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Seagate Backup Plus Drives With 200GB of Cloud Storage From Microsoft OneDrive, Not Wuala

And new portable HDD at 4TB in 20.5mm form factor ($240)

Seagate Technology plc announced that its Backup Plus family of external storage offerings will now include 200GB of OneDrive cloud storage, a value for the category, and the addition of Lyve‘s photo and video management app.

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Seagate Backup Plus drives come equipped with Seagate Dashboard software for plug-and-play PC backup as well as the addition of mobile and social media backup.

The company also announced a new high capacity for its Backup Plus portable at 4TB in a 20.5mm form factor using a single platter portable drive.

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 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, SVP 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, it allows access to 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 Corp. “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 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 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 app is compatible with iOS, Android, Windows and Mac OS X. The 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 Backup Plus external HDD 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 HDD. What’s more, 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 Backup Plus family of external drives is comprised of external HDDs to extend backup capabilities to include content from social networks. Backup Plus external HDDs come equipped with Seagate’s Dashboard software for backup 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 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 for the 4TB capacity will be available in mid July. The 12mm Seagate Backup Plus Slim, also a USB 3.0 bus-powered drive, is available 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.

Comments

Remember that Seagate acquired in 2012 for $186 million LaCie. Inside the deal, there was Wuala, a Swiss company that LaCie got in 2009 for $10 million. Wuala is now a paid-only online backup provider. But Seagate prefers here to sign with Microsoft and OneDrive for clients of its Backup Plus family of external HDDs.

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OneDrive is available for free for two years with 200GB, must be activate by June 30, 2017, and may not be available in all countries.

The regular price of 200GB at OneDrive is $48 per year. At Wuala, it's $219 per year.

We don't see a better way for Seagate to kill Wuala that's already seems to be in financial trouble as it changes its business model with no more free service for small capacities.

Read also:
4TB, Record for 2.5-Inch HDD by Samsung/Seagate
Available this month in external version only
2015.06.22 | Press Release | [with our comments]

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