Pros & Cons
Pros
Easy to set up as plug and play. Huge memory and easy to transfer files n use as a back up drive. The drive enclosuresare a little larger than the backup plus.
These come with a 2 year warranty, i always make a point of registering these drives with seagate. Really impressed with this.
Sturdy enough to be thrown in my bag while travelling and withstanding airport security chucking bags around. Small form metal box with an unobtrusive light that indicates when it is operative, sleek looking and quiet in use. It's bulky though so migh... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Portability, warranty, subscriptions to other software are all worthy of purchasing the product.
Bought it as a gift for my husbabd and he is totally satisfied with the performance of this external drive.
These came formatted as exfat which caused a problem as i leave the drives attached and this prevented my somewhat ageing gigab... Read More
Being seagate i am anticipating no issues with its longevity, but will repost in the event of any untoward failure or issues wi... Read More
Shipping
It is as fast as expected (standard hdd) and looks very nice on the desktop.
Competitiveness
Works exactly as it should, very slim/compact for a 4tb hd.
It's faster compared to my 1 tb toshiba and buffalo models.
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Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As simple as you would expect with fair transfer speeds
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Waiting for bigger hard drives with hindreds of tera bytes and i wish that them should be hitting market soon
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
From past a few years this market of hard drives only crawlled upto max 16tb which is quite expensive
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
More space should be available for cheap
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Windows formatting reduces the capacity as expected works to expected speeds copy to or from
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However this caught my eye as you can set it up to do encrypted backup of whatever you want
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This allows you to leave it in plain sight as possession of the disc won’t get at the content
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
You can tell it to backup continually hourly daily or snapshot