Customer Ratings & Reviews

just what i needed to save my images. very easy to use.

So far no problems and very easy to use. I highly recommend it.

Looks and operates as needed, great price, bought on line

It's everything that I expected, I recommend this.

I been using this for my iMac. It has been great choice.

This hard drive works great and glad I got 5 tb for basically same price as a 3 tb only use for my game data for my play station 4

This an item I bought for my 17year old son because I had my own..this is good for him XBOX games..He Loves It..

Pros: outstanding storage Cons: just a bit bulky

Speed up your computer with this convenient buddy. So you don’t have to erase certain programs you live!

Love this Portable hard Drive. It was easy to use and has great capacity for backing up all the documents including photos of my computer. Best Buy also price matched to another store so I am happy with my purchase

Great backup medium. Super quick. You can't go wrong.

Seagate - Backup Plus 5TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Black In the past I have used modest capacity 256 to 512 GB SSD and portable hard drives to backup individual windows laptops and desktops that belong to our household. Each drive dedicated to an individual computer often a laptop that was used for travel. But now there is much less travel and the number of Windows PCs has dropped to only six for the family. So for economy I decided to go to a single larger capacity portable hard drive for routine backup at home. And to re-purpose the portable SSD drives as recovery drives for each of the laptops creating a recovery set on a SSD drive when a laptop will be away from home for some time. For routine backup of the PCs I got the Seagate - Backup Plus 5TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive. The Seagate – Backup Plus costs about the same amount as the SSD drives I used previously for backup to and it is much larger physically but it has more then 10 times the storage capacity at about the same cost as a portable SSD drive. It comes with a 16 inch cable with an USB connector on one end and a drive specific connector on the other. The Seagate – Backup Plus 5TB is just over 0.8 inches thick and weighs a little over 8 oz.. All of the portable SSD drives I used were thinner then 0.4 inches and weighed less then half the weight of the Seagate drive making them much more suitable to carry while traveling. The Seagate – Backup Plus 5TB came with a Windows software loader that goes to the Seagate Web site registers the product and downloads an installation of the Seagate Toolkit backup and Mirror software utility and then creates a backup plan to incrementally backup the PC data to the Backup Plus drive when activated. Toolkit did not setup to support a full system backup but Windows 10 System Image Backup utility included with Windows 10 accomplishes that nicely so it wasn't necessary to purchase any backup software. The drive measures 4.5 inches by 3.1 inches by 0.82 inches and about 9 ounces not including the weight of the cable. The case is black plastic on the bottom and sides with a black brushed aluminum top. In operation the drive will just warm to the touch slightly. Transfer from the PC hard drive to the Seagate is at speeds of 45MB to 50MB per second from my desktop to the Seagate Backup Plus. I have had the Seagate - Backup Plus 5TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive for 5 days now and have built Windows 10 System Image backups for one desktop and one laptop and one full data backup set for each of the two PCs using about 360 GB of storage on the Seagate drive. Subsequent incremental backups for each system will be much smaller and I don't see any shortage of storage capacity for all 6 PCs since over 93% of the storage space remains available which should be enough for a couple years for all 6 PCs.. So far the Seagate - Backup Plus 5TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive looks like it is going to be a very cost and time effective backup system for our family Windows 10 PCs. I am giving the Seagate 5 stars for economy and effectiveness.

Have had MANY Seagate external / portable HDDs. This one has the largest capacity...not all TVs will like this drive, Samsung specific I guess. Had to reformat to get to work. Speeds are average on writing to it.

Great backup for every need plus some! This small portable drive is great for taking needed files off site for safe backup. Never loose files again!

I am having absolutely no problems at all. Solid and reliable performance. And I use it every single day. Have not experience not one single issue.

Need backup for my newly purchased Apple - MacBook Pro - 13" Display with Touch Bar - Intel Core i5 - 8GB Memory - 256GB SSD (Latest Model) - Silver.

Great drive, small compact, and durable. Newest connection cable seems to be more reliable. software program is very user friendly.

Seagate has always made quality Hard Drives. This is the second one I purchased.

.... I use this as an external boot up disc for my mac book pro, very easy to reformat and clone using Apple's Disk Utility .....

This drive is extremely easy to use and functions well. Built well and durable. Software package is user friendly.