EXTREMELY SLOW WRITING SPEED
Are you a creative? Edit video? Need a back up or external working drive? Don't buy this.
Example:
85 GB on another USB 3.0 Seagate Drive: 13 minutes. On this drive? 1.5 hours.
Get the Back Up Plus instead. I just wish the item description of this product included writing speeds. It just says "Fast Transfers"
Working great work my XBox One
An absolute great purchase! Small and fits in my hand and it doesn’t get in the way! I love that I can buy/download as many PS4 games as my heart desires and it’ll be a long while before the space is filled up!
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could not pass up - one day sale was 40 bucks off the usual price.
deleted factory partitions and formatted as 1 ext4 partition (about 7-odd TB, as expected) for use with my media server. seems to work decently so far. mfgr warranty is only 1 year for US I believe. offers 30 day free return if defective.
some specs:
internal HD model: ST8000DM004-2CX188
Seagate 8TB Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch 5400rpm
SMR / Shingled Magnetic Recording (not the best scheme, but not terrible if you're mostly archiving media / playing back, but not deleting stuff all the time)
external model, i.e. this USB3 desktop product as sold by 
STGY8000400 / 763649127322 / 3660619403899 / 10763649127329
Made in Thailand (or at least the case + assembly is, not positive about the HD itself, but probably that as well)
in addition to the USB3 cable, it came with 6 (yes, six!) country adapters for the (international*) DC brick:
- US/CAN - type A
- UL/JP - type A
- KR - type F
- AU - type I
- UK - type G
- EU - type ?C?
not much else to say, for now. it works, quality seems ok. no firmware updates available/visible on Seagate's site.
* AC/DC brick
input: 100-240V - 50/60Hz, max 7A
output: 12V, 1.5A (i.e. 18W)
I am again impressed how technology has advanced. My old hard drive is 4 times as big and probably 8 times as heavy with half the storage... Bought for a Mac, works just fine.
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Very nice!
I needed more storage space as I'm a music producer and was running out of storage space on my older 1tb USB 3.0 external drive.
So far this drive is working great on my mac and windows machines. No issues of any kind. Hopefully it stays that way.
Two points of contention for me are as follows:
1. It is a bit noisy when it's running. I've had other drives that were certainly quieter when in use.
2. The case seems okay but I wish it were more durable.
That being said, for the money, I'd buy it again and I may buy another one to backup my backup because you can't be too careful!
3+ days after beginning a copy of my Time Machine backup (approx. 2 TB), it had yet to complete the copy. It was reading "2 hours remaining" when the copy ultimately failed. I restarted immediately, and here I am 7+ days after it all began and it's stating "2 days remaining."
Incidentally, this new drive was purchased to replace a different drive that was dropped from the rotation after it catastrophically failed losing all data. That drive was a Seagate.
So disappointed.
These perform ok, until they are about half full, then they start shingling the information (SMR), and performance just goes through the floor. This is due to it reading data, so that it can write the new data, with the existing data.
Basically in laymens terms, these seem great for ~3tb, once you fill it past there, write speeds go from 100+mb/s to <1-2mb/s after the buffer fills up.
I copied 60gb of home videos to it once it reached 50% filled, and its now at 6 hours of copying. Worse still it causes the entire computer to hang, as it has no idea why the drive just stops responding.
Avoid these smr drives, they're junk.
The drive works as intended. When I checked on the warranty, it is only warranted until January 2020 (Bought late July 2019) - Just a little shy of 6 months. Be wary with drives purchased from - they are generally OEM products and don't carry the full warranty as do retail products (That is why the prices are generally lower here and more expensive when you check at Staples or Best Buy, etc. - OEM products cost less because the retailer generally takes care of warranty issues). Not sure if will carry the warranty as I haven't yet had an issue.
That being said, I have used many many drives and I've never had to return a Seagate drive for warranty. They are dependable long-term and it's usually the brand I edge toward. I have Seagate drives that are well out of warranty that I use on a daily basis (one is almost 10 years old).
This drive series can be disassembled - the drive has a regular SATA connector, not hard wired to be a USB only drive.
There does seem to be quite a few negative reviews for Segate drives in general here.
I have no connection with Segate nor any other vested interest, but I would say I've had literally dozens of their drives over the years and only ever had one failure.
Also worth pointing out that almost every other make and model have similar comments, if not quite as many. I guess people are more likely to post negative comments when they have suffered a failure of some kind?
More recently, I've been using these 2.5" USB 5TB drives for video library use. They don't get hammered, but do cope perfectly well for this fairly demanding use.
No storage device is ever 100% reliable nor lasts forever. So, whilst I do sympathise with those folk who have lost valuable data, I would always advocate BACKUP, BACKUP and BACKUP!
Generally, have AT LEAST one copy of everything, preferably kept in another physical location. That way, when the inevitable eventually happens, you won't get that deep sick feeling that all your important data is lost forever.
I will keep buying these 2.5" USB3 drives as they are compact, fast (for my use) and cheap enough to have another one elsewhere as backup.
Don't get scared as I did about the cartoon box without Seagate labels and the drive in a clear plastic box that didn't say anything. The reason it's so cheap and doesn't come in a Seagate box is because it's a OEM product, it's intended to be bundled to other products from other companies. Anyways I checked the model number and corresponds to an existing Seagate model, the same as advertised. And to make sure, I tried to register the serial number and it works, there is no way a fake could copy all the non registered serial numbers into their products.
Bought this to replace some outdated hardware. Worked for about as long as it took to transfer on to it. Excessively allow transfer and freezes... Definitely makes me wonder about segate's QC.
Best part is that wants me to send it back before they replace it... What exactly am I supposed to do with all my data, Bezos? So I'm basically stuck with a bunk hard drive and have to buy another one so I don't have to deal with it anymore. Thanks Seagate.