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Seagate Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drive

Seagate 750GB 3.5-inch Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drive is a perfect example for performance, capacity and reliability. The drive comes with a mount which helps to drive to stand in a vertical fashion and takes up as much desk space as a tape dispenser. The drive features an on/off button in the front that glows blue and vents all the way around the unit. The drive is made to be stackable with other like Seagate drives, including the company’s eSATA units, as a circular footprint on the top of the unit when placed in a horizontal position enables you to stack the drives. The back of the drive features the USB/FireWire connections and the AC adapter port. Seagate 750GB Pushbutton Back-up Hard Drive is the world’s first three-quarter Terabyte external hard drive.

Features:

• Uses perpendicular recording technology, which means the drive, can fit all 750GB onto a single disk.
• Built-in self-monitoring technology
• Features BounceBack backup software
• Whisper-quiet operation
• Hot-swappable – makes it easy to connect and disconnect drive without turning off your computer
• Can mount vertically/horizontally
• fast, versatile, high-capacity storage for  Macintosh and  Windows computer
• It reads data quickly but writes slowly
• Buffer 16MB
• Offer connecting via USB 2.0 or FireWire

Qualities:

• Easy to use
• Reads data quickly
• Includes easy-to-use backup software (BounceBack backup software) that protects the system and data files with a simple touch of a button on the drive.
• Whisper-quiet operation
• Massive storage

Drawbacks:

• Slow data writing

Comments:

When you need fast, versatile, high-capacity storage on your Macintosh or Windows computer, the Seagate 3.5-inch Pushbutton Backup External hard drive makes it easy. 750-GB drive stores 12,495 hours of digital music, 240,000 digital photos, 750 hours of digital video or 375 exciting games. The Seagate 750GB pushbutton backup hard drive is a solution for those who need access to large capacity hard drives for backup and storage in a portable solution.