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)

The drive works ok: - partitioned the drive with disk utility on mac, formatted journaled OS volume, no problem - did a full Timemachine (TM) backup and encrypted, worked fine, took a whole day - made two other partions, one for data, one for another TM backup of another device - works ok when directly connected to the mac, does not work when used on the network Problems: -could be the disk, el capitan, or netgear router readyshare but when I connect the seagate drive to the router, my computers can not see the drive nor can TM. - got no help from apple, netgear, searched all over the web, evidently theres some missing driver to bridge the mac and the drive via netgear R2600 thats probably not the drives problem. Worst thing about all this, the so-called free 200 gb cloud storage that comes when you register the drive is OneDrive by that s***ty company known as Microsoft. What a hassle, still does not work. DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION! MAKE A SEPARATE EMAIL, PHONY NAME AND NO PHONE NUMBER. Oh and MS as soon as you visit their site they record your browser fingerprint. Heres the info ms wants: OneDrive Preview needs your permission to: Sign in automatically Signing in with your Microsoft account will automatically sign you in to this app. View your profile info and contact list OneDrive Preview will be able to see your profile info, including your name, gender, display picture, contacts, and friends. Access your email addresses OneDrive Preview will be able to see the email addresses in your profile. View your OneDrive photos and documents OneDrive Preview will be able to see your photos and documents on OneDrive, but cant make changes to them. Add or remove bonus storage OneDrive Preview will be able to add bonus storage to your account. It will also be able to remove this storage (but no other storage), at any point in time. You can change these application permissions at any time in your account settings. Sorry, no can do. Going to just go get Veracrypt and encrypt my data onto the seagate and be done with it.

Let me tell you, the 5TB hard drive I recently purchased is a real game-changer. I can finally store all of my favorite cat videos, memes, and embarrassing childhood photos without having to delete anything. But the best part? This thing is so quiet, Im pretty sure its a ninja in disguise. I couldnt hear a single peep out of it even when I held it up to my ear. Its like its silently storing all of my digital secrets without making a sound. And the transfer speeds? Lightning fast! I was able to transfer an entire season of the Simpson in the time it takes me to make a cup of hot coco. Its like the hard drive is powered by the speed force or something. Plus, its so compact that I can fit it in my pocket and pretend Im a secret agent carrying important intel around. Overall, I would highly recommend the 5TB hard drive to anyone who needs a reliable and stealthy storage solution.

Its a huge capacity drive in a tiny case. It comes the the wide USB 3.0 cable, but you can use a standard cable. As you might be able to see by the photo of the cable end I uploaded, one side is the size snd shape of a standard phone charging cable and does work. Not sure it work work as well but in a pinch it does work. But I found the drive to be pretty slow for a USB 3.0 port. I copied 600 GB of data and it took nearly 15 hours. Both external drives connected via USB 3.0 drives to the same desktop computer. I read several write ups and reviews and learned that a large percent of these drives died within a few months, some within weeks. I am not given enough time to test this myself, but there was so much evidence of this issue it did concern me enough to want to mention it. I used the drive to copy all my external drives into this one, while removing exact duplicates, windows 10 made the process a breeze. I can lock it up in my fire proof safe and use it to back up monthly and have a small device tucked away in case of emergencies. Just to be on the safe side I have a second drive, same size, with all the information, as a backup to my backup. But you cant beat this beautiful little, high capacity drive at this selling price. I was most disappointed with the lack of options or controls with the cloud space limit considering the size of the drive vs cloud space

Good things do indeed come in small packages. Im mighty pleased with this 2 TB portable drive, which sits pancake-flat on my desk and has a footprint not much larger than a coaster. The drive has a brushed metal top plate melded to a black plastic sides and bottom. I opted for the silver top plate, which turned out to be an attractive but by no means close match with Apple aluminum. When initially connected to a Mac, the user is automatically presented with the option of configuring the drive in NTSC format for dual use with Macintosh and Windows computers, or in HFS+ format for use with Time Machine on the Mac. I chose HFS+ for an additional reason: my desire to encrypt the drive. I accomplished this by choosing Time Machines encrypted backups option, which actually encrypts the entire drive. I bought this drive in preparation for a road trip that my wife and I are planning. Right now, the drive is configured to accept Time Machine backups of the MacBook Air well be taking with us on the trip, and also contains Carbon Copy Cloner backups of our home folders from our respective desktop Macs. I figured that it would be much easier to simply take copies of our home folders with us rather than tunnel in to our desktop Macs from the road, or buy enough cloud storage space to hold everything we might need. If I lose the drive en route Im out $100, but our data will be safe. The drive is available with a USB 3.0 interface only, which is backwards-compatible with USB 2.0. None of the Macs in my household has a USB 3.0 bus, but the drives performance under USB 2.0 is satisfactory for my purposes. An 18-inch USB cable is included, which is more than adequate for connecting the drive to an iMac, Mini or laptop. The drive draws power from the USB cable. No AC cord is necessary--or even available. The drive owes its slim profile to the a lack of a power port or an on/off switch. The Seagate Backup Plus Slim portable hard drive is compact, versatile and stowable--it will fit in my laptop case with nary a bulge. If youre in the market for an inexpensive travelin drive with room enough to hold loads of data, this one definitely merits a close look.

