But if I upgrade to a machine with Thunderbolt, I can swap in Seagate's Thunderbolt USM module ($100), and just like that, my drive becomes a Thunderbolt drive. My tester came with a USB 3.0 adapter attached. This is a connection technology based on the SATA standard that lets you snap a variety of interfaces onto the drive. The Backup Plus Portable 1TB enclosure I tested measures about 3 by 5 inches and, like the GoFlex, is topped with a Universal Storage Module (USM) adapter. The company also makes a larger Desktop drive that maxes out at 4TB capacity, and a razor-thin Slim drive that only comes in a 500GB size. You get a fast-performing, easy-to-use drive at a good price – the Backup Plus Portable line I tested comes in at $130 for the 1TB, $120 for the 750GB and $110 for the 500GB. The company has rebranded its entire Go Flex line of consumer hard drives as Backup Plus, and the new drives are remarkably similar to the older Go Flex drives. You get a fast-performing, easy-to-use drive at a good price.The new "Backup Plus" name is also intended to increase retail shelf appeal.
Seagate's new Backup Plus drives are remarkably similar to the older Go Flex drives. They're versatile, too – a modular adapter system lets you swap in different interfaces to match your computer's connection type (though Seagate has offered this feature for a while).
They come pre-loaded with software that, in addition to automatically backing up your PC, also sucks down all the photos you've stored on Facebook and Flickr. Take as an example the new Backup Plus line of drives from Seagate. Hoping to change that thinking, manufacturers are introducing more consumer-friendly add-ons to their storage products. Warranty and brand loyalty are sometimes factors – we each have horror stories about dead hard drives, all of which end in a declaration along the lines of "I'll never buy a Whizzo-Disk USB drive again!" – but the fact is, most people just focus on how much it holds and how much it costs. Unless you're a deep study, the differences between competing portable storage drives seem minute, and few things influence purchasing decisions more than capacity and price.
A hard drive is a hard drive is a hard drive.
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