However, you can purchase other adapters to use the drive with other connection types, including FireWire, eSATA and Thunderbolt. The drive comes with just one standard Mini-USB 3.0 cable, which serves both as a data and power cable. For owners of the existing GoFlex portable drives, though, there's no need to upgrade. It's also safe to say that the drive's street pricing will be lower so maybe you'll want to wait a bit for a better deal.

If you want a good-looking and compact portable drive to back up your computer or extend its storage space, at the suggested price of $140 for 1TB (or $130 and $120 for the 750GB and 500GB, respectively), the new Seagate Backup Plus makes an excellent buy. It's also slightly more compact than the GoFlex drives. The drive is bus-powered and comes in many different colors. In my testing, the Backup Plus offered very fast performance, both with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0. Out of the box, the drive works with both Windows and Mac machines without reformatting thanks to the included driver software that allows Macs to read and write NTFS. Similar to previous drives from Seagate, the Backup Plus portable drive comes in two parts, the drive itself and an adapter that determines the type of connections.

Seagate backup plus slim 1.5tb