Both the Go Flex, and the Essenial lines from Seagate are easily opened, but they have fragile clips which WILL break. So, you can easily gut the drive to get the mechanism, but the case is junk.

Hard disk drives use firmware, which is a combination of hardware and software, to determine how to operate. The firmware is a built-in chip on the device that contains programming code.

Seagate also announced a new high capacity Backup Plus Portable hard drive, with 4TB of storage and a 20.5mm form factor, priced at $240.