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External hard drives for social media users

19.06.2012

The new hard drives allow one-button backup of photos and videos stored on Facebook and Flickr. Seagate Technology has introduced a new line of external hard drives - Backup Plus. The new drives are the first on the market designed to automatically back up user photos and videos stored on Facebook and Flickr, according to the manufacturer's press service.

"It's an interesting idea to back up photos and videos stored on social networks to a local device. I think this will help people understand the benefits of storing multiple copies of content, regardless of where it is originally located," commented Brett Sappington ( Brett Sappington, director of research at Parks Associates, "Social media has been playing the role of a huge repository of personal digital content for some time now, and most users don't think they can lose that data."

More than half of Americans (54%) have experienced a file loss or have a friend who has lost information, according to a survey commissioned by Harris Interactive for Seagate in late May. More than a quarter (27%) of those surveyed lost personal files. Moreover, of all respondents, only 11% regularly use reservations.

When using Backup Plus hard drives, backing up photos and videos from Facebook and Flickr is done at the touch of a button using the included Seagate Dashboard software. The same software allows you to upload content from your hard drive to the Internet, as well as make backup copies of files stored on a personal computer to which the drive is connected.

The Seagate Backup Plus lineup includes 2,5GB, 500GB, and 750TB 1-inch pocket models with MSRPs of $120, $130, and $140, respectively, and 3,5TB, 1TB, 2TB, and 3TB desktop models (4 inches) priced at $130, $150, $180, and $250 respectively for Windows computers. Macs are available in 500GB and 1TB mobile models for $120 and $140, and 2TB and 3TB desktop models for $190 and $210, respectively.

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