Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD – Black USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac, 2 Months Adobe CC Photography (STDR2000100)

Has worked great so far as a Extended Storage hard drive on my PS4. Has been great to add the extra space. First off it ONLY stores the game applications and nothing else. Which is fine by me as I already have two sony usb drives for transfering my ps3 and ps4 stuff on plus the online storage from PS+ so no big deal. It was easy to install just plugged it in clicked to format let the ps4 set it up as Extended Storage and thats it. It is also great as it allows you to use the games stored on it on another system as long as you are logged in on the profile it saved it as or switch that profile as Primary so anybody can use it. It also allows more then one profile and more then one systems games on it as well as loading more then one user profile for the same game. Which is great for using it on someone elses system as it does not need to be stored on the other plugged in systems either. Allows easier use of it without taking the whole ps4 system to someone else who already has one. So I now have a 4 TB drive plus my 1 TB system makes 5 and boy do you need the space nowdays if you like a good selection of games lol. I have loaded it up with over a tb already and still works great. I left my huge space disc games on my ps4 and everything else is on the Seagate. The games on the Seagate crash less and load easier and faster if it is a downloaded game then on my ps4. Might sound strange but its true as a game my ps4 would not play wirhout crashing never has since being on my seagate still. Great buy and great compatability with the PS4 system saving you lots of hassle with the bonus of free roaming to other systems easily. The first time you plug it into a new system it takes it a minute to read it again as it connects to the system but in the long haul is well worth the short wait. Great choice for when you need space and for those who have friends with systems to connect to when visiting or being visited. Highly recommend using as a PS4 Extended Storage device. Will update if anything changes in a bad way which I dont forsee happening.

i experienced some weird issues with this drive and i still cant tell what went wrong and whether its the drives fault or mine. although considering this is not my only external drive and the rest work fine it seems to me like something is off with this drive. so heres what has happen: i received the drive and went straight on to backup my other 4tb drive with the new one. at first the drive seemed fine, no issues. it took 13 hours for the copy to finish. but then once i tried to access the files issues started. at first it worked really slow and had a hard time to read the files, then i couldnt read the files anymore and tried to reformat the drive, thought maybe something went wrong in the copying process, but no, windows couldnt format the drive and returned an error. i tried a disk check, but it behaved weird, i checked SMART data and it showed already over 380 bad sectors. and it kept going downhill, eventually i couldnt read any smart data anymore and every time i connected the drive to any computer the computer would freeze completly until i disconnected the drive. ok, i though i had a bad drive, that happens, i would just return it to amazon and get a new one. thanks to amazon and their great service i received and new drive very quickly. so i went to once again backup my other 4tb drive. and basically the same story with the 2nd drive. now all i did was to copy files, nothing that i would think would cause a drive to fail unless it is already faulty. so at that point i thought about sending it back for a refund thinking this model is just bad. but sending it back is time and money, and since i do need a drive i decided to try some advanced methods to revive it. the issue was that every time i connected it to a computer the computer would freeze, so it wasnt easy to work with. it would also make a sound like its trying to read over and over. so what i wanted to do 1st is to wipe (0 fill) the drive, for that i had to be very quick since there were only about 3 seconds until the computer would freeze. i used dd command under linux. it took 38 hours but in the end i could reinitialize the drive and reformat it. and so after all this the drive seems to work fine now. the only problem is that it has 8 reallocated sectors already. which shouldnt happen on a brand new drive but ill suck it up cause im tired of messing with it. what the issue was, i dont know, seagate should figure it out. maybe with the bad drive i sent back. oh and also, the 2nd drive i got has two bumps and the casing. its just cosmetics but still... now i can just hope that the drive will work fine for the next years to come. other then that, an actual review of the operation: i like it, its very small for a 4tb, the case is nice. it runes very cool and quite but it requires more power then my usual external hdd, not much more but enough to not work with my unpowered hub where my other drives work. my copy of mostly big files (so mostly sequential write here) showed a 60mb/s, which is fine by me. so to sum up, i dont think i can recommend this drive 100%. it seems like there are a few more reviewers with quite similar issues (also on other sites, new egg i think.) when this drive works its very nice, but theres seems to be an issue that i cannot put my finger on. also, dont take this review as a statement that you shouldnt buy seagate, i delt with many many hdds and the failure rate for me over the years has been similar. this product has a good price and overall is a great offering and that is what you should think about when you shop for hdd. as long as you have at least 1 mirror copy it doesnt matter much which hdd you have.

