Seagate Expansion 3TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB3000100)

Been a year and 8 months now. I still have it but I use a WD now because it's a little quieter. But I still use this drive and it stop works flawlessly, of course I don't use it each day anymore but it does still work. Now I'm thinking I may hook it up to my ps4 soon 5th month now, still no issues, it may have disconnected once i think but went right back. Still loads as fast as internal, i hardly use the internal for anything. I dont transfer stuff alot on it, but when i do my photosand videos i send them right to the drive and its very fast. I only currently have about 500gb on it but i just got a new cam and using lots of RAW files and my camcorder creates big files at 60fps so i needed this. I also should mention a few things again: 1 i formatted my drive before i transfered anything that way my pc can be more compatible per se. 2. It's only been hooked up to my one pc, if i wanna get something off another i use a flash drive between the two. 3. I dont move it, it sits on the floor where it's basically been since i got it, again i dust it and lift it to do that but that's it. Remember its a desktop external its not made to keep moving, get a portable for that. So it's been 4 months now and the only thing that has happened is it seemed to disconnect twice but reconnected immediately, although that could have just been my computer but doubt it. Other than that it's still working perfectly fine. I keep up with what others write just to look for any red flags. I should also note that I hardly ever move or touch this drive, i moved it twice to dust it and that was minimal, its been sitting in the same spot laid on its front for the whole time. My data still loads as fast if not faster than the internal drive and has no lag. Seems this drive is hit or miss with other users. I saw these drives at walmart as well but didnt see the 5tb. This is my first external and have nothing else to compare it to, so buy at your own risk I rated 5 because it's the first day. So I will explain as much as I can. First understand this device is as good as the device you connect it to. I use it for my pc, it's a great pc if you have a slow older pc it may not perform at its best. Alot of reviews complain the speed is slow but you have to format it so that your computer can format it to its settings, once I did that my speeds went to about 179mbps i transfered about 410gb in 20 min it flew by, also I used the 3.0 port which is 10 to es faster than 2.0. The drive doesnt have many vents, ut I laid it on its side with the bottom facing out so that it can breath, it only gets warm, hasnt gotten hot. Also I read some complaining about the cords, well my port is very tight so the cord stays in and I have the drive sitting by the power cord so I mever even had to unwrap that. Seagate claims to have a file online to turn off the LED light. As far as noise, it's low to me kinda like a light fan sound, it's relaxing, I like it, some don't. Other reviews clai ed once you format it to xbox u cant use anything else with it...unless of course you reformat it to whichever device you're trying to use. Now with ,y computer the device shuts down when ,y computer shuts down and it boots up right along with it. I also noticed after just leaving my computer idle for awhile the drive seemed to go into standby (indicated by the blue light going off) but i could still access the files on it and 2 sec later the light came back on. So next thing I did was I wanted to see if I could access the files as quickly as my internal drive, I had a bu ch of HD videos and pics...in case you are wondering I used a HP slimline desktop very great computer and fast. Anyway, I was able to open my video just as fast as when I use my internal, same with pics, it actually seemed like it may have been faster at times. Now i dont know if it's because the drive is that good or because my computer is fairly new but like i said its as good as the device you hook it to. I also want to note that contrary to another reviewer this device has not slowed down my pc whatsoever. I forgot to mention I have the 5tb model. Last thing I will say is, there was some reviews stating not to leave the drive running. Like i said it seems to spin down when not in use for awhile but i am ot 100% sure. Regardless hard drives are made to be used and running, my old crappy computer from 2009 i still have and i us3d to leave it running 24/7 for the better part of 6 years because i dont like restarting unless I have to and it still works. My current computer I also leave running 24/7 and no issues whatsoever. Lastly, understand this is a "desktop" expansion hard drive NOT a portable drive, meaning it's not meant to bounce around from place to place or even room to room in my opinion, desktops are stationary as should any desktop external drive connected to it. If you plan to switch between computers etc, should probably consider a portable drive. If you have any questions feel free to ask me. UPDATE: So it has now been a month and this thing is still running smoothly, I haven't moved it it has been on it's side the whole month, has handled transfers smoothly, spins up rather quickly, quiet for the most part and still very fast. I really think the bad reviews come from people who move it around alot, like I said it's a desktop external not a portable, so if you get this get it woth the intention of keeping it stationary as opposed to moble. If any questions, just ask

An excellent external drive which worked well for the past 7 years before it finally died. Highly recommended.

