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Seagate Backup Plus 4TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STCA4000100)

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Digital Storage Capacity	4 TB
Compatible Devices	PC or Mac's
Hard Disk Interface	USB 1.1
Brand	Seagate
Specific Uses For Product	Personal
Connectivity Technology	USB, Firewire, Thunderbolt
Hard Disk Size	4 TB
Form Factor	Portable
Cache Size	4 TB
Color	Black

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Keep copies of your precious digital files, in case disaster strikes
Due to a limitation in Windows 7, 4TB drives are incompatible with the Windows Image Backup software. Instead, the files can be moved to the drive directly.
Save feature enables user-generated content to be backed up from your favorite social network
Share feature allows multiple files to be uploaded to social networks at once from your computer
Install the pre-loaded NTFS driver for Mac and use the drive interchangeably between PC and Mac computers without reformatting

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The Seagate Backup Plus desktop external hard drive simplifies backup for consumers who want to protect their entire digital life locally, in the cloud or from social networks. Via the Seagate Dashboard, use the Protect function to set up a one-click plan or customize your scheduled local backup. Keep multiple copies of your files in case disaster strikes. With the Save feature, user-generated content can be backed up from your favorite social networks. Many people now use their smartphones to capture priceless moments. While these devices are handy and readily available, storage is not their strong suit. Capture a memory, post it on a social networking site and let the Seagate Dashboard automatically back up any content posted. Even if the file gets accidentally deleted from the device, another copy can be waiting. The Share feature allows multiple files to be uploaded to social networks at once from your computer. The days of uploading individual files without creating a new album are gone! Simply select files to upload, choose where to post them and even add comments. Managing your social profile has never been easier. Install the pre-loaded NTFS driver for Mac, and use the drive interchangeably between PC and Mac computers without reformatting the drive. For even more flexibility, with the Seagate Backup Plus design, you can upgrade from the included USB 3.0 interface to Thunderbolt technology or FireWire 800 with the available additional adapter. Ships with: Seagate Backup Plus Drive, Seagate Dashboard pre-loaded on drive, NTFS driver for Mac pre-loaded on drive, USB 3.0 interface adapter with capacity gauge, 4-foot USB 3.0 cable, Power adapter, Quick start guide, 2-year limited warranty. System Requirements: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system or Mac OS X 10.6 or higher (reformatting for Mac may be required), SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port (required for USB 3.0 transfer speeds or backwards compatible with USB 2.0 ports at USB 2.0 transfer speeds; compatibility may vary depending upon user's configuration and operating system).

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Back Up Your Digital Life

The Seagate Backup Plus desktop drive delivers easy-to-use, high-capacity, flexible protection for your files. This drive also works seamlessly with your social media accounts so it's simple to back up and share your online photos, movies and more.

Powered Performance

Transfer large files at the speed of life. With up to 30% faster transfer speeds and capacities up to 2x larger than portable drives, the Backup Plus Desktop drive is everything you want.

Create a backup plan with a single click for a set-it-and-forget-it solution
Unique adapter lets you quickly upgrade or change the drive's interface The Seagate Dashboard makes it simple to share your files with online social networks
Backup Plus desktop drive delivers easy-to-use, high-capacity, flexible protection for your files

One-Click Custom Backup Plans

The Backup Plus desktop drive comes pre-loaded with premium backup software included in the easy-to-use Seagate Dashboard. Create a backup plan with a single click using the 'Protect Now' feature for a set-it-and-forget-it solution. Quickly create custom backup plans to protect your files. Easy backup scheduling options include daily, weekly, monthly or specific times.

Save Your Social Life

The Seagate Dashboard makes it simple to share or save files associated with online social networks including Flickr, Facebook and YouTube. Automatically download copies of your photos, movies and more from social networking sites to your drive, and share files by simply clicking on your social network's icon within the Seagate Dashboard. Easily share multiple files with your social networks at the same time.

Powerfully Flexible

The Backup Plus desktop drive features a unique adapter system that lets you quickly and cost-effectively upgrade or change the drive's interface. Take advantage of the newest, fastest connections--now and in the future: Choose from USB 3.0 (included), USB 2.0, Thunderbolt technology and Firewire 800.

What's in the Box?

Seagate Backup Plus desktop drive, preloaded Seagate Dashboard, quick start guide, USB 3.0 adapter with capacity gauge, 5-foot (150 cm) USB 3.0 cable, power supply, warranty.

