Seagate - Backup Plus Slim for Mac 500GB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Silver

What a great match for my Mac Mini. It looks like I purchased it from Apple. Very compact, fast, easy to toat to work with me. Would have liked it to have a different power connection (std) on the opposite end of the USB so I don't have to carry the cord back and forth. Small pain that I can live with. I use this as my Time Machine backup and to carry files and music. Goes back and forth between my Mac at home and my Windows Laptop at work. Only had to download and install a driver to go between formats.

I bought this drive to back up my Mac with Time machine. It works great. It took less than 5 minutes to back up my files which are mostly for school. I take notes in MS Word and store everything on my mac. So I needed a reliable device to back up all of my important information. This drive is very easy to use. You just plug it in to your PC or Mac and transfer your info or files. I would recomend it for everyone.

I received this external drive as a gift, and it does everything I could possibly ask it to. Instead of having its own interface, the drive shows up as a folder, which makes it really easy to drag and drop files into it. My only qualm: the cord is very short, which makes me afraid that I am going to accidentally rip it out of my computer. Otherwise, a great little drive!

The notion of being able to review a product like a HD this soon is kind of ludicrous (doing this for Reward Zone points...), but at least for the time being it's doing everything I could have expected it to do. It transfers files quickly, is easy to use and set-up, and is extremely portable (barely largely than my iPhone 5). I have no idea how resilitant it is, which for anyone who has had a HD crash on them knows that that is always a consideration, but as of this moment I am entirely satisfied with this purchase, and would recommend it with that one caveat.

I was looking to upgrade from my existing external HDD that required its own power supply and took forever to transfer files. Saw this while exchanging some products one day at the local Best Buy. After a little reading into it and seeing it was designed to work well with macs, took the plunge and picked it up. The overall smaller design, light weight, speed, quietness and design made it a perfect addition to my MacBook Pro. Tons of extra space, and is even been backwards compatible with USB 2.0 ports. I've been able to run a bootcamp partition from it in addition to using some for storage space still with no issues. It's a great replacement to my older, clunky and awkward HDD that was a pain to lug around.

Could be a little more easy initially in figuring out how to do it. I know I could be more tech savvy too though. I wound up downloading it two times, because I didn't realize it had downloaded already, and used up all 500GB. Wrote company and fiddled around with buttons, and finally got it back to normal. I think though that I would recumbent a terabyte instead of 500 GB if you download a lot of music, photos, and if you use GarageBand

Purchased this drive for my daughter, who is a design student. She uses it to save large graphic and video projects created on her MacBook Pro. It's really compact, with a great design that's a nice match with her laptop. It was fast and easy to setup and it's simple to use. Just a cool little device. Highly recommended!

When my hard drive needed to be replaced unexpectedly, I was in a bit of a panic. I ran out to Best Buy and grabbed this Seagate Slim for Mac. The night before I took the Mac in for repair, I plugged in the Seagate and hoped for the best. Not only were all my files backed up, but all my programs were too! Thank God for Time Machine! This was really important for the programs I have only a limited number of installs. Also, when you plug it in, it just does it's thing without thinking about it. Great product.