Seagate 3TB Expansion Desktop Ext HDD

OK so I have seen other reviews about failures etc. but hey....things fail...that's why we back up in the first place isn't it (and I never trust just one backup for precious files)?? Anyway, I already have two 2TB portable Seagate expansion drives for my movie and TV collection, and for my backups. However, an ever increasing movie and TV collection meant I needed even more capacity. I decided on this one purely because of the price point, the capacity, and the fact it was a Seagate! Straight out of the box it feels like quality. It is nicely heavy and comes with a decent length Mains adaptor and USB 3.0 cable (if you are new to USB 3.0 be aware that a normal USB cable does not have the same fitting at the equipment end as a USB 3.0 cable). So what did I do? I put the drive on my desk behind my PC. I connected the drive via the USB cable to a vacant USB3.0 port (the blue ones) on the back of my PC (I would say NEVER plug a backup HDD in to a HUB....always use a dedicated direct socket). And I plugged it in. Within a couple of seconds a window popped up showing that the drive is active. And that's it really! I leave it plugged into the mains since it automatically goes to sleep with the PC. Noise? well, I happen to like hearing that positive little whirring sound that lets you know something is happening when I copy a file to a backup (at other times it is, as far as I can tell, silent....or at least quieter than the whisper of my PC fan). If you have the hearing of a Fenec Fox and get annoyed by the sound of a cockroach running across a carpet 10 feet away then maybe this drive is too noisy....! It is backwards compatible to USB 2.0 if you need it to connect via that method but bear in mind that USB 3.0 is some large number of times faster than USB 2.0! Transfer times?? Well, as we all know, different file types take different times to copy and big files copy at a much faster rate than lots of small files. I have seen 130MBps during copying a large archive of video files from my PC (i5 processor) to it, but copying my custom icons file (yeah I am a movie geek and the folder icons just have to portray the movies they contain ;-)) of hundreds of files less than 1MB each managed only around 20MBps. I don't know what else to tell you really.... I will watch out for questions and try to answer if I can. I will say that I paid 74 quid for this and the same drive was 119 elsewhere online! Yeah it could fail next week...or never...but no backup is perfect which is why you should have at least 2 backups of all of your precious files as well as your in-use version on your PC.....don't be like me and learn the hard way by losing 2 years worth of irreplaceable family pictures and videos!!!!

In the situation that i use this (always plugged in to my xbox one as an external hard drive rather than constantly being moved as a portable hard drive) this has been an excellent storage device that was very easy to set up and has never given me any problems. *Warning* My PERSONAL opinion upon inspecting the sockets and design of this product is that they are prone to wearing out and breaking very quickly if the device is plugged and unplugged alot (ie if it's being used as a portable HDD rather than a permanent expansion) so be forewarned that it's really not suited to the role of "portable" **EDIT** it's now 2022 and i've been using the same external drive daily since 2015 , the reason for the edit is that i think it's finally dying as i've had a couple of disk write errors and several files lost due to corruption. Literally could not have asked more from this equipment and i'll be looking to get whatever the current version is to continue on my external HDD needs. You have my sympathies if you've had a bad experience with this line of external/portable HDDs but in my experience the reliability has been top notch

This drive came a lot faster than expected, 2 days before its estimated arrival. So far, had it a few days, it's great. Using it primarily as an Xbox One storage upgrade and it's working like a charm, can practically install my whole game library on this thing with reasonable space left over. It's loading everything perfectly fine, and takes little time to move things from the internal to this drive. I'm not sure if it's made a difference in writing/loading times, I realise there are very detailed and specific writing times which can only be millisecond differences to other drives, which, in my opinion, doesn't matter. As long as it loads everything without problems, which it does, I'm not bothered about 'faster' writing/loading times. Physically, it's a really nice shape, super subtle and clean looking, the fact that it requires mains power is completely fine with me, but may not be with others. My only criticism so far is if it's placed on some kind of wood surface, especially something like a TV stand, you can hear the humming coming from it, although this is EASILY solvable by putting something underneath it to stop the sound completely. Now it's completely quiet. Overall, great product so far, I'm loving it. Definitely worth the price, would recommend.

