Seagate has revitalized its line of moveable hard drives and launched its FreeAgent GoFlex system, which is available in both handy and desktop variations, which encompasses drives, connection modules, and accessories.

The handy drives come in various capacities and colors, such as $100 for 320GB in silver or black; $130 for 500GB in silver, black, red, or blue; $170 for 750GB in silver or black; and $190 for 1TB in silver or black.

The distinctive hook to these models is that Seagate has reengineered the gadgets to disconnect the drive from the bridge board that translates the drive's native SATA to a different interface connection. Consequently, Seagate can present a diversity of cable modules for utilization, with a single drive, offering you plenty of connection suppleness.

This move goes opposing to the tendency of putting multiple interfaces, such as, any combination of USB 2.0, USB 3.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, and eSATA, on a drive. One probable advantage of the new Seagate design is that you may not run into any power troubles if you utilize the drive with an ultraportable laptop, because at times, multi-interface drives need more power than the USB ports on such notebooks output.

You may well also save some cash, since Seagate says that the new design lessens the drive's prices, because you will pay only for the connectors you require.