Seagate Storage Backs Up Facebook Photos

By Doug Olenick On Jun 18 2012 - 4:01am

CUPERTINO, CALIF. – Seagate is continuing its fight to make consumer data backup simple and convenient with the release of its Backup Plus storage devices.

The Backup Plus hard drives, for Mac and Windows, utilize the company’s Dashboard software to enable one-click local backup. In addition, the portable and desktop external storage drives will download and store images from Facebook and Flickr.

Seagate said the proliferation of camera phones and people directly uploading to social networks means even more personal data is going unprotected because consumers rarely, if ever, back up their phones.

The portable drives will come in red, blue, silver and black with capacities of 500GB, $119; 750GB, $129 and 1TB, $139. The desktop versions are 1TB, $129; 2TB, $149; 3TB, $179 and 4TB, $249.

The portable Mac models will come in silver with 500GB and 1TB capacities, $119 and $139, respectively. The 2TB desktop is $189 and the 3TB drive is $209.

All are in stores starting June 12.