Managing Your Seagate Drives With Seagate Dashboard; Viewing Information About Your Drive - Seagate Backup Plus Desktop User Manual

Managing Your Seagate Drives with Seagate Dashboard

6. Managing Your Seagate Drives
with Seagate Dashboard
Seagate Dashboard makes it easy to adjust settings and features on your Seagate drives.
Using Seagate Dashboard, you can control the power save feature on your drive, turn the
LEDs on the drive on or off, perform a diagnostic test, and access technical support for your
drive.

Viewing Information About Your Drive

At the top of the Seagate Dashboard window, there is an icon for each Seagate drive
connected to your system. When you place your cursor over the drive icon, Seagate
Dashboard displays a bar below the icon indicating how full the drive is. Click the drive icon to
display information about the drive.
Hover over the icon to identify the drive and
show the capacity indicator bar
Figure 22: Seagate Drive Icon on the Seagate Dashboard Home Screen
If you have more than one Seagate drive connected to your system, Seagate Dashboard
displays an icon for each of them. Hover over an icon to identify the drive.
When you click on the drive icon, Seagate Dashboard displays information about the drive,
including the drive model, serial number, firmware version, drive letter, file system type, and
amount of free space on the drive. A pie chart shows the amount of space used and available
Seagate Dashboard User Guide
Viewing Information About Your Drive
Click the icon to display
drive information
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