Product Description
The Seagate Backup Plus for Mac desktop external hard drive simplifies backup for consumers who want to protect their entire digital life locally or on social networks. The drive is formatted for Mac out of the box, making it compatible with Time Machine software to provide the simplest and most efficient way to back up locally. Keep multiple copies of your files in case disaster strikes. With the Save feature, user-generated content can be backed up from your favorite social networks. Many people now use their smartphones to capture priceless moments. While these devices are handy and readily available, storage is not their strong suit. Capture a memory, post it on a social networking site and let the Seagate Dashboard automatically back up any content posted. Even if the file gets accidentally deleted from the device, another copy can be waiting. The Share feature allows multiple files to be uploaded to social networks at once from your computer. The days of uploading individual files without creating a new album are gone! Simply select files to upload, choose where to post them and even add comments. Managing your social profile has never been easier. Install the downloadable HFS+ driver for PC, and use the drive interchangeably between Mac computers and PCs without reformatting. Take advantage of the Seagate Backup Plus design and upgrade from the included FireWire 800/USB 2.0 interface to Thunderbolt technology or USB 3.0 with the additional adapter. Ships with: Seagate Backup Plus Drive, Seagate Dashboard pre-loaded on drive, FireWire 800/USB 2.0 Interface adapter with capacity gauge, 5-foot FireWire 800 cable, 5-foot USB 2.0 cable, Power adapter, Quick start guide, 3 year limited warranty. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.6 or higher or Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, Windows XP SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system (HFS+ driver for PC operability available for download), FireWire® 800 or USB 2.0 port (compatibility may vary depending upon user's hardware configuration and operating system).
| List Price: | $179.99 |
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$117.36 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details |
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Product Details
- Size: 2 TB
- Brand: Seagate
- Model: STCB2000100
- Platform: Mac
- Format: CD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.73" h x 4.88" w x 6.22" l, 2.38 pounds
- Hard Disk: 2TB
Features
- Formatted for Mac out of the box and instantly compatible with Time Machine software
- Keep copies of your precious digital files, in case disaster strikes
- Impressive 2 TB storage capacity
- Save feature enables user-generated content to be backed up from your favorite social network
- Share feature allows multiple files to be uploaded to social networks at once from your computer
- Features FireWire 800/USB 2.0 for quick data transfer rates; upgrade to Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 with the available additional adapter
- Install the HFS+ driver for PC and use the drive interchangeably between Mac computers and PC's
From the Manufacturer
Back Up Your Digital Life
The Backup Plus for Mac desktop drive delivers high-capacity, flexible protection for your files that's compatible with Time Machine backup software straight out of the box. This easy-to-use drive also works seamlessly with your social media accounts, making it simple to back up and share your online photos, movies and more.
Fuel for Your Time Machine
The Backup Plus for Mac desktop drive has been designed to integrate smoothly with OS X for Mac computers, so it's simple to back up and protect your files. It's compatible with Time Machine backup software out of the box, and works interchangeably with Mac computers and PC without the need to reformat.
Save Your Social Life
The Backup Plus for Mac desktop drive includes the Seagate Dashboard. This premium software makes it simple to share or save files associated with online social networks including Flickr, Facebook and YouTube. Automatically download copies of your photos, movies and more from social networking sites to your drive. Share files by simply clicking on your social icons within the Seagate Dashboard. Easily share multiple files with your social networks at the same time.
Powerfully Flexible
The Backup Plus desktop drive for Mac features a unique adapter system that lets you quickly and cost-effectively upgrade or change the drive's interface. Take advantage of the newest, fastest connections--now and in the future: Choose from FireWire 800/USB 2.0 (included), USB 3.0, and Thunderbolt technology.
What's in the Box?
Backup Plus for Mac desktop drive, preloaded Seagate Dashboard, quick start guide, FireWire 800/USB 2.0 adapter with capacity gauge, 5-foot (150 cm) FireWire 800 cable, 5-foot (150 cm) USB 2.0 cable, warranty.
System Requirements
Compatible operating systems are Mac OS X 10.6 or higher and Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit) (HFS+ driver for PC operability available by download).
There's a Seagate Backup Plus Drive that's Perfect for Every Backup Need
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| Backup Plus Portable Drive | Backup Plus Desktop Drive | Backup Plus for Mac Portable Drive | Backup Plus for Mac Desktop Drive |
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Big Backup. Small Package. With capacities up to 1.5TB, the Backup Plus portable drive makes it easy to take along plenty of extra storage. |
Space to spare. Capacities up to 4TB make the Backup Plus desktop drive the simple solution when your digital life goes big. |
Ready to roll with your Mac computer. The Backup Plus for Mac portable drive is compatible with Time Machine backup software straight out of the box. |
Massive Mac backup. Straight-out-of-the-box Time Machine software compatibility meets massive capacities in the Backup Plus for Mac desktop drive. |
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
57 of 65 people found the following review helpful.
By TT
This Seagate drive is now my new backup device. I have a 1GB Time Capsule, which works great, but it has problems. Backups take a long time, even for small amounts, and my Mac Mini slows down during the backup. Yes, I know it's not supposed to, but it does.
This drive, however, has none of those problems. I had no idea that a USB- or Fireware-attached drive was so much faster than a network-attached drive. Incremental backups take less than a minute, and larger (e.g. 2GB) backups take less than 5. With my Time Capsule, some backups would take as much as 20 minutes -- a huge difference!
