The FreeAgent Theater allows you to share movies and photos from your PC to your TV; except most TVs already do this now. The concept still needs work, although the unit's navigation is easy to use.

Several manufacturers this month have sought to distinguish their products through design. None, however, has gone so far as Seagate to challenge our expectations of an external hard disk.

We were unconvinced by the orange and brown livery of Seagate’s towering desktop drive, but for the miniature version the company has toned things down. It’s still brown, but the orange glow is restricted to the front of the unit and its simple low-profile shape is far easier to like.

Seagate's Freeagent series of external drives look stunning and perform admirably.

Stylish and versatile, its only drawback is the mammoth price

Great design, but average performance lets it down.

While it might seem like a good idea, the Seagate FreeAgent Theater is more novelty than useful. And the price point is not as competitive as others in this range.

An large capacity extrenal drive that looks like something out of the Guggenheim.

Finally, it’s here – the James Bond of hard drives. The Seagate BlackArmour drive is protected by a brute strength AES security algorithm based on the highest Rijndael cipher keys available (256bit) that 'apparantly' can’t be cracked, ever.

An external drive that despite being a decent performer is making Walter Gropius roll in his grave as we speak.