In addition, most people who plunk down hundreds of dollars for a product want more than five easy steps to installation. You will pay dearly for the convenience and portability offered by Backpack. But the utility is fantastic. How many times have you wanted to transport business or personal software or graphic files only to have it not fit on a floppy disk or even, on occasion, a zip disk. And a zip disk, though a fine storage option, is slow to use, operating more like a floppy drive than a hard drive.
Backpack operates at competitive speeds, negligibly slower than an installed internal.
The size and durability of this unit erases any concern about lugging it around. If you are constantly on the move, if you regularly transport very big files, if you share data regularly between two computers but are not set up on an intranet, this hard drive is a real time saver. Only shoddy documentation holds back a perfect score.