Reimagine Storage with Seagate Backup Plus Drives Featuring 200GB of Cloud Storage Provided by OneDrive
23 June 2015 - 10:01PM
Business Wire
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Management, Mobile and Social Media Backup
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX), a world leader in storage
solutions, today announced that its popular award-winning Backup
Plus family of external storage offerings will now include 200GB of
OneDrive cloud storage, an unmatched value for the category, and
the addition of Lyve’s photo and video management app. Seagate®
Backup Plus drives come equipped with Seagate Dashboard software
for easy plug-and-play PC backup as well as the addition of mobile
and social media backup. Seagate also announced a new high capacity
for its Backup Plus portable at 4TB in a sleek 20.5mm form factor
using a single platter portable drive.
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Available July 2015, the new Seagate
Backup Plus Family of hard drives now include OneDrive cloud
storage by Microsoft and a new high-capacity 4TB portable drive.
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“Seagate Technology continues to innovate at a fast pace based
on the ever changing needs of its customers,” said Jingwen Li,
research analyst, storage systems for IDC. “With features such as
OneDrive cloud storage, Lyve app, and the new 4TB capacity point,
Seagate Backup Plus family addresses the growing needs for data
storage and backup with flexible data access and simple data
management in the personal storage market.”
Backup is the primary use case for external drives and Seagate
has worked to make backup as convenient and hassle-free a chore as
possible since the first introduction of Backup Plus and the
Seagate Dashboard software in 2012.
“We continue to evolve our backup offerings with new software
enhancements and the addition of features that add greater value
through marketing partnerships with companies such as Microsoft,
the provider of OneDrive cloud storage and Lyve Minds, developer of
the photo and video management solution,” said Mark Whitby, senior
vice president of Seagate branded products group.
Microsoft OneDrive:
The OneDrive cloud storage provided by Microsoft is an added
feature designed to provide accessibility to one’s content on every
device. A powerful tool to enhance productivity, OneDrive allows
easy access to your most important files from any connected mobile
device and keeps documents that are in progress up to date on each
of those devices for sharing and collaborating with whomever you
choose.
“OneDrive makes it easy to work with others on Office documents,
and to have your most important files always available on your PC,
Mac, phone and tablet,” said Angus Logan, director, product
marketing, Microsoft. “Our seamless and easy-to-use cloud solution
is a natural fit for people that are using Seagate Backup
Plus.”
Photo and Video Management with Lyve:
The Seagate Backup Plus family of external drives will now
feature Lyve app and service, which helps consumers collect,
organize and enjoy their photos and videos. The Lyve app helps to
organize the overwhelming number of photos and video scattered
across a consumer’s life and synchronizes and de-duplicates the
collections across all devices, improving organization and access.
The Lyve app is compatible with iOS, Android, Windows and Mac OS X.
The Lyve app combines all photos and videos from a consumer’s
devices into a single collection making it easy to find, share and
enjoy all photos and videos, anytime and anywhere.
Adding a Seagate Backup Plus external hard drive to a Lyve
account means consumers have the benefits of access, management and
organization, plus an affordable way to ensure that all of their
original full-resolution photos and videos are collected and safely
stored in one place, on the Seagate Backup Plus hard drive. What’s
more, by adding a Seagate Backup Plus external drive to a Lyve
account, consumers can clear precious space off their devices
knowing their full resolution photos and videos are backed up and
easily accessible via the Lyve app.
The Seagate Backup Plus family of external drives is the world’s
first external hard drives to extend backup capabilities to include
content from social networks. Backup Plus external hard drives come
equipped with Seagate’s Dashboard software for easy backup of your
system via scheduled or instantaneous on-demand backup as well as
Facebook and Flickr backup. Additionally a Backup Plus drive used
in conjunction with the Seagate Mobile Backup app, can also be used
as a target to easily backup a mobile device wirelessly while on a
network and by use of a cloud service of your choice while away
from the home network.
Pricing and Availability:
The USB 3.0 bus-powered Seagate Backup Plus portable at a MSRP
of $239.99 USD for the 4TB capacity will be available in mid July.
The svelte 12mm Seagate Backup Plus Slim, also a USB 3.0
bus-powered drive, is available now at 500GB for MSRP $79.99, 1TB
for MSRP $99.99 and 2TB at $129.99 USD. Backup Plus Slim portable
drives come in color options of red, black, silver and blue. The
Seagate Backup Plus Desktop drive, which includes an AC power
adapter and USB 3.0, is now available in capacities ranging from
2TB for 119.99 to 8TB for $359.99. Lyve app can be downloaded from
iOS app store and Google Play. The OneDrive Cloud offer is
available upon product registration.
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other functions and will not be available for data storage.
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