Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme USB Portable Drive

The new Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme Portable USB Drive is slightly smaller in size than models of Seagate's FreeAgent product line. Unlike the previous model that only stood upward, the new Xtreme drive can now work in both vertical and horizontal positions and has a detachable base.The front of the new FreeAgent Xtreme USB Portable drive has one large LED that glows white-ish light to show the status of the drive. On the back, there you will see two FireWire 400 ports, a USB 2.0 port, and one eSATA port.  A compact power adapter also comes with the drive. 
It doesn't come with an eSATA cable. You also only get one FireWire 400 cable and one USB 2.0 data cable out of the box.

There's nothing else but a well-illustrated QuickStart Guide in the box; no CD or printed manual, and the bundled software is stored on the drive itself.Preformatted for a Windows PC, the drive worked immediately once plugged in. It comes with Seagate Manage, a light software suites that including backup, sync, and security functions, all of which worked very well.  You can program the backup software to backup a specific area of the hard drive or a set of selected folders and files. Next, you can create backups immediately or schedule them to run automatically. The sync function does a little more than simply sync to the PC hard drive, by making sure that the content of one or more local folders or drives is synchronized with the FreeAgent Xtreme. This way, you can have two exact copies of the same data. The Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme USB Portable Drive can be purased and/or reviewed at USB Portable Drives.com from $170 to $300 depending on the capacity: 1TB ; 1.5TB Both the 1TB and the 1.5TB drives were shown at $170.; 2TB (lowest price is $250).