It's USB 3.0 and comes with a 1-ft cable, but it's still backwards compatible and will plug into a standard USB 2.0 socket on the computer, or alternatively, the drive can take a standard USB 2.0 micro USB cable. The cable is pretty short for my desktop use (should be ok for laptop where the drive will be beside it), but I do have a USB 2.0 extension cable on my computer that I always use for USB drives and that works just fine even with the stock cable.
Speed is around 30MB/s on my USB 2.0 system copying to the drive on average, and I believe around 50MB/s on USB 3.0.
It comes with its own backup software called SmartWare for Mac & Windows. I didn't try this myself as I'm going to use this to store videos. But I also just prefer TrueImage and robocopy to create a mirror image or copy of my hard drive for backups.
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