Product Comparison: Seagate Backup Plus 4 TB vs Western Digital My Passport
General Specifications
Brand
Seagate
Western Digital
Model
Backup Plus 4 TB
My Passport (WDBYFT0040BBK-WESN)
Origin
China
China
About the Product
The Seagate® Backup Plus portable drive offers the mobility of a portable with the high capacity of a desktop drive. Under a sleek metal design lies up to 5 TB of storage — twice the capacity of comparable 2.5-inch portable drives.
The My Passport portable hard drive is trusted to store the massive amounts of photos, videos and music you love. Available in an array of vibrant, fun colors, the sleek style fits comfortably in the palm of your hand, so you can easily take your treasured content everywhere you go.
What customers say about "General Specifications"
Key Specs
Storage Drive Type
Portable
HDD 2.5"
Capacity
4000 GB
4000 GB
What customers say about "Key Specs"
Seagate Backup Plus 4 TB Portable 2.5 Inch External Hard Drive
- As the other reviews have described, this HDD is about capacity and not useful for a standard NAS.
- I have a few external drives, WD 2.5" and WD 3.5" cloud drive, but I think for size and capacity so far I like this quite a lot.
- My only concern in advance is with such a large capacity drive there is a lot to lose when this goes faulty, consider this if the device is to be primary storage, if this is level 2/3 then happy days people !
- This drive is large in capacity, slim in size.
- Needed a high capacity reliable drive to back up 3 computers, unfortunately, this had the capacity but not the reliability.
Western Digital My Passport 4 TB Portable Hard Drive
- This generation has 4TB, 3TB, 2TB, and 1TB models. The 500GB sizes in previous versions has been dropped.
- High Capacity Available - Up to 4TB (The older model when released had up to 3TB capacity, up until a 6/28/16 release of a short lived 4TB model)
- It's cute! Lol I love the color and size (definitely portable), and overall design - clean and neat. It's easy to format and use (thanks, Google) and can be password protected if desired.
- 1TB weight went a bit up from 0.34 lbs to 0.37 lbs, 2TB ,3TB & 4 TB weight went a bit up too from 0.50 lbs to 0.54 lbs
- Drive is not upgradeable nor swappable due to internal circuit board
Size & Weight
Color
Black
Black
Height
0.8 in.
3.21 in.
Width
4.5 in.
4.33 in.
Depth
3.1 in.
0.85 in.
Weight
8.7 oz.
8.6 oz.
What customers say about "Size & Weight"
Seagate Backup Plus 4 TB Portable 2.5 Inch External Hard Drive
- takes a while due to the size of the disk, but has worked well so far (I've had to do this twice). Generally speaking, it's fast and reliable.
- The drive is very small, about iPod Classic size and weight.
- Don’t be fooled to think that this is a 7.5mm drive, its not. Size is nearer to 20mm but for an external device this simply doesn’t matter.
- But this is true for any size, style or make of HDD, external or internal. Spend an extra £7 on a decent case would be my advice.
- The size is great no bigger than a paperback book, two front facing USB PORTS for easy access, works quietly when engaged on backing up my RAW files
Western Digital My Passport 4 TB Portable Hard Drive
- Great little portable external hard drive.
- This WD 4 TB external portable drive is not the first I have purchased, which should speak for itself. I like the WD portable drives, being reliable, and not excessively priced.
- It's very portable, and just a case of simply plugging it in and it's available for use with Windows 10 - no external power supply needed of course, so ideal for transporting around in my laptop bag.
- This hard drive is perfect for using with my Raspberry PI as a portable video library.
- I loved the blue of it, and I loved the portability it offered.
Features
OS Compatibility
Windows 10/8/7/Vista, Mac OS X 10.9 or higher
Windows, Mac OS
Interfaces
USB 3.0
USB 3.0
Backup Function
Yes
Yes
Extras
Slim, metal design, 2 Months Free Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan
Password protection with hardware encryption, Bold, vibrant design in wide range of beautiful colors
Data Protection
WD Backup
What customers say about "Features"
Seagate Backup Plus 4 TB Portable 2.5 Inch External Hard Drive
- A nice feature is the front panel USB ports for quick connection of temporary items, my Ecig battery in particular.
- Drive was detected straight away on Windows 10 and there are various software features loaded onto the drive should you wish to use them.
- At the time of purchase it was one of the cheapest drives on the market for the storage and features.
- Great product good backup features
- Poor sealing(glue slightly comming of lid seal)
Western Digital My Passport 4 TB Portable Hard Drive
- This drive works fine with Windows, Linux or Mac out of the box. With Linux or Mac it performs best when reformatted with a native file system for the respective operating system.
- This drive is faster than the last generation. Up to 10% faster in benchmarks, but just noticeable in practical use.
- The early drives came with 2yr warranties, but NOW come with 3 years. Yeah!
- Rubber "feet" on underside keep it in place
- USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatible
- It comes with the same very short USB 3.0 cable as previous versions.
- The redesign of the drive case is not a plus for me. Not much of a minus either as it's not why I selected this drive. The worst thing is going with pointy corners. From a handling perspective rounded corners are nicer.
Included
Additional Accessories
USB 3.0 cable
USB 3.0 cable, Quick start guide, WD Backup, WD Security and WD Drive Utilities software
Software
Seagate Dashboard software, NTFS driver for Mac
WD Backup and WD Security software
Power
Power Supply
USB 5V/0.5A
USB 5V/0.5A
Warranty / Certifications
Manufacturer Warranty
3 year(s)
3 year(s)
Certifications
CE
CE
Other Information
Manufacturer
Manual
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