The Seagate Backup Plus 2 TB Portable External Hard Drive offers safe data storage for your computer and mobile devices using USB 3.0 connectivity. The drive can be used on Mac and PC computers without reformatting, and the automatic backup function saves data effortlessly. Seagate’s new Backup Plus is a new portable external hard drive that is designed to make the process of backing up your data simple. With that said, it also has a few neat tricks up its sleeve. Seagate Backup Plus – Introduction We all tend to spend more and more time with our computers, working with tons of information and all that information needs a lot of space. BackUp plus has the massive You need and more, so this hard drive would be a great choice for photographers, video editors, gamers and others who need a lot of disk space. Back up Your whole digital life with easy, flexible backup option even for your Android and iOS devices. Meant for consumers who want to safely back up their entire digital life locally, on the cloud or on the social networks. All of that can be done with included backup software –. Use Seagate Dashboard protect function to set up a one click plan or customize Your scheduled local backup. Be safe and keep multiple copies of Your data, in case a disaster strikes. Automatically save content from Your social networks, and share files easily between Mac and Windows computers. Transfer data quickly usign USB 3.0 connectivity. If You are looking for more room to store all Your files then Seagate Backup Plus external hard drive is made for you. Oc course there are many comptetitors to Seagate backup plus, both high-end and low-end. If you are a Mac user then you could be more interested in model. Available capacities, warranty and price. I have to mention that Seagate Backup Plus was first 8TB external dekstop drive on the market. For such a massive capacity the drive is relatively cheap, currently. Backup Plus is available in six different capacities – 2TB; 3TB; 4TB; 5TB; 6TB and newest 8TB. Biggest downside of this external drive is it`s warranty, it has just 2-year warranty. Two year warranty feels not enough for such a big hard drive. To find out more about specific problems this drive could have we recommend to read –, because it is a great source of product ratings from real people who have already bought it. Quick rundown of Seagate Backup Plus features • Easy, flexible, built-in backup option • Save photos from social networks automatically • Share videos and photos to social networks with only one click • Massive capacity up to 8TB for lifetime of memories • Easily increase trasnfer speeds by upgrading to Thunderbolt technology or FireWire 800 Design The design is quite typical to other external hard drives that house a single internal hard drive. It is like a brick. On one side the drive has a micro USB 3.0 port and it`s power port. This drive is not BUS – powered, which means that this drive will not recieve power via USB port. A desktop drive with such massive capacity needs a lot more power than what a USB port can supply, so it has a separate power adapter to make it work. Out of the box, Seagate Backup Plus is pre formatted in NTFS file system for Windows computers. But it includes the NTFS driver software for Mac computers as well, so after you install it you can also work on Mac. Mac computers generally can only read the NTFS file system, so Mac can only do both writing and reading NTFS after you install the driver. Do not forget that there is also a Mac version, you can read to find out more. Backup Plus for Mac out of the box pre-formatted in HFS+ file system to work on Mac computers. Similarly to the Windows version, it comes with a HFS+ driver software which allows you to use it with Windows, so you can work on both operating systems. Product dimensions: 7,1 x 4,6 x 1,6 inches (18 x 11.7 x 4.1 cm) and it weighs just 1,9 pounds (0,861kg). As it is with almost all external hard drives, users can not change it`s internal drive. The drive chassis is made out of plastic but still it feels very nice and solid in your hands. There are a lot of small holes around chassis to keep the internal drive cool. The drive did not warm up during the performance tests. About newe st model with biggest capacity – On January 16, 2015 Seagate released new Backup Plus model with capacity of 8TB. This external hard drive has a massive capacity and currently costs only $249. Few weeks after it`s laucnh it has already become very popular, no other brand offers such a massive data storage for that kind of money. Gemini for mac review. The capacity of previous Backup Plus models only went up to 5TB, which is almost half of the new model. Now in november the drive comes with 200GB of free cloud storage if you buy it on Amazon. You will recieve 200GB free OneDrive cloud storage for 2 years when you register new Backup Plus external hard drive. The value of 200GB OneDrive cloud storage is about $95.
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