Seagate Ships Lazy-Proof FreeAgent Backup Drives

You know what's sad, has been sad, and probably will remain sad for a number of years? The low percentage of users that actually back up their data. Cost, laziness, and software are usually the culprits to blame. At least Seagate managed to cover at least one of those with their sleek new FreeAgent Pro and Go external hard drives, taking backup software to the next level. More after the jump.

The included AutoBackup software from Memeo sits patiently in your system tray, monitoring key folders such as My Pictures, automatically backing up changes and pushing them to the corresponding backup destinations without you ever having to lift a finger. In addition to backing up to the Seagate drives, you may also back up to network folders, flash drives, and even send your contacts and calendar changes to the iPod automatically. Offsite backups are covered too thanks to Seagate's Internet Drive, offering 500MB for 6 months free. Pricing after that still has yet to be finalized. Make a typo? It's okay, you can set the software to retain several versions of each file. Confidential documents? You can mark files to be encrypted on the fly as well.