SeagateBackup Plus Slim 1TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD – Black USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac, 2 Months Adobe CC Photography (STDR1000100)

Hard to go wrong here. If you are using this as an external drive, this product has 2TB in very small space and is USB powered. The drive itself only takes 0.7-2.3W to operate! On Mac OSX 10.9.2 running the included Paragon NTFS driver, I was able to see write rates in 8-10 MB/sec with USB 2.0. On a Windows 7 Machine I averaged 18 MB/Sec; 14 MB/sec running the latest 8.1 update.I pulled the drives from two of these units (instructions below - photos to be added soon) for use in my laptop. This product is the only way I know of to obtain the 9.5mm tall, 2.5-in 2T Samsung Spinpoint M9T drive(s). Note: the 2TB version has 1 drive, the 4TB has 2 drives. After installing them in my laptop (has 3 internal HDD bays with SATA connections, 1st bay has OS, apps, etc. on 500GB SSD), I tested data txfr speeds. I moved 1.5 TB of data from one drive to another with average speeds of 194 MB/Sec in Windows 8.1. Laptop now has 4.5 TB of hard drive capacity.Have also successfully installed one in a PS4! Next project will be to install one in a Macbook Pro. Great way to get a lot of internal storage space for little money (Purchased early April 2014 for $103.99 directly from Amazon with 2-day Prime shipping).Removal Instructions (WARNING -THIS WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY - BUYER BEWARE):1. Obtain small, flat-bladed screw driver and gently insert between the aluminum top and the plastic bottom.2. Rotate screwdriver slightly to pry the top off. At this point slide the screwdriver around the perimeter and the top will come off.3. Once the top is off, you will see the top of the internal drive. Carefully remove from the plastic lower without prying or subjecting the drive to significant shock. It is easiest to remove by lifting the side opposite the USB connector.4. Once the drive is out of the plastic enclosure, you'll need to remove some aluminum tape and wax paper from the drive. Be careful when doing this to avoid ESD which may damage drive circuitry.5. Once the tape and paper are removed, the USB to SATA board can be carefully removed from the drive. It is an interference fit without any fasteners.6. You now have a bare 2TB, Samsung Spinpoint M9T drive that is only 9.5 mm tall! Great for laptops and the PS4.7. Install in your new device per your device manufacturer's instructions.Enjoy!

I've used this since April 2016 and carried it several times in my purse while away -- no problems (yet no banging it around, either, of course). It arrives in a proper manufacturer's original, sealed little box with the data transfer cord and a Guide.This is "back up for ordinary people". This is the one to get because it has the user interface: stuff to click upon to make stuff happen. In other words, you don't know how to make a backup happen on your own, so buy this one -- not the cheaper one(s) that is great for the geeks, not so much the busy person or the non-techy-geek.It is the area of 1 1/2 standard sized PostIt Notes, and very slim. Hard to notice beside your computer. This is the Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB Portable External Hard Drive with Mobile Device Backup USB 3.0 (Silver) STDR2000101 ---2 terabytes for at the time of this writing, $89. You could watch for a lower price, etc, but in the meantime your hard drive (your computer) could fail, as mine did while out of town, w/o a decent backup saved.Learn from my woes. I've used this one for long enough now to see that it works great and is EASY to use. To unplug it from your computer, first click on that little icon that will appear near the clock at the bottom of the screen, which allows for safe removal -- this shuts it down even further than what you have already done when you x'd it off, so you will retain your data and changes. Also, do not allow anyone to "format" this device, this drive -- this will erase forever the drivers that make it work and the dashboard user interface, along with every byte of your files and stuff. I did not use the OneDrive feature. When you travel, just take the thing with you. Try to have "off site" backup;I use SpiderOak. If you lose the cord or need another, buy the $5.56 connecting cord, it's the proper type, here: Bargains Depot® Products USB 3.0 PC Power Charger Data Transfer Cable/Cord/Lead For Seagate Backup Plus External Hard Drive Disks 1TB / 2TB / 3TB / 4TB, Seagate External Hard Drive Disks Backup Plus Desktop For Mac, Seagate External Hard Drive Disks Expansion Desktop, Seagate Backup Plus Portable External Hard Drive Disks 500GB / 750GB / 1TB, Seagate Slim Portable For Mac 500GB / 750GB / 1TB, Seagate Expansion Portable 500GB / 1TB, Seagate GoFlex Desk Desktop Adaptor and Seagate External / Portable Hard Drive Disks that have a USB 3.0 jack + Free GiftIf the thing fails in less than two yrs,and you haven't flung it around and dropped it 4 feet to a hard floor and all that, just communicate w the Seagate people, and read the included Quick Start Guide --all hard drives fail at some point, or no one would ever need a backup, duh, and they state a 2-Year Limited Warranty and the web address to read it.FOR MACINTOSH users: this is a reply from Seagate to a Mac-user customer: (just copy&paste the link into your address bar, unless they're live, then just click on them)"For future reference, here is a link that shows how to reformat the drive for use with a Mac:[...]We also wanted to note that we make a drive that is set up from the box in a Mac format. Please reference the following link:[...]If you have additional questions or concerns, please contact our support staff directly and we will be happy to assist further:[...]Best Regards,Seagate Support "