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Seagate FreeAgent Go

January 17th, 2008 | by Josh Norem

Problems?

Yes, we had one issue with the drive. When we went to the Ceedo website to get new programs we were informed that the version of Ceedo we had on our drive was too old, and that we needed a newer version.

The version of Ceedo that shipped with the drive was too old to be compatible with many of the available add-on programs.

We checked the “automatically download” updates button in the Seagate tools, but it wouldn’t update. We used Google to find a discussion about this on Ceedo’s forum, where Ceedo says it’s up to Seagate to push the newer version of the software onto its servers, and Ceedo has no control over that. The workaround is to download the software from Ceedo, which we did, but then that removes all the Seagate branding and changes the color of the Ceedo bar from Black to blue.

In order to update Ceedo we had to download it from Ceedo since Seagate hadn’t released the updated software. The update removed all Seagate branding from the software.

Conclusion


We like the FreeAgent Go a lot; it totally fulfills its promise of being a mobile central repository for all of your files, folders, bookmarks, and so forth. The Ceedo software is brilliant and has everything you could want including mail programs, image viewers, IM clients and more - lots more. The syncing utility has some issues though, as it mindlessly syncs folders and will restore files you deleted, even if you wanted to delete them. We also didn’t like that we couldn’t download several apps because the version of Ceedo that shipped with the drive was outdated. The updating process needs to be simplified, plain and simple. Quibbles aside, the FreeAgent Pro is a great portable office that has an amazing five-year warranty and looks cool to boot.

Pros:

• Neat software
• Easy-to-use
• Decent capacity


Cons:

• File syncing needs more options
• Ceedo software is outdated