If you just want to use the Backup Plus FAST for transferring files to and from your PC, though, it is a perfectly capable and reasonably fast performer. If you have an iOS device, you’re better off using iCloud for all your data anyway, but having photos backed up to a second location might come in handy one day. IOS backup is extremely limited, though - you can only get your photos off your iPhone or iPad - but this is a limitation of Apple’s software design, rather than Seagate’s. If you follow the instructions properly, the backup process works quite well.
This isn’t a wireless or battery-powered hard drive like the Wireless Plus. There’s one big caveat, though - you have to have the Backup Plus FAST plugged into a PC, connected to your network, and switched on. With a companion app on Android, you can back up your device wirelessly - although we wouldn’t recommend it unless you have appropriately fast Wi-Fi. If you want a constant file-by-file backup, this is also possible, but I didn’t find it especially useful. You can schedule backups, too, so there’s no worrying about a backup interrupting or slowing down your workday. You can choose to back up individual files, folders, or your entire hard drive. It’s not as comprehensively featured or as granular as backup software that you might pay for, but it gets the job done for offloading or creating a second copy of your files. The software is extremely easy to use, as well.
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It’s not, though - and that’s because Seagate bundles the Backup Plus FAST with its Dashboard software suite, which handles both file backups from your PC and your Android or iOS mobile devices.
I get by with 4TB of storage in my home NAS setup - and that’s with plenty of downloaded movies, TV shows and music, and regular backups of a couple of PCs - so having 4TB of space on a portable drive is almost overkill. 4TB is a huge amount of storage, especially if you’re hooking the Backup Plus FAST to a MacBook Air or Ultrabook with a low capacity solid state drive.
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