New Seagate drives and WD

I was a little praise external hard Seagate FreeAgent drives. So, the company recently updated its line of external drives. Among the most notable changes: a much more attractive design and the clear positioning of several models as a Mac-friendly. So FreeAgent | Desk for Mac It can boast a stylish aluminum body, support FireWire and formatted in HFS +. Splitting of the container is now a 0.5, 1 and 1.5 terabytes.

FreeAgent | Go for Mac in addition to the updated design can also boast connectivity for FireWire, an updated indicator activity and, most importantly, the possibility of a docking station, quickly turns into a portable drive desktop. It also reported on the Apple support power management scheme. The capacity varies from 250 to 500 GB, which is quite enough even for backups (video archiving projects are not counted).
Another interesting note: updated stylish body has received the entire line of FreeAgent, so it can and rejoice Windows users, which seems to be deprived of a lack of FireWire (and which he, as a rule, not for nothing I surrendered).

Not far behind the leader and popular WD. For example, external hard drives My Passport Studio (2.5 ", 320-500Gb) the company is positioned as a" makintoshnye ", as evidenced by the FireWire 800 interface (USB is also not forgotten) and original formatting in HFS +. Of the additional "chips" indicator filling a-la Battery MacBook, cunning driver to increase the speed (?) And a corresponding appearance. However, besides obviously mobile drives in the arsenal of the company and the Mac version of My Book, which, however, nothing remarkable not stand out, the benefit of the design of the My Book series, so to speak, nevzrachen.

A few words about the prices. If you believe the Yandex. Market, the new desktop terabaytnik Seagate will cost a little less than seven and a half thousand, older model Go - five and a half thousand, and mobile WD 320 GB - about five thousands.

Update: fears about the possible pitfalls when working with Seagate drives are not from the Mac series proved to be in vain. As assured the support staff, you just reformat the drive before you start.