In addition to storing large media collections, these drives can also serve as inexpensive repositories for backups of your computer's hard drive that you schedule, using either software that comes with the drive or a third-party backup utility. It's shock, dust, and water-resistant and comes with a vivid orange bumper along its sides, so you don't have to worry about drops.

The Seagate Backup Plus looks like a brick, a black one with a mirror top (very prone to fingerprints and dust).The 8TB Backup Plus Hub managed nearly 190MBps sustained reading and 150MBps sustained writing under CrystalDiskMark 7 32GB tests. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. That’s better than the warranty for some of Seagate’s cheaper external hard drives, which are warrantied foronly a single year. This is why it is not USB bus powered, nor does it offer the compact nature of their Portable series brethren. It holds 8TB of data (up to 10TB capacity is available) and doubles as a USB hub for connecting and charging other devices.

cable into your computer, and Windows will recognize it out of the box (or you can reformat it for Mac). Haal maximaal voordeel uit uw opslagoplossing met gebruiksvriendelijke functies zoals Mirror, Sync Plus, Seagate Secure en instellingen voor RGB-verlichting en statusled's. Als u alle geavanceerde probleemoplossingsstappen voor Windows of Macintosh hebt uitgeprobeerd en uw externe harde schijf is nog steeds niet beschikbaar of wordt nog steeds niet gedetecteerd, neemt u voor meer hulp het best contact op met Seagate Support.En al die extra ruimte is superhandig voor grote savegames en de downloadbare content die je wilt bewaren. The display of third-party trademarks and trade names on this site does not necessarily indicate any affiliation or the endorsement of PCMag. The storage industry refers to these (as well as smaller-capacity externals as a whole) as DAS—for "direct attached storage"—to distinguish them from NAS, or network attached storage, many of which are also multi-bay devices that can take two or more drives that you supply.