Great for travel

Ive owned this product since January, 2017. I have intentionally not written a review until now so I could have adequate time to use the product and make a fair assessment. To date the Seagate Backup Plus has performed admirably. It is an excellent product and performs exactly as advertised. I have not used it to back up any mobile devices. Ive owned a Lenovo T410 laptop since 2011 and have been running Windows 10 for a little over a year. Ive used this external hard drive many times to do backups. The process is scary easy. In general I backup File History which is really loaded up since my laptop is so old. In addition, the backups include my 10K song iTunes library, numerous movies, and many videos. I have done a couple of System Images as well. At present I have more than 900 GB (of the 1 TB) of unused space remaining. Im hardly an expert on external hard drives but that seems pretty awesome, particularly for such a reasonably priced unit that also happens to be light as a feather. One of the things I noticed in reading external hard drive reviews prior to my purchase is the large number of reviewers who complain about their drives breaking down. So I guess the final quality assessment may not be possible until Ive owned the drive longer. Hope this helps someone with their decision making process. This was an authentic purchase and I was not part of any promotional program.

Item received as appears and was in DEFECTIVE condition Hard Drive isnt being recognized by my XboxOne. So I thought maybe is was formatted with the incorrect type...So I hooked it up to the Windows Computer, Not recognized; so I tried the Linux computer, not recognized.. Upon closer inspection, the drive has an oscillating or pulsing whine/hum. It sounds as if the drive spinplate is hung/frozen. possibly from being dropped prior to me receiving it. But the Shipping box and manufacturers box was in good condition and didnt appear to be damaged.. Drive just fails to function.. However, Amazon is replacing the drive hassle-free and replacement should arrive in the next couple days EDIT: I received my Replacement Drive from Amazon, they got me the replacement drive right out without delay! The replacement drive works as it should without any issues. This drive makes a great addition to my XboxOne at a cheaper cost than the actual Xbox external drives.. Seagate makes those drives as well, and the actual harddrive is the same specs.. So I wasnt paying extra for the same drive just to have it in an Xbox branded shell. This one does the job perfectly and blends in with everything on my entertainment center better than that ugly bright xbox green one would have. I am changing the rating from 1-Star for the defective drive to 4-Star for a working hassle-free replacement.. if the original drive would have been working on arrival this would have been easily been a 5-Star rating

In the evolution of the hard drive market, there can be no denial that there has been a climate change, and external drives available today are better than ever. Earlier this year, I became disenchanted with the backup product included for free in Windows 7 (after one too many Windows cannot find any backups messages - and after encountering one too many photos of ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer - hes even less attractive than me... I think...) and the novel idea occurred to me that, just perhaps, free or bundled software products (such as Windows backup and a certain ubiquitous music player from a giant non-tax-paying corporation) are, after all, no bargain when one considers the quality of the product compared to paid software. I may be stepping out on a limb here, but, perhaps paying software development workers a fair wage for a good product is a better system than the something-for-nothing angle so popular in the earlier days of the interwebs. So I bought a dedicated audiophile-styled music/media player and re-ripped my CD collection using new encoders and higher bit rates. Now is the winter of our disc content made glorious. (This all started when I bought a rather inexpensive, yet very impressive digital-analog-converter for music playback.) Not wishing to be denied access to my glorious refurbished music library and newly improved playback arrangements for any technical reason, I also purchased a dedicated backup program and this Seagate 2TB external USB 3.0 drive to use with my Windows 7 64-bit OS. The slowly suffocating techno-nerd within me will likely never completely expire, and he reports he is pleased to enter the world of USB 3.0 speeds. A free utility (what did I just say?) from a popular tech website indicates that the throughput I am getting on this drive is 80-100 MB per second which I would rate as stellar. STELLAR! (Stanley Kowalski - A Streetcar Named Desire. Thank you!). So far as aesthetics are concerned, the metallic blue case feels sturdy - better than plastic - and is just right for that elegant evening on the town. The form factor is appealing. Its about the size of a pack of cigarettes in length and width, and about half in that depth, although I dont recommend carrying it around in your rolled-up t-shirt sleeve). It is silent in operation, or at least, unobtrusive. I have no comment on the included backup software, as I have not tried it. The USB 3.0 cable that comes with it is a bit short, but I have a feeling that is a limitation of USB 3.0 hardware implementation and not under the control of the manufacturer. All in all, so far it has worked well for me.

