So, to make this a valid answer, the benefit is to know accurately the size of the drive you bought, and not have it magically shrink when you use it. There are currently a limited number of Thunderbolt only external hard drives on the market although the Samsung X5 is by far the best Thunderbolt drive. Technically manufacturers should use GiB not GB when marketting and packaging their drives, but they don't/won't, and use Gigabyte which they know practically everyone uses incorrectly. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Seagate Backup Plus 4TB, External Portable Hard Drive For PC & Mac, USB 3.0 at the best online prices at eBay Free delivery for many products. The latest M1 & M2 MacBook Pro and Mac Studio have Thunderbolt 4 ports and so in terms of speed and compatibility, the best external hard drives for M1 and M2 Macs are Thunderbolt hard drives. Note that all this is just so much technical drivel, your actual space available is the same on both, it's just that from a marketing perspective the given size will be correct on Mac as they have a common understanding of what a Gigabyte is, and incorrect on Windows which uses the commonly misused Gibibyte structure on it's filesystems whilst users incorrectly assume it is measures in Gigabytes. Our collection offers storage up to 8 TB. Since Mac OS X also switched to this "proper" definition for storage units such as Gigabytes as of Snow Leopard, then the size of the drive as mentioned on the box is more likely to be accurate when formatted for a Mac Partition than for a Windows Partition where your usable space seems "lower". If you need to store data on your computer, then our desktop external hard drive is an ideal choice. Seagate One Touch 1TB External Hard Drive HDD Black ,Seagate One Touch Hub 8TB External USB-C and USB 3. It is interesting to note that Hard Drive Manufacturers use the correct meaning of "Gigabytes" when referring to hard drives, and not what most people think of as a GB which is actually a Gibibyte: Seagate One Touch Hub 8TB External Hard Drive Desktop HDD - USB-C and USB 3.0 Port, for Computer Desktop Workstation PC Laptop Mac, 4 Months Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan (STLC80 (STLC8000400).
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