Since this drive supports both USB and FireWire 800, I also wanted to test the relative performance. I didn't notice any difference in Time Machine backups, so I ran a simple file-copy test. Using FireWire 800, a 3.5GB file took one minute and forty seconds to copy. Using USB, that same file took two minutes and twelve seconds. So the FireWire 800 interface is about 25% faster than the USB 2.0 interface.
The software that comes with the drive, however, is not so wonderful. For starters, it is not required to install the software to use the drive. In fact, the first thing I did was copy the software off the drive and reformatted the drive. I did this because I wanted to have two partitions (one for backups, and the other for general storage), and I also wanted to use a non-journalled HFS file system.
Before you can install the software, you have to register the drive. I supplied a fake name and email address, but I'm disappointed that it's required. The only reason I went through the process is for this review, normally I would have just deleted the software outright. The software license has nothing objectionable in it.
The software installs three components: a Mac NTFS driver, a Seagate "Dashboard", and a Seagate "Storage Driver". All three require about 75MB of space combined. I don't trust the drivers, so I skipped them. Sorry, but a Google search shows posts from people having problems with these drivers, and I didn't want to compromise my system. The drivers apparently are only necessary if you want to be able to access Windows-formatted drives from your Mac.
Unfortunately, the Dashboard did not recognize my drive, probably because I reformatted it. So that was a waste of my time. My suggestion is that unless you really need to use this drive on PCs and Macs, just skip the software altogether. And even then, I would just look for an alternate first.
66 of 84 people found the following review helpful.
By Black.Diamond
I purchased this drive, which I thought was a very reasonable product- firewire 800 and usb 2.0 (upgradable to 3.0) because I have a 2008 iMac, the ports fit my needs perfectly (I don't have thunderbolt or usb 3.0).
I was using this drive as a storage drive, and not for time machine backup. So, after painstakingly transferring my data on Friday (estimated about 3 hours for 500gigs, though I didn't stick around to time it, or view the data transfer rate), I was pleased with the responsiveness of the drive. However, 48 hours later, and the drive is completely DEAD. From Friday to Sunday, the drive was used once, and died. There was no response indicating the unit was even drawing power- no lights, no spinning, and unmountable on two Macs and a Windows computer.
I called Seagate for data retrieval, as I intended this drive for storage, not backup, so all files were original. I was already a little irked knowing that data retrieval can take weeks before they get your files back to you, but they had the nerve to tell me that there would be a charge! Really? A charge for a lemon that cost nearly $200 and lasted two days, to get my data off of it? That was a big fat NO.
So, I was transferred to the warranty department, where the representative I spoke with was very nice- which is why Seagate is getting the 1 star, not for the product, but for the one decent individual that was able to help me. The biggest shocker was that this drive was so "new" that the warranty department wouldn't have units to replace in-warranty drives for three months! So, I'd have to deal with having a dead drive, no access to my original files, and $200 disposable income tied up for three months, before I can even go on a limb and trust that the replacement unit that would be received wouldn't be another lemon. No thanks.
I have never been this mad at a hard drive before... In tech, we all know there are lemons, and that a smart person always has backups their backups, but if the unit fails before the computer is restarted, then seriously???
21 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
By Dr. Stuart Gitlow
This product is a 3TB external hard drive which is plugged into a plastic base that doubles as a stand for the drive. The plastic base contains a port for the AC line as well as two Thunderbolt ports. Seagate has a variety of these bases available, each with different ports: one model has USB 3.0 connectivity, another model has both USB 2.0 and FW800 connectivity, and the third, this one, has Thunderbolt connectivity. However, Seagate is making available only the Thunderbolt base independent of a hard drive (so far, anyway). So it's easy to buy the hard drive with the USB 3.0 base and a separate Thunderbolt adapter, but if you buy the Thunderbolt adapter/drive combination (and that's what's for sale on this page), you won't currently be able to buy the USB 3.0 or USB 2.0/FW800 base separately.
So make absolutely sure that you will be using this drive with a Thunderbolt capable Mac. Frankly, to have a wide range of current Macs with which you can use this drive, I'd grab the FW800 compatible unit and then add a Thunderbolt base to my overall assembly.
I configured the drive as a clone of my laptop's internal drive. This was accomplished using SuperDuper on a MacBook Pro (13", early 2011) running 10.8.2. The entire process worked quickly and easily. The drive works correctly as a startup drive through the Thunderbolt connection. The startup speed is roughly equal to the startup speed of my internal hard drive. Running applications from the 3TB drive takes place with no obvious delay caused by the drive. There's an improvement in overall speed when compared to FW800, but for some reason I got nothing like the 10-fold increase in throughput that one should get in comparison, perhaps because of SuperDuper's software design. The creation of my drive clone, with only about 200GB of files on the internal drive, took about 1.2 hours.
The drive runs very quietly - the internal drive of the laptop is louder than the external drive. Neither is particularly loud. The drive generates a low amount of heat when being run continuously (as during the backup process) but usually is cool to the touch. The overall unit is small enough to travel easily. The AC cord includes five adapters to allow connection to multiple worldwide power sources. The box also includes the Thunderbolt cable. There are no directions or instructions beyond a very simplistic pamphlet. Backup software is included, but I did not take advantage of this.
Addendum: I wanted to back up the hard drive of an iMac that does not have a Thunderbolt port. So I hooked this drive to my MacBook Pro, then connected the MacBook Pro to the iMac via a Firewire 800 cable, then booted the iMac as a Firewire drive by turning it on while holding the "T" key down. The MacBook Pro then saw two external drives: The thunderbolt drive and the IMac. I was able to make a backup of the iMac's hard drive without difficulty.
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