Customer Ratings & Reviews

I purchased this item after I returned a previous non seagate device. I have always purchased seagate hard drives in the past and I know they will last and work properly for as long as I have them. This device performs outstandingly and is easily accessible from any device anywhere. I can stream movies and music perfectly from this device on my tv using chrome cast.

Seagate Central 2TB External Ethernet Shared Storage drive is very reliable and easy to use. It was relativley simple to install and works great with my PC, iMac, iPad, and iPhone. It meets my expectations for a network drive and does exactly what I wanted from an external network drive. Prior to purchasing the Seagate Central, I tried two other drives that failed to perform as advertised. One of them, in fact, caused signicicant software compatability problems with my PC and had identification problems with both the PC amd Mac. Both performed extremely poorly. I took one back and exchanged one of them for the Seagate Central. This is a great drive that is reasonably priced for all it does.

After having a few external hard drives fail on me I feel that I can trust Seagate products! I have only had success with these items.

This unit was an easy setup and so far has worked very well. I have had no problems with it at all compared with other's I have used.

I have Macs at the office that are using an older operating system than the manual states this drive is compatible. However, it works flawlessly. I'm very happy with the performance and functionality.

Used record some security cameras, works well. I would recommend.

I am using this for a music server for my whole house audio system. So far works great

I haven't quite hit the timeframe where people had complained of the drive failing, but I hedge on the side of caution when reading those instances, as I can't confirm what could have led to the drives failing. So far, in comparing to my Pogoplug device, the Seagate is more consistent with being identifiable and streaming a video via router connection is not as sporadic as it is with a drive connected through Pogoplug. Anytime a computer needs to be re-started, the drive pops up right away, as a Networked drive, and responds very quickly. Now, the one thing I must say is that, I have a very fast wifi connection at home, so YMMV when it comes to connectivity, but for now, I can say that the drive has been way more reliable than the reports I've seen. If the drive makes it to at least 1 year, I'll be happy with the purposes that I needed it for.