The Seagate Plus Desktop Drive 5TB clocked in at a not terribly impressive 108MB/s in the write column and 185MB/s in the read. Using our Consumer Testing Platform, we measured 2MB sequential speeds. The back of the device has a micro USB 3.0 port and a power supply port on the lower right-hand side, like all 3.5' desktop drives, the drive draws too much power to be bus-powered through the USB port. The sides of the drive have plenty of ventilation in a tessellating triangle pattern. The front of the device has Seagate branding in the bottom lower right side.

It has a flat back plastic case on the top and sides with a blue plastic bottom. The Seagate Plus Desktop Drive 5TB is slightly larger than a 3.5” HDD on its own. OS suppurted: Windows 7, 8, Vista, XP Mac OS 10.4.6 or later.Seagate Plus Desktop Drive 5TB specifications: Seagate also offers the drive in 2TB, 3TB and 4TB capacities. The Seagate Plus Desktop Drive 5TB comes with a 2-year limited warranty and has a street price of $220.

And with the Share feature, users can upload multiple files at once to social networks from their Desktop Drive. The Seagate Mobile Backup app allows iOS or Android users to backup up all photos and videos from their mobile device to the drive. Multiple copies of data can be stored, in cases like disaster or accidental rewrites. Seagate ships the drive with backup software that handles all of the heavy lifting. On the Seagate Dashboard, using the Protect function users can easily schedule automatic backups. Users can install the preloaded NTFS driver for Mac and then use the drive back and forth between Windows and Mac without reformatting. The Backup Plus 5TB is USB 3.0 connected and supports Windows 7,8, Vista, and XP as well as Mac OS 10.4.6 and later.

Storing all one’s data from a desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, and social media can quickly added up to large amounts of storage space. With more devices creating content, consumers find that they need more and more room to backup or store their data. The Seagate Backup Plus Desktop Drive 5TB is an external hard drive with plenty of capacity.

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