Seagate unleashes a slew of new storage drives at CES 2019

The company's new products include the Seagate Backup Plus HDDs, LaCie Mobile Drive, LaCie Mobile SSD, FireCuda 510 internal SSDs and IronWolf 110 NAS SSD.

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bup-ultra-touch-white-aerial-hi-res — The Ultra Touch has a fabric finish.
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Seagate typically introduces a number of new products at CES each year and this year's no exception. Once again it's opened the product spigot, with a number of storage options including new drives from its premium LaCie brand. We're still awaiting pricing on some of the new models, but here's a quick look the new Seagate 2019 offerings:

Backup Plus Ultra Touch

Tactile textile industrial design
Type-C compatibility for the latest laptops
Optional data security with Seagate Secure
Password protection with 256-AES Hardware Encryption
Toolkit backup with auto sync
Works with PCs and Macs out of the box
exFAT, no need to install driver
One-year Mylio Create plan
Automatic storytelling with Life Calendar and natural searches
Multi-device synchronization
Cloud-free backup+optimized images on devices, master files on drive
Two-month Adobe CC Photography membership
1TB ($70) and 2TB ($90) of storage
Shipping in February

bup-portable-family-hi-res — Backup Plus Portable.
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Backup Slim and Backup Plus Portable

Metal top cover with textured finish
Works with PCs and Macs out of the box
exFAT, no need to install driver
One-year Mylio Create plan
Automatic storytelling with Life Calendar and natural searches
Multi-device synchronization (access content on your drive from all your devices)
Cloud-free backup+optimized images on devices, master files on drive
Two-month Adobe CC Photography membership
Backup Plus Slim: 1TB ($60) and 2TB ($80)
Backup Plus Portable: 4TB ($120) and 5TB ($130)
Shipping in March

New Seagate and LaCie storage drives

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LaCie Mobile Drive

Space Gray Diamond Cut full metal design
Up to 540MB-per-second transfer speeds
Slim design
USB-C (Thunderbolt 3, and USB compatibility)
USB-C and USB 3.0 cables included
Pre-formatted exFAT for compatibility Mac & PC
LaCie ToolKit Mirror/Backup module
Three-year warranty with rescue data recovery services
One-month Adobe All-Apps Plan included
Available in up to 5TB of storage
Available in two colors: space gray and moon silver
Shipping: End of January
Pricing: TBD

LaCie Mobile SSD

Space Gray Diamond Cut full metal design
Up to 540MB-per-second transfer speeds
Only 9mm thick and 100g
3-meter drop resistant
USB-C (Thunderbolt 3, and USB compatibility)
USB 3.0 cable included
Pre-formatted exFAT for compatibility with Mac and PC
LaCie ToolKit Mirror/Backup module
Three-year warranty with rescue data recovery services
One-month Adobe All-Apps Plan included
Available in up to 2TB of storage
Shipping: End of January
Pricing: TBD

In January Seagate will also be shipping its new FireCuda 510 M.2 PCIe NVMe internal SSD geared toward PC gamers and the IronWolf 110, which Seagate bills as the the "world's first purpose-built NAS SSD."

As soon as we get more info we'll update this post.