Over the past few years, extra storage has become increasingly popular due to the demanding needs of music, photos, and videos. Today, I take a look at the Seagate 750GB External Pushbutton Backup hard drive.

I’ve been using this huge storage device for the past few weeks, and it’s amazing. Now, you ask, why would anyone need 750 gigabytes of hard drive space? Well, as the year rolls on, digital cameras and camcorders are selling fast. With seven, eight, and even ten megapixel cameras being released, the size of pictures have become bigger and bigger as the quality is increased. With the Seagate 750GB hard drive, you can store a whopping 240,000 digital photos.

The number of digital video is even more stunning, 750 hours of DV. Like music a lot? You’ll be able to store 12,495 hours of digital music on this hard drive. I know this sounds like a bunch of marketing schwag, but it’s true. Ok, enough talk about how much you can store, let’s dig into the good stuff.

The Seagate 750GB Pushbutton Backup drive uses either USB or FireWire technology to plug into your computer for super-fast transfers. How fast, you say? It took 3 minutes, and 3 seconds to transfer a 2.5GB ISO file from the hard drive over FireWire to my PowerBook G4. It may have taken that long due to the speed of my laptop’s hard drive, but your mileage may vary. Over USB 2.0, it took a whopping 13-15 minutes. The speed may not be the best for transferring files and since the drive is marketed as a backup hard drive, you might want to backup your drive overnight instead of during your normal everyday tasks.

For audio and video producers, this hard drive is a solution to those many problems of speed. I used Final Cut Pro on Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” with this hard drive, and the speed was greatly increased for rendering video.

Overall, this hard drive worked flawlessly for the 4-6 weeks I have been using it for and although it was slow for file transfers, it is still a great peripheral to add onto your growing digital media collection.

Pros

• Tons of storage space.
• USB and FireWire connections.
• Great backup utility.

Cons

• Slow transfer speeds in some conditions.

Final Verdict and Availability

4 out of 5 stars - Very good.

You can find the Seagate 750GB External Pushbutton Backup hard drive at most brick and mortar stores and online, where you can find the best prices using our partner Shopzilla.

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