Which external drive to save individual documents and pictures?

[jimigreyghost]

I have a seagate external that automattically saves C drive image or tries to connect me to social media every time I use it. No matter what I do I get a repeat of the same. (I now have nearly 20 copies of the same drive! What a waste of time and money! I'll never buy another seagate!) All I want to do is back up INDIVIDUAL documents and photographs valuable to me, not a repeated drive image or social media experience. Google search has not addressed my need of which external drives and software would allow me to back up an individual file, document or photograph at MY leisure. My IObit IOmega allows me to save what I want in whatever format I desire but is getting old and noisy. Is there an external drive and software that would allow me to save individual files, documents and photographs at my bidding and leisure without an automatic save of unwanted drives or files?

 

[Mattios]

Any drive will let you do that (well, most) I recommend the WD Elements external hard drive. It has worked really well for me, and doesn't force any kind of social media or disk imaging option on to me. I suggest that if/when you get it, re-format the drive as NTFS - this will remove the small amount of software that they put on that you won't need. Then you're good to go!

 

[hang-the-9]

The issue is not with the Seagate drive but how you set it up. Why not use the built-in Windows backup utility? There are also a LOT of backup utilities out there, you don't need to actually get a different external drive for this, the drive and software are not linked together. If you want to stop the automatic Seagate utility from making backups, ask someone you know that knows how to work with computers to look at it and configure the program.

 

[jimigreyghost]

Thank you. I think this is what I was looking for.

 

[jimigreyghost]

Any drive will let you do that (well, most) I recommend the WD Elements external hard drive. It has worked really well for me, and doesn't force any kind of social media or disk imaging option on to me. I suggest that if/when you get it, re-format the drive as NTFS - this will remove the small amount of software that they put on that you won't need. Then you're good to go!

The issue is not with the Seagate drive but how you set it up. Why not use the built-in Windows backup utility? There are also a LOT of backup utilities out there, you don't need to actually get a different external drive for this, the drive and software are not linked together. If you want to stop the automatic Seagate utility from making backups, ask someone you know that knows how to work with computers to look at itand configure the program.

Maybe it is "not the Seagate," but I asked three people who were pretty savvy in all my prvious questions and they kept getting the same result: no matter WHAT was done, the Seagate would revert back to the image auto save! We were nearly to the point of trying to reformat it when I querried here.