- 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.
- Select Seagate Backup Plus Drive (or the external drive as shown) connected to your Mac, and choose Use for Backup. Your external backup drive is now ready, and a Time Machine backup will start within 2 minutes.
It had been working fine, until I updated whatever the latest version of Maverick's or whatever update came out.
Seagate Backup Plus Desktop is formatted for Windows using NTFS. Mac OS X can read hard drives formatted as NTFS but write access is not available without the aid of a special driver. If you want to use Backup Plus Desktop with a Macintosh computer, download and install the Paragon driver. For more information, go to Paragon driver for Mac. Re: Backup PC and Macbook (Time Machine) to Seagate Backup Plus 3 TB Time Machine only plays nicely with HFS+. Since the R6900 won't talk to HFS+ volumes, you may be able to get around the issue by creating an HFS+ sparse bundle on an NTFS volume.
Yes, know the issue. Did you EVER install any (utterly worthless) hard drive control software that came bundled with that ext. USB hard drive?
OR especially software from a Western Digital drive?
If so youve got a serious issue of data loss (which is why you NEVER ever have a single external backup of data).
You can read all about it here on the last 20 pages:
If you installed (which you should NEVER do) any HD control software, then youve got a serious issue where all your metadata is lost How to shorten a video clip.
- 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.
- Select Seagate Backup Plus Drive (or the external drive as shown) connected to your Mac, and choose Use for Backup. Your external backup drive is now ready, and a Time Machine backup will start within 2 minutes.
It had been working fine, until I updated whatever the latest version of Maverick's or whatever update came out.
Seagate Backup Plus Desktop is formatted for Windows using NTFS. Mac OS X can read hard drives formatted as NTFS but write access is not available without the aid of a special driver. If you want to use Backup Plus Desktop with a Macintosh computer, download and install the Paragon driver. For more information, go to Paragon driver for Mac. Re: Backup PC and Macbook (Time Machine) to Seagate Backup Plus 3 TB Time Machine only plays nicely with HFS+. Since the R6900 won't talk to HFS+ volumes, you may be able to get around the issue by creating an HFS+ sparse bundle on an NTFS volume.
Yes, know the issue. Did you EVER install any (utterly worthless) hard drive control software that came bundled with that ext. USB hard drive?
OR especially software from a Western Digital drive?
If so youve got a serious issue of data loss (which is why you NEVER ever have a single external backup of data).
You can read all about it here on the last 20 pages:
If you installed (which you should NEVER do) any HD control software, then youve got a serious issue where all your metadata is lost How to shorten a video clip.
Metadata is the data about the data on the HD, meaning not total loss, but almost the same as.
Run Etrecheck and post the results:
use this FREE little test APP to verify (most people here use it for diagnostics)
EtreCheck is a simple little app to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. EtreCheck automatically removes any personally identifiable information from the output.
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As time goes, the advanced and latest technology is replacing the older one. But in the case of Seagate Backup Plus review, there is no advanced drive available to beat it because the features and performance it gives are still not beatable by any other drive.
Seagate Backup Plus is itself the latest version of Seagate Go Flex Family. To understand its performance you need to understand what do we mean by backup Plus the reason is that Seagate is not limited to do local backups but keeps the backup of online dates like Facebook profiles and WhatsApp.
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Seagate Backup Plus Portable Review
Seagate is also available in the desktop version, but the portable version is handy and easy to keep with you wherever you go. This new little beast can boast a huge amount of storage space and along with it gives the winged performance. Seagate Backup Plus 5tb gives a jaw-dropping speed while keeping more than a thousand movies, and countless songs, images, any other media or files.
This little wonder is compact and gives fast throughput, and it's worth paying for this. Seagate is a popular brand in the market offering high-quality hard drive but if you have get one of their hard drives then it's time to make it usable because any hard drive will be only used in your computer when it's partitioned. Learn how to partition a hard drive in our detailed guide.
Along with speed and performance, it shares the same applications of backup which are used in other Seagate drives. The software is also included which it makes capable of working with PC and MAC without reformatting. Seagate Backup Plus is available in four different storage capacities like 5TB, 4TB, 3TB, 2TB. Giving great speed high performance, efficiency and portability make it the best external hard drive in the market.
The Backup Plus is designed on the concept of its ancestor Seagate Go Flex Family. As already stated that it comes in two parts the hard drive itself and the adaptor. The drive is 2.5-inch SATA internal hard drive which is encircled by the plastic chassis that has a small space on a side to impart the standard SATA female connector of the internal hard drive. The adapter contains the male SATA connector and a USB 3.0 port. Both of these combined form a portable hard drive.
The drive measures 0.5 x 3 x 4.75 (HWD) and available in silver, blue and red color. It's developed totally out of plastic, and brushed faux-metallic finish on the lid gives it the primary visual flourish and having a Seagate logo on the right side. Backup Plus weighs 5.4 to 5.9 ounces with sleek design and portable dimensions it can easily slip into your pocket or into the laptop bag without any noticeable heft.
A Mini-USB 3.0 cable is also included with the drive, which serves for both purposes as a data and a power cable. If you wanted to use the drive for FireWire, eSATA, and Thunderbolt connection types you need to purchase other adapters. In case you are Go Flex user, you may be using these adapters already because these adapters are also compatible with the Seagate Backup Plus. Oppositely, USB adapter of Seagate Backup Plus can also be used with Go Flex Portable Drives as well as other 2.5-inch standard internal hard drives of solid state drives.
The new Seagate Backup Plus Fast comes preformatted for NTFS and for MAC users it can be reformatted. The only flaw in this regard is the 'Protection' feature of Backup Dashboard, not being compatible with MAC. Time Machine can be used to perform the same task for the MAC users, so that's not a big issue. MAC users can still enjoy the generous set of features of Seagate Backup Plus.
Point to be noted here is that to use the GoFlex with any Windows computer you need to format it into the NTFS file system. But for the drive, you have a customized version of Paragon NTFS for MAC. This software helps MACs running the OS x 10.4. Keep in mind a thing that this software is not designed to work with any other external drives except the Seagate Backup Plus itself.
The drive can be reformatted into FAT32 if there is a need to use it between two platforms without the use of the software. But the drive will be limited to hold only the data of capacity 4GB (Gigabytes). The biggest advancement that makes Seagate Backup Plus separates from the previous GoFlex Family is the existence of Dashboard Agent Software, Whose installer is installed in the drive. After installation, this little piece of software gives you precious ways to do backups.
The new Seagate Backup Plus is one of the fastest and generous capacity external hard drives we've tested. This drive performance was very good, and it earned 7,504 points on the PCMark05 and 1985 points in the PCMark7 test.This is amazingly faster than the wd my passport ultra. With this great speed, your video work and data transfer will be a lot easier, and it's a positive edge of Seagate Backup Plus.
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