Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Slim 2TB Review

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Seagate brings a thin and stylish portable backup hard disk drive to market, but don't let it’s size fool you. This model packs 2TB of data capacity to keep your data safe.

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[daglesj]

Nice looking...shame it has a Seagate HDD in it though...

 

[thundervore]

Nice looking...shame it has a Seagate HDD in it though...

My thoughts exactly.

No matter what Seagate does I will never forget the 8TB I lost I one swoop.

 

[3ogdy]

DaglesJ and Thudervore have just read my thoughts. A Seagate HDD? No thanks, I still remember how they asked me for over $1000 in order to recover data from a 7200.14 2TB Barracuda that literally did nothing but sit in a case - all less than a year into warranty (they also asked me for the serial in order to invalidate the warranty with me on the damn phone - I can't believe it to this day I've been through this nightmare with Shitgate!). It wasn't my first dead Seagate either. Have multiple other drives lying around here. I'm done with this company and it's problematic producs they don't stand behind. Good design, too bad it's Seagate hardware.

Nope, not touching that POS.

REMEMBER: If you frequently fix computers and make I.T. decisions for people you hate, buy them Seagate hardware.
Screw their pricing. Their plan is to sell super cheap hardware, then make tons of money off recovery services that cost an arm & a leg.

 

[takeshi7]

DaglesJ and Thudervore have just read my thoughts. A Seagate HDD? No thanks, I still remember how they asked me for over $1000 in order to recover data from a 7200.14 2TB Barracuda that literally did nothing but sit in a case - all less than a year into warranty (they also asked me for the serial in order to invalidate the warranty with me on the damn phone - I can't believe it to this day I've been through this nightmare with Shitgate!). It wasn't my first dead Seagate either. Have multiple other drives lying around here. I'm done with this company and it's problematic producs they don't stand behind. Good design, too bad it's Seagate hardware.

Nope, not touching that POS.

REMEMBER: If you frequently fix computers and make I.T. decisions for people you hate, buy them Seagate hardware.
Screw their pricing. Their plan is to sell super cheap hardware, then make tons of money off recovery services that cost an arm & a leg.

Hard drives fail. It's just a fact of life. You should have had a backup. Then you never would have needed expensive recovery services. There are 3rd party recovery services as well.

 

[dstarr3]

Hard drives fail. It's just a fact of life. You should have had a backup. Then you never would have needed expensive recovery services. There are 3rd party recovery services as well.

Hard drives do fail. And most of those are Seagates. The last time I used Seagates, I bought a pair of 320GB drives. One for use, one for backup. The main one failed and was replaced. While I was restoring the backup, the backup hard drive failed and I lost most of the data on it. Been a loyal WD customer since. Have I had WD drives fail? Yes. Has the frequency of failed drives dropped substantially with WD? Also yes.

 

[ohim]

Nice looking...shame it has a Seagate HDD in it though...

My thoughts exactly.

No matter what Seagate does I will never forget the 8TB I lost I one swoop.

In digital era if you don`t have backup you don`t have the info, if you put all your data in one drive then it`s your fault not the drive manufacturer. I have only Seagate since my 486 and only 1 drive failed on me till now, indeed they had some bad series but it happens.

 

[prince_13]

maybe give a chance on seagate

 

[prince_13]

i just wonder which is better external HDD ? toshiba or seagate ? which one is good ?

 

[3ogdy]

i just wonder which is better external HDD ? toshiba or seagate ? which one is good ?

I'd recommend HGST because of reliability. Toshibas are cheaper and I have some of their drives too. Haven't had a problem with them, honestly.

 

[3ogdy]

DaglesJ and Thudervore have just read my thoughts. A Seagate HDD? No thanks, I still remember how they asked me for over $1000 in order to recover data from a 7200.14 2TB Barracuda that literally did nothing but sit in a case - all less than a year into warranty (they also asked me for the serial in order to invalidate the warranty with me on the damn phone - I can't believe it to this day I've been through this nightmare with Shitgate!). It wasn't my first dead Seagate either. Have multiple other drives lying around here. I'm done with this company and it's problematic producs they don't stand behind. Good design, too bad it's Seagate hardware.

Nope, not touching that POS.

REMEMBER: If you frequently fix computers and make I.T. decisions for people you hate, buy them Seagate hardware.
Screw their pricing. Their plan is to sell super cheap hardware, then make tons of money off recovery services that cost an arm & a leg.

Hard drives fail. It's just a fact of life. You should have had a backup. Then you never would have needed expensive recovery services. There are 3rd party recovery services as well.

