The Seagate Backup Plus Desktop is an excellent alternative to its little brother, the Backup Plus portable drive. The new storage device boasts a massive amount of storage space up to 5TB and speedy performance.
Other than that, it shares the same Seagate Dashboard backup application as other recent external hard drives from Seagate, as well as a piece of driver software that makes it work with Mac and Windows right out of the box, without reformatting.
Very straight forward design, backup plus desktop comes with a typical look for a desktop external storage device that houses a single internal hard drive. It’s like a brick slightly larger than standard 3.5-inch internal hard drive.It has USB 3.0.
Out of the box, the Backup Plus Desktop is pre-formatted in NTFS for windows.It, however, includes the NTFS driver software for Mac.
Pros
Capacious
Fast
Flexible
Affordable
Backup software present
Cons
The seagate dashboard, backup software doesn’t allow for keeping multiple version of data, nor does work with non-Seagate drives
Only two years of warranty.
Specification
DEVICE TYPE= 3.5-inch external USB hard drive
CONNECTOR OPTION=USB 3.0, USB 2.0
WEIGHT= 2.38 pounds
CAPACITY=5TB
WARRANTY= 2-years
Verdict: The Seagate desk Backup Plus HDD 5TB is fast and massive, the Seagate Backup Plus Desktop is an excellent backup driver for any USB 3.0-enabled computer or server.