The 4TB Backup Plus Portable was launched with a MSRP of $240, but the street price for the STDR4000100 seems to be closer to $200. Seagate also provides Paragon drivers for Windows and Mac OS - allowing the former to read and write HFS+ drives and the latter to read and write NTFS drives.Ĭoming to the business end of the review, we need to discuss the pricing. The download link is again provided on the page launched by the setup program in the drive. Lyve is yet another standalone application that can be used to back up photos and videos to the drive as well as the cloud. In terms of other features, the free 200GB on OneDrive is available only after the product is registered (launching the registration through the setup program in the drive automatically populates the necessary serial number field). The Dashboard also allows upload and download of photos / videos associated with a Facebook or Flickr account. The general interface and available options in the Seagate Dashboard can be seen in the video below. The app allows configuration of the backup sources, restoration of backups, connection to cloud services such as Dropbox / Google Drive / Nero Drive and associating the drive with those services (if applicable). In order to take advantage of these features, the Seagate Dashboard app needs to be installed first. In the introductory section, we had mentioned about some value-adding features of the Backup Plus Portable drive. Miscellaneous Aspects and Concluding Remarks
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