A god send for my 500gb PS4. Works perfectly and currently leaving all my games installed is quality. The set up is straight forward and you can get all the help you need online through YouTube or forums. It does require a socket to power, and must been connected to the PS4 using a USB cable, which will take up one of your ports permanently. The only problem I've encountered is not being able to wear my gaming headset and play guitar hero at the same time, as both require a USB port. Other than that, it's well worth the money. Size is nice as well, and looks like a decent bit of kit. Been using for about a month now, would recommend to any PS4 gamer who wants more than 4 games installed at once.

This is about as simple as an external drive gets. And that's mostly a good thing, because for most people (using a modern version of Windows) it will be plug and play. The extra software supplied with more fancy drives for things like backup and encryption is at best unnecessary (since there are better alternatives freely available) and at worst a source of errors and frustration. My only criticisms, and why it loses one star, are where the simplicity and cost-cutting has perhaps gone too far. Unlike my previous Toshiba external drives, these have no power switch on the unit, which means (after using your operating system's Eject function) power down relies on you physically pulling the power plug or, if you have one, using the switch on your mains power socket. Another aspect I question is the use of a micro USB 3.0 socket on the unit rather than the larger and more robust looking full size socket. It's still a standard, but tracking down a replacement lead if you lose the one supplied will be a little harder than one with a full size plug at both ends. We will see how well it lasts, but no disk drive lasts forever. That's why a sensible backup strategy uses TWO external drives, one onsite and regularly updated, and one offsite with a friend or relative. Periodically swap the two around. Pros: - simple to use - cheap - widely compatible - docs mention Windows and Mac, and I have it working with Linux fine. Cons - no power switch - micro USB 3.0 socket on drive rather than full size USB 3.0 size

If you want this drive to suspend when not in use or when you switch off a device it's connected to you will need to download the "Seagate Drive Settings" tool from here: [...] (Link removed by Amazon!! - Just search for 'Seagate Drive Settings' and make sure it's the tool for external drives.) For some bizarre reason my 3TB drive was set to be permanently on/spinning! This software tool didn't work on Windows 10, even in Win 7 emulation mode, but did work on my Windows 7 Professional PC. You can turn off the LED as well as set how long before the drive switches off when idle, starts from 3 min, I set mine to 5 min. I also noticed that it now turns off when I suspend my media box which it didn't before I changed the settings. I was going to send this back as it isn't silent although to be honest it's pretty quiet but it's seeming inability to suspend when not in use really annoyed me. Luckily I found the Seagate settings tool and all seems fine now, fingers crossed it has performance and longevity as well. I almost gave this 4 Stars because I had to p*** about but now I've figured out the fix, for all of us, I've decided to give it 5 as it is cheap and seems to be working fine, and it's pretty quiet. May update in the event of anything good or bad!

Lately having my pc setup to be a full dlna media server in my home, I noticed I'd managed to fill up my hdd pretty fast and needed to move all my movie files off it. Despite having a bluray writer, the whole burning process is slow and not always perfect, also I already have 2 x 1tb internal drives so adding another internal didn't take my fancy. So came the external drive. Sitting at 3tb, it can hold plenty of data, also equipped with usb 3.0 it can transfer that data fast. Please note though transferring to the drive will vary in speed depending on the source it's coming from, so don't always expect blistering speeds if it's an old HDD your taking data from. But if your transferring data from the external drive to a pc, you can expect some serious speed. So far I've put about 1.8tb of movie files on there and it was all transfered I less than 40 minutes from 2 sources. The drive was then setup as a dlna media drive for my bluray to access. It works perfectly and streams great. As my drive is plugged into my pc, despite having an external power source, it only comed alive when the pc is turned and this is only noticeable because it has a small blue power light, otherwise you wouldn't know it's that quiet.