Oh, look! Here's someone who says I should buy 2x4TB HDDs and use only half of that because the other one is just to make copies of my files, all while SPENDING TWICE AS MUCH ON THE SAME SHIT. That's thanks to one's reasonable expectations of a product's usability & lifetime.
Why? Well, because a dog gamn company can't get its excrement together, make reliable hardware and then stand behind its products (looking at you, SEAGATE)

 

[krtshv]

DaglesJ and Thudervore have just read my thoughts. A Seagate HDD? No thanks, I still remember how they asked me for over $1000 in order to recover data from a 7200.14 2TB Barracuda that literally did nothing but sit in a case - all less than a year into warranty (they also asked me for the serial in order to invalidate the warranty with me on the damn phone - I can't believe it to this day I've been through this nightmare with Shitgate!). It wasn't my first dead Seagate either. Have multiple other drives lying around here. I'm done with this company and it's problematic producs they don't stand behind. Good design, too bad it's Seagate hardware.

Nope, not touching that POS.

REMEMBER: If you frequently fix computers and make I.T. decisions for people you hate, buy them Seagate hardware.
Screw their pricing. Their plan is to sell super cheap hardware, then make tons of money off recovery services that cost an arm & a leg.

Hard drives fail. It's just a fact of life. You should have had a backup. Then you never would have needed expensive recovery services. There are 3rd party recovery services as well.

Oh, look! Here's someone who says I should buy 2x4TB HDDs and use only half of that because the other one is just to make copies of my files, all while SPENDING TWICE AS MUCH ON THE SAME SHIT. That's thanks to one's reasonable expectations of a product's usability & lifetime.
Why? Well, because a dog gamn company can't get its excrement together, make reliable hardware and then stand behind its products (looking at you, SEAGATE)

You mean like any sensible person who knows half a thing about back up and redundancy?
If your data is important you buy 2x the drives, have copies in all drives (redundancy), have an online cloud back up and also, preferably, off-site hardware backup with all said copies.

 

[dstarr3]

I agree, if you care even slightly about your data, you should buy double the hard drives and have a backup, regardless of manufacturer. But based on my experience, WD and Seagate have two very different failure patterns.

WD drives, if they're going to fail, they tend to within the first couple weeks of use. Failure is rare, but when it does happen, it's usually shortly after installation with WD. If you make it a month with the drive, it's very probably going to last at least the length of its warranty, and probably well beyond. I always buy my drives in pairs, and I always have backups, but with WD, once that first month passes, I've never actually needed the backups, knock on wood.

With Seagate, I've never found any drives to be predictable like that. Failure rate is very high, and any drive can fail at any time. And let me tell you, when a hard drive fails an then your backup fails when you try to restore, you lose any brand loyalty in an instant.

 

[prince_13]

i prefer to use toshiba than wd and seagate !. think of it spending your money on a external HDD with problems ? no thanks . i prefer to use the cheaper one rather than expensive external HDD with issues at least on cheaper one once it broke u can buy another coz its cheap . be sure u back up your data first somewhere else before it broke .

 

[andreio]

Guys don't buy this I already replaced 2 and the third one just started clicking too. They last about 1 day, then they don't get recognized by the os anymore and start to click and buzz.
Please don't buy.

 

[prince_13]

Guys don't buy this I already replaced 2 and the third one just started clicking too. They last about 1 day, then they don't get recognized by the os anymore and start to click and buzz.
Please don't buy.

bro im planning to buy external hdd this holiday ? which drive is good ? im planning to buy a toshiba . do u have an experience in there drive ?

 

[thundervore]

I understand the whole discussion of backups, I now have 2 separate backups of all my data. At that time of my Seagate failure my setup was four 2TB Samsung HD204UI and four 2TB Seagate drives non RAID and my backup was eight 2TB Toshiba drives in RAID0 (yes im aware of the RAID0 danger).

Now, here is the problem.
When I have four 2TB Samsung HD204UI HDDs that were manufactured years before Seagate brought them out that are still running strong years after the four Seagate 2TB drives that failed in 1 shot, 1 month after the 1 year warranty, that's a problem.

They didn't throw any SMART errors, no CRC, no bad sectors, nothing. They just kept spinning up, then spinning down one day. If I didn't have the RAID0 backup to restore the data from I would have been screwed. I since then replaced those drives with Toshiba drives and never looked back.

I now have a different backup system where is use WHS with duplication of the important data with a mixture of the same four Samsung HD204UI that I've had for years and four 2TB Toshiba drives from the RAID0 and the WHS backs up to a RAID5 containing eight 3TB Toshiba drives. Ive had 2 failures with 2 of the 2TB Toshiba drives BUT they had 3 year warranties not 1 year like the Seagates and Toshiba reimbursed me way more than what I paid for the drives.

A Seagate drive will NEVER ever again come into my environment, even if they give it to me for free.

 

[kittle]

I never unerstood why people refuse to buy a certain brand after they get burned once.

I have both seagate and WD drives that are 10+ years old and still work fine (but slow by todays standards).

The only drive I had actually fail on me where I lost data was from a company that no longer exists (Micropolis).

backup your data and WHEN something fails you wont be SOL