Formatting Drives

"Hard drive...The hard driver is quite an easy to format to a Mac computer. Love it....Very nice looking unit - easy to hook up with the USB connection and windows operating system quickly recognizes the format and partitions. Great product at the moment time will tell on use."

"I used it in a modded Xbox 360 and it’s compatible. Easy to format...Bought it for my console. Very easy to format and quite durable! This was an upgrade to a 1tb version of this product I got a few years back."

"I reformatted it to a different filesystem type for better performance with larger size drives. After formatting, it shows just over 18TB of usable space which is expected. ...20TB Seagate hard drive do seem to be great...So far this is a good back-up hard drive for my photography business. I use two of these to back-up my photography jobs, as an “A” and a “B” set of drives. "

"1tb External usb 3.0 portable hard drive...The Hard drive really helped during this Summer semester it was my first time getting one it was great....Nice Drive"

"Works as advertised with slight hiccups when downloading games, I have it hooked up to my PS5 and most PS5 titles games work, but some I still have to download on my PS5’s internal hard drive because this can’t format it correctly. Keep that in mind before purchase but otherwise good speeds and good price....Easy to use, just plug and play (and format drive)."

"I’m not very computer literate but this was easy enough to format get going. It greatly improved my storage capacity and gave me more free space on my internal hard drive which improved my systems performance. ...Great hard drive work super fast super durable and super small great to have as a travel hard drive"

"Great Hard Drive...Works great as most all of my hard drives have been used successfully in my 24 bay server....I had several smaller hard drives to merge into this drive and it has fit the bill quite nicely! "

"Fast drive!...Works perfectly after initial format, very fast and compact....Great drive: Needs to be initialized...Download Samsung Magician software to do this, as it has a lot of other features to support this drive. To initialize the drive, you will need to choose a format and partition the drive before it will show up for use. "

"Cannot believe the compact size- beats the old external hard drives! Terrific space saver! Works get! Purchased for new all in one computer....Great drive...This drive does everything I need to do. I would definitely buy again."

"Fully compatible with Mac. Easy to connect and format. Older daughter has been using the same SSD for two years without any issues....Great speedy hard drive for PS5 use...Initially it would not format. After a restart of the system, formatting worked for extended storage use. "

"Hard Drive...Had to manually format it using disk management but other from that it was like new"

"Great drive for the price...Easy to format, worked well immediately for my Time Machine backup drive....Great space and easy to format. I Will be purchasing 2 more. Would highly recommend!"

"Went from Mac to PC, luckily software migration software was included so I didn’t have to format for Xfat for the transfer. Satisfied...I bought this to backup all of my computers drives into a small portable drive. I then packed it in a hicking pack with me all over the world. "

"Excellent external drive...All my Seagate external drives are good quality and work well....It was easy and fast after a quick format. I didn’t use the inbuilt formatting tool. "

"Great product need formatting to work with iPad an...I love this drive but needed to be formatted before it could be used with a iPad...Great item, was refurbished, and no instructions on how to format, Best Buy could add in a quick instruction paper on how to reformat."

"Packaging rough...Drive fine....Beware I had to initialize the volume as well as format the drive to get it to work. This is a bit different than the ones you buy new. ...It turns out they probably just didn't format it correctly. You need to go into "Computer Management" and then go into "Disk Management" to correctly format and use this SSD!"

"Good drive for the price....Easy set-up and access, did not need to do a special format. Quick discover and steady transfer rates....Drive should come with a warning . . ....Drive comes with an exFAT format, so can be swapped to Mac or PC. "

"Reliable drives!...Excellent drive and tons of storage. I've used Seagate external drives for many, many years and only ever once had a problem. ...Good external drive...Split this into two logical drives and recovered from the first partition back up to the new partition, before moving it to a new internal drive. "

"I checked on YouTube for format tutorials and it works really well on Xbox Series S....Only thing i had to do was format and that was it."

"Because its way faster than any of my Internal Hard Drives. When I first got it I had an issue / question about the formatting of it. ...Super fast drive. Small and light....So far this is a great external drive. Much, much faster than USB-3 drives if you can use USB-C. "

"EXCELLENT External SSD for Mac; note on formatting...For Mac use only, the best format is AFPS, and formatting can be done by using Disk Utility in MacOS. ...Watched a YouTube video to learn how to format it. Pretty simple process."

"WD is always my go to for hard drives for many yea...Works as it should, no issues. Had to format before use, but that was no big deal, the ps5 pretty much did everything for me. ...Plugged into Xbox an was easy to format"

"Just what i needed. A portable drive that i can use on multiple computers that don't have DVD drives. ...I build and repair computers as a side job, and I had a customer that still required a DVD drive with his new laptop. This portable unit is light and supports the disc formats he needed. "