Testseek.co.uk have collected 129 expert reviews of the Seagate Backup Plus Portable USB3 STBU and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Seagate Backup Plus Portable USB3 STBU.
May 2013
(82%)
129 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(91%)
717 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
820100129
The editors liked
Good Performance
Sleek and Durable metal enclosure
Light
Small
And portable
Good package with 2-year OneDrive cloud service
Prices similar to internal drives
Four colours
Very simple to use
Back up social media
Good value for money
Fast
Light and reasonably compact
The editors didn't like
The drive gets a little slower as it fills with data
“The Seagate Backup Plus Slim Portable Drive is an affordable yet great performing and durable drive with a lot of included bonuses. If you need a drive for backup or portability
Published: 2017-09-28, Author: Thomas , review by: gadgetguy.com.au
Enormous capacity, high read and write speeds
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Decades ago I re-wrote a small program in assembler because I resented the couple of seconds the computer took to read from a floppy disk the 11 kilobytes of the version compiled from Pascal. That disc had a 160KB capacity. How things have changed!If you...
How can you not like a drive the fits in your pocket (at least your larger pockets) and holds 5TB of data? I can't, and I'm betting you can't either, though you could get away a bit cheaper with WD's 4TB My Passport. Note also that Seagate's $220 Backup P...
"The Seagate Backup Plus is a good, affordable and fast external drive."...
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(80%)
Published: 2016-01-22, Author: Joel , review by: au.pcmag.com
Large storage capacity, NTFS driver for Mac included, Seagate Lyve app creates network-attached storage (NAS)-like capability, Includes 200GB of OneDrive cloud storage for 2 years
Case lacks rubber feet
The Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive gives you 4 terabytes of speedy storage you can take with you, as well as a personal cloud, all for a very reasonable price...
Abstract: As with its 500GB counterpart reviewed in the affordable portable section, there's a tremendous amount to like about the new line of Seagate Backup Plus drives. We're talking gr...
Abstract: Whatever Seagate is doing to make its drive go fast, it's working. Like its 1TB compatriot in the super-sized portables group, the Backup Plus 500GB left nearly every other drive ...
Quick performance, Easy to use, Changeable interface
The Dashboard software interface needs some work, Facebook and Flickr uploads failed, Flickr backups restricted to the 'large' photo size
The Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive comes with software that can backup your Facebook and Flickr photos in addition to your computer's data. However, the implementation of that feature could be better and some other aspects of the software need to be w...
