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Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars with 2392 reviews

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    Rating 4.5 out of 5 stars

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    Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars

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    Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars

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96%would recommend to a friend

Customers are saying

Customers are enthusiastic about the Backup Plus Desktop 5TB External Hard Drive's large storage capacity and ease of use. Its reliability and relatively quiet operation are also frequently praised, along with the competitive price and fast USB 3.0 transfer speeds. While some users found the bundled software to be problematic, most customers reported a positive experience.

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  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage capacity

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Awesome extra storage

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    My kid used the 1tb on the Xbox one. So I picked up this hard drive for extra storage well worth it.

    I would recommend this to a friend
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    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Easy to use

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I bought this to transfer my files from a mac to my pc - easy to use right out the box. Just drag and drop! I would definitely recommend this item.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great drive for the price

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Very easy to set up and utilize, was even able to share it with the other computers in the house. I am utilizing this a storage for photos and videos

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage capacity

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Seagate Backup External Hard drive

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I am very happy with my new Seagate Backup External Hard drive. It is crazy how affordable 5 terabytes of storage is these day. Thanks Best Buy!

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage capacity

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Top Drive

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Needed a large drive to back up 3 other hard drives. Easy to set up and adequate for a while... Til I run out of room.... Ya never have enough

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage capacity

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    I use for my xbox one works great

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Works great I highly recommend Seagate for storing game info for serious gamers, 5tb is perfect for me to save games and download movies and more .

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage capacity

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Does the trick

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This was purchased for my son to use with his Xbox One. He has more storage than he will ever need.

    I would recommend this to a friend
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    Reliability

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great storage!

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I've discovered that Seagate has produced the most reliable back - up and storage ever. It's the only external drive I've ad 0 problems with!

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage capacity

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great external Hard drive

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Bought this as a gift for my boyfriend. He said it worked great to store his 500 GB worth of data from his MacBook Pro. Would definitely recommend.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage capacity

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Very inexpensive Hard Drive!

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    The hard drive is great for the money! The software you can download is very easy to use. Also you have many ways to back up phones and computers.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage capacity

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Serves me well

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Needed another backup storage in addition to my 2TB external RAIDED storage backup. This external HD serves me well and serving as my photo storage.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great External Drive

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    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I am using this drive for the Time Machine Backup on my Macbook Pro - it performs extremely well. Plenty of capacity, easy to install and setup...

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage capacity

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Doing the job I bought it for

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This drive is sitting upstairs connected to my router as a backup drive for Veeam Free. It is working beautifully and I am very happy with it.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use, Storage capacity

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    ...a MUST have for extra storage!

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Seagate makes some of the best external storage devices. This is my 3rd one and my first one works just as good as the new one! It works excellent for music and video storage, being a DJ, you are constantly adding more and more without having to delete. It's pretty much plug and play. Nothing else to say but excellent storage for the price and quality!

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage capacity

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Big storage, easy to swallow price.

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This item is perfect for extensive storage. I purchased this to merge all of my smaller 1TB drives into one. Great price for the amount of storage.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Fast and better then Western Digital

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This device is faster and really user friendly I used it for a Mac but you can use it with a pc also. Reformatting was easy, downloading to the device was flawless

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use, Reliability

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great Hard Drive. awesome capacity!

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I use this in a Mac and PC environment. This hard drive was perfect for me because I was able to set both OS Extended Journaled and NTFS partitions. So I am using this as a backup for multiple systems and I leave it connected via another desktop to the network so I can access the files. Great drive, easily setup using os tools as well as those included.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage capacity

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Increase storage space

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I am always interested to have more storage space. This is a great drive to provide that. At this point it is too early to tell if this product is reliable or not.

    I would recommend this to a friend
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    Usb

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Does what I asked it to do

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This is a simple external USB 3.0 Hard drive. You plug it in and it basically works. Nothing really special in terms of fanciness. It works.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Easy setup

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Easy setup just remember if you have a Mac OS to format it so it can be read by both operating systems AND you can do time machine back ups

    I would recommend this to a friend
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