Seagate Backup Plus Fast, 4TB Portable Drive With Two HDDs in RAID-0

Seagate Technology plc introduced Backup Plus FAST portable drive, the first portable 4TB storage device, providing twice the capacity and speed of existing external portable drives.

This Backup Plus FAST drive features an USB 3.0 interface to deliver transfer speeds up to 220MB/s, making it a companion for a field photographer or filmmaker looking to quickly move large files to backup.

Fast, Compact, High-Capacity Storage Device
“With Backup Plus FAST, Seagate has taken a very mature product category and has delivered innovative enhancements to address the real world challenges of our customers,” said Scott Horn, VP of global marketing, Seagate. “The performance and capacity of this new portable drive is beyond that of any other external offering to date. We believe that the Backup Plus FAST drive will be widely adopted by creative professionals as the go-to backup device for the field.”

The metal top-case of Backup Plus FAST drive is a quality sturdy design and is resistant to scratches and fingerprints. It needs no external power supply and is compact enough to fit easily in a camera bag or backpack while delivering the same or higher capacity of today’s desktop drives. The drive is configured as RAID-0, which stripes the data across both drives increasing the volume capacity and transfer speed.

“Speed and capacity are of the utmost importance in my work which calls for the latest in digital photography and video technologies. When dealing with the large files these devices produce, whether it is a still photo, time-lapse video or 4k video; having high-capacity reliable and fast storage can make the difference between a project succeeding or failing,” says Jim Sugar, veteran National Geographic photographer. “Ingesting, editing, managing, and backing up these files, which are often gigabytes in size, represent the crucial steps that make up my digital workflow.“

“My job depends on how the technology performs, because if the camera, computer and HDDs do not function as expected, either the project will be a failure or the time spent in post-production will be impacted tremendously. Time is valuable to a filmmaker or photographer and anything that can speed up the necessary processes is valuable to me and in the end, the client.”

This new offering also includes the backup software that has made the Backup Plus line up popular. The Seagate Dashboard software provides an one-click backup solution, but can also be set as a scheduled backup up as needed. Additionally, the software will backup Facebook and Flickr albums to ensure that even video and photos shared through these networks are backed up and easy to find. Use the Save and Share features to download and upload content from these social network sites. All the photos you have been tagged in can be backed up from social networks to the drive.

The latest update to the Dashboard now also includes a mobile backup application to provide protection for one’s digital data on mobile devices. Install the free Seagate Mobile Backup app on an iOS or Android mobile device to backup all of the pictures and videos from that device to a drive or a cloud service. backup from mobile devices can also be sent directly to the drive via a WiFi connection while within your network, or utilize cloud services such as Dropbox or Google Drive while on the road.

The 4TB Backup Plus FAST portable drive is available for an MSRP of $299.99 (€269).