Customer Ratings & Reviews

I recently purchased a cheap HP from bestbuy to use as a HTPC, I bought this to add my movies, tv shows, and pictures to use on Kodi and/or windows media center. I still can't decide which one I like better. Since I'm not very savvy when it comes to Windows 10 or Windows anything I used my Mac to format this to work on either, mainly because I have another Seagate external I purchased years ago to use with MacBook Air, that one got added to iMac which has all my content on it so I basically copied everything to the new one to use on PC. They do make these for Mac only but I'm not sure why anyone would pay more for that since they can obviously be formatted for either. Simple set up, simple format, looks sleek! I velcroed mine to the side of the case. I would definitely recommend this to anyone that wants to put music, photos, movies..etc on to keep their main hardrive clean.

I rate this product as a NOVICE scenario for the buyer and user. I do not know an extreme amount about this kind of item. I know I use them because I was told they would solve my problem of losing data from computer crashes and whatever else happens to cause you to have your computer stop working for you. This is the second type of Backup Hard Drive I have purchased in the last 3 years. The first, about 1 1/2 yrs ago, had a larger memory, It was a product that was very user friendly, for someone like myself, as it told me what to do when and why, and I was able to save my data and put it in folders and find the specific data I might need again, easily. This unit does not do that. It has a smaller memory than the first, but it is also more reasonably priced than the first. Best Buy carries the same one I bought last time but this time I did not have the funds to buy the same thing again, especially since the only reason I was buying another was because I could not find a (THE) cord for the unit. Buying another cord was as much as buying this unit - so obviously this was the smarter purchase. For me anyway. I am not knowledgeable enough to know if this is better because I can not find the data I put on it. It is there because there is memory missing, but it does not allow me to put, say, John here in this file and Susie here in that file and then leave the rest of the gang in a big folder until I can make smaller folders. (Or maybe it does but I have not figured that out yet.) I bought this because I was afraid my laptop was going to bite the dust and I wanted to put everything I could somewhere so that "someone" could find it to out it on the next one, should this happen to me. This unit has the data on it I hope. I did a back up twice thinking I would have 2 files that were each a "backup". It did not do that. it just (seems) to rewrite over the last save - the new data from the new save. Not sure that is good, but I must make myself be at peace knowing at least there is some of my data out there somewhere for me to get to - hopefully.

I was looking for an external HDD 1TB for storage purposes including personal files backup. This device complies with what I was looking for: USB 3.0, only one power cable, small, light weight. I am trying it on and so far it works wonderful.

Small enough to carry with you and very easy to use. After having two flash drives fail, I am hoping this does not fail too. I used it to move my photos to, to give me some room on my hard drive.

A resident of Arkansas who has personally experienced the catastrophic damage capability from severe thunderstorms and tornado, these portable hard drives were purchased to be used for off site work back ups. This seagate drive interfaces flawlessly with Window 7 Professional operating system. It is user friendly & the USB 3 speed allows me to work in Filemaker Pro and Microsoft office files on the drive without transferring to the computer.

I can't remember the last time I had so much memory. The Seagate 1T is so full of memory that I decided to get a second one, because if my memory proves correctly, "If you you don't have it backed up in more that one place, it doesn't really exist".

I needed an external hard drive to back up my Windows 7 before installing Windows 10. One TB was plenty of space, so I bought the Seagate Backup Plus for $39. I was impressed with the speed using USB 3.0. I was also pleased that they included a USB cable in the package. As Seagate is a well known and trusted brand, you can't go wrong buying this drive.

It is nice and slim and able to save all your pictures documents data everything that you need to be saved in and it's compact to where you can carry it with you or you can store it in the drawer

I am currently taking on-line classes and have to save my assignments at work during lunch, and finish them at home. It also at transferring files from PC to MAC.

I love the ease of using my backup drive by Seagate. It is quick and simple to use. Great price as well.

Works great for back up and storage or whatever you want to put on it. Very easy to use. I am using it on a Windows 8.1 laptop.

It was very easy to transfer all my things on Seagate. I feel at peace knowing all my info and pics are stored.

We are grandparents of young children. Our cell phones were filled with pictures and we couldn't take any more. We needed to empty the phones to free up space so we could capture more "precious memories" The Seagate was the perfect solution--easy to use and has lots of storage capacity!

I used this 1tb hard drive inside my ps3 getting rid of the old 120 gb. Sea gate is the only brand to use . I have upgraded two ps3’s, 3 ps4’s , 1 Wii U ( have to use a 2.0 drive) with no issues .Western digital will cause you problems be warned!

I back up all my photo work and have no problems with this drive. Install was fast and easy.

The backups from the computer to the drive seem to work, but backing up from a smartphone via the internet only seems to work if you have the program actively running on the computer, and not just in the background, and the app needs to be active on the mobile device as well. If either of those are not the case, no backups happen. As of today, Oct 2nd, no backup has been completed since Sept 27th, even though it's set to run every night, automatically.

I have a collections of more than 3tb of mp3s and karaoke musics and I'm using this Seagate - Backup Plus Slim 1tb hard drive to backup my collections... it's easy to use and compact for safe keeping.

Perfect for storing many items, photos, I didn't want to load on my PC.

Does a great job of storing files off of the computer hard drive.

After I transferred my data from the laptop I was able to sync my voice memos and pictures from the phone. This hard drive did the trick.