System Requirements

Compatible operating systems are Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit) and Mac OS X 10.6 or higher (reformatting for Mac may be required).

There's a Seagate Backup Plus Drive that's Perfect for Every Backup Need

Backup Plus Portable Drive

Big Backup. Small Package.
With capacities up to 1.5TB, the Backup Plus portable drive makes it easy to take along plenty of extra storage.

Backup Plus Desktop Drive

Space to spare.
Capacities up to 4TB make the Backup Plus desktop drive the simple solution when your digital life goes big.

Backup Plus for Mac Portable Drive

Ready to roll with your Mac computer.
The Backup Plus for Mac portable drive is compatible with Time Machine backup software straight out of the box.

Backup Plus for Mac Desktop Drive

Massive Mac backup.
Straight-out-of-the-box Time Machine software compatibility meets massive capacities in the Backup Plus for Mac desktop drive.

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Summary

Hard Drive

‎4 TB Desktop

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Brand

‎Seagate

Item model number

‎STCA4000100

Hardware Platform

‎PC;Mac

Item Weight

‎2.38 pounds

Product Dimensions

‎6.22 x 4.88 x 1.73 inches

Item Dimensions LxWxH

‎6.22 x 4.88 x 1.73 inches

Color

‎Black

Flash Memory Size

‎4 TB

Hard Drive Interface

‎USB 1.1

Manufacturer

‎SEAGATE

Language

‎English

ASIN

‎B00829THLE

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

‎Yes

Date First Available

‎June 12, 2012

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2,532 ratings

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Amazon.com Return Policy:You may return any new computer purchased from Amazon.com that is "dead on arrival," arrives in damaged condition, or is still in unopened boxes, for a full refund within 30 days of purchase. Amazon.com reserves the right to test "dead on arrival" returns and impose a customer fee equal to 15 percent of the product sales price if the customer misrepresents the condition of the product. Any returned computer that is damaged through customer misuse, is missing parts, or is in unsellable condition due to customer tampering will result in the customer being charged a higher restocking fee based on the condition of the product. Amazon.com will not accept returns of any desktop or notebook computer more than 30 days after you receive the shipment. New, used, and refurbished products purchased from Marketplace vendors are subject to the returns policy of the individual vendor.

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P. FRANCIS

Inadequate Life Span; Possible Power Design Issues

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2017

Capacity: 3 TBVerified Purchase

Bought this unit in March 2013 and used it to back up my main server at home. Never needed to restore from it, but when I went to initiate my incremental backup in November of 2016 the unit would not respond. No lights on the panel. Ran through the troubleshooting on the Seagate website and it indicated unit failed. I measured the wall power supply unit that came with it and placed it under full load using some test equipment. The unit was delivering DC at the appropriate voltage and plenty of current, but I also noticed that on top of the 12V DC there was about 30 volts of AC (presumably ripple from the wall transformer's switcher). I expect the drive itself has internal rectification and regulation, but that's a heck of a lot of ripple for a disk drive's internal power subsystem to deal with. The power supply is made by Asian Power Supply Devices Inc. and retails on Amazon for $11 and change. Just to be sure it really was the drive that had failed I bought an identical power supply, but no joy. So basically, the drive worked for 3+ years and then failed hard. My guess is an internal linear regulator has cooked up dealing with all that ripple, but since I don't need the data, I'm going to scrap the unit and buy a new drive. I do think a drive like this ought to last for at least 5 years, so kind of disappointing.

6 people found this helpful

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If you care about your data, stay away from these Seagate backup drives!

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2016

Capacity: 3 TBVerified Purchase

The disk performed OK while it worked, but started dying after less than two years of rather light use.

Over the years I've used quite a few backup drives, and this one seems the least reliable of them all. The drive started misbehaving after about 1.5 years of light use. Initially, I attributed that to a bad cable or usb socket. However, when symptoms worsened - the drive became unresponsive, I decided to test with a different setup, only to discover that it was neither the cable nor socket, but the drive itself.

I then found this article with failure statistics by manufacturer. Seagate is by far the worst performer. [...]. Recently I found out there have been so many failures there's a class action against Seagate concerning these drives. Allegedly, they the company knew there was a reliability issue yet continued to sell them. While that claim has yet to be proven in court, I'm never going to buy Seagate again.

