Yesterday I bought a
Seagate 1TB "Backup Plus" Portable hard drive (Model Number: STBU500100), which I am now using to back up my Windows User stuff and my music and photos (which I keep on drives other than C:), and a copy of my 8GB Portable Apps
* thumb drive (for when "the cloud" is "down."
.)
- The drive was US$69.99 with an additional $10 off via Seagate rebate.
- Comes with an 18" USB 3.0 (AKA "SS" or "Super Speed"
) which is just long enough to reach the middle of the top of my compy when plugged into a rear-panel USB 3.0 slot.
- The device - as is part of the SS device format - uses the same/single cable for power and data transfer.
- FireWire (800) and Thunderbolt cables are available separately.
- Compatible with: WinXP/Vista/7/8 & Mac OSX 10.6 or higher
- The device is about the same size as my Droid smartphone, just slightly larger in each dimension. ('Would still fit in a pocket tho.)
Tech Dim's in mm: 14.5h x 81.1w x 123.4l , wt: 224gms
- Not sure, but I think the Costco one only comes in black?
- 'Comes with some kind of "helper" software they call "Seagate Dashboard Software" and an offer to give you some "free" cloud storage ... for one year.
(I did NOT use the "helper software" or cloud space, so nothing to say about that....)
- At US$60~ its not the best price/GB density, but it is the sleekest one I've seen, and just what I'd been wanting.
* If you don't know about this, then check it out here.