This was just great. Solid and reliable and easy to use, until it suddenly, according to my PC, ceased to exist. Now, I realize that I've had it just over two years, and I've taken it for granted. It was just there, in the background, saving all my stuff, lots of it. As I said above, I don't know how long I was supposed to think it would last. It was my main backup. I've still got most of my stuff, almost all of it, scattered about on small external drives and the hard drives of an old PC and laptop. I'd like to put all that stuff back on the big one, but I can't even format it. My computer just tells me to insert a disc into drive I. The only hopeful sign I see is a post by another user who had the same experience as me. He said that Seagates customer service was pure fab and they actually got his drive working again. I'm on here writing this in the hope that someone at Seagate sees it and I end up as happy as that guy. I would have contacted Seagate directly, but Amazon have not provided a link to 'contact the seller'. Presumably because they were the seller, but the folk I need to talk to are the guys n gals who made the thing. I repeat; it's been a great thing, till now, and I just want it back doing its thing and letting me take it for granted.

Siparişten önce kargo şirketi ve Amazon Türkiye'den yaptığım ilk alışveriş olması sebebiyle şüphelerim vardı, fakat sonuç; hızlı kargo, sorunsuz ürün. Ilk 2 günde 1,5 tb veri attım, 100mb/sn nin altına düşmedi. Aşırı sesli değil. Bilgisayar da direkt tanıdı. Alışverişten memnunum, tavsiye ederim.

Mis impresiones hasta ahora: - Los materiales son de calidad, buena estética. - Se calienta muy poco. - El medidor de consumo eléctrico me da valores entre 4w y 7w, dependiendo de la carga que tenga en cada momento. 0w en reposo. - No es ruidoso, lo tengo a un par de metros del ordenador y creo que no lo he escuchado nunca. - Lo tengo encendido 24/7 desde hace más de una semana. Está conectado a una Banana Pro (tipo Raspberry), funcionando como servidor de ficheros y cliente torrent (rtorrent). De momento todo bien, pero como con cualquier disco duro, a la larga se verá si fue buena inversión. Si da algún tipo de problemas actualizaré la opinión. Lo recomiendo.

Questo hard disk è un ottimo dispositivo dotato di grande capacità anche se è ormai facile trovare anche dimensioni maggiori (recentemente ho acquistato questo da 4TB: https://amzn.to/3mFL1L5) Funziona bene e il trasferimento dati è veloce seppur si tratti di un disco tradizionale e non SSD. Consiglio questo prodotto come sistema di backup su cui programmare un archiviazione quotidiana per mettere al sicuro i proprio dati.

Black Friday indirimi ile aldık, hızlı, eksiksiz ve sorunsuz geldi. Bilgisayara tanıtmak hiç problem olmadı. Isınmadı, gürültülü değil. Hızı depolama için uygun. Birkaç gündür kullanıyoruz hiç problem yaşamadık. Memnunuz.

