List Price : $179.99 Price :
Seagate Backup Plus 3 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive for Mac (STCB3000900)
List Price : $179.99 Price :
Product Description
The Seagate Backup Plus for Mac desktop 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 USB 3.0 interface to Thunderbolt technology or FireWire 800 with the additional adapter. System requirements: Mac OS X 10.6 or higher or Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system, Super Speed USB 3.0 port (required for USB 3.0 transfer speeds or backwards compatible with USB 2.0 ports at USB 2.0 transfer speeds). Ships with: Seagate backup plus drive, Seagate Dashboard pre-loaded on drive, USB 3.0 interface adapter with capacity gauge, 4-Feet (1.2m) USB 3.0 cable, Power adapter, Quick Start Guide.
- SuperSpeed USB 3.0 transfer (backward compatible with USB 2.0 at USB 2.0 transfer speed)
- Easy backup for your digital life on your computer and the cloud
- Save feature, allows user-generated content to be backed up from your favorite social networks
- Share feature allows multiple files to be uploaded to social networks at once from your computer
- Install the downloadable HFS+ driver for PC and use the drive interchangeably between Mac computers and PC's without reformatting
- Upgrade from the included USB 3.0 interface to Thunderbolt or FireWire 800 technologies with the additional adapter (purchased seperately)
Seagate Backup Plus 3 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive for Mac (STCB3000900) Reviews
Seagate Backup Plus 3 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive for Mac (STCB3000900) Reviews
| 39 of 43 people found the following review helpful  Elegant, compact, and works great, software not so great, By This review is from: Seagate Backup Plus 2 TB FireWire 800/USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive for Mac STCB2000100 (Personal Computers) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this?) 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%... Read more 23 of 29 people found the following review helpful  Simply fails to deliver on its promises, By This review is from: Seagate Backup Plus 2 TB FireWire 800/USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive for Mac STCB2000100 (Personal Computers) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this?) I had high hopes for this device and on a base level it does what it says. It's a Firewire 800/USB 2.0 external hard drive. It's preformatted for the Macintosh Operating System, which is nice, but honestly it's so easy to reformat a hard drive I'm sorry for someone who pays extra for this feature.The product claims that you can "Install the HFS+ driver for PC and use the drive interchangeably between Mac computers and PC's" I could find no such link and tech support couldn't help. The drive simply wouldn't mount properly on a PC. Some devices have drive images on a PC partition so you can install PC software. By the time this review is published, it's certainly possible they have the cross platform driver available or tech support could be more helpful. After a few weeks of owning it, I gave up patience in finding it. I shouldn't have to do that much work to find a driver that should be included. Similarly, the Backup Plus software wouldn't install on... Read more 43 of 57 people found the following review helpful  Dead in 48 hours, Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Seagate Backup Plus 3 TB FireWire 800/USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive for Mac STCB3000100 (Personal Computers) 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... Read more |
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