Seagate 5TB Backup Plus USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (Light Blue)
$90.99
In stock
Description
Designed for growing your digital library, the light blue 5TB Backup Plus USB 3.0 External Hard Drive from Seagate is formatted as exFAT and compatible with Windows and Mac right out of the box. It connects to systems running Windows 7 and higher or macOS 10.11 and higher using its micro-USB port and an included 18" micro-USB to USB Type-A cable that supports USB 3.0, which is also known as USB 3.1 Gen 1, as well as USB 2.0. It is bus powered so no additional power supplies are required and also features plug-and-play functionality, meaning that no additional drives are required for use.
Also included with Backup Plus is downloadable Toolkit Backup Software, which lets you backup on demand, schedule automatic backups as you desire, and mirror folders for file management. Take advantage of a 1-year subscription to Mylio Create to organize your photos and protect, edit, share, and sync them across multiple devices and use a 2-month subscription to Adobe’s Creative Cloud Photography Plan to edit and create using Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.78 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 5.9 × 4.15 × 1.75 in |
| Storage Capacity | 5 TB |
| Connection Interface | 1 x USB 3.2 / USB 3.1 Gen 1 (USB Micro-B) |
| Pre-Format | exFAT |
| Internal Interface | SATA (Unspecified) |
| Type | Hard Disk Drive |
| Form Factor | 2.5" |
| Power Source | USB Bus Power |
| Dimensions (L x W x H) | 4.5 x 3.1 x 0.8" / 114.3 x 78.7 x 20.3 mm |
Reviews (242)
242 reviews for Seagate 5TB Backup Plus USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (Light Blue)
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Rogers Gusikowski (verified owner) –
It only writes for around 33MB/s with a USB 3.0. This is the slowest hard drive i’ve ever used.
Gerardo Osinski (verified owner) –
I bought a dozen of these. We’ve used 5 of them and 2 out of the 5 have failed. One was bad the second time we plugged it in and one failed after we filled it with data.
Winifred Skiles (verified owner) –
Backing up a lot of my work. Humming along like a champ
Monserrate Kuphal (verified owner) –
good
Bartholome Purdy (verified owner) –
I have several of the drives on my network that are used to store documents and backups of important data using backup software. They all work very well.
Dayne Klein (verified owner) –
the seagate 1, 2 and 4TB drives are great, i have many of them, for video files i carry about 6 of them on tour
Taurean Brown (verified owner) –
So far so good. Have not had much trouble with these.
Citlalli Keebler (verified owner) –
Compact and portable, with room to hold all your memories at a great price. Seagate products have always served me well.
Joannie Sawayn (verified owner) –
I recently added a USB3 card to my mid 2010 Mac Pro. Now using this drive for time machine backups is MUCH faster than the original Apple Time Capsule. Use to take over 24 hours to BU 2 terabytes, now takes a few hours. Worked right out of the box with Mac OS
Edd Reichert (verified owner) –
Not only do I like the size and color but I love its complete silence. Plug it in and hide it behind your laptop lid and it disappears from view. It works well and surreptitiously. Its plenty fast enough to be used as a Mac Time Machine backup and anything else. And lets not forget that it is portable.
Johnpaul Lowe (verified owner) –
It’s really much quicker than the old 1TB Western Digital External Hard Drive that I had. I was able to offload everything from it in a fairly short amount of time. The WD hard drive used to take -forever- to open and display the AutoPlay alert box, but the Seagate hard drive opens it almost instantly.
Rosario Windler (verified owner) –
B&H gave me good sales support to help me compare and understand how the drive would work. I plugged it in and it immediately backed up my C drive. After a few days I had a few questions about functions and ways to set the drive up. I like the scheduled backup feature. I got quick telephone help from Seagate. So the drive is all set up to function the way I want it to.
Ova Corkery (verified owner) –
Great size, compact, goodly capacity, dependable.
Allan Ferry (verified owner) –
remember this is a back up drive, it is not made for constant write read use. It is noisy as all these seagates are. I bought because it was cheap at the time and I have formatted it for windows pc’s. It seems slow, not usb3 speeds. I know the theoretical speeds you never get, but 80 to 100m/bs should be available and I get that on other drives, this one I was getting 30m/bs. If this continues it will be very disapointing. I have other seagate 8tb drives and I get 90+m/bs, so possibly a fault or issues with the files. Now that I have 6tb on it and will slowly add more back ups it is fine. Also not the first usb3 drive I’ve used that transferred at usb 2 speeds. I pulled a portable apart and used it in e sata and the drive was fine, so maybe it is the usb/sata interface.
Hulda Schultz (verified owner) –
PROS: You can’t beat the price for getting 8 Terabytes + an external enclosure with a USB3 hub. It doesn’t look half bad, either. HDD enclosed is not terribly fast, but what do you expect for a budget backup HDD? CONS: The software packaged with the drive is awful. Slow. Buggy. Unreliable. Do yourself a favor and invest in 3rd party back-up software. Unless you’re using the Windows/MacOS cross-platform drivers, go ahead and format this drive to your native filesystem and leave Seagate’s stuff out of your backup process. Your data and sanity will be better for it. In the end, you’re paying for a dirt cheap external backup drive. Don’t count the software as part of the value, though.
Fannie Wehner (verified owner) –
I have several of these for all my photos. Easy to operate and hold a ton of data. They seem pretty durable also.
Lila Barrows (verified owner) –
I’m always nervous about committing so much data to a large drive and I’ve found that a new drive takes at least 9 months before you know if it has problems. So I’ll have to wait to evaluate its reliability but the capacity for the price is outstanding.
Florian Goodwin (verified owner) –
It’s fast and nice
Vaughn Gaylord (verified owner) –
it does the job at a good price.
Cecil Daniel (verified owner) –
Big amount of storage and plug and play was great!