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With everything hooked up and ready to go I was surprised that I didn’t see anything showing on the network.
Seagate free agent dockstar portable#
I used the 500 gig BlackArmor portable drive that I reviewed a few months ago to test out the dock. Hooking up the DockStar is fairly simple, all you have to do is plug the power cord in and then hook the Ethernet into both the dock and your router. Inside the package, you will find a power brick, a long Ethernet cord, the dock itself, and an instruction manual.
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On the back, you will find more specifics about setting up the DockStar along with a few of the features. The front has an odd alien design along with the DockStar logo. The DockStar on the other hand is packed in a cardboard box without any view or pictures of the dock. The original dock had a clear plastic package that showed off the dock itself. Surprisingly the DockStar's packaging wasn't similar to the FreeAgent Go Dock that we looked at before. What kind of difference can one lowly ethernet port make? Read more to find out. With the new Dockstar, they included an Ethernet port to help share your files over your network and over the Internet. You wouldn't think Seagate would be able to improve on a simple dock too much but surprisingly they did. We have looked at Seagate's FreeAgent Go series a few times in the past and were very impressed with the Free Agent Go Dock that goes along with them.