I purchased two drives, a 2TB in Black and a 2TB in Red. They will each take the place of two desktop bound external 2TB drives that have been dutifully serving as my Media and Time Machine drives that, until bad sector errors have reached critical mass, have performed quite well for a few years. Its fortunate that they should choose to die now, as Im also moving overseas and would have hated for them to go a month or two from now while Im over there. Portable was definitely the way to go for me. I dont need 7200 or 10800rpm drives and I dont want to be adapting bulky wall warts overseas, either. Now, theres a bunch of options out there from Toshiba, Western Digital, Seagate and many other lesser-known brands for external, portable drives in the 2TB range. Ive been mainly a Seagate customer for the past 5 years or so because theyve proven to me that their products have a long life and perform well. This was for desktop models only, however, and design never played a part because they are all, pretty much, big and clunky boxes that sit and do nothing. A portable drive is a different story, and I think Seagate has outdone itself with this drive. Design. Before I bought the two Seagate models, I had bought a WD My Passport 2TB drive at Staples. It was alright, but it was very thick. Nearly twice the thickness of my MacBook Air at the hinge end. The chassis was metal surrounded in plastic and it looked alright. It certainly wasnt going to vie with the MacBook Air for looks and I think it suffered because it tries. The performance was fine, just what Id expect from a portable USB 3.0 drive. The real problem with the design, though, was not the thickness but the shape. There was virtually no flat surface on the drive at all. Every edge was tapered and the flat surfaces had some convexing going on. Mine would rock side to side on a desk and wouldnt stay in position in my lap. I looked on Amazon for alternatives and found this. Im happy to report that, with the sides leading to the bottom are tapered, the bottom of these drives are flat and are made of a nicely textured plastic that feels good and grips well on a desk or a leg. The top is even better, being a piece of aluminium that is completely flat and very good looking. Despite the colour scheme not being derived from Apple, the slimness and choice of materials certainly make this feel as though it belongs in a bag with my MacBook or on my desk next to my Magic Trackpad. Its the best looking external drive Ive seen. The light on it, however, feels distinctly Apple. Overall, the design is excellent and, without going to the lengths of moulding a piece of metal over a bare drive (see the Seagate Seven), this is probably as slim as you can expect these drives to get. Its nice to see products that design around the user and still manage to keep it looking good rather than just make it pretty. Performance and Heat. As said, these replace my other drives that serve other purposes and that are just about full. So, first order of business was to copy over the old Media and backups to the new drives. First, I formatted them for Mac. For those who dont know, you can buy just about any drive and use it for Mac, even if it says Windows or PC. This can save you a lot of money. Just open Disk Utility, click the drive, select Format and click Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or whatever filesystem youd like to use. After that, I just dragged and dropped. From a USB 3.0 drive to another USB 3.0 drive with my Retina MBP, two terabytes copied in a little over five hours. This puts the total transfer speed around 100MB/s. Pretty damn fast. While the files were transferring, I made sure to keep an eye on the heat coming from the Seagate Slims (well, I kept the back of my hand on it) and was pleased to report that neither the metal top nor the plastic bottom got any hotter than my MacBook Air runs on my lap. That is to say, they didnt get hot at all, merely warm, and I dont think theres a hazard here. Packaging. Who cares? Its a cardboard box around a plastic shell. The tape holding the box shut was annoying like the tape on new DVDs and Blurays that never comes off in one pull, no matter how much you use your nail to free it. Included is the drive, a fact sheet and a USB cable. Who needs more? This is a great buy. At (if I remember what should be the numerator and what the denominator) $0.05/GB this isnt the best you can do for 2TB, but its really close. Im happy with the performance, the design is stellar and user-centric and I suspect the lifetime of this product will be far longer than the time it will take me to fill these drives and need bigger ones.

