seagate portable mac external drives reviews

It’s a perfect buy for general computer users. The overall design is subtle and the drive is highly portable and can easily fit anywhere in your backpack. It is one of the cheapest drives out in the market right now. It has average read and write speeds but provides excellent cost to GB ratio. Seagate 4 TB Backup Plus Portable External Hard Drive is a perfect drive to back up all your personal files safely. The cost is extremely low considering the price of other hard disks of the same size currently in the market.

This means that you will spend about 0.027$ for every 1 GB that you get. The Seagate portable drive has a 0.027$/GB cost to storage ratio. The drive also gets warm after prolonged uses. The drive gives a peak write speed of around 130 Mbps and the highest read speed that we could get was around 134.2 Mbps. The Dashboard software is extremely powerful and provides additional functionality such as scheduled backups at specific times or on-demand backup with its easy to use one-click functionality. The hard disk comes with a Seagate Dashboard software that provides backup options so that you can easily backup your data from local computers, cloud servers, mobile devices and also your social media accounts. It also comes with 2 Months Free Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan out of the box. The drive supports compatibility with both Mac and Windows and you can use it in both systems without having to reformat it by installing the NTFS driver for your Mac. It offers plug and play functionality and you don’t need an external power supply to run it.

The drive runs at a hard disk rotational speed of just 5400 RPM which is quite low by today’s standards. It has a USB 3.0 port for faster transfer rates which is also backward compatible with USB 2.0 which is considerably slower. The Seagate backup plus external hard drive comes with a capacity of 4 TB.

Seagate portable mac external drives reviews