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Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars with 2392 reviews

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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 3 out of 5 stars

    Would recommend.

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

    Great value for the size of memory when comparing to other brands.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Nice

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

    Like it all I did was plunged it in it did the rest

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Nice external disk drive design

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

    The price is right and It had very excellent reviews.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great hard drive

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

    Big capacity, plug and play, seagate is the best .

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Sleek and functional

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

    Nice looking design and very functional, it does the jod at good transfer speed, i would reccomend

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Life saver

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

    It is 5GB drive. So it stores amazing amount of your pictures. As a photographer all it matters is a place to store my stuffs and secure it

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Reliability

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    A Great Drive

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

    The drive meets expectations. Over the past 5 or so years I've noticed that every drive that fails is WD. Seagate seem to live on. Maybe it's just me but...Seagate has been quite reliable lately.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    More than enough space to back everything up

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

    5TB is great for storing all my music and photos !!

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great backup drive

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

    Seagate is quality equipment, been using for years

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Large ext hard drive

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

    Hard drives are not the most exciting thing in the world but I gotta love them for what they do. This is a large capacity and sleek looking. Time will tell how long it holds up, but so far so good.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Usb

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great drive for regular backups

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

    Great drive for regular backups. Uses USB3 for good speed. The software was not easy to get setup, but now it works great.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Good and dependable

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

    Another back up had drive. Always go with Seagate.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Works

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

    What can I say, it just works as it is suppose to.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Good unit

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

    This unit works just as you would expect althought it was a bit higher in price than the WD unit.

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    It just works

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

    Bought this drive to backup a production server. Install was plug and play, no extra software to mess around with. The sheer amount of storage for the price is great. Happy with the purchase.

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    So far, so good

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

    Grabbed this on sale for Black Friday, so I've only had it for a couple months. Comes with it's on separate power supply. I use it as my XBox One storage, and so far I have no complaints.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Usb

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Easy to install

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

    Good unit for external backup of a fileserver, especially one of the new classes of servers that would typically have a USB 3.0 port (although this drive is backward compatible with USB 2.0)

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Works like a charm

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

    Purchased the Seagate 5 TB Desktop back-up to store 5 TB of video media and it worked flawlessly. I have been using Seagate drives for many years and recommend both the internal and external.

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    5T is enough for me

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

    A friend told me the Seagate 5 Terabyte external drive would have enough room for him to put all of his downloaded music and movies on....plus some. He was right. Now I have his collection.

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Big drive

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

    This is a big, quality drive that gets the job done. I deal with large Photoshop files all day, and this gives me plenty of space for the files without having to archive them very often:

    I would recommend this to a friend