- #FORMAT SEAGATE DRIVE WITH BACKUP PORTABLE#
- #FORMAT SEAGATE DRIVE WITH BACKUP SOFTWARE#
- #FORMAT SEAGATE DRIVE WITH BACKUP PC#
- #FORMAT SEAGATE DRIVE WITH BACKUP SERIES#
- #FORMAT SEAGATE DRIVE WITH BACKUP MAC#
The Backup Plus Portable 1TB enclosure I tested measures about 3 by 5 inches and, like the GoFlex, is topped with a Universal Storage Module (USM) adapter. The company also makes a larger Desktop drive that maxes out at 4TB capacity, and a razor-thin Slim drive that only comes in a 500GB size. You get a fast-performing, easy-to-use drive at a good price – the Backup Plus Portable line I tested comes in at $130 for the 1TB, $120 for the 750GB and $110 for the 500GB. The company has rebranded its entire Go Flex line of consumer hard drives as Backup Plus, and the new drives are remarkably similar to the older Go Flex drives. You get a fast-performing, easy-to-use drive at a good price.The new "Backup Plus" name is also intended to increase retail shelf appeal. Seagate's new Backup Plus drives are remarkably similar to the older Go Flex drives. They're versatile, too – a modular adapter system lets you swap in different interfaces to match your computer's connection type (though Seagate has offered this feature for a while).
#FORMAT SEAGATE DRIVE WITH BACKUP SOFTWARE#
They come pre-loaded with software that, in addition to automatically backing up your PC, also sucks down all the photos you've stored on Facebook and Flickr. Take as an example the new Backup Plus line of drives from Seagate. Hoping to change that thinking, manufacturers are introducing more consumer-friendly add-ons to their storage products. Warranty and brand loyalty are sometimes factors – we each have horror stories about dead hard drives, all of which end in a declaration along the lines of "I'll never buy a Whizzo-Disk USB drive again!" – but the fact is, most people just focus on how much it holds and how much it costs. Unless you're a deep study, the differences between competing portable storage drives seem minute, and few things influence purchasing decisions more than capacity and price. What you lose, obviously, is a bit of portability.A hard drive is a hard drive is a hard drive. With either product, you get a lot of storage for your dollar, and at least with the Hub, better performance than with 2.5-inch drives.
#FORMAT SEAGATE DRIVE WITH BACKUP SERIES#
Though Seagate’s Expansion series is a bit cheaper, I found the Backup Plus Hub’s USB ports super-handy. Then again, we all did just that back in the day, and some still do. Just don’t try to run an operating system off of it, and you’ll be fine.
In total, the Backup Plus Hub is fine for backup, and great for storing large files as well as streaming movies. Doubling them up in RAID or rotating them are also options. Note: Hard drives fail, so you should never use a solo drive as the sole repository for your irreplaceable stuff. Use single hard drives for backup, scratch space, or for storing easily replaceable data–anything that can be downloaded again or easily recreated. The X6 is capable of twice that with 10Gbps USB, but 400-450MBps is easily fast enough for small everyday SSD transfers. I benchmarked a Crucial X6 using the Backup Plus Hub’s ports and saw just over 400MBps writing and 450MBps reading. Of course, the USB ports, being 5Gbps, are capable of much faster transfers. The Seagate Backup Plus Hub easily bested the 2.5-inch competition. That series includes SSDs, 2.5-inch hard drives, and 3.5-inch high-capacity hard drives. If you don’t need the USB ports, you can get 16TB for the same $330 that the top Backup Plus Hub sports, with Seagate’s Expansion series. That’s better than the warranty for some of Seagate’s cheaper external hard drives, which are warrantied for only a single year. The warranty on the Backup Plus Hub is a good two years. Seagate’s Toolkit software offers both traditional file backup and folder syncing.
#FORMAT SEAGATE DRIVE WITH BACKUP MAC#
Note that the drive comes preformatted with NTFS-you’ll want to change that to exFAT if you’re a Mac user. It will do the job if Windows File Backup or macOS Time Machine aren’t of interest to you.
#FORMAT SEAGATE DRIVE WITH BACKUP PC#
Toolkit is attractive and competent, supports pure backup and folder syncing, and works on both PC and macOS. It wouldn’t be a Backup Plus if it didn’t include Seagate’s own Toolkit utility/backup software. Seagate’s Backup Plus Hub has a power jack and female USB Micro-B connector gracing its backside. On the back of the enclosure are the AC adapter jack and a Micro-B USB port. When I first opened the box, I was half-expecting charge-only functionality, but you can plug in anything you want to the USB port, including additional storage devices.
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