Seagate Ultra Touch & Flow portable drives

Ultra Touch is Seagate’s eco-conscious portable external range, available as hard drives and external SSDs. With data encryption, file sync and Android phone backup, you can choose the backup drive that’s right for you. The enclosures are built with recycled plastics.

Seagate Flow is a portable drive in the same eco-friendly recycled-plastic family as Ultra Touch, aimed at everyday personal storage that moves between devices.

Yes. Android phone backup is one of the included software features on the Ultra Touch line, alongside file sync and data encryption.

SSDs offer faster data transfer speeds, making them ideal for real-time editing, quick backups and working with high-resolution files, and they’re more portable. Hard drives provide more storage at a lower cost, great for archiving large libraries or long-term storage. Many people use both.

Seagate offers a diverse range of external hard drives to meet various needs. Portable drives are lightweight for on-the-go storage, while desktop drives provide larger capacities for extensive backups and media. Specialized gaming drives enhance storage and performance for Xbox® and PlayStation®. Seagate also offers themed special edition external hard drives with unique designs, versatile personal storage drives for everyday use and high-capacity professional storage drives for demanding tasks.

Connect your external hard drive. Go to Settings > System > Storage > Advanced storage settings > Backup options. Click Add a drive and select your external drive. Enable File History for automatic backups, or use Backup and Restore (Windows 7) for a full system image.

Open Settings > Update & Security > Backup. Click Add a drive and choose your external drive. Enable File History to back up files automatically, or use Backup and Restore (Windows 7) for a full system image.

Open System Preferences > Time Machine (System Settings > General > Time Machine on macOS Ventura and later). Click Select Backup Disk and choose your external drive, then turn on Time Machine for automatic backups. Time Machine will back up your files periodically in the background.

Yes. On Mac (macOS Catalina and later), connect your iPhone to your Mac, open Finder, select your device, choose Back up all data to this Mac, then manually move the backup to an external drive. On Windows or older Macs, use iTunes to back up then move the backup folder to an external drive. Third-party software can also perform direct backups.

Connect the drive to your computer. On Windows, open Disk Management, right-click the drive, select Format and choose exFAT. On Mac, open Disk Utility, select the drive, click Erase, choose exFAT then click Erase. Note: exFAT works on both macOS and Windows without file size limits.

On Windows, click the USB/Drive icon in the taskbar, select Eject [Drive Name], wait for the confirmation message then unplug safely. On Mac, open Finder and locate the drive under Devices, click the Eject icon next to the drive name, wait for it to disappear then unplug safely.

On Mac: open Finder and look under Locations in the sidebar; check your desktop if drive display is enabled; open Disk Utility to see if the drive is recognized but not mounted; and check that the cable and ports are working. On Windows: open File Explorer (Windows + E) and check under This PC for the drive under Devices and Drives, then right-click the Start menu and select Disk Management to see if the drive is recognized but not yet formatted or mounted.

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