I picked up a couple Seagate 8TB Backup Plus Hubs for Mac at a compelling price during a holiday sale, as I needed a new TM drive for my High Sierra Mac Pro and one for my new Macbook Pro. I'm just now setting it up and my initial impression upon unboxing is positive. I really like the small, light form factor and two USB 3 ports on the front which actually increase the number of ports when connecting it rather than subtracting one. I did get some weird behavior after initially connecting drive and pluging in a MS mouse. Could have been bad connection. Since some issues with USB 2 devices are about the only known problem I have read about, I am not concerned about this. The drive seems pretty snappy and is very quiet.
Does anyone have experience with the Seagate dashboard, an app for this device? If so, shared experience would be appreciated. Sometimes the software included with hardware can be worse than useless (although probably not from biggie Seagate). I installed it to evaluate and to access all features. I'm going to stick with Time Machine but Seagate dashboard will allow for some other functions like power management, cloud uploads (to Seagate servers) and other things, probably mostly redundant with respect to other apps I have. If there are any red flags that come to attention I'll uninstall rather than wait for problems.
Does anyone have experience with the Seagate dashboard, an app for this device? If so, shared experience would be appreciated. Sometimes the software included with hardware can be worse than useless (although probably not from biggie Seagate). I installed it to evaluate and to access all features. I'm going to stick with Time Machine but Seagate dashboard will allow for some other functions like power management, cloud uploads (to Seagate servers) and other things, probably mostly redundant with respect to other apps I have. If there are any red flags that come to attention I'll uninstall rather than wait for problems.