Seagate External Hard Drive Setup For Time Machine
1. Plug in your Seagate external drive’s USB cable.
2. Open System Preferences. Double click on Time Machine to set up.

3. Click Select Disk In Time Machine.

4. Pick your Seagate external hard drive. Click Use Disk.

5. Put a check in the box ‘Backup Automatically’.
Your Mac’s Seagate Time Machine backup will start in a couple of minutes.
For the full walk through please take a look at this article on the site. Seagate Time Machine on how to set up a backup.
Right click on your Seagate external HDD when your backup is done. And pick Eject from the menu that comes up.

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