Good Drive for External Backup

Seagate Expansion Portable 500GB USB3.0 Hard Drive



I got this External Hard Drive to backup my desktop PC. Worked great with my computer which has Win 8.1 installed. Drive plugs into either USB 2.0 or 3.0 ports. Computer recognized drive from the get go, and drive is then ready to use if you want to drag and drop files. I used my drive right away to make a Windows Image Backup of my computer system, and also a Rescue Boot Drive in case my computer should crash. The Seagate drive came with a quick start guide, which simply shows plugging it into your computer via USB. There were some Seagate files on the drive, but there was nothing in the guide that explains their purpose. I didn't bother messing with these files since there were no instructions and the drive seemed to work without running them. It works for me, so that's all that counts.