• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About
  • Recommended Books
  • Tools
  • Journal
  • Hire Me
  • Contact
Small Biz Geek

Small Biz Geek

Small Business Design, Marketing & Technology Journal

Website design services

Nerdy analysis of small business design, marketing and technology

  • The Internet
  • Marketing
  • Graphic Design
  • Web Dev
  • Web Design
  • Social Media
  • Technology
  • Miscellaneous

Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 3.0 Storage Drive

You are here: Home / Darren’s Small Business Tools / Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 3.0 Storage Drive

Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 3 Storage

If your data doesn’t exist in at least three places, your data doesn’t exist. That’s the line I once heard on the BBC technology series Click and I haven’t forgotten it.

If you’re running a small business, you’re almost guaranteed to be using a computer. Therefore, you have data, and it’s wise to have a backup policy to make secure copies of anything and everything.

I keep backups of my accounts, records and digital copies of receipts. I also have password protected customer management databases where I keep details of people I have dealt with. Imagine if all of that got lost or destroyed.

Then there’s the numerous websites I’ve created, the hundreds of thousands of words of content, graphic design files, videos, music and everything else.

Backing up to DropBox or Google Drive is always an option, but the free versions of these are limited. USB flash drives are good for day to day data transfer but storage space on these thumb-sized drives might not be enough.

The amount of data we’re all creating, every day, is something many of us don’t give much consideration to. Where will it all go?

My External Storage Drive

Consider investing in an external hard drive to avoid any data loss drama. You don’t need to spend a fortune but you do need to make regular copies of all your files and folders.

The Seagate Expansion 2TB backup drive (Amazon UK and Amazon USA) is a USB 3.0 solid state hard disk with a lead and plug to power it.

Expansion Storage Drive Box

Having this hardware is more about piece of mind. You want to run your business with confidence, knowing that if something happens to your computer, it’s all backed up.

You’ve probably experienced a tragic computer meltdown in the past and don’t want to repeat the experience.

Dealing with the loss of treasured documents and photos is a painful bereavement that never gets easier. I’m not afraid to tell you I’ve had tears in my eyes on more than one occasion following a computer meltdown.  

Massive Storage

If you didn’t know, 2TB is approximately 2000 GB. This is a good sized disk.

This is large enough to backup the ENTIRE contents of my current main PC and still have room left over. If you think this is still not enough space, you could get the 4TB version of the hardware or go even higher if the option is available.

To put it into context, let me give you some examples of storage capacity in PCs and mobile devices.

  • The first PC I ever had in 1997 have a 6GB hard drive
  • 3.5 inch floppy disks were 3.44MB
  • The next PC I owned in 2001 had a 20GB hard drive
  • The ZIP disks I used at university were around 100MB
  • My (very out of date) iPhone 4s has a 16GB hard drive
  • My iPad has a 32GB hard drive
  • My current PC has a 1TB hard drive
  • I purchased another PC with a 2TB hard drive

You can probably now understand why I’m so pleased with the 2TB external storage drive.

 

Plug and Play

There are no drivers required to use the Seagate Expansion.

You just plug your USB cable into a spare USB port and plug the power source into a socket.

A window will pop up asking what you want to do. Click “Open folder to view files”

Seagate Expansion Plug and Play

If you do not see the pop up above, go to the Windows start menu and Computer. If the device has connected properly it will have been added under Hard Disk Drives.

USB Drive Added

Data Transfer Speed

If your computer has USB 3.0, you can expect the data transfer rate to be pretty quick.

Assuming you bought your PC in the last year, it probably comes with USB 3.0 as standard so you can expect back ups to be fast!

Be aware that if you plug the device into a USB port that is not USB 3.0, you could see a slow data transfer rate.

Slow Data transfer

Compatibility Problems with Windows Backup!

I used Windows 7 Backup and Restore to create a system image. It turns out that Seagate’s drives don’t work with Microsoft’s backup utility, producing Error code: 0x8078002A.

If you’re going to buy this drive wanting to create Windows backups, you’ll have to use a third party backup tool instead. Seagate have released one that works. 

Buy Online

You can purchase the Seagate Expansion on Amazon UK or USA. (This is an affiliate link.) Be sure to purchase the correct plug type for the country you’re in.

How Do You Back Up?

Maybe you already have a backing up system. I know some people use the cloud services like Amazon S3 and DropBox for business, but do you really trust the security of remote servers?

Reader Interactions

Add Your Thoughts Cancel reply

Your email address is safe and will NOT be shared with anyone else.

Hateful, spammy or abusive comments will not be tolerated.

For more information please see the comment policy.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Search Website

Latest Journal Entries

  • Exposed: The Chinese Investment Fraud “Recovery” Scammer Deceiving Victims
  • Computer Says No: Does Your Website Work for People with Disabilities?
  • Chinese Tinder Profiles Are Using Photos of Pretty Girls to Scam “Investors”
  • Small Biz Owners “Trapped” Using Email Addresses Belonging to Internet Service Providers
  • In the Pandemic, QR Codes are Finally Proving Worthy in the West
  • Small Businesses Finally Start Marketing and All It Took Was a Global Pandemic
  • Unable to Meet in Person? Communicate Stress-Free with Online Audio/Video
  • UK Contractors Operating Ltd Companies Should Be Mad as Hell with HMRC and IR35
  • 20 Years On and Website Hit Counters are Still a Waste of Pixels
  • Competitors Can Easily Edit Your Google and Facebook Business Listings
  • Waiting on Final Images for a WordPress Website? Use Temporary Placeholders and Design Around Them
  • GoDaddy Loves Spamming Branded Footer Links to WordPress Installatron Sites

Footer

Primary Navigation

Home
About Darren
Good Books
My Tools
Blog Posts
Hire Me
Contact Me

Secondary Navigation

The Internet
Marketing
Graphic Design
Website Development
Website Design
Social Media
Technology
Miscellaneous

Derby & Nottingham Area

Small Biz Geek
Office 897
37 Westminster Buildings
Theatre Square
Nottingham
NG1 6LG

Telephone

Tel: +44 (0) 115 714 3290
Tel: +44 (0) 7951 897 243

VoIP

Skype: ilkestonwebdesign
WhatsApp: 07519 897 243

Email

[email protected]

Let’s Connect

Twitter
YouTube
LinkedIn
RSS

Subscribe to Blog by Email

Subscribe to Blog By Email
Genesis Framework by StudioPress


Copyright © 2022 · Small Biz Geek · Privacy Policy · Commenting Policy · Website Disclaimer · ICO number: ZA305900


Written and designed by Ilkeston Web Design