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From the world’s largest manufacturer of hard drives and storage solutions, the new portable version is equally plausible. Three years before the launch of FreeAgent™ flagship products in 2008, Seagate were arguably the first ones to come up with portable memory innovation with their 5GB ‘Pocket Hard Drive’ in 2005. The first FreeAgent™ Hard Drive Go could store upto 250GB of data. One of the major reasons behind Seagate’s launch in retail market with consumer memory products was its acquisition of Maxtor in May 2006. It not only made mass production of retail storage solutions viable, but also changed a few technical aspects gradually like replacing the Memeo Autobackup with Seagate Manager, the revamped avatar of Maxtor Manager backup software mainly used for their One Touch series of external hard drives.
We have picked the most cutting edge member from FreeAgent™ brand for review today.
FreeAgent™ Xtreme External Hard Drive
FreeAgent™ Xtreme comes with all the three interfaces built in: USB 2.0, eSATA II and two FireWire 400 interfaces for daisychaining. Kensington lock port helps secure the hard drive physically. Xtreme is designed to sit flat or stand up using the snap on stand for people in love with black monoliths for their desktop.
Xtreme is available in four storage capacities: 500GB, 640GB, 1TB and 1.5TB.
The official product features and specs are as follows:
PC Requirements:
The hardware abd software requirements for use with Xtreme are as follows:
- Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ulti mate, or Business Service Pack-1
- Windows XP Home, Professional, Media Center Edition Service Pack-2
- USB 2.0 port, FireWire 400 (1394a), or eSATA port
Features:
The product features and dimensions are as follows:
- Product Dimensions: 175.0 mm x 33.7 mm x 172 mm
- Weight:3.06 lb (1.39 kg)
- FireWire 400: up to 400 Mb/s
- USB 2.0: up to 480 Mb/s
- eSATA: up to 3Gb/s
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
Inside the box:
The packaging contents are as follows:
- FreeAgent XTreme drive
- FreeAgent soft ware pre-loaded on drive (Windows only)
- Quickstart guide
- Base stand
- Attachable feet
- USB cable
- FireWire 400 cable
- Power supply
One of the striking features for Xtreme as opposed to its predecessors would be the new drive enclosure which adds much-needed improvements to base stability, heat dissipation, physical security. Another good one would be integration all of the drive interfaces to sum it up.
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