This was great value for money. I needed to upgrade my external drive and this fit the bill perfectly. My only suggestion to anyone purchasing is to consider partitioning the drive before they start using. It seems to work much quicker.

This hard drive is quiet and very fast when pluged up to a usb3.0 port. I have 2TB of tv & movies on it now and a lot of music. The price was great and so easy to use after it's set up. Almost wish i'd have bought 2 of them

In general I'm a novice at computing but I bought this wanting another storage option for all my music, photos and movie files. After plugging this into my computer and installing the appropriate software I easily partitioned this drive into 3 separate drives, 2 of them being a single terabyte which music goes on one, photos the other. The 3rd partition which is the remainder of the available drive space will be for movies. Everything went smooth and so far I'm having no problems transferring files. Very pleased with this drive.

Pro: A simple external backup drive with more room than MANY users are likely to need (4 TB). Preference items: Uses a horizontal format: stable, but takes up more desk surface than a vertical format. (This one sits next to CPU Tower - Off Floor, but not on desk top.) Lacks the "% Full" LEDS our 2 TB unit, but that always seemed more gimmick than useful. Potential Con: USB 3.0 interface only. Backwards compatible to USB 2 of course, but a) not as fast as 3.1 (assuming your system has one!); and b) a Firewire port might be nice if your system has one of those & is short on USB ports. Disappointing (more-or-less - as this was expected): Don't care for the included Seagate BU Software. YMMV, & 3rd Party programs are readily available at prices ranging from Free to $$$. Still, had slight hope for improvement.

This drive does exactly how its described. Its silent and non-intrusive. The LED is small and white and goes off when the PC is turned off. I did not miss the USB hubs that the big brother of this model has. But I would prefer the smaller USB 3 models that do not use external power and take away that limited power ports from my power strip. I haven't tried this HDD as a network storage, but this could be an excellent candidate your router USB port with network storage capabilities.