Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 3TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive

Pros: None. I'd give it 0 (zero) eggs if the rating system would allow it.

Cons: It Will Fail On You.

Failed within 1 (one) month of light-duty use.

It's like being con'd: build up confidence, then take you for everything you invested. Even if you're backed up, it's a massive inconvenience.

Never buying Seagate again; the only trouble I've ever had with drives malfunctioning has been with Seagate brand drives. Should have listened to my gut.

Other Thoughts: At least the drive is covered under warranty at the moment.

Pros: None

Cons: This drive is complete garbage. It completely failed on us in less than a year and we've lost 6 years worth of photos of our 6 year old son, not to mention other important files, that we've been trying to back up via a cloud backup service for weeks now, due to an unexplained hard drive failure.

Pros: usb 3.0 compatible with usb 2.0. good read/write speeds, avg. 30MB. great for the price.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: likely to buy another.

Pros: Oh My 3 Tb or should I say 2.8 Tb or so it is still massive! I think this isn't for everyone out there but who really knows this is "3 eggs rate" i give it a 5 eggs useful for me.

Cons: I dont care about the 2 years warranty. It said this doesn't work with linux but after format it from windows it works. screw the software they give you!
It over heats becuase i dont work in a office or house but out doors -.- but it should not heat up too much if in office or house.

Other Thoughts: Best 2.8 TB drive. warning get a ups for safety where i work theres brown out sometimes black out for few seconds sucks when copy files suddenly power goes out and it could hurt hard drive. a good steady voltage is good for smooth operation. ups is always recommened for any users just for safety.

Pros: nice design

Cons: upright design causes me problems. I accidentally knocked it down a couple of times (lucky not spinning at that time).

Other Thoughts: i took the hdd out a couple of times. the trick is that you can "pull" the base (like SATA adapter) out and connect to another internal hdd if needed!

Pros: I have owned this drive since November 2011 (got it on a black Friday special) I could not resist the price. It has worked well for me did not die when I encrypted the whole drive and wrote random dummy data which had the drive running for... a freaking long time.... It has been really good.

Cons: I am just waiting to regret trusting my data to this drive.

I have had some terrifying experiences with Seagate drives and support in the past. They tempted me with horrendously low prices on this one and I caved....

Other Thoughts: I hope sincerely that this drive lasts for at least three years considering I mostly just dump data to it and then leave it sit.

Pros: great size to price ratio, got 2.72TB of storage space for 130 bucks plus a free one year replacement warranty. not a problem yet, transfered over 1TB worth of movies on to this drive. usb 3.0 is most definatly faster than 2.0, as long as you have a 3.0 port. the removeable 3.0 bridge is awsome, you can hook it up inside your pc without taking the drive out and voiding the warranty

Cons: not a one

Other Thoughts: the removeable 3.0 bridge is awsome, you can hook it up inside your pc without taking the drive out and voiding the warranty

Pros: - Nice metal Case
- Bright white led on the front panel

Cons: - Case scratches easy
- USB cable is short (6')

Other Thoughts: I'd like to see the ports for the cables on the same side as the vents so that the wires could be more easily hidden. Works wonderful with linux. I used GPT partitioning to make a single large partition on the device.

Pros: Large size.
Decent price/GB.
USB3.

Fast. When connected to a USB port, attodisk shows 195MB/sec write and 182MB/sec read, making it by far the fastest spinning platter hard drive connected to my computer

Cons: Only 2 year warranty

Other Thoughts: So far I haven't had any problems with the drive, but have at several times heard some odd noises that sounded kind of like the drive spin slowed down for a second, sort of like there may have been a short power hiccup or something.
May not be a real problem, but it does make it sound a bit scary.

Pros: Cheap 3TB

Cons: Cheap. Did what most do with these, open it up and use it as internal and get a free usb3 drive dock, with the downside being 0 warranty with no retailer even taking it back. I rolled the dice and lost. Bought 2 of these, 1 still works and other died after less than 72 hours and lost 2.5TB of data. Never using Seagate again (or Western Digital/Hitachi if they eventually buy them), I don't care if they start giving them away for free and include free data recovery as well (would be too much of a hassle constantly waiting for replacements). Starting to think I should just use SSD's even for long-term storage, cost be dammed, since WD and Hitachi are the only other makers of magnetic disks left (I miss the days when hdd's weren't made in asia and lasted 10+ years). Yes I'm mad if you can't tell.

Other Thoughts: Worked fine for 2 days. Several hours after data was transferred I get an error in W7 telling me a file I tried to open on it is corrupt. Tried rebooting and then it's not even seen in bios. Makes a funny noise, spins up for a second then stops and repeats that. I'm quite happy and feel I get my money's worth if a drive lasts 25k power-on hours (been my average since I started building pc's in 1999). This piece of junk lasted under 72 = totally ripped off.