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Will my Seagate drive work with macOS 13 (Ventura)?



Seagate has evaluated current product lines to determine which ones will be supported in macOS 13 (Ventura). Older drives that are not listed here may work, but have not been tested.  

Notes:

This is a general compatibility article and not a troubleshooting article. If the drive is not being detected by the computer, click here to see this article.

If you are installing Seagate software for the first time, there is a security feature that was introduced in macOS 10.13 and has continued into the latest version of macOS  which is covered in this article here.


Current products
 

Product Hardware
Backup Plus Family Yes
One Touch HDD Family Yes
Ultra Touch HDD Yes
One Touch SSD Yes
FireCuda Gaming Hub Yes
FireCuda Gaming HDD Yes
Fast SSD Yes
Ultra Touch SSD Yes
BarraCuda Fast SSD Yes
Seagate Duet Yes
Seagate Seven Yes
Seagate Expansion Yes 
Seagate Expansion SSD Yes
Seagate Desktop Drive Yes
Seagate Portable Drive Yes
Seagate Internal Laptop and
Desktop SATA hard drives
Yes 


Legacy Products

Older drives that are not listed here may work, but have not been tested.

 

Product Hardware
Innov8 No
GoFlex Family No
FreeAgent Family No
Seagate Personal Cloud No
Seagate Central No
GoFlex Home No
Maxtor OneTouch No
Wireless Plus No
Wireless  No
Seagate NAS
Seagate NAS Pro
Business Storage 4-Bay Rackmount NAS
Business Storage 8-Bay Rackmount NAS
No

Software:

The following table lists which Seagate software applications are compatible with macOS 13 (Ventura). If software isn’t listed below, then it is not supported on macOS 13 (Ventura). However, using the drive as a drag and drop destination or with Time Machine can be an alternative.

Software Version Requirements
Toolkit 2.1.x

Yes, with version 2.1.x or later 

Apple silicon Macs need to change security settings for Seagate Secure - How to change security settings


Paragon NTFS driver
15.10.x

Yes, with version 15.10.x or later

Apple silicon Macs need to change security settings - How to change security settings


Seagate Dashboard
4.9.2

No, the software was not updated. Last supported operating system was macOS 10.13.


Seagate Media Sync
1.9.5

No, the software was not updated. Last supported operating system was macOS 10.12.

Network Assistant
1.2.1

No, the software was not updated. Last supported operating system was macOS 10.12.

Seagate Duet
1.4.x
No, the software was note updated. Last supported operating system was macOS 11 (Big Sur)
Sdrive 3.2.29

No, the software was not updated. Last supported operating system was macOS 10.13. 

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