Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

Plug and play with Linux. I'm currently using Fedora 26 and it auto-mounts the disk when you plug it into USB. No Linux specific backup program, but you don't need one; Linux includes plenty of standard free backup options!

I use this as an extension to my seagate personal cloud. It works great. It's pretty straightforward. Keep in mind, this isn't portable so it requires to be plugged into a power outlet. It's fast and reliable. Good value.

Very easy to set up. The included software was nice but I formatted the drive and after using it to transfer some other big files around it's still working well. Very quiet and will buy again if it goes on sale.

Drive has worked every time I have connected it to a computer. I have owned the drive for 6 weeks. The drive has been quiet and I have seen reasonable transfer speeds (better than other external drives I own).

Excellent external HDD at an unusually low price, with free shipping. Already formatted NTFS: ready to use. Quiet and compact, it runs cool to the touch. I should have gotten two!

It is a nice external USB 3.0 Hard Drive for all user. The product is compact. The reading & writing speed of the hard drive is satisfied. It well worth the money.

This drive is very quick and reliable. I use it to store a ton of pictures with the 4 TB. Would recommend to anyone! Thank you Best Buy!

Needed a way to backup my files after suffering a computer crash. This has plenty of room to back up all my files and an easy interface.

This is a great deal. A lot of storage for a low price; the only downside is that it needs a power supply, but that's fine.

This is a great external hard drive. It was every easy to setup (just plug it in and go). The drive is fast.

Plenty of space to store your data as back up. Speed is fast. Seagate is also a good brand. No worry at all.

The hard drive was quick to set up and has plenty of storage especially for the price. The only drawback is that when it's on there are times when it vibrates slightly; enough to feel a slight rumble while using my mouse. It's definitely not a deal breaker, but I often have my phone on my desk and it often feels like I'm getting a notification on my phone, but really it's the hard drive vibrating slightly.

Quick USB 3 response and ample storage for the money

Compact size with 3T of storage space at low price

Greek for the price the size is not too big just right to carry with you and the price was unbeatable at $79.99 4 4 terabytes this is incredible it's fast secure and works for everything