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Pros

Seagate is a superb brand from external drives. It's easy to instal, just plug in, connect to your laptop/computer and away ya go. Easy to use - drag and drop and accepts and stores big big files quickly.

Although slightly slower when spinning up the drive performs well. The 1tb is more than sufficient for most domestic, non-techy users.

Cons

There's a continual thunk thunk noise as the heads seek. Slow and clunky. Generic cardboard packagiinh.

It says its compatible for pc and mac but its not. It says that it can reformat and you can upload contents from the storage device once you format it with a mac but when i connected it, my mac (which is a brand new macbook air m1 2020) recognised the... Read More

The drives will always 'power' but not appear as usb devices or usable drives. It keeps disconnecting when moved even slightly making it basically unusable. They produce weird error messages in the system log, and won't spin down into a standby mode a... Read More

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Highlights

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Quality

It is well made and has a massive memory

Quiet and easy to use, it looks smart, fits well and is long-lasting.

It was advertised as a “mechanical” hard drive, yet it’s physically so much smaller than my previous one (which failed and i lo... Read More

No biggie i have plenty of those cables, but then found it performed at a meagre peak of 40mbs a second and video playback woul... Read More

Price

This is a much cheaper solution than cloud storage and and the speed of recovery far outstrips any cloud storage should a reloa... Read More

You always get what you pay for when it comes to computer products and accessories!

Good price have not used yet hence nothing more to say.

Overall, it's a good option for its price.

Shipping

This arrived quickly and was well packaged.

Received the next day, bought on reveiws left.

Packaging/appearance

Guess what it came on no amazon packaging .

I did select amazon packaging due to the nature of the item even checked with on line help who confirmed it had been added.

Competitiveness

This is the second of the same drive and capacity from seagate and would recommend it to anyone looking for an external drive.

They did say that i could return and ask for a similar replacement but that would probably have been with dropbox as well - i h... Read More

However, the apacer feels more solid and reliable in hand, unlike the seagate, which feels more toy-like.

I will have to put it down to experience and perhaps consider using a high street shop for similar offers in the future.

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This product had a total of 265,955 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 25 2024.