Posted on 04/07/2014 8:52:49 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Seagate introduced Backup Plus FAST portable drive; the world's first portable 4TB storage device, providing twice the capacity and speed of existing external portable drives. This new Seagate Backup Plus FAST drive features a super speed USB 3.0 interface to deliver transfer speeds up to 220MB per second, making it the perfect companion for a field photographer or filmmaker looking to quickly move large files to backup.
"With Backup Plus FAST, Seagate has taken a very mature product category and has delivered innovative enhancements to address the real world challenges of our customers," said Rajesh Khurana, country manager, India & SAARC, Philippines, Vietnam, Indo-China, Singapore for Seagate Technology. "The performance and capacity of this new portable drive is beyond that of any other external offering to date. We believe that the Backup Plus FAST drive will be widely adopted by creative professionals as the go-to back up device for the field."
The metal top-case of Seagate Backup Plus FAST drive is a quality sturdy design and is resistant to scratches and fingerprints. It needs no external power supply and is compact enough to fit easily in a camera bag or backpack while delivering the same or higher capacity of today's desktop drives. The drive is configured as RAID 0, which stripes the data across both drives increasing the volume capacity and transfer speed.
"Speed and capacity are of the utmost importance in my work which calls for the latest in digital photography and video technologies. When dealing with the large files these devices produce, whether it is a still photo, time-lapse video or 4k video; having high-capacity reliable and fast storage can make the difference between a project succeeding or failing" says Jim Sugar, veteran National Geographic photographer. "Ingesting, editing, managing, and backing up these files, which are often gigabytes in size, represent the crucial steps that make up my digital workflow."
"My job depends on how the technology performs, because if the camera, computer and hard drives do not function as expected, either the project will be a failure or the time spent in post-production will be impacted tremendously. Time is valuable to a filmmaker or photographer and anything that can speed up the necessary processes is valuable to me and in the end, the client."
This new offering also includes the same easy to use backup software that has made the Seagate Backup Plus line up so popular. The Seagate Dashboard software provides an easy one-click backup solution, but can also be set as a scheduled backup up as needed. Additionally, the Dashboard software will back up Facebook and Flickr albums to ensure that even video and photos shared through these networks are backed up and easy to find. Use the Save and Share features to download and upload content from these social network sites. Even all the photos you have been tagged in can be backed up from your social networks to the drive.
The latest update to the Dashboard now also includes a mobile backup application to provide protection for one's digital data on mobile devices. Install the free Seagate Mobile Backup app on an iOS or Android mobile device to back up all of the pictures and videos from that device to a drive or a cloud service. Back up from mobile devices can also be sent directly to the drive via a WiFi connection while within your network, or utilize cloud services such as Dropbox or Google Drive while on the road.
I want one,
Me too!
I noted this quote: ‘My job depends on how the technology performs’
How quaint. Now it depends on politics at many so-called technology companies.
Seagate Ships 6 TB Hard Drive doing 7200 RPM
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I'm using Buffalo now (and for the last few years) with no trouble - so haven't had to test their support process.
Translation: Your risk of total data loss has just doubled. Which may be acceptable for short-term backup purposes, but hardly for archival use. Not for me, then.
My story: I purchased a 3 Terabyte Seagate hard drive to back up a computer. I read the entire box very carefully prior to purchase as I wanted to make sure it was compatible with my software (XT) and to make sure that it would do exactly what I wanted, which was to back up my entire hard drive.
The advertising said it would back up all the files on your hard drive for you entire computer. Well IT DID NOT and the backup software it shipped with did not do as advertised.
What they should have said is that the backup software would back up all personal files that are “not shared.” So if you have a home “peer to peer” network, it will not backup any of those shared directories, partitions. When I called Seagate and asked how I could make it work as advertised on the box with the software they included, they told me it could not. I ended up buying an expensive other piece of backup software and using the 3 Terabyte Backup Agent as an external hard drive for which the backup program stores its data.
Never again, will I believe their advertising.
See #4 also.
The price of TB drives began at around $400 — the first one I ever saw — and not that many years ago. The warehouse club was carrying 4 tb Seagate backup drive systems for I think $139 not long ago, crazy cheap.
I recently got a synology 213j with a pair of the same drives. It’s very useful and safe with redundant drives on an inexpensive UPS. It shuts down after 5 minutes on backup power.
Very cool.
Wiki article on RAID HERE.
Tiger Direct RAID storage HERE
Also:
Excerpt from the pc Mag article...see link above:
The real draw is the USM adapter, which securely fastens to the rear of the drive in the same manner as the GoFlex line.
Drive is preformatted in NTFS ...byt can be reformatted....but the software suplied for the Laptop is /Windows,
Seagate Backup Plus for Mac 4TB USB 3.0 Storage Model STDU4000100
$179.99
Looking for non Mac.
See #15....unbeliveable.
Back Up For Your Mobile Devices
Use the Seagate Mobile Backup App to easily back up photos and videos onthego directly from your mobile devices to Backup Plus desktop drive for Mac. Time Machine®-Ready
The Backup Plus desktop drive for Mac® is fully compatible with Time Machine, so once you set it up, you are backed up.
Also Works with Windows®
Easy to transfer files between your Windows and Mac computers—no reformatting required.
There are two physical HDDs in the case. Raid0 splits the data stream to both drives (i.e., one part of a file goes to one drive, another part of the file goes to the other drive) to improve transfer speed.
If one drive fails there will likely be mostly incomplete (useless) files on the other drive. All is lost when one drive fails. Two drives, double the risk of one failing.
The one you link to in post 11 only has one physical drive it looks like.
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