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Seagate Backup Plus Portable USB 3.0 STBU-series
9.3 out of 10

Seagate Backup Plus Portable USB 3.0 STBU-series

Great Deal: $69.99

Reviews and Problems with Seagate Backup Plus Portable USB 3.0 STBU-series

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Overall 4
4.0

not for OS X

Marcel Achard, Amazon
19 December 2012
  • Summary: Not a bad drive but the option to buy another firewire 800 connector at about the same price as the usb 3. drive itself is ridiculous.
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Overall 4
4.0
Value for money 8
8.0
Ease of use 4
4.0
Performance 2
2.0
Ease of setup 2
2.0

Locked Up Tight - Read Only Out Of The Box

FrustratedBySeagate, Bestbuy
11 December 2012
  • Summary: The drive was a beautiful blue - that, the capacity, and the price were what caught my eye. However, getting it home, I discovered 2 things: (1) the drive was in read...
  • Pros: Value For Price
  • Cons: Forced to use Seagate Dashboard
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Overall 4
4.0

50 / 50

Heath1969, Bestbuy
11 December 2012
  • Summary: After a fatal crash of an iOmega external I bought 2 of these drives to set up a RAID(1) so I would never lose my data again.
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Overall 4
4.0
Value for money 6
6.0
Ease of use 2
2.0
Performance 6
6.0
Ease of setup 2
2.0

Hard to install and not intuitively designed.

Anonymous, Bestbuy
11 December 2012
  • Summary: Good luck installing this the first time; but, once i's done, you'll have you r files backed up. Seek help!
  • Pros: It does what it says it will do, backup your files.
  • Cons: Pain in the NECK to initially install on a Mac.
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Overall 4
4.0
Value for money 6
6.0
Ease of use 6
6.0
Performance 2
2.0
Ease of setup 6
6.0

Is not really cross-platform compatible

Mistylight, Bestbuy
11 December 2012
  • Summary: This drive is claimed to be compatible with PCs and Macs out of the box. That's why I bought it. As it turned out, the drive worked fine with my PC, but I could not drag...
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Overall 4
4.0

Chirpy, chirpy, chirpidy chirp!

Square Shiny, Amazon
30 October 2012
  • Summary: I purchased this drive to store my music exclusively and use my Mac Mini to transfer the data to our Sony streaming divice via wireless router.
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Overall 4
4.0

Fast and Pretty Drive but USB connector falls out of my computer!

AskingQuestionsfindingAnswers, Amazon
13 September 2012
  • Summary: I have used this product once so far. It is small, very portable and very fast but the USB connector falls out of my computer's USB port at the slightest touch!
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Overall 4
4.0

Mac users beware: this is NOT Mac compatible out of the box

anonymous, Amazon
11 September 2012
  • Summary: I don't know if I received a dud, but I tried this hard drive on two different Macs, and neither of them could read it out of the box.
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Overall 4
4.0

Jury's still out - but so far... not impressed.

FogCityBookGal, Amazon
3 September 2012
  • Summary: The jury is still out on this one for me. I want to like it. It seemed like a really good idea, but it doesn't function as well as I would like.
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Overall 4
4.0

Hardware is Fine; Nearly Useless Software

Conky Joe, Amazon
12 July 2012
  • Summary: As a peripheral, the external hard drive works fine. It does what any one would expect a hard drive to do.
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