Customer Ratings & Reviews

I was hesitant about spending so much on a external drive just for my Xbox one. I am sure glad I did, plenty of storage for your games.

I purchased this product to have space for pictures and movies. It is great to have more space and not need to have 3 different hard drives

This is the largest capacity drive I have, makes live easier keeping ally my data in one location.. For the price you can't go wrong!

I bought this to use as a NAS (connected via USB to my router). Very easy set up...Good speed...I might just have to get another one. :)

This product is just plug and play. Easy and simple to use just like your built in hard drive.

I have purchased several of these drives in the past and have always been happy with their performance. They seem reliable and fast.

quick and efficient installation and use. Reliable and support well known in the industry. Recommend to a friend a five out of five.

Needed a complete backup of my iMac before my failing hard drive gave out ran to best buy picked up the portable drive and was a great price. Now I use the drive to do for daily backups. The sad part is I new better and I got lucky.

I use this drive as a backup for multiple portable hard drives for other devices. Easy to use.. Fast and REASONABLY quiet. Great price

purchased on advise of sales person. Ask questions to ensure it would work for me and advise showed they had knowledge of product.

Got this to backup my desktop computer, First used it on a Windows PC but switched to an Apple iMac recently. Just plugged it into my iMac and it instantly recognized it and asked it I wanted to use it to as my backup device. It then reformatted it and set it to be my primary backup device. Works great!

Purchased this to expand memory on an XBOX one. Works just as described. Easy to install.

This drive, when added to my wireless router via USB 3.0, made for a very good device to backup my files/images. Would have added a 5th star if could backup system to drive via vendor provided software.

I bought (2) 5TB STDT5000100 external USB pc harddrives 18 Aug 2015. With the increase in capacity, storage reliability, track shingling (which is new to me, I can't keep up with all the advances), and heat/enclosure issues I have a new concern and I am wondering if anyone else has done the same and knows/found an answer or solution. Before I put a new drive into service I do a full format and use test software to determine the soundness of the drive. Formatting the drive to NTFS for Win7 has shown no issues. When I use Seagate SeaTools for Windows v1.4.02 I Identify the drive and save the info in Seagate's logfile and then I run the basic tests starting with the Short Disk Self Test, Short Generic Test, Fix All Fast Test, Fix All Long Test, and Long Generic Test. I have ran these tests on a laptop running Win7 64bit Home Premium and a desktop running Win7 64bit Professional using the supplied power brick and cables that came with the external drives. I have run the tests in normal boot mode, Diagnostic Start mode, and Safemode. The laptop is an everyday full of software computer and the desktop is new with a clean install and only some test software now installed. The hard drives PASS Short Disk Self Test, Short Generic Test, Long Generic Test (90% of the time), and Fix All Fast Test. The hard drives FAIL at 43% of the Fix All Long test EVERYTIME on both computers. I have talked to Seagate once so far and was told that their drives should pass all the tests. I was told that if a hard drive didn't pass a test to return it for an exchange. Also note, the drives do have a heat problem and even with Seagate stating that their drives are now good up to 60C, that statement was in DIRECT reference to INTERNAL drives and NOT external ENCLOSED drives. The S.M.A.R.T settings DO NOT reflect the new 60C setting and smart is constantly showing warnings. Seagate's own website has said that if any drive FAILS a smart sensor to back up the drive and replace it immediately (or in my case exchange it). Now here's the kicker: I have exchanged SEVEN of these drives and am currently on my 8th and 9th drives which have also FAILED!! I had a survey from Seagate 8 September 2015 because of my phone call and at the end of the survey it asked if I had anything to say, and stated "We read all comments and are concerned with the satisfaction of our customers and products" or something to that effect. I told them of my concern and didn't know what else to do and that I could use their help in resolving this issue. I told them that I have used other testing software and the drives passed 99% of the time. I also tried using Seagate's DOS SeaTools v2.2.3 but their bootable CD DID NOT include drivers for recognizing USB ports!! I CAN'T remove the drives from the enclosure because that would VOID the two year warranty. Just one of the reasons I bought the drive. Also, just because I NOW suspect that it is their Seagate SeaTools for Win that has a problem, WHY should I trust that guess/assumption? If Seagate's hard drive cannot PASS it's OWN test software, why should I trust the hard drive!?! I have NEVER had this dilemma before. Why do I stick to this hard drive? 1. I bought one at a GREAT price and the other at a good price. 2. I have a 4TB Seagate external model and IT passes all the tests (Except it runs hot). 3. I can exchange them locally without incurring return shipping charges (but that won't last much longer). 4. I NEED the storage that is why I bought two. Questions I and my friends have asked ourselves and are now putting this out to the public: 1. Is this just a bad lot or a bad model being dumped? 2. Is it the Seagate test software? 3. Do I trust a 5TB drive with my data even WITH a two year warranty? 4. Does Seagate REALLY read the survey comments, and if so, WHY haven't I heard from them (they do have my information)? 5. Is it the attitude that drives are cheap, and Seagate is about profit, so who cares about the customer's data and peace of mind? Btw, one reason to FULL format a new drive after purchase is that virus' have been found on new drives that were NOT checked and NO ONE needs a headache to deal with that. I'm just a computer user and I have enough troubles with OS, other hardware, software, and user fallibility/ignorance. I should be able to buy a hard drive from ANY manufacturer and have at LEAST two well-known free pieces of test software to validate the status and functioning of the drive. Am I wrong you tell me? I'm sorry for the long review. I don't know if this helps in the decision making to purchase or not. I would be interested in learning if the 6TB and 8TB drives have this problem or not. In a raid, at least there is redundancy, but for us non-raid poor people, standalone and trust is all we have. Seagate look me up in your customer DB if you have any ideas. Those who wish to share Ideas please leave a comment. Please be polite and courteous. Thank you all.

Needed more memory because of my vast media library and I am very happy No lockups. Very fast. I am very pleased and would recommend.

It works, its quiet. I set it up off of a network server and is effectively an NAS. Good size, good price.

Not only can you use this product on your computer but I bought mine for use with the xbox one. Set it up in less than five minutes.

I put it on my xbox one. I increased my storage capacity from 500 GB space to 5000 GB. Enough space for hundreds more of games.

This hard drive exceeded my expectations in terms of speed and reliability. the 5tbs is a good enough size for what I use it for.

I was going to get a portable laptop hard drive that was 2TB in size but had read that it would run hot and made the Xbox One run horribly. While at the store I saw a 2TB 3.5" external hard drive and this 5TB 3.5" external hard drive. This has a two year warranty and if it dies, no critical data is lost. Usually the 3.5" drives run cooler. I moved almost all 500GB of data to the external drive and have had no issues. I checked the feel of the drive after several hours of game play and the drive felt fine.