Customer Ratings & Reviews

Holds data as needed. Speed is adequate for use as a backup drive. It's good so far but makes a random rumble sound. I put a rubber pad under it and it helped to dampen the vibration. So far so goo!

Shipped quickly and safely with the drive securely packaged in the box. Upon unwrapping and booting the drive, CrystalDiskInfo showed a healthy drive so I'm very pleased with my purchase for the price.

A great price considering how much storage you're getting. The drive inside the 26tb model I got was a barracuda drive, if anyone cares. I was hoping for exos but barracuda is great too. I use these in my home NAS, they work flawlessly. 10/10, I will always recommend seagate drives.

The hard drive is a bit noisy, but it's working perfectly, booting up the operating system and loading files without any lag.

More space than I know what to do with lol, and I got it on drops so it was a steal and a half.

Excellent external hdd, it helps a lot to have all my backups, and it is very faster.

The drive is quiet, reliable, and performs well. Great for storing security camera files and whatever you need. I'd only recommend buying if it's priced well. I did accidently knock the drive over and because of that it stopped working. Reaching out to seagate's customer report wasn't too bad but it is annoying to go through the whole process again. They do give an option to restore any lost data files which is nice (all covered by their warranty).

I've owned many different external drives over the years. The drive itself works flawlessly - it was tested right out of the box. However, do not use this drive if you need something 'quiet' - this drive reminds me of a circa 2005 drive based on how loud it is.

It Works Great ! The day it was delivered to my house it was packaged the way it should be packaged no holes or dents. Easy to set up and worked straight out of the box no problems at all.

Managed to get a 24 TB during a drop for around $200ish. Shucked it to find a Seagate Barracuda 24 TB HAMR. Added this directly to my NAS and it's been working without issue since. The enclosure is the only issue though. It would be nicer if they updated to a USB-C connection instead of whatever this Micro-USB hodgepodge is that they've been using since the early 2010s

Very Quiet..very fast..lot's of space for storing movies, music, etc. Very Highly recommend and the price was hard to beat for 26TB storage.

Bought 2 of these to shuck and use in my server. Inside is a seagate barracuda 7200 rpm drive. Kind of what i was expecting but i thought i would review here so it would keep anyone else from guessing.

26tb, it's what I asked for. The actual drive capacity is a bit smaller, but that's normal when buying a storage drive. It booted up with no problem and there were a few files on it for a tutorial, I'm guessing. The speed isn's too fast, it's about what you would expect from a hard drive though. This one will be going in a server that has 4TB of NVME cache. I noticed the drive also stops spinning when it's not in use. I'm sure it will last a while before dying, if it does I will update my review here.

Needs to be plugged in to an electrical outlet but it’s big enough that I wouldn’t take it as a portable hard drive. Works quick as well!

This product performs as advertised. Although Microsoft windows reports a diminished capacity, I understand why this is. I just wish manufacturers and Microsoft would come up with a common "Yardstick" to measure drive capacity and eliminate user confusion. I use high capacity HDD's like this to back up the information stored on my 8 bay NAS. Although I am using a Raid 5 configuration, redundancy is not bulletproof, and I believe backups are critical. I like the reliability of Seagate HDD's and although they don't offer a 5 year warranty anymore, I have have Seagate drives that are well beyond the five year mark and are (other than regular maintenance scans) still running with no issues. Until SSD capacities improve and become affordable for us mortals, I will continue to recommend these drives. Note: Although the hard read/write limits of SSD's has vastly improved over the past couple of years, this is still an area (along with cost) where spinning discs still shine.

This drive is big enough to make backups for my laptop and desktop with plenty of room for offsite backups for people I occasionally do work for. I bought it with an eye towards providing offsite backups for our H.O.A. for a minimal amount of money. Now I'm ready to start offering secure offsite backups to computer friends I sometimes work with. Do you really trust "cloud" storage not to access your data? Use this instead. The price is right and the speed is not critical in this application. Seagate is a quality company with quality, proven drives like this! Definately recomended!

Only two months old so way too soon to write a meaningful review. The drive only gets used several hours weekly so working fine so far. Initially, the new laptop defaulted to a 1 minute sleep time for all the drives; the Seagate is the noisiest drive I've used in a long time with major kajunk sounds as it powered up and down every minute. Resetting the sleep timer to 10 minutes resolved that issue. It works fine connected to a USB hub.

26TB is insane! Super easy to set up (literally plug it in and go), and it’s fast for transferring big files. Perfect for backing up all my stuff and storing my media collection with tons of room to spare. Definitely worth it if you need a ton of space.

Cant ever have enough space. This thing works beautifully and fuctions up to all listed specs. Catching this on sale was an immediate purchase. Seagate from my experience has been the best for HDDs.

Honestly, they're cheaper than normal internal drives. $250 for 26tb is a steal. Extremely. Fast, even in Windows Storage Spaces. I bought 4 of these at the price, and have 205tb of storage now.