Seagate Manager
Seagate’s Manager is the tool to arrange backup, synchronization, encryption and make drive settings. Here you can select the idle time period until the drive switches off automatically, and enable or disable the LED feature.
Simple Backup secures everything in your personal Windows folder. Custom Backup lets you select all the backup details.
Backup
The FreeAgent XTreme offers two backup modes: Simple Backup create a daily backup of your personal files at 10 AM, while Custom Backup lets you select files and folders, as well as backup day/time and cycle mode. The synchronization feature is organized similarly, but there’s only one backup set, which the tool synchronizes with the files on your system.
Encryption
Seagate didn’t forget to arm the drive with a bit of security, either. Once you set a password, you can drag and drop files you want to encrypt into the Seagate Manager window, which will automatically create a copy within an encrypted container file on the FreeAgent XTreme drive. However, we found no information on the encryption strength, and it isn’t possible to drag and drop files from within the Manager to another window to decrypt them. Instead, you have to use the decryption function and select files for decryption. We missed a feature that lets you work with encrypted files without having to do manual encryption and decryption. Tools such as TrueCrypt are more powerful than Seagate’s bundle.
Sync
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hmmz, final power consumption chart states that it's "sorted by stand by", yet on the legend it says that the black bars are stand by?
so the order goes:
5.5
7
2
3.6
pff!
if anything it's sorted by idle, the yellows bars...
at least get your charts right..!
cheers,
bill
p.s. stuff and nonsense: http://www.eupeople.net/forum
@googzaymunanos,
I noticed that error too in the chart, but I also noticed the following in the review for the WD drive:
If the WD is the only drive which consumes 0.4W when the system is shutdown, then what is the 5.5W power doing in the chart for the Seagate drive?
Also, the seagate drive doesn't have a switch, so there shouldn't be a value on the chart for this as it could be misleading.