Store, access, and edit up to 6TB of data, whether at home or on-the-go, including documents, music, movies, photos, and more with the 6TB Backup Plus USB 3.0 External Hard Drive with USB Hub from Seagate. This drive connects to your system using its integrated micro-USB 3.0 (micro-B 10-pin) port and provides data transfer speeds of up to 160 MB/s, while also being backwards compatible with USB 2.0. In addition to its storage capabilities, this drive has also been equipped with dual front-mounted USB 3.0 Type-A ports, which can be used to recharge your tablet, smartphone, or camera, as well as back up files, even if your system is turned off or in standby mode.
Seagate’s Backup Plus Hub is compatible with both Windows and Mac systems. It is pre-formatted for Windows and Mac compatibility requires the downloadable NTFS driver for Mac. Once installed, this drive can be used interchangeably between Windows and Mac without needing to be reformatted. Also included is downloadable Seagate backup software, a 4′ micro-USB 3.0 to USB Type-A cable, a power adapter, and a complimentary four month membership to Adobe’s Creative Cloud Photography Plan.
Note: The free Adobe membership is redeemable during product registration and must be redeemed within one month of registration.
Ali Stark
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Just received it and started transferring my data, seems great transfer rate @130mbps very nice speed. hopefully will be working fine had bad experience with other Seagate 8TB Drive.
Liliana Jacobi
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Issue #1: I have been able to format Seagate 0.5 TB, WD 2 TB, and WD 3TB drives to exFAT so they work directly with my Windows and Mac computers. Not so with this Seagate 8 TB. Formatting to exFAT causes this drive to be unrecognizable by Mac. I had to format back to NTSF and install the Paragon driver. Issue #2: Mac – Seagate 8 TB – Seagate 2 TB works just fine. The Seagate 8 TB is acting as a USB hub, and both drives are usable. Mac – Seagate 8 TB – WD 3 TB does not work. The WD 3 TB drive is not recognizable. Mac – Seagate 8 TB – another USB hub – WD 3 TB works fine. Why do I need another USB hub in between? I’m very disappointed with this product and don’t recommend it.
Ava Howe
Verified Purchase
sent back to the manufacturer after the drive failed to initialize and mount, repeatedly. They promise to send a replacement. We’ll see
Laverne Parker
Verified Purchase
I have the 6TB version of this and it was the fastest of my 4 external drives, so I bought 2 of the 8TB drive in the same line…. Nowhere on B&H, or Seagates websites is there any mention or RPMs… well, for some reason the make it up as they go along. The Backup plus hub 8TB drives are 5400 RPM… to slow for my video work 🙁 Why would the 6TB of the same drive be 7200RPM? Who knows, but I took these out of the external case to use as a RAID internally, so I guess I just got suckered out of $300+ 🙁
Herta Johnston
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I now own two of these and absolutely love them. Great for holding all of my photos and videos for my business.
Rollin Ondricka
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This is the 3rd one I’ve purchased. I was outgrowing my 5TB drives connected to my router (i.e. accessing them as shared network storage). Swapped them out for these 8TB drives, and connected the 5TB drives to their USB ports. It’s working out great.
Daryl Pagac
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I have a WD My Cloud Server (12TB) that has two USB expansion Ports on the back, I has used up both and was wondering how to easily increase the capacity and be able to continue doing so without having to configure more cloud servers. The 2 USB ports on the front of the Seagate drive mean that I can Daisy Chain Disks. So I can expand my storage cloud easily. I can buy a cheaper non Hub Drive for one of the Ports and another Seagate/Hub Drive for the other for practically limitless expansion.
Wiley Schmitt
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Bought as I have had so many issues with Windows 10 and external hard drives. This drive has worked great plus it is quiet. Very happy with it
Tod Dibbert
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easy to set up with MAC Lots of memory excellent
Reina Mitchell
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I use this as a mobile back up device. Sturdy, fast, reliable.
Matilde Kuhlman
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It’s a thicc external hard drive that requires you to plug it into a wall to use. If it could run off phantom, I’d be amazed, but it still kind of sucks that you need to plug it in. I entirely understand. Four stars because I haven’t had it long enough to really judge how well it can hold out, but it looks promising so far. Knock on wood.
Emily Sanford
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Not too overly noisy. Very compact and sleek looking. Using this on an iMac. Easily converted to work with it.
Layne Runolfsdottir
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Its fast, its affordable, its got plenty of storage (for now). Shipping is included, politics are not. Gotta love B&H!
Heidi Cruickshank
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silent and fast transfer
Eladio Schmitt
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No issues so far
Nathan Parisian
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This drive has a lot of space for my backups. It took a long time to backup 4TB of data from my computer. Im replacing two 4TB drives with this one and one new internal 8TB drive. This should do the trick as Seagate are probably the most reliable drives out there
Sydney Beahan
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Simple plug in and it just works.
Althea Bartell
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The drive was delivered quickly and in good shape. Connected it to my system, plugged it in, and started backing up my smaller 2TB drives. It was as simple as that!
Alyson Herman
Verified Purchase
Easy plug and play and easy to use.
Queen Klocko
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I had been using the 4TB version of this but it failed after approximately 3 years. It is warranted for only 2 years but still 3 seems a bit short based on my experience with other hard drives. Despite that experience I went ahead and bought the 6TB model to replace it. Unfortunately on day 6 of using it it back thrashing and the data was unreadable and it failed tests (using Seagate Seatools). As it was under warranty I sent it to Seagate and received a replacement drive about 2 weeks after they received the defective unit back. The offered a free data recovery service and it looks like that will be an additional week. The support service was good albeit a bit slow when you are depending on having the drive available. I went with Seagate based on their reputation of quality but now I’m not so sure. I would think long and hard about purchasing Seagate again in the future.