Seagate FreeAgent Desk USB Portable Drive

The Seagate FreeAgent Desk USB Portable drive storage device provides one terabyte of storage space to backup and store your photos, music, videos, and documents. It also offers Mac compatibility with Time Machine-readiness and speedy USB 2.0 connectivity at a low price.The design of the Seagate FreeAgent Desk USB Portable Drive is especially good and it shows their designers really put a lot of thought into it. In all, it weighs 2.2 pounds and measures 6.9 x 1.2 x 6.7-inches. Despite its name, it is actually small enough to be considered a portable hard drive as well and will easily fit into a briefcase or laptop case. It was primarily designed to be used on a desk, either upright or horizontally positioned. The front panel has a series of LED lights arranged in a swirl-like pattern that illuminate in an in and out motion when the drive is active and when it shuts down or hibernates, the lights slowly fade off. Seagate has included a USB cable, attachable feet & a stand, the product manual, and the AC power cord in the shipping group.When first connected the Seagate FreeAgent Desk portable drive will prompt you install the software, which allows you to manage the drive. The Seagate Manager software installs right onto your computer and puts a desktop icon on your system that when launched, will give you four options: My Drives, Backup, Sync, and Security. The Backup option allows you to establish a schedule for a backup, restore data from a past backup, or "Back Up Now". It should also be noted that this drive only does file/folder-level backup and does not provide full-drive imaging for disaster recovery. The Sync option lets you do a "Simple Sync", which will automatically backup your My Documents folder to the drive and "Custom Sync", which allows you to pick and choose folders to sync to the drive. Most users will probably want to schedule backups of specific folders so they are automatically backed up on a regular basis for maximum protection.Another plus of the added features to the Seagate FreeAgent Desk USB Portable Drive is the ability to password-protect and encrypt specific folders on the device itself. It does not allow you to lock down the entire drive, which would have made it even better. You could, however, create one encrypted folder and simply put all of your data into that folder. The Seagate FreeAgent Desk USB Portable Drive is available in all of the 4 capacities at USB Portable Drives.com with a price of $80 for the 500GB; $100 for the 1TB drive; $145 for the 1.5TB drive and about $205 for the 2TB drive. A lot of storage for not much money. Grab your choice today!