The sides of the drive have plenty of ventilation in a tessellating triangle pattern. The front of the device has Seagate branding in the bottom lower right side. It has a flat back plastic case on the top and sides with a blue plastic bottom. The Seagate Plus Desktop Drive 5TB is slightly larger than a 3.5” HDD on its own.
#How to use seagate backup plus on windows 7 for mac#
Users can install the preloaded NTFS driver for Mac and then use the drive back and forth between Windows and Mac without reformatting.
The Backup Plus 5TB is USB 3.0 connected and supports Windows 7,8, Vista, and XP as well as Mac OS 10.4.6 and later. Storing all one’s data from a desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, and social media can quickly added up to large amounts of storage space.
With more devices creating content, consumers find that they need more and more room to backup or store their data. The Seagate Backup Plus Desktop Drive 5TB is an external hard drive with plenty of capacity.