If you care about your data, spend a little bit more and go with HGST (I've just placed an order for one).

20 people found this helpful

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J. Richards

Good Value - Buy with Eyes Open

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2013

Capacity: 3 TBVerified Purchase

I have masses of storage in my system and many years of experience with numerous hard drive brands. I have to say that honestly, Seagate is not one of my current favorites - but ironically I have owned many of them.

Consumer hard drives at this price point are not as robust as enterprise drives. You should expect to have problems from time to time, requiring replacing or repairing a drive, or restoring lost data. Believe it. Prepare for it. Not having backups of your important data is foolhardy and a disaster waiting to happen, no matter what brand of drives you use.

As with most people in the home market today, the amount of data and its importance to our daily lives is increasing. You must plan for and prepare to protect this vital asset.

Here are some tips based on my many years of experience, and trust me, I have made all the mistakes that I am warning you about:

- You must have a way to restore or regenerate any computer system that you consider critical to your life. This includes the data, operating system and applications. There are software products available that allow you to make a backup "clone" of your hard drive, and several products, such as Windows Home Server, that will automatically backup all your data and all your computers. Take a look, and find a product in this category that meets your needs and price point.

- You must make periodic backups of everything; all data and computer system drives. The products I just mentioned can be configured to do it automatically, or you can do it manually. The more often, the better.

- You should buy the highest quality hard drives you can afford ("Enterprise" or "NAS" quality drives are the most expensive). They will last longer, have fewer errors and have the longest warranties. This is a general statistical comment. Of course any given item can be an exception.

- You should have as many copies of your important data as practical for you. And store the copies in different places. At least one copy should be offline (not attached to any electronics while stored). Multiple separate copies protects you from accidental erasures. Even mirrored drives will not protect you from this.

- Heat, extreme cold and other adverse conditions such as dust and moisture are prime enemies of all electronics. Even a robust hard drive can fail if it stays too hot, too often, or is subjected to undue vibration and dust.

- Protect computers from power surges using the best surge protectors you can afford. Clean the airflow holes with a vacuum periodically, and if you have the skills and confidence, clean the insides of all computers of dust that impedes airflow.

All that being said, what does this have to do with this product?

I have found that even though Seagate is not my favorite brand, their recent pricing and product packaging have made them attractive. I just try to use them in a way, with my eyes open, that minimizes my risk - this is a good practice, regardless of the brand.

Here is why I like these units:

- The packaging is very clever and very useful. You can mix and match these drives across various connection methods (USB 2.0, USB 3.0, firewire, eSATA) just by switching adapters. Very handy.

- The USB 3.0 units are fast. They seem to deliver the expected much faster than USB 2.0 performance.

- They can be easily reformatted. I always reformat them, using the default allocation size before using.

- Price point: if you catch the frequent lowball Amazon prices, you can get these drives for less than $34 / TB. Enterprise drives can sell for up to $100 / TB. The best strategy for protecting data is having multiple copies, with the copies separated from each other - not on the same computer, not on the same controller, at least one copy offline, and best of all, at least one copy in a different physical location. The low price point allows me to have multiple "Consumer grade" copies for the price of one "enterprise grade" copy. My gut feel says that the probability of two copies, one of which is offline, failing at the same time is very low.

So, how do I use these units? I use them as 2nd / 3rd copy offline backups of my most important data. Their low price point affords me this luxury. And by keeping them offline, I mitigate the risks of overheating these cheap drives or subjecting them to 24x7 usage, which is not appropriate for consumer grade external drives.

I hope this wordy "review" serves as a help to others who are attracted to these low price points, but have reservations about risking their data.

97 people found this helpful

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PB2008

Great drives BUT BEWARE if you use Windows 7

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2013

Capacity: 4 TBVerified Purchase

This is a fine drive but beware of the drives ABOVE 2 TB (i.e. the 3 TB and 4 TB as of this writing) if you use Windows 7. The 3 TB and 4 TB drives use 4K (4096 byte) sectors and they do not emulate 512-byte sectors. Windows 7 only supports 512-byte sectors and 512-E (emulation) drives that have 4K sectors AND emulate 512-byte logical sectors. Microsoft has stated this is their position. (Google "microsoft windows 7 4k sector support" without the quotes to find their position statement.) You can also find statements about this in Seagate's site in the support section.

