- #Cant run seagate backup drive on windows 8 install#
- #Cant run seagate backup drive on windows 8 plus#
Just click Home>Protect>New Backup Up Plan to start a new backup job. The dashboard Backup program itself is very nice.
#Cant run seagate backup drive on windows 8 install#
On the new drive, you will find the file 'Seagate Dashboard Installer.exe' run that and it will walk you through the process of registering your hardware with Seagate for warranty and also install the Seagate Dashboard backup program. I'm OK with both those as this device is for office backup and not intended to be portable. Also, it is not USB powered so you need the extra power cable. The drive is one the bigger side, about 2.5 times the size of my Free Agent drive. (130+ MB/s read) Now that said, if you do not have USB 3.0 - expect something more like 30-35 MB/s read -write, still that's fine for backups. That's not too shabby), and read /writes were well within or better than what I would expect from a current external drive. Jacked into my USB 3.0 hub, I was able to consistently grab approximately 10 Gig in about 3 minute, ( 3.3 gig per minute. I'll argue with you as to why and which way is better, but that's for the forums.
No, they didn't rip you off of 0.37 TB, it's that Windows does the math based on 1024 bytes as opposed to 1000 bytes. When you look at the device in Windows, you'll notice that the drive will show as 3.63 TB and not 4 TB. Plug in the power cable and plug in the provided USB 3.0 cable and your machine will detect it like any other drive.
4 TB, 2 year warranty, USB 3.0 and about $40 more than a comparable 3 TB- what's not to like? So I grabbed it, brought it home, ripped open the box and proceeded to save my digital I liked it enough that I thought it deserved digging into a bit deeper.
#Cant run seagate backup drive on windows 8 plus#
Luckily my local electronics shop had a 4TB Seagate Backup Plus for about $170 on hand. Being that I take a LOT of pictures, I needed something large. Ok, I was having an urgent issue with my faithful Windows Home Media Server becoming cranky.
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