Seagate - Backup Plus 4TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive

Pro: A simple external backup drive with more room than MANY users are likely to need (4 TB). Preference items: Uses a horizontal format: stable, but takes up more desk surface than a vertical format. (This one sits next to CPU Tower - Off Floor, but not on desk top.) Lacks the "% Full" LEDS our 2 TB unit, but that always seemed more gimmick than useful. Potential Con: USB 3.0 interface only. Backwards compatible to USB 2 of course, but a) not as fast as 3.1 (assuming your system has one!); and b) a Firewire port might be nice if your system has one of those & is short on USB ports. Disappointing (more-or-less - as this was expected): Don't care for the included Seagate BU Software. YMMV, & 3rd Party programs are readily available at prices ranging from Free to $$$. Still, had slight hope for improvement.

This is a good backup drive and is USB 3.0 which makes it much faster when used on a USB 3.0 port on a PC, laptop or server (it is backward compatible to USB 2.0 also). The USB 3.0 cord that came with it is pretty short (I think it is about 3 feet), which is fine for a laptop, but it may not reach for a desktop or server. I had a longer one that i used instead to give me the length that I needed. This one has an external power supply that could be a plus or minus depending on your needs. I wanted this because I knew the USB 3.0 port that I was going to use was not powered and required external power. I did not use the included software, so I can't comment on that.

This is the worst hard drive with worst reliability. Backed up 1 tb of data for my graphic business and I lost all the new files I made for a month. I searched internet and there is a class action suit going on with this drive. They are known to fail with abnormally high rate of failure compared to industry standard. No more Seagate Drives for me.... I can't even return it because I opened it up after watching youtube but it didn't work for me. The data was more important to me than the money so I did what I did and unfortunately, it didn't work.

In general I'm a novice at computing but I bought this wanting another storage option for all my music, photos and movie files. After plugging this into my computer and installing the appropriate software I easily partitioned this drive into 3 separate drives, 2 of them being a single terabyte which music goes on one, photos the other. The 3rd partition which is the remainder of the available drive space will be for movies. Everything went smooth and so far I'm having no problems transferring files. Very pleased with this drive.

This drive does exactly how its described. Its silent and non-intrusive. The LED is small and white and goes off when the PC is turned off. I did not miss the USB hubs that the big brother of this model has. But I would prefer the smaller USB 3 models that do not use external power and take away that limited power ports from my power strip. I haven't tried this HDD as a network storage, but this could be an excellent candidate your router USB port with network storage capabilities.

Being a photographer means having a great need for storage space for all my photos. This drive is perfect for my needs. I drop all of my 18mb photo files on this drive then have it backup to the cloud at the same time. The speed is good and thus far I have had zero issues. Greatly appreciate this drive for making my life easier and giving me a peace of mind knowing my files are safe and not stored on my PC.

The hard drive was quick to set up and has plenty of storage especially for the price. The only drawback is that when it's on there are times when it vibrates slightly; enough to feel a slight rumble while using my mouse. It's definitely not a deal breaker, but I often have my phone on my desk and it often feels like I'm getting a notification on my phone, but really it's the hard drive vibrating slightly.

So far so good the drive is quite fast with read/write. I copied 1TB of data to the drive and it took roughly less than 10 minutes or so...I want to say 7 or 8 minutes. I wasn't actually timing it. The reason for the 4 stars is because I HATE that this drive is supposed to be 4TB but it's really only 3.65TB. Why don't they just sale it at 3.65TB instead of 4TB?! I paid for 4TB I should get 4TB!