Seagate launched a 5TB portable hard drive with a price tag of $189.99. The Seagate Backup Plus 5TB portable HDD is also the largest capacity portable HDD in the World, for now. The new 5TB portable drive is using BarraCuda internal HD technology.

BarraCuda technology offers incredible speed, amazing versatility, dependability and multi tier caching. Seagate Backup Plus 5TB portable drive is easy to carry weight is about 247 grams and dimensions are 7.8 x 11.5 x 2.0 (cm). All you need to do is plug in this portable storage into your Desktop or Laptop, it draws power from the USB port – no need for external power source.

Backup Plus 5TB not only offer high capacity storage but the drive is also fast – up to 120MB/s speed can be achieved via USB 3.0 port. This drive works with Mac and PC. Seagate Dashboard software offers customizable backup option that you can use to backup data on cloud, other storage device etc.

Seagate Backup Plus 5TB portable HDD launched

As mentioned USB 3.0 is supported for faster transfer rate. This Seagate Backup Plus 5TB portable HDD is easy to carry, it’s compact, packed inside an aluminum body that makes is durable and there is plenty of storage space – 5TB!

Seagate Backup Plus 5TB will hit the stores soon, this month, in the US with price of $189.99 that comes to approx Rs. 13K.