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Anyone have this: Seagate FreeAgent™ Pro External Hard Drive 1TB
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Anyone have this: Seagate FreeAgent™ Pro External Hard Drive 1TB (ST310005FPA1E3-RK)
HI all, these just became available here in Nepal and I need a drive bad. I was thinking if I could find something like this:
eSata ExpressCard
then the drive would be blazing fast. I need some sorta large size editing drive for video (sick of using offline media and all the headaches with that). No idea where I will find the card though...I saw a knockoff in Bangkok at the apple store but they wanted well over 200USD which I thought was just robbery so I did not buy.
Anyway, any thoughts on the drive? Too big? Fast enough? Really Mac compatible? (I understand u just have to wipe the drive and there is no mac software really, but I have no need - I use TM).
Thanks for advice,
FH 
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I have the 500GB version and use it for Time Machine. No problems - just plugged it into a USB port and it worked.
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It's fine via USB or FireWire, but buy something else if you want eSATA; the eSATA chipset in the FreeAgents is terrible.
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That's odd, why would eSATA need a bridge chipset at all? Shouldn't it just be able to send the SATA through natively?
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thanks guys! hmmm...wonder what's up with esata and macs. the express card i looked at in BKK needed a driver. that looked like trouble too. i have these other aluminum cases that i love from Bangkok that supposedly have a lacie chipset inside, but i dont have the expresscard to do any testing. These cases have all 4 interfaces/usb/fw400/800/esata. i do have an internal desktop card however that came with the cases...maybe this is an excuse to get a macpro?  Seriously, i can't believe how tight mfgs are with interfaces on drives...how much extra can it add to just put all the interfaces into the case?
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Originally Posted by CharlesS 
That's odd, why would eSATA need a bridge chipset at all? Shouldn't it just be able to send the SATA through natively?
Sure, if the enclosure is SATA only and you're willing to assume that the hard drive will maintain eSATA voltage specs. The first isn't the case here and I'd be hesitant to buy from someone who went with the latter.
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