(Old Model) Seagate Backup Plus Portable Thunderbolt Adapter

Big big fan of the Seagate GloFex Pro. I had the FW800 adapter to use instead of the USB one (I don't have USB 3) and all was fine until my Thunderbolt -> FW800 adapter died. Just honestly stopped working one day and took me several hours to determine that it was the adapter plug and not the HDD. Apple would not replace it (it had been 14 months) so rather than pump out another $30 to Apple I put it towards the Thunderbolt Sled.Nice, clean, easy to use and speeds are good. It can get hot at times and locked up my MacBook Air a couple of times when it (the drive) was under heavy load moving a couple hundred GiB around in continuous use. Never had that problem with the F, but have adjusted my workflow to compensate.Added bonus, you can use the sled to stick any bare SATA drive on there! Works best with other laptop drives as it does not seem to push enough power to spin up a desktop drive reliably.

Won't repeat my long Crucial MX100 512GB SSD review here will just say the Crucial MX100 512GB SSD with Seagate Backup Plus Portable Thunderbolt Adapter as external boot drive on my mid-2011 27" i5 iMac with Mavericks 10.9.5 is working great.After a week of heavy, daily use the combo is rock solid and on the order of 3X faster responsiveness than prior internal 7200rpm internal WD Black (YMMV of course). Not experiencing any issues or problems seen reported for use of other 512GB SSDs as Thunderbolt boot drive w/this portable sled, perhaps due to Crucial MX100 512GB SSD mostly lower power draw compared to others (& certainly compared earlier SSDs).Notes: Since the SSD kind of hangs in space in the sled I used a little sticky rubber bumper (from an assorted Home Depot pack) under the drive to relieve any pressure on its connection. E.g. used *just* the right height clear rubber on SSD outer edge to support the drive & not stress its connection. Maybe Crucial could include spacers for this & yeah it doesn't come with a cable.This review/rating is based on price being 100 dollars or less, maybe a bit steep for this little thing but good compared to alternatives. *And* for my particular use, I've no USB 3.0 ports & no other Thunderbolt devices (so fact that its an end-chain device doesn't bother me... yet).

Worked with multiple 2.5" form factor drives at amazing speeds. With a 7200 RPM seagate momentus I got well over 50MBs read & write, peaking at 60MBs on some operations when testing via Black Magic Speed Test (Mac OS X).I'd recommend the device for multiple reasons:1. In spite of being plastic and light, it feels sturdy. I may update the review in six months to complain if it doesn't hold up, but compared to the average USB "enclosure" for 2.5" drives, it's totally next-gen.2. It could've come in a plastic baggy because no instructions are needed. You insert your drive, put the cable into the device and the computer and boom it works.3. The speeds are easily double what most of my USB enclosures have had (never had one over 35MBs).4. There are multiple units in the Amazon Warehouse at discounted prices (see link): http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B009HQCARY/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=usedNote: I would like a much more useful Thunderbolt dock - like a BlacX or "plugable" single or dual drive system. This falls short of that but it is a full 5-star product that does everything it says it will do. This is perfect for those of you who bought MacBooks with fixed SSDs that cannot be easily upgraded or people looking for faster Time Machine backups.

This will not work on a full size hard drive. It will not power it up. It works okay, but really a waste of money.

This is the second time I'm trying to buy the Seagate Backup Plus Portable Thunderbolt Adapter (STAE128)and I'm not having much success.The first time I bought this unit it arrived 4 full business days after the tracking site claimed it had been delivered. And then when it did arrive the box was soaking wet AND the unit was not the same model as I had ordered, but a different one. What was delivered was model SRD0001 STAE126, which is an older model.So back it went.Then I ordered this same unit a second time. It arrived today, one day earlier than promised which is a good thing, except that the unit was not new. It was used, the box seals were open, the adapter was not in a plastic bag and the protective plastic coating was missing as well. It was an open box product. And on top of it all once again it was the wrong unit in the correct box. The box stated the unit was a Seagate STAE128, yet the model number on the unit itself was SRD0001 STAE126, yes, correct, the older model again.I buy a lot from Amazon, and generally get excellent service, yet something is wrong when the last 3 products one buys from them ALL arrive the wrong model.

I read some of the reviews on this the one thing I found missing was what were some of the use cases and how people were applying this in their workflow. overall the adapter works good my biggest issue is that the adapter itself only has one thunderbolt port so if you were only using the hard drive and not driving a monitor then this works okay for on the road use of your laptop. but if you are using at a desk without a docking station then the single lightning bolt connector becomes a problem. but it definitely works with SSD and rotating hard drives if you have a docking station or other thunderbolt devices within it outports than this device could fit right into your workflow otherwise it is a single device using your thunderbolt port.