What is Seagate Dashboard?
Seagate Dashboard is a free hard drive utility created by Seagate for use with their external hard drives. It provides a range of features to help users manage, protect, and utilize Seagate storage devices.
Key features of Seagate Dashboard include:
- Drive health monitoring - Dashboard continually checks the drive to ensure optimal performance and warns if issues are detected.
- Backup scheduling - Set up automatic or one-click on-demand backup of important files from your system onto your Seagate drive.
- Mirror folders for data protection - Dashboard can automatically sync designated folders with the same folder structure on your Seagate drive for redundancy.
- File sharing - Share files on your Seagate drive with others by creating public or private links.
- Drive settings customization - Change LED lighting colors/modes, power savings settings, and setup security options.
By centralizing key drive functions like health checks, backup, syncing, and sharing, Seagate Dashboard aims to make it simple for users to protect and organize their important documents, media, and other files when using Seagate storage solutions.