Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have had two of these drives for some time. Overall solid performance. As an external USB drive the read and write speeds are lower than for an equivalent internal drive, but performance and reliability have been good. Very good price when on-sale.

Slow and power down to frequently. When connected and not being used spins down to save power and must spin up to get access so slows down reads/writes to the unit.

The price and storage capacity are perfect for backing up priceless family pictures and films.

I've had much better long term performance with Seagate than Western Digital hard drives. Based on an Apple app called DriveDX, that monitors the hard drive's SMART attributes, the Western's health and performance starts to degrade in weeks of operation. While the Seagate's health takes over a year or more before SMART indicators show a slow down. Also purchased this 14TB on sale at an amazing price.

I initially bought this on amazon but Best Buy offered more storage for a lower price. Got an extra 2TB of storage for free basically with their Black Friday deal. It works as intended and I was able to back up everything. I also hooked it up to a smart plug so I can leave it plugged into my pc and turn it on with my phone instead of having to plug it in every time. Really worth the price!

Great price for the amount of storage. Quick and easy setup.

As advertised. A good plug and play, external hard drive with lots of storage.

Using this for NAS backup. It seems to be fine. No trouble with the formatting or speed. It does generate a low hum which, when put in the middle of a desk, made the whole top of the desk hum. The problem was resolved by placing the unit near a corner of the desk.

Own multiple of these hard drives, oldest being about 5 years old. Never had a problem using them as external storage and backup. They have lasted longer than my WD My Book external hard drives that have been popping up errors after about 4 years. Would recommend to anyone needing an external drive for moving bulk data around or for storage.

Absolutely excellent using it as a mirror back up, been a photographer since the 80’s and this is perfect to store scanned photos.

Got this 14TB drive to large data storage. This drive should also function well for incremental backup. Notice that very large writes can slow down, and the average write bandwidth will be much lower than the peak write bandwidth. Should not use this for a long-duration, random-access, write-heavy workloads.

Works as advertised. 14TB means something different on Windows, so it will show up as "less" but it isn't. You receive what's advertised.

What a great storage device from Seagate! With 14TB of storage, I doubt I will ever need another one for many many years! The expansion drive is compact, wekk built with a metal enclosure and fast to access data via its 3.0 USB technology.

Good high-capacity external hard drive that is reasonably priced. Works great on Windows and Linux.

You can never have enough hard drive storage, especially when working with video. This one is a lot of storage for a good price.

I love seagate, but this is the noisiest drive I have ever owned. It makes that scratching noise you never want to hear from a drive. However, I am told by seagate that it is jsut a "louder drive".

14tb of storage will last me for a long time. This was a great price and supports USB 3.0. Granted USB 3.1 would be better however the price was too good to pass by.

Amazing external hard drive and for a great price which cant be beat

Best hard desk, can hold so many of my folders easily. The speed or reader is very fast as well. I am a professional photographer and it has helped me store my work and work really faster. I save my time as well.

I should never run out of storage with this one! Easy to use.