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Free Agent GoFlex Ultra-Portable Drive Kit Product Life Cycle Analysis Summary Product Description The Free Agent Go Flex Ultra-Portable Drive Kit is a portable hard disc drive sold by Seagate and its JDM partners at retail stores and is intended for the general consumer products market. The device uses a USB 2.0 or 3.0 interface to transfer data and supply power to the device from a connected personal computer. Life Cycle Analysis Functional Unit, System Boundaries and Allocation Unit: The functional unit for this study is a single GoFlex drive kit in intermittent 3 year customer use as a backup device. The drive kit includes the hard disc, hard disc enclosure, USB cables, packaging, and installation booklets contained in the box. The base case of this study assumed product distribution and use in the United States , Europe, and Asia. LCA results are specific to each of the eight drives in the family as each model number has different technical and performance specifications defining its functionality . The system boundaries are inclusive of raw material extraction, material manufacturing, supplier transportation, product assembly and distribution, packaging, consumer use and assumed end of life (EOL). Burdens from the recycling of product components at EOL are included in the system boundary but avoided burdens from displaced virgin raw materials are subject to a cut-off and are not included. Systems infrastructure such as the manufacture of machinery or buildings used in product production and assembly have been excluded. All product components were considered in this study with the Bill of Materials provided by Seagate. Burdens at Seagate’s assembly were allocated on a production unit volume basis. SimaPro v7.2 software and the Ecoinvent v2.2 database were used during preparation of the LCA. The ReCiPe mid-point hierarchical method was used to determine life cycle impacts for the product. This study, commissioned by Seagate Tech