Amazing capacity drive. I installed this in a MacBook Pro 17 inch, Late 2011 laptop as the primary (and only) drive. The drive comes with a rather cheap plastic enclosure, no screws. The enclosure is held together by small plastic tabs and (believe it or not) tape, but the drive itself is high quality. The drive will probably be released by Seagate to OEM manufacturers in the very near future, but you can get one now! The drive works perfectly fine as an external backup drive (Seagates intent), but it also works great as an internal drive. The drive is 9.5 mm thick and so should work with practically any laptop (PC or Mac). Specifically, it will work with all MacBook Pros which comes with a DVD drive. The newest Mac laptops (MacBook Air, etc.) that do not come with a DVD drive are probably too thin for a 9.5mm drive. In any case, they come with an SSD drive, so you would want to use this drive as an external drive. There is a Youtube video that shows how to get the enclosure open without tearing it up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6eV3pEXKgo If you take your time and be gentle, you can avoid tearing up the enclosure and so end up with a temporary enclosure that can be used for other drives (I would not use it an a permanent enclose, because it really doesnt hold itself shut after the first opening). For MacBook Pro users, it is easiest to swap old for new drives if you use Apples reinstall process on the new drive first while it is in the enclosure, choosing to reinstall OSX onto the new drive before swapping the drives around. Some trivia, back in 1986 this amount of storage in a hard drive would have cost in excess of $34 million had it been available as a single unit (it was not).

I purchase this hard drive to expand the my current 1 TB time machine on my iMac (27-inch, Late 2012) . So far i like the performance and how quiet it is. The only tricky part was to copy the current Time Machine image in to the new hard drive and i can say that as long as you follow the steps i found in the following apple website you will be set. [...]. or follow the steps typed on this comment. Check the format of your new backup drive Connect the new backup drive to your Mac. Open Disk Utility (located in the Utilities folder). In Disk Utility, select the new drives icon to make sure it has a GUID partition and is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). You can check this from the Format: line at the bottom of the Disk Utility window. If your new backup drive is not formatted this way, reformat it, selecting the option for Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with a GUID partition. Back up any important data from your new drive before you format it. Set permissions on your new backup drive Open a new Finder window. In the sidebar of the Finder window, click the icon of the new backup drive. Choose Get Info from the File menu. Make sure Ignore ownership on this volume at the bottom of the Sharing & Permissions section of the Get Info window is deselected (unchecked). Temporarily turn Time Machine off Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu. Click the Time Machine icon in the System Preferences window. Slide the Time Machine switch to Off. Copy your backup data from your original drive to your new drive Open a new Finder window. In the Finder sidebar, click the icon of the original backup drive. Open a new Finder window. In the Finder sidebar, click the icon of the new backup drive. Drag the folder Backups.backupdb from the original backup drive to the top level of the new backup drive. Enter an administrator name and password, then click OK to start the copying process. Copying your backup data might take some time to complete, depending on the size of your backup. Set Time Machine to use your new drive After the copy has finished, open Time Machine preferences from System Preferences. Click Select Disk in the Time Machine preferences window. Select the new backup drive, then click Use Disk. Your Time Machine backups are now be saved on your new backup drive.

I am buying the Backup Plus 4TB. The Plus is one Seagate/Samsung ST4000LM016 4TB SMR drive. The Plus FAST is 2 Seagate/Samsung 2TB SpinPoint M9T ST2000LM003 . The Plus 4TB drive is 15mms so it wont fit in most laptops or 2.5 containers. I am pulling them out of the container and using them in a RaidZ for files that I rarely if ever will access again, but need to keep. Low Power, Low Heat, Small size make them ideal for what I need. You can put 12 of these in 3x5.25 bays, which in a RaidZ2 gives you 36.4TB usable space. I attached 2 pictures of the speeds hooked up to USB 3.0 port. The pictures are with the drive empty. My experience with the drives so far is, as they fill up, they slow. One screen shot is stressing it with 1GB files the other is with 5GB files. Generally they seem to be faster with Larger files. Update Dec 31st 2016 My motherboard started kicking out all kinds of ACHI errors on some of the ports so Ive decided to replace the motherboard and to be safe replace the drives with 6TB 3.5 drives. The 2.5 drives worked good for the most part. I did have a 50% failure rate on the drives. Though all of the drives that failed, failed within the first 3 weeks. I had bought some of the drives from Best Buy, they had a sale on them and they were cheaper than Amazon, Best Buy was cool exchanging the bad drives without question, which surprised the hell out of me since I had pulled them out of the case, damaging the cases in the process. Ive gifted the surviving drives to friends and family, they work great and are reliable, with 2 minor exceptions. 1 has a constant temp reading of 89c (192F) so the sensor is bad and a second one, a couple months ago, had a lot of sectors go bad over the course of a few days. The drive was still useable, and if I wasnt in a RaidZ2 config I would of replaced it immediately. Over all they worked and did the job once the problem drives were weeded out. ASRock C2550D4I Mini ITX Server Motherboard 2x Kingston KVR16E11/8 HighPoint Rocket 620 Dual Port SATA 6Gb/s Controller 10x Seagate STDR4000100