Seagate bundles software in the box called, conveniently, Seagate FreeAgent Theater for Windows (sorry Apple-heads). There are two tabs in this application. The first, My Drives, presents five options: Adjust Power Setting, Test My Drive, Adjust Drive Lights, Check for Software Update, and Register My Product. The only one of these that interested us was the power option, which lets you select a standby mode inactivity period from 3 minutes to Never.
The functionality behind the second tab--MediaSync--greatly resembles that of Windows Media Player’s syncing. You can select whether to sync photos, music, and/or videos automatically or manually, plus you can select which folders to sync.