Seagate FreeAgent: User Experience
A few weeks back, I was in need of an external hard drive, and like most geeks I cruised the internet for reviews, asked opinions from friends, and ventured off to store shelves to see what was hot. After pacing around for more than needed, I finally bought the FreeAgent by Seagate because it seemed clean, was understandable, and it just felt better.
I’ve been incredibly happy with the product and ran into this great post describing someones great experience in the packaging design, which I’ll admit made me buy over the other options because the packaging was so human and sweet. I’d say “simple”, but I don’t like using that word because everyone thinks it means reduction when it actually just means intuition.
Look through the pictures at the post here. (note: the re-wording of the packaging rocks… no mumbo jumbo tech terms… just things us humans ask.)(Also reminds me how Jetblue said “buh bye Red-Eye, Hello to shut-eye“)
July 28th, 2007 at 12:15 am
How do you decide between a Freeagent Pro and Desktop … I can’t tell the difference from a quick read of the specs.
July 28th, 2007 at 12:21 am
From what I could tell, the only difference was that the Pro had more output options, like a sata output, which I would never use unless I was doing real time video editing off the drive.. I bought just the desktop version and it’s doing fine.
I actually just viewed a pretty good interview with the CEO of Seagate and the change for design…pretty interesting listen:
http://revision3.com/gigaom/inaugural
He’s the 2nd person to get interviewed…otherwise the interview with James of HotorNot is really good as well.
I liked how the CEO, Bill w spoke about how a focus on the USER was inititated…how battling the need for the extra cost in an LED on the product would be useful… give it a watch..
buy the desktop if for basic needs….buy the pro if you want to have multiple output need(usb2, sata, firewire) I have the desktop version and it’s been fine.