Comments on: 1.5TB FreeAgent XTreme Anchors Onslaught of Stylish Seagate Hard Drives http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/15tb_freeagent_xtreme_anchors_onslaught_of_stylish_seagate_hard_drives-2/ the Gadget Guide | Technology and consumer electronics news and reviews Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:30:34 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: East http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/15tb_freeagent_xtreme_anchors_onslaught_of_stylish_seagate_hard_drives-2/comment-page-1/#comment-11922 East Sat, 09 May 2009 20:48:58 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/15tb_freeagent_xtreme_anchors_onslaught_of_stylish_seagate_hard_drives-2.html#comment-11922 <p>Bought several Xtremes at 1.5TB. Terrible. Drives frequently dropped off system and were no longer visible. Tried USB and eSATA interfaces with same result. Set power save to "Never", still lost connection. Tested on several different computers (2 Dell Optiplexes, 3 Poweredge servers, one HP) running Win XP, 2003 Server, Sever 2008, Ubuntu. All the same. We bought 6 of these, and I'm not sure we'll beb able to use any of them. We're commencing the testing of the smaller FreeAgent Go drives as a comparison. So far, they seem better. The older FreeAgent Classic drives have been rock solid. I don't know why, but Seagate took a step backwards with the Xtreme drives.</p> Bought several Xtremes at 1.5TB. Terrible. Drives frequently dropped off system and were no longer visible. Tried USB and eSATA interfaces with same result. Set power save to “Never”, still lost connection. Tested on several different computers (2 Dell Optiplexes, 3 Poweredge servers, one HP) running Win XP, 2003 Server, Sever 2008, Ubuntu. All the same. We bought 6 of these, and I’m not sure we’ll beb able to use any of them. We’re commencing the testing of the smaller FreeAgent Go drives as a comparison. So far, they seem better. The older FreeAgent Classic drives have been rock solid. I don’t know why, but Seagate took a step backwards with the Xtreme drives.

]]> By: Ranjit Babu http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/15tb_freeagent_xtreme_anchors_onslaught_of_stylish_seagate_hard_drives-2/comment-page-1/#comment-11921 Ranjit Babu Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:16:28 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/15tb_freeagent_xtreme_anchors_onslaught_of_stylish_seagate_hard_drives-2.html#comment-11921 <p>Got the drive a week ago. Absolutely stylish, pretty nice but just failed ! I didnt even copy 400 GB to it.</p> <p>Too bad. Will try to see how much it survives. It started making clicking noises. </p> Got the drive a week ago. Absolutely stylish, pretty nice but just failed ! I didnt even copy 400 GB to it.

Too bad. Will try to see how much it survives. It started making clicking noises.

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