Our Overall Score:
8.3/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the External hard drives category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £209.99
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Seagate or alternative products in the External hard drives category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive
SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive scores 8.4/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with External hard drives. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for External hard drives, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any External hard drives? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive scores 8.3/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the External hard drives category was £399.99, whilst the cheapest we found was £8.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the External hard drives category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the External hard drives category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the External hard drives category. This was £102.32 from the 34 products we found in that category. So SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive actually comes in above average at £209.99.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £399.99 and the least expensive, which was £8.99. In total we found that of the 34, 3 were more expensive and 30 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive.
Prices of products from Seagate
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Seagate. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Seagate, which was £89.70 of the 16 products we found. So SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Seagate was £58.99 with the most expensive coming in at £209.99.
Prices of products from Seagate and in the External hard drives category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Seagate that sit specifically within the External hard drives category.
For this we found that the average price was £96.90, making SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive at £209.99 actually above average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £209.99 with the lowest priced item being £58.99. In total there were 0 items that were more expensive and 7 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive
SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive scores 8.2/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive is.
Overall score
SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive scores 8.3/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Seagate so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SEAGATE Back Up Plus External Hard Drive
- Brand: Seagate
- Model Number: 10176749
- USB 3.0 / USB 2.0Up to 5 GbpsMobile app availableAutomatic backup
- EAN: 3660619403240
- Description: Top features: – Simple local or Cloud file backup for your devices – Charge and manage devices using two USB 3.0 ports – Seagate Dashboard lets you configure local, mobile, Cloud and social media backup Simple local or Cloud file backupEnjoy a huge 10 TB of space with the Seagate Backup Plus Drive. You can use it interchangeably between Windows and Mac computers without reformatting – just install the NTFS driver for Mac.This desktop hard drive lets you protect your digital life locally, in the cloud or from mobile devices and social networks, offering simple local or cloud file backup.Charge and manage devicesYou can plug in external USB devices like cameras and phones to charge via the front-mounted high-speed USB ports. They provide a direct way to manage your devices and stored data, making it even easier to transfer files.Seagate DashboardWith Seagate Dashboard software you can configure backup across local, mobile, cloud and social media applications. It’s an easy way to store and secure information from your computer, mobile devices and the cloud. Carry out one-click backups or run an auto-backup plan to safeguard your files conveniently.
- Product ID: 21681545567
