Seagate 100GB Portable External HDD

Introduction

On the go? Always away from home or the office? Looking for a way to take a big chunk of data along with you wherever you may roam? With the arrival of USB portable drives in sizes all the way up to several GB of data, the desire to go portable with all of your data is fast becoming the norm. Enter Seagate's portable external USB 2.0 100GB HDD ready to help you out with every storage need you may encounter while on the move.

Features

What you are getting when you pick up one of these drives is a small, light, 5400RPM, USB 2.0 compliant HDD that you can plug in and use just like you have been using that little USB flash drive for the last couple of months.

Included with the drive is a USB cable with two USB plugs on the end, one for power and data, the other strictly for power. I will go into this more later on in the review. Also included is a driver and application disk containing drivers for your Windows 98 and older machines, a utility to help you add large capacity drives to your system, and Seagate's SeaTools Online, a browser-based troubleshooting application.

The drive's construction seems very durable and strong. The enclosure surrounding the actual drive is a very sturdy aluminum casing that wraps the drive completely giving it that strong "I could drop this and it would be fine" kind of feel to it. Stylish vents along the side of the drive provide plenty of ventilation for any heat that could build up in the tightly wrapped little package. As I said before, this is a very light unit, probably weighing around a pound or so.