The Portable model of Seagate's Backup Plus line would serve users looking for an affordable way to easily consolidate their mobile, local, cloud, and social media data into a central location. Its Lyve app compatibility and Seagate Dashboard interface makes for a clean and intuitive product.

Small-sized device with 4TB of storage; Lyve app compatibility; OneDrive access

Average performance

I have two Seagate 1TB hard drives that appear to work very well. I bought this one to be the big kahuna. A hard drive that would hold big files, old files; pretty much everything that I wouldn't have an immediate use for. I loaded everything onto it and put it in a desk drawer.

I bought it on July 23rd and from then until this last weekend, it worked fine, no issues, didn't travel around or get bumped nothing. This weekend rolls around it's no longer acknowledged by the PC. It powers up and I hear a faint beeping noise of the plates trying to move, but nothing...

I thought this was a great product as it ran relatively cool and quietly and backed up via USB3. Decent transfer speeds and ofcourse at this moment the largest capacity for a 2.5 inch (albeit thicker) portable drive.

Large size compact external drive that did not a separate power supply; Ran fairly cool

Failed at 6 months; HD sentinel picked up multiple bad sectors; Advised critical health; Ran seatools and failed even short test; Now i am trying to check warranty and coming up with either serial number incorrect or that product is OEM!! Yes this was bought from newegg new 6 months back.

Very nice little portable hard drive with a Huge amount of storage space available. Perfect to back up files including precious personal files such as pictures, video, and music. This hard drive is handing because it is small and portable. Just plug it into a USB slot.

I am not really sure who to blame more about this, about one and a half years after I bought it, started to miss behave, sometimes it disappeared from the system and things like that, but Amazon didn't want to refund it, only to exchange it, which is not very convenient, I mean, of course I would...

This is a great replacement for my original 2tb western digital external hdd. I have to say that after owning and using my WD2tb HDD for over two years with minimal troubles, I was a little concerned that such a jump from 2tb to 4tb and swapping companies, could possibly mean more troubles

Catastrophic failure after a few months - loss of all data - not reliable - not fit for purpose.

I bought this as a replacement for a failing external hard drive, for use with Time Machine back up for our iMac. In comparison with the larger hard drive it replaces, it has greater capacity and is a fraction of the size, taking up little room on the desk. Very easy to set up for Mac only.

It's an excellent product and you don't need any annoying power adapter just plug to your PC USB port.