I'm using the 5TB version of this drive to host all my movie files. I've owned these drives for about 7 months now, and went across the world with these in my carry on. It works great and I haven't had any issues yet. I'm using this on a 5k maxed out iMac with the Plex Media Server to stream content to any device on my home or remote networks. All I did was reformat this drive to Mac's Journaled formatting (via Disk Utility) and didn't want to install the NTFS driver as I'm all Apple here. I bought two drives and use one that is connected 24x7 to my Mac and use the other as a back up locked up in a fire proof safe when not in use. I've also turned off the "Put Hard Drives to Sleep" function so that it is always spinning (plex has an issue with sleeping hard drives). Transfer rates are good. I've transferred about 1700 movie files (over 2TBs of data) in about 5 hours going from my the 1st 5TB drive to the 2nd 5TB drive (completely blank) over USB 3. The only time transfer speeds suffer is when doing lots of deletes and transfers simultaneously (for example, swapping out a standard definition movie for a higher definition movie). For smaller transfers, it's quick. I can transfer a 2GB movie from my Apple's SSD to this in under 1 minute. When transferring lots of data, I have both hooked up to my computer's UPS just in case of power failure (which is common here in Korea). The footprint and texture of the drives are nice. I just have them standing on my desk and they take up little real estate. There is a slight hum that comes from the hard drive, which isn't too distracting. It uses a USB 3 cable and a separate power cable. There is a blue light that blinks at a constant rate when transferring data. It will be solid if the drive is on, but nothing is reading or writing. It turns off after about 5 minutes of no activity which you can disable in your computer's power saver settings. It takes about 10 to 15 seconds to spin up. I'm looking at purchasing two more drives as I'm running out of room, and might go for the 8TB of this same model to store my movies, and use the 5TBs to store all my seasons and shows. Remember to always have a back up strategy as these drives can fail without warning. Also, ensure you eject the drive from your computer (click the eject button in OS X's finder window) and let the drive spin down before moving. Overall, I would recommend these drives to anyone who needs to archive lots of data.

I've shucked open nearly 60 of these for a huge storage array in my home rack mount server. They've been running 24/7/365 for a couple years now in raid 5 transferring aprox 300-400gb per day of data between them. Pro's: - Cheapest 8TB drives around! - running in raid 5 using Microsoft spaces, I'm getting incredible download speeds from the drives. Mind you one by itself is really slow, but 60!? Runs sooooo fast. - Relatively efficiently cool. I have these things stacked in 4 rows of 15 drives. Hard disk sentinal reads relative disk temps between 30-38 degrees. There's 8 fans in a push and pull configuration (2 per row) for active cooling, but still there's a lot of hard drives in a rather confined space, temps are great. - Low noise. With so many drives running I expected a bunch of noise. They are really quiet. Even when I was transferring 45tb of storage over my 10gbps network onto the system I couldn't hear anything but the case fans. - ZERO failures. Like literally zero. I haven't killed one yet. I've got 4 spare drives just waiting to swap out a dead drive but it hasn't happened yet. The lack of failures is amazing. Cons: - So wasteful that they can't sell the internal drive without all the cases and hardware and USB for $149 for the bare drive. I've got a literal box of enclosures and USB boards and cables and power adapters that I will never ever use because no matter how you look at it, the bare drives are more money.

Seagate se caracteriza por tener productos de buena calidad y este es uno de esos, este disco duro externo ofrece mucho espacio ¡8 TB! y al precio que lo encontré, fue una excelente compra, lo uso para respaldar archivos grandes y la velocidad de transferencia entre la PC y el disco es muy buena aun con equipos no muy nuevos que tienen USB 2.0, tarda 15 minutos aproximadamente en transferir 14 GB de imágenes, si lo conectas a un puerto USB 3.0 este tiempo se reduce a la mitad. Visualmente es muy bonito, tiene un diseño elegante que combina con todo, por lo que se vera bien donde sea que lo pongas. Compra altamente recomendada, aún es pronto para opinar de la durabilidad, pero yo creo que con los cuidados adecuados el disco puede durar bastante funcionado sin problemas.

Seagateのこのモデルの容量違い含めMac miniで外付けHDD９台運用中。同じ使用状況でないので耐久性の比較は単純にはできないが、どれも保証期間内は使えてる。そもそもHDDが消耗部品なので恒久的には使えないので、どこで折り合いをつけるか？がポイントだと思う。 容量に対する金額のコスパはとてもいいと思う。

コスパとしては他のHDDの追随を許さない最大値だと思う。 稼働トラブルも一切ありません。 このお値段でこの容量、信じられない時代となりました。 敢えて難を言えば、稼働ランプが上面後部にある事。ケーブル差込面を上にした形で設置しないと、前面にランプが来ない。 メーカーさんの意図がわかりません！？ あとはなんの問題もなく、安心して使っっています。

Eu trabalho com arquivos muito pesados e preciso fazer bkps constantemente de volumes muito altos (cerca de 20gigas ou mais) e ele fez a transferência em menos de 5 minutos! Um detalhe: para usar no Mac e PC é preciso formatar para exFat, pois ele só vem configurado para funcionar no PC. Apesar de vir um software pré-instalado para cada plataforma no drive, ele não é compatível com a versão atual do Mac. Mas a formatação é simples e rápida. Perfeito para usar com o Time Machine.