A:AnswerThe 4.8 Gb/s is the maximum transfer rate of USB3, NOT the transfer rate of the drive. The 4TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim has a transfer rate of 120 MB/s, and the FAST has 220 MB/s, because the FAST has two drives in one enclosure and uses RAID 0 to spread your data across the two drives, making access faster.
A:Answerthat's the one I have and I have had it going on two months and no problems out of it. You just have to let the system reformat it once you connect it! I made it my default download storage device through settings it's pretty good.
A:AnswerThis is exactly what I bought it for. Only problem I had: lost some of the album cover artwork when I transferred my music library from my MacBook. This drive works just as I had hoped!
A:AnswerYes. Click on the drive, and then from the File menu, pull down to Get Info. It should say Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) if you paid extra for a Mac formatted drive. But it takes about 1 minute to format the drive properly if it says FAT32, or Windows File System, using Apple's Disk Utility, in the Utilities folder, in your Applications folder.