With the emergence of digital lifestyle, booming personal requirements and businesses becoming more and more paper free, more electronic, the need for storing all kinds- personal, photographs, music & videos, work-related data, enterprise information- anytime, every time; anywhere and everywhere.

In the last few years, thus, consumer electronics segment has witnessed exciting technological developments in the storage market. Every industry from Hotel industry to Entertainment industry is looking for cost-effective and user-friendly storage solutions.

Lets look at two of the recent trend setters in the category of portable hard drives:

SEAGATE FREE AGENT GO
This device allows you to carry lots of programs and all your browser favorites and passwords without having to haul around your computer. With it, you have your desktop environment whenever and wherever you want. The software also lets you synchronize data from your most frequented PCs. The greatest advantage of this storage device is its plug and play interface, it protects against unauthorized use with encryption for sensitive files by leaving no traces of your last working on the borrowed PC.

Technical Specifications:
-    Portable (external)
-    Capacity: 160- 250 GB
-    Speed (RPM): 5400
-    Warranty: 5 years

Seagate Free Agent Go is owner’s delight for its stylish, compact and personalized statement. Its only limitation so far has been that its Ceedo & Sync utilities are compatible only with Windows.

iOmega Portable Hard Drive
It is a fast and fun notebook hard drive storage device that has an elegantly curved chassis. It is an extremely durable drive, which includes patent pending Drop Guard™ feature to withstand the toughest of travel environments. The best part about this storage device is that it does not require any external power supply. It includes a free EMC® Retrospect HD backup software license with automatic backup, scheduled back-up or on-demand backup.

This device brings efficiency coupled with elegance. It helps you project your ‘in-vogue’ lifestyle.

Technical Specifications:
-    Portable (external)
-    Capacity: 160- 250 GB
-    Speed (RPM): 5400
-    Warranty: 1 year

The only limitation faced by this device is that dual- headed cable’s “y-section’ is short and the chrome retains fingerprints.