Company: Seagate
Price: $159.99 (On Sale!)
Product : FreeAgent Go for Mac

Portability Rating: 4.5 stars
Durability: 4.5 stars
Re-use/Replay Value: 5 stars
Overall Rating: 4.7 stars

During MacWorld 2009, Apple introduced iLife 09’ and iWork 09’ which gave users significant features to create videos, music,slideshows, presentations, and documents.  With this and other advances in software, OS, etc. people’s hard drives have been feeling scanty.    As a person who loves photography and video, my hard drive fills up fast, too fast, and to share them with my friends is a nightmare!  So I got the Seagate FreeAgent Go for Mac.

Aesthetics

The FreeAgent Go measures 0.69″ in H x 3.15″ in W x 5.40″ in L and it weighs  just 7.76 oz, the 500GB Seagate FreeAgent Go may not be too pocket-friendly ,but it’s thin and light enough to slide into a bag, purse, or backpack with ease. It is certainly one of the more attractive portable drives with its silver and white exterior which looks like Apple made it. Seagate even added a series of white lights underneath the silver layer that pulse when the drive is active, and slowly fade off when the drive is ready to eject. The original FreeAgent Go comes in a spectrum of colors, but the Mac edition only comes in one: Silver. Seagate also offers a free dock that makes it really easy to insert and remove your hard drive, but unfortunately the dock only works for Firewire 800 ports.  If you want to use USB or Firewire 400, you will have to use the included wires.

Performance

The FreeAgent Go is one of the faster portable hard drives I’ve used. Unfortunately, I have a fairly old intel iMac, so it doesn’t have any firewire 800 ports, but I tested it while it was connected via firewire 400.  In my tests, I uploaded a 244.3 MB file to the drive in 24.9 seconds.  So technically, if you were connected via firewire 800, the transfer speed would be doubled.

Verdict

Overall, the 500GB Seagate FreeAgent Go is one of the better portable hard drives we’ve tested.  It’s sleek appearance and size makes it hands down own of the most convenient portable hard drives I’ve tested.  For $159, you’re getting style, very good performance, and a very compact hard drive that anyone will enjoy.