Seagate, announced that its Backup Plus family of external storage offerings will now include 200GB of OneDrive cloud storage for customers for a two-year period—an unmatched value for the category. The company also announced a new high-capacity of 4TB for its Backup Plus portable.
Seagate Backup Plus drives come equipped with Seagate Dashboard software for easy plug-and-play PC backup as well as the addition of mobile and social media backup.
“We continue to evolve our backup offerings with new software enhancements and the addition of features that add greater value through marketing partnerships with companies such as Microsoft, the provider of OneDrive cloud storage and Lyve Minds, developer of the photo and video management solution,” said Mark Whitby, senior vice president of Seagate branded products group.
The OneDrive cloud storage provided by Microsoft is an added feature designed to provide accessibility to one’s content on every device. A powerful tool to enhance productivity, OneDrive allows easy access to your most important files from any connected mobile device and keeps documents that are in progress up to date on each of those devices for sharing and collaborating with whomever you choose.
Seagate Backup Plus family of external drives is the world’s first external hard drives to extend backup capabilities to include content from social networks. Backup Plus external hard drives come equipped with Seagate’s Dashboard software for easy backup of your system via scheduled or instantaneous on-demand backup as well as Facebook and Flickr backup. Additionally, a Backup Plus drive used in conjunction with the Seagate Mobile Backup app can be used to easily backup a mobile device wirelessly while away from the home network.
The USB 3.0 bus-powered Seagate Backup Plus portable is available at an estimated street price of $239.99 for the 4TB capacity, which will be available in mid July. The svelte 12mm Seagate Backup Plus Slim, also a USB 3.0 bus-powered drive, is available at 500GB for MSRP of $79.99, 1TB for $99.99 and 2TB at $129.99. The Seagate Backup Plus Desktop drive, which includes an AC power adapter and USB 3.0, is now available in capacities ranging from 2TB for 119.99 to 8TB for $359.99.