Ich habe mir kürzlich zwei Expansion-Disks angeschafft, eine mit 4 TB und eine mit 3 TB (relativ willkürlich, da es für diese Kapazitäten gerade wirklich günstige Angebote gab - in der Summe musste ich für 7 TB gerade mal 172 Euro ausgeben, das ist pro TB sogar noch weniger als bei der - sonst wirklich günstigen - Seagate 8 TB Archive HDD). Ich suchte externe Festplatten, die ich per USB an mein Synology DS-214j anschließen kann, um dessen Kapazität zu erweitern. Hierfür sind die Seagate Expansion Desktop-Festplatten perfekt geeignet. "Out of the box" habe ich sie ohne weitere Maßnahmen direkt angeschlossen; am DS-214j geht das leider nur per USB 2.0, aber das stört mich wenig, da auf diesen Platten eh nur Videodateien archiviert, also einmal geschrieben und dann gestreamt werden. Das NAS erkennt die werksseitige NTFS-Formatierung sofort und stellt wie bei den NAS-internen Platten eine Netzwerkfreigabe zur Verfügung, die nur noch im Client-Betriebssystem (z.B. Windows) eingerichtet werden muss, und fertig. Eine Sache von fünf Minuten. (Per USB angeschlossene Festplatten können allerdings nicht in einen Verbund (RAID) mit den NAS-internen Festplatten aufgenommen werden, sondern nur "JBOD-mäßig" betrieben werden. Das ist eine grundsätzliche NAS-interne Einschränkung und hat mit Marke und Modell der USB-Platte nichts zu tun.) Ebenfalls sehr wichtig: Wird auf die Platte nicht zugegriffen, schaltet sie sich nach wenigen Minuten in den stromsparenden Standby und wird automatisch wieder geweckt, sobald auf sie zugegriffen wird. Das funktioniert am Synology-NAS zuverlässig, was keine Selbstverständlichkeit ist (manche Controller-Chips bereiten in dieser Beziehung wohl Probleme). Die Übertragungsraten entsprechen dem, was über USB 2.0 üblich ist (d.h. so um die 40 MB/s). Die Platte wäre an einer USB 3.0-Schnittstelle deutlich schneller, aber in meinem Anwendungsfall ist der USB 2.0-Anschluss natürlich der Flaschenhals. Was die oft kritisierte Lautstärke angeht: Kann ich nicht nachvollziehen. Bei mir stehen die Platten auf dem Laminatboden unter dem Schreibtisch, und das Einzige, was ich wirklich wahrnehme, ist das Anlaufen der Platten, wenn sie aus dem Standby geweckt werden. Schreib-/ Lese- oder sonstige Betriebsgeräusche sind (zumindest in meiner Konstallation) so gut wie nicht zu hören (zumindest nicht schlimmer als bei anderen Platten, ich habe z.B. noch einen ganzen Haufen WD Green und WD Red, teilweise im NAS, teilweise als externe USB-Platten). Meines Erachtens kein Grund, diese Platte nicht zu kaufen. Von meiner Seite daher eine volle Empfehlung. Preiswerte externe Festplatte, insbesondere auch zur Aufrüstung eines Synology-NAS geeignet. *** Update am 04.03.2016: Mir war erst später beim ersten Film-Streamen aufgefallen, dass ich alle 20 Minuten kurze Aussetzer (ca. 10 Sek.) im Film hatte. Nicht ganz zufällig waren die 20 Minuten die Zeitspanne, nach der das NAS die Platte in den Standby fahren wollte. Sprich: Der Standby wurde vom NAS (nicht vom platteninternen Mechanismus) gesteuert. Warum das NAS, wenn es alle 20 Minuten (Default-Einstellung) prüft, ob die Platte in den Standby gefahren werden kann oder weiterlaufen muss, den Datenfluss kurzzeitig anhalten muss, erschließt sich mir nicht (könnte ein Fehler des NAS-OS (DSM) sein), aber es ist mal so. Ich habe dann den platteninternen Standby gecheckt (HDDs an PC anschließen, "Seagate Drive Utilities" (von der Seagate-HP geladen) ausführen): Dieser war bei beiden Platten aus (ist wahrscheinlich werksseitiger Default). Eine Einstellung von jeweils 1 Stunde plattenintern und NAS-seitig führte nun freilich dazu, dass beide Platten gar nicht mehr in den Standby fuhren. Ich habe dann die platteninternen Mechanismen wieder deaktiviert und im NAS eine Standby-Zeit von 3 Stunden eingestellt. Das funktioniert dann wieder und reicht für die allermeisten Filmlängen, um diese ohne Unterbrechung zu streamen, und da ich längst nicht jeden Tag auf die Platten zugreife, stört es mich auch nicht, wenn die mal ein paar Stunden "nachlaufen". Eventuell ist durch andere Einstellungen (z.B. NAS-Mechanismus aus, nur platteninternen Mechanismus aktivieren) eine günstigere Einstellung hinzubekommen, aber die Zeit zum Experimentieren war mir zu schade, deshalb dies einfach als Hinweis für experimentierfreudigere Naturen. :-) ***