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Pros & Cons
Pros
It is a bit too heavy to be conveniently portable, but its sturdiness is a plus. Good storage capacity and good storage capacity.
Tb seagate backup plus hub can back up a snapshot of my entire computer (1tb) in 2 hours. Bought this last year to upgrade my media server from dual 4tb book drives to a single 8tb drive for plex. I wish they would make a 2 drive raid version.
Cons
Usb connections are poorly constructed and there is frequent disconnection and reconnection between the hdd and my pc. No feature to back up from external drives, supports only the internal drive. Your only hope is to bust the hd out and put it in a f... Read More
Highlights
Quality
The hib works gantasticly as a stand usb and even allows chaining multiple drives.
I am very happy with this purchase.
I was however disappointed in the software provided with the drive for doing backups of a computer.
My nas device with four 2tb drives won't work with the latest windows 10 and windows 11 - something about insecure protocols.
Competitiveness
And with a buoy-in usb3 hub, it made my decision much easier.
I am using this as a usb3 hub and drive 2 of a two drive backup solution for my nas.
My seagate 5tb portable drive powers on, but i can't find any mention of it when i access the drive.
Split 8tb hub into a 5 and a 3 tb partitions.
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- This product had a total of 309 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 20 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I was however disappointed in the software provided with the drive for doing backups of a computer
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
After 78 attempts to do saves of all my data it never once completed properly
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It would stop progressing at various times remaining like at 37 minutes to go 2 minutes to go and even lt1 minute to go
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I let them continue running overnight but they never completed
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
A google search confirmed thats a common problem that has been complained about for several years
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I just cant recommend its supplied software which i needed to make complete image saves
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Plus its diagnostic software has a bug so its text is cut off on an ultra high resolution display which makes it nearly illegible and very difficult to read
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The only down turn it’s really noisy when running
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