Customer Ratings & Reviews

I was looking for a USB Portable Drive with enough storage space to back up my iPad Air 2, my Laptops 2 HD's, Smartphone, and my Desktops 3 HD's. Well this Seagate lets me plug it into my Linksys WRT1900ACS Router and forget about it. I can back up from any Mobile or Stationary Device, Mac or PC, connected to my Wi-Fi system, using the Seagate Dashboard. This little drive works flawlessly, and, has a ton of space. What's also COOL, is I can unplug it and take it with me at any time I want. NO EXTRA POWER CORD NEEDED. It runs off the 5 volts through the USB cable. I like this little drive because it fits in my shirt pocket. The only thing I can nit pick is, the ON LED light doesn't blink during data transfer like my Toshiba does, but again, no one makes a 4 TB Totally Portable USB Drive except Seagate right now. Being involved with programs in ATM Machines for 30 years and computers for over 40 years I have never had a Seagate HD I did not like. I recommend this little drive, if you are looking for a TON of space, and is TOTALLY PORTABLE. And remember Seagate has been in the Hard Drive Storage Devices Business FOREVER !

This drive is perfect for me to take to and from work. Small physical size with large 4TB capcity is perfect to carry in your briefcase. Fast enough USB 3 performance. Good for larger file sizes. NOTE: This is the drive to buy if you own Mac but use Parallels for PC files - Seagate has a great driver that allows you use the drive for both operating systems which is nice so you don't have to format the drive for format Mac OS Extended Journaled. It would be nice if it had a longer USB 3 cable, otherwise I would give it 5 stars. I believe it is 12" - 16" long so you need to put it very close to your computer. I'm not sure about reliability or durability as time will be the only guide to that part of the ownership experience. I would recommend this product to a friend!

Love the convenience of the super slim external drive by Seagate. All of this memory in such a small device!

The product has four TB in of data space that can fit in your pocket! And at a reasonable price.

This is probably the easiest backup I've ever set up. The only issue I had is that when I went to try to find my pictures it was very difficult to locate them because there was nothing on there pointing the way. So I clicked and I clicked and I did finally discover them I'm still testing it out to try to figure out how it all works but it seems to be doing fine and I sure like the amount of storage it has. Presumably when you get one of these exposed to get 200 GB of storage from one drive I have not been able to figure that out yet.

It's excelent and it capacity is enormous and enough for my files, movies and photos.

This is a little hard drive with a large capacity. Simple to use and reformat for Mac. I accidentally tested the impact resistance when I dropped it from about chest high from my computer bag and not even a scratch on it. It was cheaper than other brands. Transfer speeds are good with the USB 3.0 interface.

Great drive pulled it out of the case and used it in my laptop after minor modding to the hdd bay. It's a single 2.5 x 15mm 4tb drive

The drive is not a Backup Plus Slim. The drive is a Backup Plus (see attached photo for details). Backup Plus Slim: 12.1 mm thick Backup Plus: 20.35 mm thick

Works well with Mac and Time Machine, but you must first partition the drive through disk utilities. Great size for 4TB storage, but ran hot during the first Time Machine backup. Since there is no/minimal competition for 4TB portable drives, it's quite pricey, so I would not recommend it to a friend, but rather tell them to purchase a desktop model, unless, like me, they need portability. I've only had it for one day, but past Seagates have lasted well.

I always buy Seagate external hard drives. They are very reliable. This 4 tb hard drive is surprisingly small, so easy to store and I love having the red color. I tape notes of contents to all my hard drives, but this one is used as the primary back up of my most recent files and I think the color is a great way to identify it quickly! Best Buy shipped the hard drive to me packed in a small heavy carton with air packets inside. Absolutely great packing job so that the hard drive was very well protected while in transit. This did not happen with another VERY large online company that sent me a similar hard drive in a paper envelope! After I called and explained to them that the item should be protected while in transit, they did a return and replace and sent another one in a paper envelope!! I returned that one for a refund. Best Buy's care in packing shows me that they are thinking and caring about the items I buy! I am very pleased with this purchase and recommend that if you buy items like this, you buy them from Best Buy! And no need to worry about price because Best Buy will price match prices from other retailers!

I was not expecting such a transfer speed from this device. It amazed me when I started transferring video from my laptop to it, moving gigabytes in just seconds. Lightweight and small, and at a great prices, i Can´t ask for more. Time will tell about this disk´s durability, hope it is as good as its brand promies up front

USB3 speed in a compact, portable drive with 4TB of space for a decent price. Glad it was in stock.... Purchased drive on a Fri night, backed up data from a 1TB drive on Sat, and the 1TB died Sun.

I am hooked on using this 4TB USB drive for storage. I do not use the backup programs that come pre-installed in these drives. I reformat the drive and use them from file storage of videos, photos, and graphics. I have four of these 4TB Seagate drives and three 2TB drives. I have never had a failure using any of them. Easy and inexpensive way to provide backup storage of important files. Need tp open a file for use --- just plug in the USB drive and it is ready. Best of all they are very portable between computers whether at home or elsewhere.

Lots of storage, transfer rate is awesome. It is compact and pocket size. Easy to carry and store. I have satisfied with this product. Best Buy always giving best deal. Thanks to Best Buy!!!

I have carried an external back up drive on work trips for years and the 2TB was filling up. This is only slightly larger than the 2TB and runs fine on my 2 year old laptop. So far completely happy!

I got this drive to replace/add to my current Seagate 500GB drive, which has become too small. This drive holds my backups for all of my computers, pads, and phones. The price was great and size of this unit is compact. It seems durable and the setup was easy. I am not a big fan of the software that comes with it. I prefer to just access from File Manager and click and drag.

Within in the past two years, it seems that Seagate drives have been more reliable on the Mac platform than WD drives. With 4TBs, I can partition this drive to serve as at persistent Time Machine backup, as well as a storage destination for day-to-day documents and projects.

I got this for the sole purpose of using this as an extra drive for the xbox one since the game downloads are big and more recently the xbox one has become backwards compatible thus needing tons of space. Simply said it works perfectly!

I use to drive because of its very large storage capacity, small size, portability, and reliability. I use it to save data from my personal and professional life and has the capacity to meet my needs for at least the next several years.