Seagate has introduced a new line of hard disk drives for consumers, along with corresponding software, designed to make data back-up even easier. Now there’s no excuse for not backing up your important financial files, family photos, media library, term papers and everything else that you’d miss if you experienced hard drive failure and lost your data. 

The Seagate Backup Plus line, which the company says will replace other lines such as GoFlex and UserAgent, includes a USB 3.0 portable drive, and software for easy backups on a PC. (Mac OS X users can perform backups via Apple’s Time Machine.) Through the Dashboard app, PC users can hit one button to back up all files, or can set up continuous or regularly scheduled back-ups. 

In addition to configuring the software for typical back-up methods, you can set it up so that it uploads photos or files to social networks like Facebook, Youtube and Flickr. You can also download photos from those services to save to your Backup Plus hard disk drive. 

The drive is available in capacities from 500 GB to 1.5 TB and includes a 2-year warranty. The drive is available in blue, red, silver and black. (All sizes may not be available in every color.)