Customer Ratings & Reviews

If you are looking for an inexpensive, well performing external drive, this is a good purchase. After running benchmarks it meets its published specifications. The drive initially was formatted for use with the Windows OS' file systems out of the box, I however formatted to use this drive with my Macbook Pro. I think something the industry is starting to forget, drives fail and large drives fail causing the loss of a tremendous amount of data. In the future, I would like to see more drives allowing options of either more data and or more protection. An enclosure with 4 x 1tb drives and the option of hardware raid configurable as multiple mirrored pairs, or perhaps an option to use three of the drives in a 1tb Raid 5 array and one as a stand alone 1tb drive. Gives me options as the end user to build in some very good data protection. As it stands, with this drive, I would need to purchase three and need a minimum of three usb 3.0 ports in order to software raid five array them or two separate drives in order to perform drive mirroring. All of this aside, this drive is easy to use, does include some diagnostic testing software utilities and a backup utility, though I choose to use the Mac's built in "TimeMachine".

I have been using the Seagate Backup Plus for very long time and I really love it!!! Seagate Backup Plus has exactly what you need to store or backup all your files. This. Hard Drive is very reliable, fast, quite and 2 years manufacture warranty. Seagate is a trusted brand you cannot go wrong!!!

This is a very nice compact back up drive. It was on clearance, so the price was good for the storage size (4TB). I use it to back up my Mac & additional storage for movies. Installation was easy, except it would not let me set up a separate storage file until I had created a back up storage file (and backed everything up). It is a very quite drive. I never even know when it is running.

I have quite a few Seagate Drives -- 1 TB, 2 TB, 3 TB and this one -- the 4 TB. The 1 TB is a portable and works fine, but the 2 & 3 TB drives both failed and are sitting in the garage. This one, however works just great and it has taken me a long time to exhaust its capabilities. I do not use any of the software that came with it, but it works well with the Mac's Time Machine (and I had to format it for MAC). It also works with the PC. It is not bulky or unattractive, but since I have under 500 GB left, I will have to replace it soon and I will have to do some research to find out what is available these days, storage-wise. Some of the earlier models had a Firewire connection, but this one only had a USB out of the box and it is not particularly fast, nor particularly slow. Other than the dwindling space, which is not the fault of Seagate, I have had no problems with it.

I bought this drive because of my lack of current storage. My backup drives were full, ones I thought had enough space to last a lifetime. Wrong. I was looking at the 2g but decided to just upgrade so I didn't have to deal with this situation again anytime soon. Backed up everything and the drive still has free space! I love the design of this that it allows the drive to breathe with multiple air holes. I use technology enough to be frustrated with electronics not cooling properly. So far it hasn't been overly warm with use! I made a good decision and I've had successful with Seagate in the past. I'd say go for it if you are looking for an upgrade!

Seagate Backup hard drive is an excellent product to safeguard your files ( videos, pictures, documents ). It is quiet, reliable, fast and with a large capacity. I have three of them.

Easy setup for either PC or Mac. We have both platforms. Haven't set up the "Lyve" feature yet. Don't really need the 200 GB of OneDrive storage as we each have a TB with Office 365, but a nice little perk nonetheless. Have had good results with the Seagate brand in the past, so this was an easy choice to make. Good price, good reputation. Wish they had more than a two year warranty, but we have redundant backup, so all is good.

Good price on a large-capacity external hard drive that does not take up much space on my desk. It's very easy to set up and use. I use it to store backup copies of important files from my home computer (documents, pictures, videos, and other data files) and then I keep it in a location other than my home. I have other (older) Seagate external hard drives I use for the same purpose on other computers. Seagate makes good stuff. I have never had a problem with any of their hard drives.

I love my Seagate-Backup Plus 4TB External drive. My C-Drive was full and all of my videos, pics and music had to be either deleted or I could not export another one. I bought the Backup Plus external drive to free up my C-Drive and I love it! It holds all of my vid, pics and music and I still have plenty of room on the external drive to add more!

Great portable drive with plenty of holes for air flow. I love this slim design because it easily fits into my computer bag. Comes with software that makes syncing easy and effortless. The large size is great for all of our files. The low cost of this drive made it perfect for me

Nice hard drive, quiet and fast. I've purchased Seagate drives before and they been really great.

I was using a 2TB portable drive to keep my files, and was running out of space. The 4TB was the best $/TB at the time. This unit follows the power scheme of my laptop so it is active when my laptop is docked at work, and idle/powered down when i have to take it home. The read/write speeds are excellent and match USB 3.0 markings.

I think 4 TB will do for now. The real reason I bought this drive was to save the 3000+ photos on my iPhone. There was an app for the phone and an interface for the computer. It did a pretty good job. The software succeeded in downloading all my photos but missed 2/3rds of my videos. I'm sure I can copy them to the drive but it would have nice been nice if it had worked as advertised. Worth the money in any case.

Once again Best Buy had the best price. On sale plus price matched Amazon. Set up is simple. Backup software is free but you have to download it. Software is OK. No fan on the hard drive but have been running it for a few weeks and it has not gotten hot. All in all very happy with purchase.

The Xbox one's internal hard drive fills up within no time. Saw a review of a similar high speed HDD made by Seagate and decide to give this model a try, have not regrets if doing so as yet. It's fast and reliable, so long as you keep it in a nice cool place.

I bought this to copy files from my computer network that had well over 1.5TB of information. I added another 750GB of photos that I'd acquired over the last 15 years. It was very easy to set up and tHis hard drive should give me enough capacity for all I need.

I am giving this a 4 star rating because I have not set up the storage to my desktop. However this is why I purchased the product. I needed extra computer storage for my computer because quickbooks takes up most of the space on my desktop and causes it to move very slow. I am hoping this extra storage helps with my computer speed.

My Seagate external hard drives help me keep my files organized and safe! They are so easy to use - just connect them and you're ready to go! They are reliable, too! I won't buy any other brand! Seagate is the best!

4TB of external storage is exactly what I needed! My Xbox One Console has 1 TB and now that I have purchased this I have a total of 5TB which should hold me down for awhile. It works great and has no problem out of it. I am a satisfied customer.

i bought this external drive to expand my internal drive of 3 Gb. i dd a little shopping around and this one was on sale at the time and the number of gigs for the price was nice. so far i only used it to transfer file and it has been sitting on the shelf until the next transfer so that is why i gave it a 4 star only.