Over at the Gadgeteer, they're reviewing the Seagate Portable Hard Drive. It is based on a notebook 5400 rpm, 2.5" 100 GB capacity drive. A real nice feature is it is USB powered so it eliminates a power cord. This is a lot of capacity in a small size that will fit in your notebook bag.
Adding extra file storage capacity to a desktop or laptop computer used to be a task that involved a screw driver and a blood sacrifice to the computer gods. That is definitely not the case these days, as the external hard drive market is booming. Instead of digging into the inner bowels of your computer to replace the actual hard drive with a newer / larger one, you can just plug in a stand alone hard drive for added file space. You can’t get much simpler than that folks.
External drives are available in various physical sizes and capacities. There are 5 GB pocket sized drives and large desktop only 300+ GB sized drives. The Seagate Technology Portable External Hard Drive that I’m going to talk about in this review falls somewhere in between big and small, so it adapts well to stationary desktop usage and on the road usage.
Available in 40, and 100 GB capacities (120 GB will be available later this year), I was sent the 100 GB version, which comes packaged in a vacuum sealed static protected bag. Also included with the drive is a CD with Microsoft Windows compatible utilities and backup software, a quick start guide and a USB cable.
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