Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this for some extra room for games on my Xbox One. Works great. Plenty of storage and very fast.

I was a little apprehensive about buying this product. Some of the reviews on other Seagate external hard drives (the 6/8 TB size) left me a bit wary, and considering WD. I needed more space though, and already had several other external hard drives. I know how hard drives can be, and regularly back up my back ups. I am also using a USB hub, which I won't need now because this unit has one built in. My hope was that with this new external, I'd not only have plenty more storage, but could potentially get rid of the hub and clean up my messy cables. Although the description listed the ports as USB 3, I was slightly alarmed upon opening the package, and seeing black USB ports (which much more often signify USB 2, as opposed to the blue color that more typically comes with USB 3 ports/connectors). I fired up USBViewer and was relieved to find that they were reporting as USB 3 ports, and I also transferred some data to confirm that things were being transferred at USB 3 speeds. Fortunately, everything was fine. I was nervous about plugging in two other USB 3 external hard drives into the ports on the front, but the USB controller on it handled them fine. I've also read some worries about the Seagates getting hot, but even after a number of hours of continuous operation (transferring over 5 TB onto it), while it was a bit warm, it was not concerningly so (seemed to be reasonably in line with my WD drives after such use).

Great price for the 8 terabytes. This machine i bought for my Mac laptop to keep backups in case failure ever happens. The 8 TB capacity is far more than my mac's 500 GB space

My document_video_audio files have been scattered over several smaller external hard drives. This unit has allowed me to consolidate everything onto a single hard drive and still have considerable room for the addition of future files. This is my second Seagate drive. Have been very happy with the first one.

I am using this with my Xbox One X as storage expansion, and it works perfectly. The Xbox recognized it immediately and provisioned all of the storage into the storage pool. It is useful that the device has USB ports, which can be used to charge controllers.

Took me moments to set this bad boy up. No noticeable lag when using the front USB ports to add additional USB Hard Drives. Perfect for storing movies for future editing. A great way to massively improve your storage needs.

I was running out of storage on my Xbox One external hard drive, so I upgraded to this one and have doubled my storage capacity so I'm able to download every game and app for immediate use, whenever I want. If you have more than about 3-5 Digital games on your Xbox, this is a MUST HAVE!

Easily hooked this up to my Netgear Nighthawk R8000 and use it throughout my network for storing my files. I retired a Seagate 4TB that ran for 5 years plus and it is still good. Just wanted something big and new.

This drive was an impulse buy when I saw the storage amount and then the price. I've been very happy with the performance, and the added USB 3.0 Hub on the front has been a welcome addition to my desk. I was finally able to consolidate all my movies on to one drive!

8TB Seagate for $169?! Great price! Connected to iMac and backed up 5TB of data no problem. The drive makes a bit more noise compared to the 3TB, 4TB and 5TB Seagate Bakup Plus drives I have, but not bad. Same drive at Micro Center is on sale for $235, normally $270!

Needed something that I could use as a storage with my new iMac and this worked out perfectly. No issues with setting up and super fast for my needs.

I'm looking for a storage for my music and backup a few files as well. This more-than-enough Seagate - Backup Plus Hub 8tb External Usb 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive worked as fast as expected and streamed my Hi Resolution music without a glitch. Highly recommended.

While a bit larger than a stand alone External HDD (though by no means huge) , the USB Hub makes it worth while. It is as fast as a stand alone WD 8TB external HDD, and the excellent implementation of the USB Hub merits the 5 Star rating.

Works perfectly as a large backup drive. having the additional USB ports is definitely a bonus. aesthetically pleasing on a desktop and handy for phone charging or quickly booting up/transferring files to a mobile or flash drive.

Great large sized drive to backup my computer and all the large files for my photography. I've had it for about a year and a half now and it's never given me any issues or hiccups. It's a good, physically small, sized drive with a LOT of storage space that takes up minimal space on the desktop to keep plugged in, all the time. It's a little on the pricey side, but I think it's come down a little since I bought it.

This the second Seagate external drive that I have owned and I chose this one because of the reliability of the one I have had for a few years, and because it has a small footprint and a huge capacity (8TB). Install and setup is a breeze. The only thing I would like to see Seagate add to their drives is password protection, such as the WD external drives have.

Purchased this because i wanted the white one as it seems to match better with the Mac system. I also have the black unit for my windows system. Either way - you can use any of the systems for windows or mac if you are willing to format them and partition them up as needed. Software can be download online for either one. Anyhow, Needed the 8TB so i can keep variations in history. Works great and have been using Seagate backup for years without issues. Would recommend. Would like to see a SSD option that runs on USB-C (Thunderbolt 3) as this could be a much improved speed. Overall though very happy with purchase.

I purchased this for a backup drive for my iTunes library and other storage. It works fine, tested as fast as any other USB 3 drive I have tested, and the USB ports on the front have proven to be very useful!

Great seagate, so awsome...have no space left cuz I used it all, but thats a good thing...fit what I needed to fit...This hard drive had z very good price for a sale but still worth the norm price

I store a lot of phographs in both jpg and raw formats. The previous 2 years, I bought 5 TB drives, but bumped it up to 8 TB this year. I had it several weeks, and no problems, and over 2 TB of data is on the drive.