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External Hard Drive For System Backup

December 18, 2007 – 9:16 pm | by jaygaulardcom

Well, I recieved my Seagate 250GB FreeAgent Desktop Drive today. I am still wondering about that little drive they installed with my computer. What the heck is that thing for?

Anyway, this one is 250GB, which should be good for a while. I mean, for around $79, I feel pretty satisfied.

Right after I got it, I pulled it out of the box. I plugged it in and immediately installed the software, which was already installed on the drive itself. I went through the motions and it was all done, just like they said in the product reviews. I set up my system to run full system backups once per week and did my first one today manually. It was very easy. One of the concerns with this external hard drive is that there is no on/off button. There isn’t. I read one review where the person said there is. They are on crack.

Everything seems fine with the drive. There is the faint yellow strip light going down the drive and not much sound at all. It took an hour or two to do the full backup, but that’s a bunch of stuff to go the a USB cord. If I run into any problems, I will let you know.