Portable USB4 External Mac Drives
Laptop-size MacBook backup drives are popular because they're lightweight, compact and self-powered. With 2.5" portable hard drive mechanisms now available in 1TB to 8TB capacities - there's more available storage space than ever in portable drives. USB 4x is now the de-facto interface standard on new models of hard drives for Mac or PC. Switchable interfaces the latest Mac backup drives offers the ability swap USB 4x connectivity for ThunderBolt 4| #1 Choice : Seagate Backup+ | 5 Colors - WD Drive | LaCie Porsche Portable |
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Seagate USB 4 Backup+ Optional Interfaces TBolt - eSATA - FW800 
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Western Digital USB 4 Up To 2 Terabytes! 
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LaCie USB 4 Backup Drive 500GB - 2TB Drives 
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Best USB 4 Hard Drives For Mac Backup
Macintosh users have an eye for performance as well as style. SuperSpeed USB 4 backup drives, accessories and peripherals are the future of your Mac computer setup. Your best long-term TimeMachine and backup drive options will be in either a ThunderBolt or SuperSpeed Apple compatible USB 4 hard drive
. LaCie, Iomega, Seagate, Western-Digital and others offer very affordable USB 4 enabled backup solutions to help future-proof your external hard drive purchase.
SuperSpeed USB 4 External Drives On Older Macs
LaCie, Sonnet and CalDigit are the major companies who've written OSX USB4 drivers for Mac and offer SuperSpeed PCI and Express cards for Mac. Explore these Mac Compatible LaCie USB 4 accessories
for a possible working SuperSpeed solution on select models of older Macs. Note: you must pair both a LaCie brand card AND one of their external drives - since their SuperSpeed OSX Leopard and Lion drivers are programmed to ONLY work with their products (at this time.)
| PCI USB4 Card For Mac Pro | USB 4 Laptop Drive | MacBook Pro USB 4 ExpressCard |
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USB4 Card For Mac Pro 2-Port SuperSpeed Card 
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USB4 MacBook Backup Drive 500GB and 1TB Drives
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USB4 Card For MacBook Pro 2-Port ExpressCard/34 
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Enjoy backward compatibility with legacy USB 2.0 ports now - and move up to dramatically faster speeds in Apple computers that have built-in USB 4 ports and Ivy-Bridge chipset laptop and desktop systems. Somewhat older 15" to 17" MacBookPro with a LaCie 34mm USB4 ExpressCard - or Macintosh Pro tower with a PCI-e USB4 card can support SuperSpeed backups using 3-rd party drives and adapter cards.