Rodf Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 I've got an old external Seagate hard drive attached to my Synology router (RT2600ac). It is beginning to fail. I saw that Staples had a deal on for a Seagate Backup Plus 5TB external hard drive. Back when I bought my old Seagate hard drive it came with some software that I think was meant to be installed on a Windows or Mac machine. I didn't want that because I wanted to attach it to the router I had back then. When I got my Synology router I did the same thing. So, I'm wondering, with this new Seagate HD will I be stuck with the same issue I have today, that it will just be a HD hanging off my router and I won't be able to take advantage of any backup software? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodf Posted April 11, 2020 Author Share Posted April 11, 2020 Never mind, I didn't get it. I went to my local Stables store - they didn't have any of those Seagate HDs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oj88 Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 (edited) The free backup software that comes from Seagate will only work if a Seagute external USB drive is directly connected to the PC being backed up. Upon installation, the software looks for a Seagate USB external drive and will not let you continue if it can't find any. Surely, it won't let you point to a NAS, even if the actual USB storage being used is a Seagate. You'll need a 3rd party backup software, commercial or freeware, to be able to backup your PC to a NAS. Heck, Windows 10 has a built-in basic backup and restore software. Edited April 12, 2020 by oj88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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