Seagate STHP5000400 Backup Plus 5TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD - Black USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac, 1 Year MylioCreate, 2 Months Adobe CC Photography, 2-Year Rescue Service

I purchased 10 of these drives to use in a Ubiquiti Cloud Key Gen 2. All 10 drives died after only a few months of use. The drives were not under a lot of stress or in an enclosure that had a lot of heat. I tried going through their tech support for assistance and got nothing but the runaround for several weeks without any help. A complete waste of time. Do not buy these drives as they are completely unreliable and will fail you if you use them for a few hours per day. I have 30+ years of IT experience and have used tons of drives over the years with great support, but these by far are the worst drives I have ever purchased.

This drive is GREAT!! When I first opened the package, I was pleasantly surprised by how small it was. I bought it for my XBOX One X. I connected it and within 5 seconds it was ready to be used! NO Lie. This was so refreshing compared to what I went through last week when I made the HUGE mistake of buying a WD MyBook 4TB from a different site. For the past 30+ years I was a programmer/analyst, I also used to build PCs for myself, my family and friends. Ive never had any luck with WD drives, but last week I thought I would give them another chance. It died within 2 days!! Ive never, ever had any problems with Seagate. Great product, great quality, great company and great experience overall, as usual! Thank you Amazon and thank you Seagate!!

works extremely well.

easy to use. back-up a lot of stuff. needed and useful if you care about what is on your computer, this is a must. good, solid quality.

I was about to return my new Seagate 5TB External Hard Drive, but before I did, I had called Amazon for support and they connected right away with a rep from Seagate and because I am using both a Mac and Window, they were able to help me to configure my Seagate 5TB External Hard Drive to handle both. Thank you Amazon and tank you Seagate.

Always as advertised, a great product. I have 5 of them for the past 4 yrs and 0 failures

When the hard drive came I immediately noticed that the box was clearly damaged, dirty, and had been opened. The product inside was the same -- clearly opened and not new. The hard drive itself was silver (not black as described) and had scratches all over it. The hard drive I received was not at all what I thought I would be receiving and I returned it.

Got this yesterday. 5 TB of space sounds like richness. Easy to get it up and running -- a matter of seconds. I like that it does not require a separate power cord, only the USB connection cord to the PC. Since this device is replacing my nearly-full external backup drive, I started the file transfer process. 775 GB of data in over a million files. This is where this drive fails to meet expectations. Transfer write speeds vary from 2 KB/second to 2 GB/second. Incredibly slooooowwww. The estimate is that it will take between 60 and 80 hours to complete the copying. Hopefully the drive performs faster when dealing with less data. But, 2 KB/second??!! I believe floppy disks were faster than that! WOW...... UPDATE: It ultimately took just under 80 hours to do the initial backup copy. Going forward, by doing a daily backup of only whats changed, the slowness is less noticeable thanks to low volume. Now I just hope the storage device is reliable and continues to save my backup data for years to come. UPDATE OVER A YEAR LATER: the drive has worked well, no issues. Daily backups of just a few MB scheduled in early morning hours has been good. Occasionally retrieve files from it and it has worked as expected. Upped rating from 2 to 3 stars.

It’s working awesome.

I plugged this in to an HP ML370 G6 using a third party USB 3.0 card. Once the partitions were deleted Server 2016 was able to see the drive and use it as a dedicated backup target. It is fast and reliable. I like these drives as ‘rotatable’ backups.