In this Seagate Backup Plus Portable review, we’re going to detail our experience after ordering a sample from Amazon.
That said, it might be the right option for you because it’s a great way to archive your machine for little money. Though the flashy brushed aluminum exterior may be enough to pull the extra $5 or so from your wallet, the higher cost seems to go into looks more than anything. That comes with a higher price tag compared to a standard Seagate Portable drive, though, with little to no difference in performance.
The Backup Plus Portable line is a slimmed-down version of the desktop Backup Plus drives, allowing you to keep your machine protected when you’re on the go.
Seagate has an extensive list of external drives, with everything from basic black boxes to massive, 10TB archival solutions.
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Short story: last year I switched from Mac to PC - something I never dreamed I'd do - and it was no fun at all having to offload my external drives, reformat them from the Mac OS Extended format to exFAT, and reload them with my files. Unlike the older generation, these new drives come formatted as exFAT which enables them to be used on both Mac and PCs out of the box.