SeagateBackup Plus Slim for Mac 1TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0, Time Machine Compatible 2 Months Adobe CC Photography (STDS1000100)

The Seagate Backup Plus Portable 4TB drive is a perfect solution for Mac users needing extra storage. The USB 3.0 connectivity ensures fast data transfer speeds, and the 4TB capacity provides ample space for photos, videos, and backups. It’s compact, portable, and comes with 2 months of Adobe CC Photography for extra value. The drive is easy to set up and works seamlessly with macOS. Highly recommend for anyone looking for reliable and affordable storage.

Slim and lightweight and works well.

Fantastic drive, two year warranty, ultralight and half the height of several other drives with the same capacity. It doesn't just have a silver plastic top like most other drives in this price range, it has and actual metal top that matches my MacBook Pro. It includes backup software if you choose not to use Time Machine for back ups. It has a very thin line that glows on the cover of the drive so you can look down easily and see the status of the drive and don't have to turn the drive around to see the back, where Western Digital drives have their indicator. I have several Western Digital drives that I picked up on Black Friday last year, so they are about eight months old. Out of the three drives purchased, one is dead, one is dying and the third is fine for the moment. I treat my electronic devices with "kid gloves", I admit I have OCD when it comes to my computer equipment. Everything has its own individual storage and travel container and everything is securely stored in my computer backpack when I travel and my family doesn't touch my computer equipment when I'm working at home. I'm an author and this equipment keeps a roof over our head and food on the table. I can confidently say, if something died it was an inferior product and not due to conditions after I purchased it. I've had this drive for two months now and it still looks and operates as it did the first day. The only thing I would change on the drive would be to add rubber feet on the bottom instead of the hard plastic feet that are there. They work, but don't keep it in place as well as rubber feet would so I bought some for less than a dollar and now the drive is perfect in my opinion. I will update this review if it anything significant changes.

This is a great little backup AND storage drive I am using for my iMac (mid 2011 model). I only have USB 2.0, so the speeds are not lighting fast, but I use my local drive in my Mac for the documents I am currently working on (primarily music projects using Logic Pro X).I am using a 2TB size, and since I only have a 500GB (0.5TB) drive in my Mac, I only need about 1 TB of space to be able to provide plenty of backup space and history (and probably not that much). So if I ONLY had wanted to use it for the Time Capsule application, just the 1TB would have been fine.But on the Mac it is VERY easy to partition the drive into two separate drives. Just Google the topic for detailed instructions, but basically you just plug in the drive (using the included USB cable), go to your Disk Utilities application, add a partition (I just split mine into two 1 TB drives), then go to Time Capsule and pick one of the partitions to use, and you are done - literally took me less than 10 minutes from start to finish, and I'm a relatively new Mac user.So I now have two drives that show up on my desktop: one for backup / Time Capsule, and the other as just a giant 1TB storage area. The drive runs off of the USB power supply, so for performance and power reasons you probably should run this drive directly from a USB port coming from your machine (versus a hub). Overall I am very happy - this is a great piece of mind AND extra storage area for the money.

I am very pleased with this hard drive. I was a tad bit skeptical since it had plenty of storage capacity and it was fairly cheap, it seemed to good to be true. It is a great hard drive! It works well. I bought two, one for me and one for my dad. It was very easy to set up on my computer. My dad was having some issues setting it up but he then figured it out. The only downfall about this product is that you have to use your email address when setting it up to your computer, I received a hand full of pointless emails from the company. Besides that, it is a great product, you can choose to back-up specific files/data or you can set it up to automatically back up your files on a daily basis. Very good product I highly recommend!

I had previously used two Lacie 1TB desktop drives, alternating when one filled up for my iMac, but they were quite old, big, and slightly noisy. I'm glad I chose this Seagate 4 TB portable drive-- great capacity, small and sleek, and so quiet that I couldn't tell if it was even working until the other day when my iCloud inbox disappeared for no reason. I used Time Machine (mine is set to automatically back up through Time Machine) to easily restore what I had lost.I have it on a shelf mounted on the rear of my iMac, but if I needed it on the desktop, it looks good enough to show. Comes with USB cord, no bulky wall wart. Great, lightweight, small unit would be perfect for a laptop user. As a desktop user, I'm pleased that it does what it should without cluttering up my desk!