Seagate - Expansion Desktop 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black

Sometimes with tech things just don’t work... this has been a pleasant experience. I was fill with such joy to plug this into my PS4. The PlayStation expanded the space I could use and just works. Haven’t had any issues. It does need power from the outlet. Which wasn’t a big deal for me, I’m not planning to ever move it.

Love the Seagate drives. We buy a lot of them and they are super good. They rarely fail and it's usually to physical damage we caused.

Great price for the storage. It works great for me and seems very sturdy. I have another Seagate external hard drive which I like so that lead me to get this one. I have had a couple of hiccups with the use of this however. I formatted it to work for both PC and Mac (the same as I did with my other Seagate external hard drive) but it does not show up when I plug it into my Mac. I would try reformatting it but I already have too many files stored on the harddrive to offload to do that. So that has been inconvenient. Also there was a problem with it also not reading on my PC, and it turned out it needed to be unplugged from the power for a time and then connected to power for it to work again. No harm was done, but I had to dig around on the internet to figure out that was the issue because I had assumed it just got corrupted or something, so that is something to be aware of.

It works great with my PS4. The 3.0 usb is very fast and this model is combatable with the new PS5. I Recommend this Item If you own Quite a few AAA Games. I have Over 50 100gb plus games installed at the moment and there is no lag or issues swapping between games. The setup was plug and select the option to format for PS4 and under a minute It was transferring the data from my PS4 to the external hard drive. It is a great buy for the price If your looking to expand your PS4 hard drive as much as possible. 8TB is the max amount of external hard drive space that the PS4 is compatible with. I am not sure about the PS5 but I am sure that this external hard drive will be with you till the PS6 comes out.

Very easy installPlug and play and quiet and so far seems to stays cool and not overheat . one odd thing after Installed the drive my numbers did not work on the keyboard ... easy fix just uninstalled the keyboard driver and rebooted pc and all works great . But drive is running great and recommend this to anyone Pros : quiet drive , works perfect with a pc Cons: usb cord could be longer . And small odd issue after installed but could have just been my pc. Other : for any backup software had to go To seagate site and not on drive already but minor in convince Overall if looking to expand space on your PC this is a good drive . I use it as my media drive all my movies and music live there to keep my c drive free .

Perfect for what it is. Tons of space. Low cost. Slick design. Unfortunately the reliability of any drive, especially ones with their own power adapters, isn't 100%. Any unexpected shut off of the computer, or loss of power in general could really hurt the drive. Always "Safely" eject your hardware! I also recommend finding a free hard drive health monitoring software and a backup power supply to be proactive about failing drives and data loss!

After much searching I found this 8 TB external hard drive to be the best value for the money. You can save all your work, photos, videos, etc on here in case your main computer is stolen or self destructs. It give me peace of mind knowing I won't lose my work. You must back up every few days so your important data is not at risk of being lost.

I depend on these 8TB Seagate Expansion Desktop drives for my Plex home jukebox content...2+ yrs in and they've been solid performers at a great price. For backup/archiving, might be slower write speeds but when you're dealing w/ 100s of GBs of video, its always a waiting game--what you want is good ROI, which you get here. And no bloatware or auto-sleeps that interfere with serving content.