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Seagate supports the Pocket Drive on Windows 98SE and newer (Windows 98 requires drivers to be installed) and on Mac OS 9.2.2 or later. Of course, it's just another USB drive from an OS perspective, so it should work fine with Linux also--but we didn't test Linux interoperability.
The drive weighs almost nothing, and honestly does fit into your shirt pocket. For the "watch the blinking lights" geek in us all, Seagate has made the center into a flashing blue LED so that you know when the drive is being accessed. Because of the cache, you obviously don't want to pull out the USB cable while the light is flashing.
The USB cable for the device is built in and stored in a self-winding mechanism that lets you lock it down during transport. This cable is the cause of one of our few concerns with this drive: How much will being unwound and wound repeatedly impact this cable that cannot be replaced? Competitors like the 20-gigabyte Pocketec Datastor mini require an external cable that you have to carry around, but it's a standard mini-USB connector, so you can replace it if something goes wrong. Since the Pocket Drive has the cable built in, it is a potential weak link that could cost you all the data on the drive. Not that we had any indication during our testing that this might be the case--unwinding and rewinding the USB cable 5,000 times was not part of our test suite--but it is worthy of mention as a possible problem.
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