rate. I copied a 40 GB file in 9.5 minutes. A 512 MB file in 55 seconds.
Holy smokes I gotta get myself another one of these monsters!

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