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Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive
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| Manufacturer: | Seagate | |
| Hardware Type: | External Hard Drive | |
| Model: | Backup Plus Portable Drive | |
| Compatibility: | Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 | |
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This page contains information about installing the latest Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive driver downloads using the Seagate Driver Update Tool.
Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive drivers are tiny programs that enable your External Hard Drive hardware to communicate with your operating system software. Maintaining updated Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive software prevents crashes and maximizes hardware and system performance. Using outdated or corrupt Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive drivers can cause system errors, crashes, and cause your computer or hardware to fail. Furthermore, installing the wrong Seagate drivers can make these problems even worse.
Recommendation: If you are inexperienced with updating Seagate device drivers manually, we highly recommend downloading the Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive Driver Utility. This tool will download and update the correct Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive driver versions automatically, protecting you against installing the wrong Backup Plus Portable Drive drivers.
Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drivers
The Seagate Backup Plus is the first drive in the new line of Seagate Backup external hard drives that replaces the popularSeagate GoFlex family. While the GoFlex name is gone, the new drives remain flexible and can be used with the adapters made for the GoFlex drives. The Plus notion means that the drive can do more than just regular local backups but also backing up users' online contents, such as Facebook profiles.
Similar to previous drives from Seagate, the Backup Plus portable drive comes in two parts, the drive itself and an adapter that determines the type of connections. Out of the box, the drive works with both Windows and Mac machines without reformatting thanks to the included driver software that allows Macs to read and write NTFS.
In my testing, the Backup Plus offered very fast performance, both with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0. The drive is bus-powered and comes in many different colors. It's also slightly more compact than the GoFlex drives.
If you want a good-looking and compact portable drive to back up your computer or extend its storage space, at the suggested price of $140 for 1TB (or $130 and $120 for the 750GB and 500GB, respectively), the new Seagate Backup Plus makes an excellent buy. It's also safe to say that the drive's street pricing will be lower so maybe you'll want to wait a bit for a better deal. For owners of the existing GoFlex portable drives, though, there's no need to upgrade.
| Drive type | 2.5-inch external USB hard drive |
| Connector options | USB 2.0, eSATA, USB 3.0, FireWire 800, Thunderbolt |
| Dimensions | 4.86 inches 3.19 inches by 0.6 inch |
| Weight | 0.44 pound |
| Available capacities | 500GB, 750GB, 1TB |
| Capacity/Interface of test unit | 1TB/USB 3.0 |
| OSes supported | Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, 7), Mac OS 10.4.6 or higher |
| Software included | Seagate Dashboard Agent (Mac and Windows) |
Design
The new Seagate Backup Plus comes from the same concept as the portable drives in the Seagate GoFlex family. The drive comes in two parts: the hard drive and the adapter. The hard drive is a 2.5-inch SATA internal hard drive housed in a plastic chassis that has a small opening on one side to reveal the internal hard drive's standard SATA female connector. The adapter part has a male SATA connector and a Mini-USB 3.0 port. These two parts can be snapped onto each other to form a portable hard drive.
The drive comes with just one standard Mini-USB 3.0 cable, which serves both as a data and power cable. However, you can purchase other adapters to use the drive with other connection types, including FireWire, eSATA and
Despite the similar physical design, the new Backup Plus drive is different from any portable GoFlex drive. It's now slightly thinner and longer, and comes in multiple colors, including silver, blue, red ,and black. And the colors don't stop on the drive's chassis. The Seagate Dashboard Agent backup and management software that accompanies the drive also changes the color of its interface based on the color of the connected drive. This is not a huge deal, but considerably helpful for those who have multiple drives of different colors. It's always clear which drive they are working with.
Features
Out of the box, the GoFlex Turbo is formatted using the NTFS file system, making it work immediately with any Windows computer. On the drive, you'll find a customized version of Paragon NTFS for Mac. This software gives Macs running OS X 10.4 or later full (read and write) access to the Seagate Backup Plus. Note that the included software is customized to work only with Backup Plus portable drives from Seagate and might not work with other external drives. This implementation of the NTSF software driver is basically the same as found in the previous GoFlex family.
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You can reformat the drive into FAT32 if you want to use it interchangeably between the two platforms without using any software. In this case the drive won't be able to hold files that are larger than 4GB, though.
The biggest difference the Backup Plus has from the previous GoFlex portable drives is the Seagate Dashboard Agent software, of which the installer is stored on the drive itself. Once installed, this software offers some nifty ways to do backups.