The Seagate 750Gb Hard Drive
Just got an email from a great client of mine, Peter, makes impressive video documentaries and Film at his company, 313 Video, here in san Francisco. Peter was using up disk space like gangbusters with all his video captures, especially now with HD video, so I recommended the 750GB Seagate FreeAgent that I’ve been evangelising since it first came on the market, It’s sleek black aluminum and completely fanless, with three interfaces, USB2, eSATA and the king of connections, FireWire. 
Peters comments after receiving his drive are below as well as my reply, if you’re in need of some extra space or a drive to use with Time Machine, head over to Amazon and grab one of these Seagates, they have Five Year Warranties and Amazon gives thirty day moneyback refunds too, so the risk is minimal!
Brendan
finally got my seagate 750. Been copying like mad. Excellent drive very cool design. Thanks for the recommendation. I may order another. These video files take up lots of space.
After I formatted the drive(mac OS journaled) it showed 698 GB available. Is that what you get after formatting?
I’m super happy you like the drive. It’s true you lose about a tenth of the drive in formatting, it’s really noticeable on the newer Macs that ship with 1TB drives, you only have 900GB to play with after formatting. We never used to notice when our drives were 250GB, but we were losing about 20gb on those drives.