Backup Plus Desktop Drive

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Your digital life safe and sound

Backup Plus from Seagate is the simple, one-click way to protect and share your entire digital life — without getting in the way of the rest of your life.

  • Easy, flexible, built-in backup options
  • Save photos automatically from your social networks
  • Share photos and videos to social networks with a click
  • Up to 4TB capacity for a lifetime of memories
  • Increase transfer speeds by upgrading to Thunderbolt™ technology or FireWire 800
  • Windows 8 Compatible

    Windows 8 32- and 64-Bit

     
  • Windows 7 Compatible

    Windows 7 32- and 64-Bit

     
  • Windows Vista Icon

    Windows Vista 32- and 64-Bit

     

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What is Backup Plus?

Backup Plus is the family of external drives from Seagate that lets you do more with photos and movies, protect everything in your digital life, and manage it all from a single, intuitive dashboard.

  • Choose from two easy backup options for what is important to you
  • Share multiple media files on networks such as Facebook and Flickr
  • Save the photos that you have shared online automatically
  • Upgrade your connection instantly with swappable upgrade adapters
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Up to 4TB capacity

Space for everything you have. No more having to pick and choose what you protect.

Easy backup options

Easy backup options

Choose scheduled or continuous backups right from the dashboard — and then forget them.

Works with PC or Mac

Works with PCs and Macs

Use the drive interchangeably on your PC or Mac computer without reformatting.

USB 3.0 plug and play

USB 3.0 plug and play

It is easy to upgrade to Thunderbolt™ technology or FireWire® 800 with add-on adapters (sold separately). USB 3.0 is also backward compatible with USB 2.0.

Thunderbolt and the Thunderbolt logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the USA and/or other countries.

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Features

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Protect…
Photos, videos and more. Automatically.

Life is full of amazing moments that you want to remember forever. The Backup Plus desktop drive lets you set up easy automatic backups of all your data, so you know that even if “life happens” to your computer, your memories are always protected.

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Save…
Your social life with a click.

Think of how many photos you have shared on Facebook or Flickr. With Backup Plus, it is easy to download them right to your Backup Plus drive, so even more of your life is safe and sound.

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Share…
Your favourite moments instantly.

With Backup Plus, your memories are not “trapped” in your drive. Just a click lets you share photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr or YouTube right from your Backup Plus drive.

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Upgrade…
Your connectivity instantly.

Bought a new computer with Thunderbolt™ technology or FireWire 800? Not a problem. Changing your data connectivity is as easy as plugging in a new adapter.* So when you upgrade, your Backup Plus can be upgraded right along with you.

*Additional adapters sold separately.

System Requirements
  • Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system or Mac OS X 10.6 or higher
  • SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port (required for USB 3.0 transfer speeds or backward compatible with USB 2.0 ports at USB 2.0 transfer speeds)

Specifications

 
Capacity 4TB 3TB 2TB 1TB
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Interface Options USB 3.0 USB 3.0 USB 3.0 USB 3.0
Physical        
Height (in/mm) 1.73/44.0 1.73/44.0 1.73/44.0 1.73/44.0
Width (in/mm) 4.38/124.0 4.38/124.0 4.38/124.0 4.38/124.0
Length (in/mm) 6.22/158.0 6.22/158.0 6.22/158.0 6.22/158.0
Weight (lb/g) 1.73/1080 1.73/1080 1.73/1080 1.73/1080
Model Number Interface Package Capacity Automatic Backup Software Warranty
STCA4000300 USB 3.0 Drive Only 4TB PC & Mac 3 years
STCA3000300 USB 3.0 Drive Only 3TB PC & Mac 3 years
STCA2000300 USB 3.0 Drive Only 2TB PC & Mac 3 years
STCA1000300 USB 3.0 Drive Only 1TB PC & Mac 3 years