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).

Im a documentary filmmaker and so hard drives are a part of my livelihood. Ive had this drive for a year now and have had no issues. Of course everything is backed up on another two drives so Im not stressed (and thats something I recommend everyone do), but it happens to be working fine. I also handle my hard drives extremely delicately. Dont move your drive while its plugged in. Dont plug your drive in upside down. Always eject your drive and gently feel the body of the drive for any movement before you unplug it. Do one action on the drive at a time as much as possible (write OR read). Of course dont jostle your drive when you transport it if you can help it. And most importantly: get a new drive every TWO years. If its been working for two years, great! It might fail soon though! Get another one theyre so damn cheap! If you follow this religiously I dont think youll have the issues other people have when they rate a drive one star. Im sure there are defects out there, but Ive almso never had one somehow and Ive been using hard drives from LaCie (1TB, 2TB and 4TB), Western Digital (4TB) and Seagate (1TB) for the past 14 years ;) My first two drives (which were from LaCie) failed after 2 and a half years each time. Since then, Ive followed my two year rule and I havent had a scare since. (I still use LaCie hard drives by the way. I think all drives are more or less the same with different levels of portability and ruggedness so just get the one you can afford and treat it like a new born).

DIED. I did have it a couple years, but please, a backup that dies? Really? I was sensing its days might be coming to an end and had to purchase ANOTHER back up to backup the backup. Yep - it died. I thought maybe a bad cord, but nope. Just crazy one can spend $100 or more on a hard drive that craps out on you. Not good

Still use it as a backup, works perfectly.

Hard to go wrong here. If you are using this as an external drive, this product has 2TB in very small space and is USB powered. The drive itself only takes 0.7-2.3W to operate! On Mac OSX 10.9.2 running the included Paragon NTFS driver, I was able to see write rates in 8-10 MB/sec with USB 2.0. On a Windows 7 Machine I averaged 18 MB/Sec; 14 MB/sec running the latest 8.1 update. I pulled the drives from two of these units (instructions below - photos to be added soon) for use in my laptop. This product is the only way I know of to obtain the 9.5mm tall, 2.5-in 2T Samsung Spinpoint M9T drive(s). Note: the 2TB version has 1 drive, the 4TB has 2 drives. After installing them in my laptop (has 3 internal HDD bays with SATA connections, 1st bay has OS, apps, etc. on 500GB SSD), I tested data txfr speeds. I moved 1.5 TB of data from one drive to another with average speeds of 194 MB/Sec in Windows 8.1. Laptop now has 4.5 TB of hard drive capacity. Have also successfully installed one in a PS4! Next project will be to install one in a Macbook Pro. Great way to get a lot of internal storage space for little money (Purchased early April 2014 for $103.99 directly from Amazon with 2-day Prime shipping). Removal Instructions (WARNING -THIS WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY - BUYER BEWARE): 1. Obtain small, flat-bladed screw driver and gently insert between the aluminum top and the plastic bottom. 2. Rotate screwdriver slightly to pry the top off. At this point slide the screwdriver around the perimeter and the top will come off. 3. Once the top is off, you will see the top of the internal drive. Carefully remove from the plastic lower without prying or subjecting the drive to significant shock. It is easiest to remove by lifting the side opposite the USB connector. 4. Once the drive is out of the plastic enclosure, youll need to remove some aluminum tape and wax paper from the drive. Be careful when doing this to avoid ESD which may damage drive circuitry. 5. Once the tape and paper are removed, the USB to SATA board can be carefully removed from the drive. It is an interference fit without any fasteners. 6. You now have a bare 2TB, Samsung Spinpoint M9T drive that is only 9.5 mm tall! Great for laptops and the PS4. 7. Install in your new device per your device manufacturers instructions. Enjoy!

I bought the 2 tb in blue. and once a gain Seagate showed me that my money was well spent. light well built quite Id dropped it on its edge twice once for the top of my desk and again from about 12 feet. these hard drive are built tough unlike other brands Ive wasted my money on like Western Digital. My files I keep backed up are files Im spent the last 20 years researching and adding new information to almost on a daily bases. So I need a external back up that I can trust to keep my information on. I have friend that tell me I should put everything on the cloud. problem is with clouds they either get hacked or the evaporate and take your files with them. by keeping my files on an external back up I know where they are when I need them. As a music collector I have over 200 gigs of artist tracks in MP3s that you cant get from any one any more even if you try. As a photographer and graphic artist I have room for all 5 million photos and images I have taken or created. as a genealogist I have more than enough room to grow on my external Seagate hard drives. The only con I have ever found with Seagate external hard drives is they like all other hard drive get hot to the touch. So why hasnt someone at Seagate developed a cooling pad similar to the ones used on laptops?