How does this affect these drives, and all other drives that are higher capacity than 2 TB? You CAN still connect the drive and use Windows Explorer or any similar application to transfer files to and from the drive.

You CANNOT use the high-capacity (more than 2 TB) drives with Windows Backup. This would be important if you want to use Microsoft Backup to create an emergency restore image of your system partition (C:). This image file could be used in case of a hard drive failure or some other major problem along with a Windows repair disk or the Windows 7 installation DVD to restore your entire system partition.

So if you want to just copy files to the high-capacity drives the 3 TB and 4 TB drives are fine. If you want to create emergency backup image files, stay with the 2 TB or smaller drives.

Side note: This issue relates to ALL hard drives with a capacity above 2 TB. They will only work with Windows Backup if they emulate 512-byte logical sectors.

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21 people found this helpful

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Learningful

Great Speed & Capacity -- But Not Flawless on Mac

Reviewed in Canada on August 16, 2013

Capacity: 3 TBVerified Purchase

I bought this drive after quite a bit of research. Of particular interest to me was the Thunderbolt docking station, which not only increased transfer speed on my Mac, it also saved me purchasing a USB hub since I had used up all available USB ports. It also works nicely with Time Machine.

My complaint with this device is that it doesn't work properly with the Mac's "Sleep" function. If I put the Mac to Sleep (or it puts itself to Sleep) when it wakes up there's an error message saying the device wasn't ejected properly, and the device may be damaged, or data corrupted. The only way I've found to prevent this message is to eject the drive via Finder before the device goes to Sleep, and to disconnect the power cord. Then when the system "wakes" I reconnect the power cord and the device connects and operates properly.

This is the second Seagate drive I've connected to my Mac, and they both display the same problem.

3 people found this helpful

DanS_Amazonian4Good

Review of Seagate Hard Drive after 1 year of usage

Reviewed in Canada on July 12, 2015

Capacity: 3 TBVerified Purchase

Good quality Seagate external hard drive. It works as it should and data transfer speed is very fast, as expected on USB 3.0. The only downside is that the hard drive takes some time to start up and can be somewhat noisy when transferring data at high speeds, which is expected from a hard drive of this size and quality. More sound insulation would help improve on this. The included software works great , although it can be slow at times when installing an update; however, it makes backing up everything a breeze with its programmable backup schedules or one-click backup process. Satisfied with purchase.

Ranjan

BAD BAD BAADD Seagate Backup Plus 3 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive (STCA3000101)

Reviewed in Canada on July 4, 2013

Capacity: 3 TBVerified Purchase

UPDATE (2015-04-27): Starting using in March 2013 but recently noted problems. The drive is unreadable, and cannot be formatted or testable by seagate tools! I was using it for backing up monthly some folders on my computers. So it essentially died after 3x12= 36-40 accesses! Drive was never physically moved from its location on my computer desk, so no mechanical handling at all!
NOT RELIABLE AS A BACKUP DRIVE IF IT DIES WITHIN 3 YEARS and ~40 accesses!!

My WD (smaller) drive is still running sweet after nearly 10 years of usage!

2 people found this helpful

dont have vista

Reviewed in Canada on January 31, 2013

Capacity: 3 TBVerified Purchase

Bought this on sale (half off) as i needed more storage as 1TB wasnt enough. It has some cool software....if you can get it to work. I'm not sure if my computer is just old, Vista is a pain or what exactly, but I couldn't instal the software that comes with it. If someone figures it out, please let me know. EDIT: Windows 8 works extremely well with it. Love the added features

pros: tonnes of storage, USB 3.0 is fast is you have the port, quiet, sleek,
cons: installation of the software can be irritating. EDIT: better with new computers (windows 7 and above)

C.L. Seamus

Great, but...

Reviewed in Canada on January 29, 2013

Capacity: 3 TBVerified Purchase

I don't care for the Seagate backup program that comes with it. During the backup process, it creates too many duplicate copies of the same files, thus clogging drive space that should be mine to use for storage OTHER than backup. I replaced the Seagate backup program with the old Memeo Instant Backup program from my GoFlex 1TB drive and all is well again. Memeo only backs up what has been altered since the last backup. One other small complaint: I wish it ran solely on USB instead of requiring an AC plug as well as the USB. All in all, however, I am pleased with it.

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