Seagate Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drive
As one of the biggest manufacturer in the world, of course after their acquisition of Maxtor, it is only natural that Seagate would have hand in the external hard drive backup market. This is a very lucrative market as it allows the hard drive companies such as Seagate to create value added products from hard drives that have essentially turned out to be commodity products. Among Seagate’s offerings is the Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drive.
Boring design:
The design of the drive casing is not quite up there with the aluminium clad external Maxtor drives, but the silver and black design is as boring as a plastic case can be. The drive can either sit on your desk horizontally on top of a rubber ring that attaches to its side or it can even be mounted vertically using a supplied stand. The Seagate Pushbutton Backup HDD is a boxy 7.125 inches deep by 6.5 inches wide by 2.25 inches high. The drive has a power switch, two FireWire 400 ports, and a USB 2.0 port on its back panel. The power and data LED’s are blue and the push button backup button is surrounded by a yellow LED.
Seagate hard drives are safeguarded by built-in self-monitoring technology that continuously checks your hard drive for data safety and drive performance. SeaTools diagnostic software is included.
Interface:
Seagate circumvents the lack of an eSATA standard by equipping the drive with a built-in half-height, half-length PCI SATA II interface card manufactured by Promise Technology Inc. Thanks to its USB 2.0 and FireWire interface the drive can be used with both PCs and Macs right out of the box, with backup software for both systems supplied on the CD. However, you will have to reformat the drive if you have got a Mac. If you’re using an NTFS filing system and you have a few hours to spare, reformatting the drive to NTFS will make it more efficient.
The sleek, silver case with its rounded corners houses a 7,200-rpm drive with a 16MB cache. Seagate offers six capacities of the Pushbutton Backup drive: 200GB, 250GB, 300GB, 400GB, 500GB and 750GB.
Warranty and Support:
Seagate provides a one year limited warranty for parts and labour with the Pushbutton Backup drive, but toll-free phone support is available for the life of the product, although only from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays.
Seagate Pushbutton Backup External HDD – Technical Specification Table
| Manufacturer | Seagate |
| Model Name | Seagate Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drive |
| Model Number | 200GB: ST3200801CB-RK 250GB: ST3250801CB-RK 300GB: ST3300801CB-RK 400GB: ST3400801CB-RK 500GB: ST3500801CB-RK |
| Form factor | 3.5″ |
| Dimensions (H x W x D) | 7.1″ x 2.5″ x 7″ |
| Weight | 2 lb |
| Casing | Plastic enclosure |
| Storage Capacities available | 200GB, 250GB, 300GB, 400GB, 500GB and 750GB |
| Spindle Speed | 7200 rpm |
| Cache | 8MB or 16MB cache |
| Interface type | IEEE 1394 (FireWire) / Hi-Speed USB |
| Interfaces | 1 x Hi-Speed USB , 2 x IEEE 1394 (FireWire) – 6 pin FireWire |
| Other features | Hot swappable Stackable Pushbutton backup On/Off button |
| Software included | BounceBack Express backup software by CMS Seagate SeaTools |
| Compatible systems | Window 98SE/ME/2000/XP and above Mac OS X/9.2.2 |
| Cables Included | 1 x USB cable – External 1 x IEEE 1394 cable – External |
| Package contents | 3.5-inch external hard drive USB cable AC adapter and power cord Quick start guide Bundled software CD |
| Voltage Required | AC 120/230 V |
| Warranty | 1 year Limited warranty Parts and labour |
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