Anyway, as a portable storage device, the FreeAgent is way cool. While you can just plug it into your computer using the supplied USB cable, you can also get a dock for the drive, either (the Go Dock+ is also a three-port USB 2.0 hub).

The Go Dock+ is only $19.99 but for an extra and measly $60 (total price, $79.99) you can get the DockStar which has the Pogoplug technology embedded.

Like the Pogoplug, the DockStar (which also provides a three-port USB hub) turns its attached storage, the FreeAgent Go drive, into an Internet accessible storage system. You simply plug in the power adapter, mount the drive in the DockStar's slot, plug in an Ethernet cable and, once you've registered with the Pogoplug service, you're good to go; you can now securely access the FreeAgent Go storage from any Web browser anywhere on the Internet.

If you install the optional Pogoplug client software you can map the DockStar storage to a local drive on your PC. And here was where things stopped working with the Seagate Manager backup service.

The Seagate Manager recognized the mapped drive as a FreeAgent device and offered to backup to it except the backup function didn't work, at least under Windows Vista Ultimate.