Seagate Ultra Touch HDD 4TB External Hard Drive - 15mm, Pebble Grey, Post-Consumer Recycled Material, 6mo Dropbox and Mylio, Rescue Services (STMA4000400)

I have a Mac. I got it in 2011. Shes plugging away working along just fine. Ive never had a problem with it. But its 9 years old. I had a Dell and then a Sony PC, and those lasted about five years. Maybe I could have dragged out a few more years. But 9 years. Thats a long time. I have so many pictures and videos of my loved ones. If I lost them, then Id feel bad. So I did some research looking in to ways to back up everything. Somehow I settled on this. I had hooked it up to my Mac, and it prompted Time Machine to launch. It guided me to set up the device. Now it just automatically backs up periodically. As its connected, an icon appears on my computer screen Backup Plus. I can click on it and view the files. Each backup is dated. Each backup has all my files, my tax data, my checkbook, my financial data, the file with all my passwords, all my pictures, all my videos and all my music. Its there. I can check it. I can click on it. So I know its backing up periodically, and if something happens to my old computer, then Ill still have all the data. And it wasnt even that expensive.

I have had to go to snapshot only function to make it trustworthy. The software for the device often fails to recognize the computer when I plug it back in, the device itself had to be scanned and repaired, and it fails to properly update files when I activate it. Ive had other Seagate Drives that were OK. Im sure my experience isnt average for the device. I have about 35 years experience including college training in computers, software, and have continuously used a wide variety of programs/apps on multiple higher end computers and laptops. Some of my files are highly proprietary, valuable, and not reproducible other than from backup, so I need a fully dependable backup systems. Of course, I do multiple backups periodically, one other is an automatic system which to date, has been flawless. For me, this device is my least favorite ever. I do have a much earlier La Cie (ca 2005), same company, which has been great and still functions as a tertiary file cabinet.

Wife wanted to back up and save some old family photos. This is her second and so far so good.

I should have picked up one of these a long time ago. So far it is doing what it is designed to do. It is lightweight and compact. I’m pleased with this Segate Ultra Plus 1 TB Portable Drive.

Not bad. I like the security feature. Occasionally it says the memory is full and I have to unplug and replug to fix it. I don’t have to do this with another cheaper drive I have. I’m guessing it’s a glitch related to the application toolkit.

super cute and easy to use. i had a hell of a time finding a hard drive with a usb-c port, and this one did not disappoint

After using this product for 3 weeks I find the hardware to be okay (cant say much after 3 weeks) but the software is extremely poorly written. Very sparse user interface. Once you set up a backup plan theres apparently no way to edit it. Mine stopped backing up files 5 days ago, and theres no way to check to see whats wrong, no way to restart it, etc. This is supposed to be automatic but once Windows goes into sleep mode the software just stops working. Hard to believe this comes from a major hard drive vendor. I submitted a question to Seagate this morning. If I dont receive a workable, dependable solution within 2 days Ill return the product to Amazon as defective. A backup solution needs to be automatic. Too bad the company that made Click-Free years ago is no longer around. That product worked. Probably secondary to the geniuses at Microsoft putting too many hurdles in their way to keep the product useful from one version of Windows to the next.

This is great! Copies quickly, a one MB folder was completely copied in a little over a minute! No problems at all.

As noted in other reviews it worked right out of the pkg on my MacBook Pro w/o any formatting. Used solely to store my tens of thousands photos. Bottom gets pretty warm as it is a HDD & not an SSD. Write speed is slow but I knew that when I bought it for the price. Device side of cable appears proprietary (see photo). Didnt use any of the SW provided on the drive. Nameplate says made in Thailand in 2022.

Compact and works well. I wish it would run while my computer was sleeping.