Testseek.com have collected 129 expert reviews of the Seagate Backup Plus Portable USB3 STBU and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Seagate Backup Plus Portable USB3 STBU.
May 2013
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129 Reviews
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Published: 2012-06-14, Author: Jason , review by: bigbruin.com
Convenient, useful, and innovative backup solution provided with the drive, Social media backup is a great idea, Drive offers fast transfers rates, Available in a variety of sizes and colors, Competitive pricing
Would like to see a GoFlex Slim style version even smaller and even faster, Please drop by the Bigbruin.com Forum and feel free to post any comments or questions
Seagate has put out a large number of external hard drives over the last few years, and I'll admit that it can be hard to distinguish one from the other given all of the names, configurations, and so on. With the Backup Plus line up they seem to have take...
Published: 2012-06-12, Author: Helena , review by: chipchick.com
Super simple backup process with oneclick local backup, truly both Mac and PC friendly, can backup your Facebook and Flickr accounts, fast read and right speeds over USB 3.0, and compact formfactor, The
Thunderbolt support is only available via an adapter – but this does help keep the size of the drive down
Overall, the Seagate Backup Plus is a capable and compact portable hard drive that makes backing up your data simple, as it should be. We especially appreciate that Seagate has simplified the process of formatting the drive for use on both Mac and PC...
Super slim design and lightweight construction without sacrificing strength or durability, A great price for a 4 TB external hard drive that “just works” right out of the box, Cool freebies (one of which we highlight in just a moment) that make this a rea
Naming conventions haven't changed so buying the latest Seagate Backup Plus Portable can be a little confusing online, especially with so many previous-generation models still out there, These external drives still use HDD technology versus SSD (though it
At the end of the day, if you're looking for a reliable, rock-solid, and great performing hard drive to protect and backup your data you can't go wrong with the Seagate Backup Plus Portable.Combine that with the special promotion we mentioned a moment ago...
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Published: 2017-09-28, Author: Thomas , review by: gadgetguy.com.au
Enormous capacity, high read and write speeds
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Decades ago I re-wrote a small program in assembler because I resented the couple of seconds the computer took to read from a floppy disk the 11 kilobytes of the version compiled from Pascal. That disc had a 160KB capacity. How things have changed!If you...
How can you not like a drive the fits in your pocket (at least your larger pockets) and holds 5TB of data? I can't, and I'm betting you can't either, though you could get away a bit cheaper with WD's 4TB My Passport. Note also that Seagate's $220 Backup P...
"The Seagate Backup Plus is a good, affordable and fast external drive."...
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Published: 2016-01-22, Author: Joel , review by: au.pcmag.com
Large storage capacity, NTFS driver for Mac included, Seagate Lyve app creates network-attached storage (NAS)-like capability, Includes 200GB of OneDrive cloud storage for 2 years
Case lacks rubber feet
The Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive gives you 4 terabytes of speedy storage you can take with you, as well as a personal cloud, all for a very reasonable price...
Abstract: As with its 500GB counterpart reviewed in the affordable portable section, there's a tremendous amount to like about the new line of Seagate Backup Plus drives. We're talking gr...
Abstract: Whatever Seagate is doing to make its drive go fast, it's working. Like its 1TB compatriot in the super-sized portables group, the Backup Plus 500GB left nearly every other drive ...