- #SEAGATE BACKUP PLUS FORMAT FOR MAC AND PC MAC OS X#
- #SEAGATE BACKUP PLUS FORMAT FOR MAC AND PC PORTABLE#
- #SEAGATE BACKUP PLUS FORMAT FOR MAC AND PC PRO#
- #SEAGATE BACKUP PLUS FORMAT FOR MAC AND PC SOFTWARE#
- #SEAGATE BACKUP PLUS FORMAT FOR MAC AND PC TRIAL#
The Backup Plus Portable is also available from Amazon with 4TB of storage priced at $110 and 5TB of storage priced at $125. Seagate's Backup Plus Slim is available from Amazon, with 1TB of storage priced at $55 and 2TB of storage priced at $70. If you still use USB-A machines or a mix of USB-C and USB-A, however, these hard drives are an affordable way to get a lot of storage for things like Time Machine backups, offloading photos, and more. If you've made the swap over to USB-C and only have USB-C machines, Seagate's Backup Plus Portable and Backup Plus Slim probably aren't the best option for you, because you'll need a dongle. Both Mylio and Creative Cloud are optional, so you don't need to sign up for them if you're not interested in those services.
#SEAGATE BACKUP PLUS FORMAT FOR MAC AND PC TRIAL#
There's also free two month access to Adobe's Creative Cloud Photography plan, which costs $9.99/month to use after the trial period.
#SEAGATE BACKUP PLUS FORMAT FOR MAC AND PC SOFTWARE#
Seagate sells these hard drives with a one-year Create plan for Mylio, photo organizing software that lets you upload photos to the cloud and access them on multiple devices, but after that year, it costs $50/year to use. You can use these with Windows and Mac machines right out of the box without the need to reformat. You're not going to want to use standard hard drives in situations where you need fast file transfer capabilities, but for things like backups where you have hours to let a backup take place, these drives work well.īoth hard drives come equipped with links to register them on Seagate's website, as well as options to download Seagate's Toolkit software for automatically syncing files between mirrored folders on the drive and on your Mac.
#SEAGATE BACKUP PLUS FORMAT FOR MAC AND PC PRO#
Seagate says they can reach transfer speeds of 120MB/s, and in my tests on a 2016 MacBook Pro with USB-C, I even saw transfer speeds a little bit higher at about 130MB/s.īackup Plus Portable on left, Backup Plus Slim on right There's nothing special about the transfer speeds of the Backup Plus Slim and Backup Plus Portable. For older machines that still have USB-A ports, these hard drives will work well, and functionally, they're fine with an adapter on a USB-C machine. USB-C hard drives aren't much more expensive than these Seagate Backup hard drives, so it's maybe not even worth picking one of these up if you have a USB-C machine unless you're swapping files between computers and continue to have a Mac or Windows machine that uses USB-A. Reformat Seagate Backup Plus DriveThese hard drives are using standard USB-A cables to plug into a computer, which means that you're going to need a USB-A to USB-C adapter if you want to use them with one of Apple's modern Macs. Both are formatted to work with either Mac or Windows. The Backup Plus Slim offers 1TB or 2TB of storage, and the Backup Plus Portable is available with either 4TB or 5TB of storage space. The test models I have are in silver, but these also come in black, a light blue color, and red. Neither one of these drives takes up much space, so they're ideal for backup or other purposes and can be tucked away in a drawer afterwards.ĭesign wise, the two hard drives are made from a black plastic material with a brushed aluminum front plate. The Backup Plus Portable is about the same size but it's close to an inch thick and about twice as heavy (eight ounces vs. The Backup Plus Slim is the thinner of the two models as it has less storage space, measuring in at 4.5 inches by 3 inches with a thickness of just about half an inch. Choose Master Boot Record.The Backup Plus Slim and the Backup Plus Portable are your average, run of the mill hard drives. Under Volume Scheme, choose 1 Partition, then click Options. Open Disk Utility, select the external hard drive and go to Partition. Where can i find it? For maximum compatibility, back up everything from the external hard drive onto your Mac. How can i do it? It says that no reformat needed when changing it. I want to change it to mac+pc compatible. I just bought a new seagate portable drive for pc+mac.
#SEAGATE BACKUP PLUS FORMAT FOR MAC AND PC MAC OS X#
While Mac OS X can read hard drives formatted as NTFS, write access is not available. The Windows model is formatted as NTFS while the Mac model is formatted as Mac OS extended (Journaled), also known as HFS+. Seagate Backup Plus Hub is available in two models, Windows and Mac.
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