Seagate - Backup Plus Slim 1TB External USB 3.0/2.0 Portable Hard Drive - Black

I own several Seagate USB external hard drive of different capacities from 500 GB to 2 TB. All of them have worked flawlessly including the 1 TB drive that I am reviewing here. USB 3.0 is about 5 times faster than USB 2.0 and is well worth the small extra cost – 5 hours versus 25 hours to back up my data (with 3.0 I can do a full backup overnight while I sleep; with 2.0 it takes more than a 24-hour day). It's a true "plug and play" device. Virtually no set up is required – just attach the cord, plug it in, and you're ready to go. The drive appears as a new letter on your computer screen. After that, to back up directories and files, it's simply a matter of "dragging and dropping." Alternately, since it's a physical drive, you can save files and directories as you would to any other physical drive. The build quality is excellent. I switched to Seagate after being repeatedly unhappy with various performance and compatibility problems with other brands. It comes with useful software for automatic scheduled back ups, as well. One trick: I keep the 1 TB drive hooked up at all times, have created a directory called "Recent BKUP," and save my work to that directory every few minutes in real time. That way, should my computer crash, I always have a copy of my latest files on a portable file. I also use this as the target drive for a daily automatic scheduled backup.

I bought this drive 2 months ago and it's already dead. I bought it to back up all of my photos, documents, videos and music. I think I used about 45 gigs of the terabyte and it died. My PC (and the 3 other PC's I've tried) no longer recognizes the drive when I plug it in. The last 11 years of my digital life is being held hostage on this broken machine. If you have any data that you care about, I would put it on another product. I'm trying to recovery what information I can from the internet and friends right now. There is nothing I know of that can either restore my lost data or my faith in this product. The product is under warranty but they require the old drive before they give me a new one. I am not willing to let the sensitive information trapped on the drive fall into any one else's hands. Besides, I don't want another drive so that I can worry about the day that it too fails.

Exactly two weeks after I purchased this product it stopped working! I could not retrieve my documents and all the work I'd done during this time. I refused to pay $500 for Seagate to retrieve my documents when it was lost due to nothing I'd done, but a defective product It does not make sense to pay less than $100 for a product, but then to pay $500 to get your lost information I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND SEAGATE TO MY DOG!

I am a photographer and this drive failed on me in the middle of backing up my pictures. Computer is not recognizing the drive. Called support, sent me an e-mail to check lights and make sure the cord is plugged in. This product is useless and a waste of money.

I use this slim drive to travel with copies of my digital library (music & movies). I am very careful to protect this thing from rough treatment. While access time is average, the size is appealing. HOWEVER, this unit has crashed three times during no travel (meaning it sits on my desk). Thankfully it is not something I depend upon for work. The last crash took out its firmware and now it's a paperweight. After talking to Geek Squad, I find that these models of Seagate have a much higher failure rate than other vendors. Cost to fix is now approximately same as replacement. Quoth my raven, "Seagate never more."

I decided to go with this portable drive because it was slim, portable, and the newest drive out which now included mobile backup as clearly listed on the box and on Seagate's website. However, I've had the drive for about a week and I still can't figure out how to backup my iOS device. The website clearly states that iOS devices are supported and that all there is to do is download the "Seagate Mobile Backup" app which doesn't even exist in the Apple store. This drive comes with a very convenient dashboard software which is great and easy to backup PC files, but it doesn't give any instructions or options for mobile backup. Overall, I'm very satisfied with the drive's performance. In the meanwhile, I'll backup my iPhone's photos manually which is not a big deal. Maybe Seagate will update its dashboard soon to include the mobile capabilities. Highly recommended drive to store your social network photos and personal files. Hopefully "Instagram" becomes a supported social network backup. If anybody figures it out, please respond to the review. Thank you, -Diana

I purchased this item less than a month ago. Put all my pictures n important documents.. Now they are all gone no way to retrieve all my stuff. I called customer support at Seagate they offered to retrieve my info for $500. After less then a month get real? If you want to keep your info safe don't purchase this defective storage system.

After spending hours trying to get this to recognize on my windows 10 PC, im giving up and returning it to Best Buy. i googled to no end for similar issues, followed the directions, downloaded the drivers, and dashboards, and still it will not show up for me to open the window and transfer files onto it. all i wanted was an external hard drive to save files, and instead got another thing to stress over and waste my time trying to get to work...as a new mom, i dont have time for this mess...if you pay the money for something, especially as simple as this, you should be able to plug it in and it works. very disappointed, and i plan on trying a different brand.if windows 10 is the problem, seagate should update their product.