With her silver design case makes Seagate FreeAgent Desk looks good on the desk. However, the external hard drive only with a USB2.0 connection. Given the high capacity solution would actually be an eSATA interface for the better have been. The Seagate Free Agent Desk weighs 1036 grams without power supply, which is okay for an external hard disk, 3.5-inch format. The drive is very wide, but also flat. And the silver-colored, beveled front housing with dots design and white display, the Seagate logo Seagate Free Agent Desk makes definitely an eye catcher.

Seagate Free Agent Desk sets of mounting hardware, "with whom can be the external hard drive and run vertically. With the included software Seagate Manager you can make automatic and manual backups, data between a PC or notebook and the Seagate Free Agent Desk synchronize and encrypt files. The program can be operated easily and intuitively.

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With a maximum of 40.9 degrees was the Seagate Free Agent Desk in the test pretty cool. This is not due to a low power consumption, because the drive is achieved with 13.8 watts, the highest reading at idle. After all, the value rose at full load "only" in a satisfactory 14.6 watts. When turned off, we measured again a maximum value: 4.9 watts is clearly too much. In addition there was a significant volume, which makes the use of the Seagate Free Agent Desk in the study almost impossible.

For sequential reading reached the Seagate Free Agent Desk an average data rate of 30.7 MB / s. In sequential letter she brought it to 30.2 MB / s. Both figures were for a 2.5-inch drive good for a 3.5-inch drive, they are far too low - especially if we compare these results with results from Tempo eSATA drives that our test field and thus lead the evaluation of current. After all, the access time of the Seagate Free Agent Desk was 10.98 milliseconds relatively short. The visually successful Seagate Free Agent Desk disappointed with low speed and was also a pronounced power-eater. However, they remained cool even at full load.