Using the Seagate External Hard Drive

Seagate manufactures different brands of External Hard Drives. An example of such a Seagate External Hard Drive is the FreeAgent Go that comes in different versions for Windows and Macintosh. For the Windows version, the Seagate External Hard drives comes as USB only and includes software that is good for performing backups. The FreeAgent Seagate External Hard Drive comes with different data holding capacities that have different prices. There is the 250 GB capacity option, which costs about seventy U.S. dollars, the 320 GB capacity option that costs about eighty dollars and the 500 GB capacity option that costs about one hundred and five dollars. The other data holding capacity is the 640 GB, which has a price of about one hundred and twenty dollars. As for the Macintosh version of the Seagate External Hard Drive, it lacks backup software but is compatible with Apple’s Time machine backup software. The FreeAgent Go Seagate External Hard Drive for Macintosh computers comes only in the five hundred gigabytes size. This version has an addition of Fire Wire 400, 800 ports, and a dock that is optional for use with the USB-only models. The benefit of the dock is that it helps the user to connect the FreeGate Go Seagate External Hard Drive to the computer without the necessity of using other cords. There are different colors available in the design of theSeagate FreeAgent Go. The actual number is ten, which include Titanium Silver, Tuxedo Black, Ruby Red and Royal Blue among others. This Seagate External Hard Drive is 5.12 inches long, 3.15 inches wide and 0.49 inches thick and its weight is 5.64 Troy ounces.

The Seagate Free Agent Go has a difference in design from other hard drives in that its top casing is made of metal with a plastic section in the middle. Other hard drives are usually made of plastic on the outside. Users can use this Seagate External Hard Drive either as a stand-alone device or with Seagate docks such as the FreeAgent Go Dock, the FreeAgent theatre and the FreeAgent Dock star. When these docks are used, the user slides the Seagate External Hard Drive into the USB and attaches the dock into the right interface. A quick user guide comes included with this Seagate External Hard Drive to demonstrate how to use the drive with a computer. For users to backup or encrypt data, they can use the options listed in the tabs at the top of the manager. The options available under the tabs are backup, sync and security. The software that encrypts data uses the processing power of the computer to encrypt. It is therefore not necessary to install the software in a computer connected to the Seagate External Hard Drive. However, theSeagate software bundle does not include the Ceedo program. This program allowed users to install and run applications from the Seagate External Hard Drive. The FreeAgent Go hard drive from Seagate also has a power savingutility that helps the hard drive from getting unnecessarily hot. It does this by letting the hard drive to stay in standby mode when not in use. Most FreeGateGo Seagate External Hard Drive users rate it well for they agree that it satisfies their needs.