Customer Ratings & Reviews

I haven't used it much It was a gift and I would have preffered the one that is mac / pc

A good drive, but not extremely sturdy. Dropped flat from approximately 2ft above a wooden floor and it toasted the drive. Admittedly, my fault, but have had other drives of the same type emerge from worse unscathed. Upon opening found that it is essentially a bare drive with a tight-fitting plastic shell. Works well, but treat it gently.

Slow connection but good capacity. The only thing that needs is a usb port.

Product told me transfer of photos was successfully completed. Unfortunately, I deleted them from my hard drive before I confirmed successful transfer. Pictures DID NOT transfer. I bought this product in the past and had not had a problem so I was surprised by this.

This is the second Seagate to corrupt my photos. I called customer support and they told me it was my camera or computer. However, I've gotten a new computer since it happened the first time, and it's also photos from my phone that are corrupted. This representative did not even try to resolve my issue, or understand where I was coming from. The first representative from a year ago atleast tried to help me. Seagate's are overrated in my book and I'm done dealing with them and losing pictures.

I dropped mine on the carpet and it froze some of the files. My wife has one and had the same issue. Very light drops and caused damage. Go with a better quality.

I bought this product in May 2016 and it stopped working properly in February 2017. Hardeive is spinning but no computer can recognize. Hoping seagate can pull my files.

I"m hoping that i just got a product that was assembled on a late Friday after noon before closing. This product had very high ratings that I could find before I purchased this hard drive. This was to be used as a media drive and only used maybe a half dozen times. Well today while i was trying to save a new movie to it, it mechanically failed. Caused me to lose all my movies and other media files.

This is a great drive for backups or data storage. I find Seagate drives to be much more reliable and long-lived than Western Digital. In use, USB3 is about twice as fast as USB2, not the ten-times you might have been led to expect. However, even twice as fast makes a big difference when you are talking about 2 Terabytes. The drive can get hot during heavy operations, I stand it on edge at times for better cooling. I have two of these drives for outboard storage. One is the master, and the other is a copy of it that I maintain periodically with Windows SyncToy. This way, if either drive fails, I can quickly get a replacement and mirror it to the survivor. You should NEVER trust your data on a single drive, you will lose everything when the drive fails. Note that I say "when", not "if". If you are using the external drive to back up your internal, one is enough. I originally got this drive for a Mac, but later reformatted NTFS it for a PC.

This wasn’t a bad purchase but it definitely wasn’t as good as my wd drive.

Worked fine on my old laptop, bought a new gaming one and wont work.

This portable hard drive never worked, returned it to store for a refund. Best Buy was courteous and very helpful in my return and in helping me find a replacement.

5 years md the drive just dies no realizability This is the 5th Seagate product that has failed albeit this one lasted the longest I have completely lost my faith in Seagate

This external drive did not work for my daughter's Macbook Air. We had to exchange it for a Western Digital, which worked like a champ.

I've always preferred Seagate hard drives after one of mine failed and computer repair staff suggested Seagate products; this is my second external hard drive for various computers. Works well, loads easily, and provides a ton of storage in a compact size.

Helped backup photos and files. And since I have to have at least 50 characters in this essay.. I will repeat that it was very useful!

I bought this drive to play videos on my pc. None of my videos played from this drive.

Hard to use. No way to monitor what is backed up. Thought I was buying an external hard drive.

Easy to install and set up was a breeze. Great storage capacity as well.

I bought this drive to take advantage of the new expanded 2 TB storage for xbox 360. This is not plug and play, I could not get the hard drive to format correctly to work with the xbox 360, even trying multiple formats on the PC. It always showed as unformatted and got an error when attempting to format on the 360. Research online shows Seagate is known to have issues with this for the xbox 360. If you're not planning on using this for the 360, then you should be fine. I have a similar Seagate working just fine on my Wii U, and from what I read the Xbox One has no issues. PC compatibility should be fine as well. I'd just caution against getting this if you plan to use it for the xbox 360. Get a Western Digital hard drive instead.