Seagate STHN2000400 Backup Plus Slim 2TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD - Black USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac, 1 Year Mylio Create, 2 Months Adobe CC Photography

I purchased this as it was billed as an external drive for next Box. 65 to 70% of the time its great. Other times I have to unplug it and plug it back in for the consul to recognize it

The drive works fine and installed easily as my Time Machine backup drive for Mac OS. Has been working fine for about a month now with no issues. I didnt use any of the included setup software. I just plugged it in, formatted it, and was on my way. However, I can definitely hear it spinning--a constant low-level whine/hum here on my desk. Its not terribly loud, but definitely audible. I guess Ive just become so used to the silence of SSDs that I forgot what spinning, disk-based drives sounded like. So, thats the only reason I deducted 1 star.

I have a Seagate 1T drive like this 2T drive that has served me well but this drive and 4 others before it would not reformat to MacOS and work as it should if any at all at times. I worked with Seagate support using their step by step instructions to reformat which is the steps I always use to no avail. When plugging in the drive one time it might show up in utilities or it might not. When it did show up you might be able to drop a file to it and send it to trash but also you might not be able to remove the file at all and the next time you plugged in the drive the file may not be there. I got tired of messing with them so went back to my old Internal internal drives and my drive hub for backups. Very Disappointed I really like the one terabyte I have.

This connected right up to my MacBook Pro, no formatting needed. However, the reviews about slow transfer speeds are accurate in my opinion. Quite slow, but its not bothering me too much. I would backup consistently and not save a bunch of stuff for one time.

This is the 3rd I have ordered. One for each of my laptops. Easy to install and setup.

These are great. Small and compact. This is the second one I have ordered. The first was for pc backup/storage and this one was for ps4. It formatted perfectly for the ps4 and has been working great. Have had this one for a few months plugged into the ps4 and gets used daily. The pc one I have had for a few years and still works great.

Make sure you reconfigure your computer to the hard drive. It caused my boyfriends computer to restart several times. The problem went away after it was reconfigured.

So this is like the backup to the back of the back up backup which is backed up by others drives still. Having quite a collection of stuff from over the years....decades actually...and after having lost much of my older collections Ive become like a crazed survivalist when it comes to data backup. You never expect it to happen....but it will....Murphy says so.

This is a superb small profile package with significant storage capacity. Its trivial to set up and use, and fast for backups. All around wonderful tool.

Supposedly comes with software but it doesnt work/wont load after forcing me to accept marketing emails in order to activate it. Well see if the drive itself works once I can find another software option. Unimpressed out of the box for sure