Seagate has long sold a line of Backup Plus external hard drives that offer large amounts of storage space at a reasonable price, and in June, the company announced two new features added to all hard drives in the Backup Plus line: 200GB of Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage and the Lyve photo and video management app for automatically backing up photos. Seagate also announced a new high capacity Backup Plus Portable hard drive, with 4TB of storage and a 20.5mm form factor, priced at $240. Seagate invited us to test out its newest hard drive to test the Backup Plus hard drive and the new Lyve app and service it ships with.

The Seagate Backup Plus Slim for Mac portable drive simplifies backup for consumers who want to help protect their entire digital life locally, in the cloud, or from their mobile devices and social networks. If you will use the drive only with your own Windows system, you can format as Mac OS Extended, but you will need to install either MacDrive or TransMac in Windows. If you will use the drive with various Windows systems, use NTFS, and install 'NTFS For Mac' (link below) in OS X.

Ms office 2017 for mac free download. Seagate's new Backup Plus offers the same 4TB of storage that the Backup Plus Fast offers, but it's less expensive and it is a single 4TB hard drive instead of two external drives in a RAID 0 configuration. It's also got more storage than the Backup Plus Slim, which caps out at 2TB, allowing Seagate's newest offering to fill a void between the two existing products (Fast and Slim) in the Backup Plus family. Design and Features Seagate's been selling its Backup Plus line for years.

Design wise, the 4TB Backup Plus looks like any standard 2.5-inch portable hard drive. Sublime text 2 free download. It measures in at 4.5 inches in length, 3.1 inches in width, it's.807 inches thick (20.5mm), and it weighs 0.54 pounds.

In terms of usability, those dimensions mean it's slim and easy to slip into a bag or a backpack. The Backup Plus has a traditional black casing that's half metal and half plastic, with the metal plate located on the front of the drive. An LED on the front lights up when the hard drive is plugged in, and there's a single USB port on one side. There's a large but subtle Seagate logo on the back and another small logo in silver on the front. The Backup Plus is USB 2.0/3.0 only and ships with an 18-inch USB 3.0 cable, which is an adequate length for use on a desktop or while on the go. Software and Performance Seagate ships the 4TB Backup Plus in an NTFS format, so to use the drive without formatting, users will need to install Seagate's NTFS driver for Mac.

With the driver, the Backup Plus can be used interchangeably between Windows and Mac computers without needing to reformat. With the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, we saw write speeds of 119 MB/s and read speeds of 114 MB/s, which is comparable to many other similar hard drives on the market. I also did standalone tests transferring 10GB chunks of photos and videos to and from the Backup Plus and saw similar but slightly lower average speeds of 97MB/s read and 99MB/s write. While conducting these tests, the drive got warm, but not hot. There are multiple options for using the Backup Plus for backing up files, including the Lyve service, Microsoft OneDrive, and Seagate's own software, the Seagate Dashboard.