
Seagate Backup Plus 500GB review
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There's a lot to like about Seagate's Backup Plus portable hard drive. It's light and shiny, and comes in four metallic colours.
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There's a lot to like about Seagate's Backup Plus portable hard drive. It's light and shiny, and comes in four metallic colours.

If being able to upgrade your external hard drive with newer and faster ports sounds good, then the GoFlex Desk may well be your backup drive of choice.

By combining a large solid-state memory cache with a regular hard drive, the Seagate Momentus XT offers a performance close to that of an SSD at a cost-per-GB that's more like a HDD.

A wireless external hard drive for tablets and smartphones

Take your media library with you, and enjoy it on your iOS device

World's thinnest hard drive is USB 3.0 compatible

A good value 1.5TB hard drive with good performance to boot

Seagate's magniloquently monikered Momentous XT has finally arrived in the TechRadar lab, resurrecting a concept we'd long dismissed as vapourware. It's the first hybrid drive we've seen for years: a statement which will make younger readers ask, what's a hybrid drive?

A hard drive with SATA3 6GB/s througput and a mighty 2TB of storage goodness

An interesting design - it looks like a tiny wireless router, and sports a funky orange glow all along one side when plugged in.

So, think that you know what an external hard drive looks like (a brick probably springs to mind)? Then check out the new Seagate FreeAgent Pro.

Seagate's packaging for its ground-breaking 750GB hard drive stresses just how much you can squeeze onto it perpendicular platters

Seagate's latest addition to its Barracuda range isn't just another update using existing technology; it's a new desktop capacity record. At 750GB it offers amazing potential for everything from media centres to desktops.

This is a large capacity hard drive, plain and simple. Yet even harddrives come with added functionality these days, by way ofdifferentiating them from their contemporaries