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

Has bought three of these in the past years. Find it to performs better than the other Seagate models of the same size. May purchase again if the price drops further.

Good service good item and a good seller thank you for your good

Ive had good results with Seagate drives before and this seems to be just as reliable. It may be of interest to some people that it is a third the size of my other 5TB drives... My new iMac has no problems with it; I dont use some of the supplemental software that came with the drive. The device works with the USB 3.0 hub I bought recently, which is a real plus as some of my other drives wont. It is as fast as Id hoped, moving large files quickly; I make archival-quality photo scans of 50MB and it effortlessly moves folders crammed with images. Based on results at this point, Id say it is exactly what I was looking for.

Bought this to back up a ton of image files and so far its working perfectly. The interface I found quirky, but finally figured it out. I gave a three for tech support only because I havent used it. I doubt Ill be porting this anywhere, but, if I were, its exceedingly compact and the fact that it runs off USB power is a huge plus. Overall, great purchase at an amazing price..

I bought this back in 2019 and for the past year or so, its been having connection issues more often. Ill be replacing this with a different external hard drive.

my third unit... working great so far! i took it out and put it in both my Dell and HP server and they work flawlessly. 5tb is basically nonexistent in 2.5 format on servers so these are great for cold/warm storage. These are SMR so probably not good for raid.

Perfect. No issues months later so far. I also have a 4TB. The wife uses this one for movies etc.

I bought the external HDD last black Friday, great deal 89.99. But...... At first, it seemed to work fine, it came with one exFAT partition, macOS recognized the partition, but I could not eject the disk, so I reformatted, then the problems started. I made 3 partitions, one exFAT, one ext4 and one for Mac. Nowadays just one of the 3 partitions is recognizable OSX, one in windows. My fix: Low-level format again and 4 TB of data transfer. Not recommended.

Got this as an external hard drive to replace my 4TB hard drive. Does its job well and I cannot complain. Worth every dollar and will continue to buy from this brand.

If you are considering this drive: only buy it if you’re using it for cheap bulk storage. Write speed is terrible. My old WD 4TB could do 100/MB burst loads and 60MB/s+ sustained. This drive only does 60MB/s for short writes, and craps out after a short while. To put how bad the write speeds are — it can’t even sustain a 2 file concurrent download from my FTP server! My WD could do 3 concurrent while watching videos without issues! The process usually goes like this: Downloads start out fine. After a few minutes, the drive starts overheating (50+ Degrees C). Then it starts getting unresponsive, read error rates sky rocket, response time goes from few hundred milliseconds to 10+ seconds (it shows 10,000+ms response in task manager). After pausing my download, it’s utilization stays pegged at 100% for a full 5 minutes despite task manager showing a write speed of 4MB/s. Rinse and repeat. For people stuck with this drive: enable write cache in device manager doesn’t help the terrible write speeds, but it helps improve responsiveness for programs since they don’t have to wait a good 30 seconds for the drive to response “hey, I’m still here available to write files”. Disabling it (default) will cause programs to freeze along with the drive if it’s accessing files from the drive. The only real redeeming factor is that it’s decently cheap as a pure storage drive. UPDATE: Spend the extra bucks and get the WD P10 Game Drive. While I hate the gaming marketing, this drive was able to achieve sustained 120 MB/s sequential writes. FOR 8 HOURS STRAIGHT.