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

It exceeds expectations, easy to set up and comes with software that loaded automatically.

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.

I dont know why I keep buying Seagate backup external hard disks. Every one Ive bought over the years has been troublesome on my Windows PCs. The hard disks themselves have been flawless but the automatic backup software has routinely failed to automatically back up my data. This one sometimes gives me an error that the volume cannot be found and that it needs to be formatted but then the next time I turn the PC on, it works fine. Every few minutes I get a pop-up message on the screen, sometimes saying the backup has failed, sometimes saying the backup was successful. On the other hand, this one has the ability to add a password to protect the contents of the hard disk, which is a good security feature.

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.

Got it as a compact drive to transfer data between two computers. Love the size and it works great so far.

good but data transfer is slower than altirnatives

I havent used the tech support yet so I cant give it five stars, but the ease of use is great and the value is pretty good.

IDK whose bright idea it was to put carpet on a portable HD...imo not a good plan. The stupid thing collects dust like your grandmas faux flower arrangements. You even look at it sideways and some misc weird black mark will end up on the fabric. Impossible to keep clean. Other than that, it works fine. Please do not put carpet on computer peripherals. Next time opt for idk some cool LED patterns like ASUS does. More futuristic aliencore, less grandmas pet HD.

I read many reviews of multiple products and since many products are quite comparable I used this as the deal breaker. Read that I would not need to reformat but that is totally incorrect. Just spent the required 50 mins (includes the hold time) working with tech asst to reformat so I can begin to use this product. Tech asst was very good and we got through it but it was not how I wanted to spend my time and not what I believed I would need to do. Since I am now just waiting on the backup I have no other review of this product.

Set this up 6 months ago, today manually updated after large download, found it had not been backing up like I thought. It asked for password, put in my usual and it said it was wrong-looked at my hint which says use regular password - nope didnt work. I then wasted a half hour looking for a way to reset my password-nothing. I started a chat and asked simply how to reset password-50 minutes later after multiple back and forth they finally told me THEY DONT DO THAT! You have to completely wipe all the data from the drive and start all over again-which took over an hour. On top of that it never did prompt me to choose a new password so I dont know if next time I will have to do this all over again.