Typical price: £150
What is it: External hard drive with USB 2.0, FireWire 400 and eSATA
What we think: With three inputs and a fair price per gigabyte, there's not much to quibble with here
Compare the Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme
Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme compared to other hard drives
 Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme |
 Seagate FreeAgent Go |
 LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive (80GB) |
 Fujitsu HandyDrive |
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| Review date | 30 Sep 08 | 3 Oct 08 | 25 Aug 06 | 10 Jul 09 |
| Editor's rating |
7.3
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8.5
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8.3
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8.3
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| Price range | £150 | |||
| Review summary | The Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme offers three inputs and a useful software bundle for a fair price per gigabyte. There's little not to like about this external drive Read full review |
The Seagate FreeAgent Go is our favourite portable hard drive to date. The drive is well designed and fast, with a good transfer rate, and you won't find a better value for the price Read full review |
LaCie's Rugged All-Terrain portable hard drive is an all-round winner: it's fast, it's durable and it boasts multiple connection options. This belongs in your laptop bag Read full review |
The Fujitsu HandyDrive isn't very small or exceptionally well designed, but it's fast and cheap. We recommend it to those who are running out of space on their system hard drives Read full review |
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