Expansion 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB5000100),Black

Been a year and 8 months now. I still have it but I use a WD now because it's a little quieter. But I still use this drive and it stop works flawlessly, of course I don't use it each day anymore but it does still work. Now I'm thinking I may hook it up to my ps4 soon5th month now, still no issues, it may have disconnected once i think but went right back. Still loads as fast as internal, i hardly use the internal for anything. I dont transfer stuff alot on it, but when i do my photosand videos i send them right to the drive and its very fast. I only currently have about 500gb on it but i just got a new cam and using lots of RAW files and my camcorder creates big files at 60fps so i needed this. I also should mention a few things again: 1 i formatted my drive before i transfered anything that way my pc can be more compatible per se. 2. It's only been hooked up to my one pc, if i wanna get something off another i use a flash drive between the two. 3. I dont move it, it sits on the floor where it's basically been since i got it, again i dust it and lift it to do that but that's it. Remember its a desktop external its not made to keep moving, get a portable for that.So it's been 4 months now and the only thing that has happened is it seemed to disconnect twice but reconnected immediately, although that could have just been my computer but doubt it. Other than that it's still working perfectly fine. I keep up with what others write just to look for any red flags. I should also note that I hardly ever move or touch this drive, i moved it twice to dust it and that was minimal, its been sitting in the same spot laid on its front for the whole time. My data still loads as fast if not faster than the internal drive and has no lag. Seems this drive is hit or miss with other users. I saw these drives at walmart as well but didnt see the 5tb. This is my first external and have nothing else to compare it to, so buy at your own riskI rated 5 because it's the first day. So I will explain as much as I can. First understand this device is as good as the device you connect it to. I use it for my pc, it's a great pc if you have a slow older pc it may not perform at its best. Alot of reviews complain the speed is slow but you have to format it so that your computer can format it to its settings, once I did that my speeds went to about 179mbps i transfered about 410gb in 20 min it flew by, also I used the 3.0 port which is 10 to es faster than 2.0. The drive doesnt have many vents, ut I laid it on its side with the bottom facing out so that it can breath, it only gets warm, hasnt gotten hot. Also I read some complaining about the cords, well my port is very tight so the cord stays in and I have the drive sitting by the power cord so I mever even had to unwrap that. Seagate claims to have a file online to turn off the LED light. As far as noise, it's low to me kinda like a light fan sound, it's relaxing, I like it, some don't. Other reviews clai ed once you format it to xbox u cant use anything else with it...unless of course you reformat it to whichever device you're trying to use. Now with ,y computer the device shuts down when ,y computer shuts down and it boots up right along with it. I also noticed after just leaving my computer idle for awhile the drive seemed to go into standby (indicated by the blue light going off) but i could still access the files on it and 2 sec later the light came back on.So next thing I did was I wanted to see if I could access the files as quickly as my internal drive, I had a bu ch of HD videos and pics...in case you are wondering I used a HP slimline desktop very great computer and fast. Anyway, I was able to open my video just as fast as when I use my internal, same with pics, it actually seemed like it may have been faster at times. Now i dont know if it's because the drive is that good or because my computer is fairly new but like i said its as good as the device you hook it to. I also want to note that contrary to another reviewer this device has not slowed down my pc whatsoever. I forgot to mention I have the 5tb model.Last thing I will say is, there was some reviews stating not to leave the drive running. Like i said it seems to spin down when not in use for awhile but i am ot 100% sure. Regardless hard drives are made to be used and running, my old crappy computer from 2009 i still have and i us3d to leave it running 24/7 for the better part of 6 years because i dont like restarting unless I have to and it still works. My current computer I also leave running 24/7 and no issues whatsoever. Lastly, understand this is a "desktop" expansion hard drive NOT a portable drive, meaning it's not meant to bounce around from place to place or even room to room in my opinion, desktops are stationary as should any desktop external drive connected to it. If you plan to switch between computers etc, should probably consider a portable drive. If you have any questions feel free to ask me.UPDATE: So it has now been a month and this thing is still running smoothly, I haven't moved it it has been on it's side the whole month, has handled transfers smoothly, spins up rather quickly, quiet for the most part and still very fast. I really think the bad reviews come from people who move it around alot, like I said it's a desktop external not a portable, so if you get this get it woth the intention of keeping it stationary as opposed to moble. If any questions, just ask

I use this hard drive as extra storage on my PS5 and it works excellent. Holds tons of game titles from it's large capacity, if your looking for a good gaming drive this is it!

It seems like all USB 3 drives eventually fail. However, there isn't much choice for backups except for RAIDs or tape backup, which are both pretty expensive. My advice: back up your data to more than one drive, and then move to new drives each year or two. Drives are more likely to fail if in a hot place or in constant use/connection, but I've found they can fail even if they've only been connected to save to backup. If you have critical data files that will financially impact you, definitely get a RAID!

I bought this over 6 years ago and it's still going strong without showing any signs that it's going to fail soon. The key to making it last is to not move it while is running and keep it away from vibrations. (Like having it on a desk that you drop stuff on. Any jolt like that has the potential of damaging it over time) I have mine on a separate shelf with my battery backups to avoid problems.

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PS4 BUYERS READ THIS IMPORTANT!.....THE PROBLEM: The 5TB version "WILL" work with the PS4 but first must be formatted to a file type the PS4 can recognize. There are several file format types, but the most common are FAT and NTSF. This drive (5TB) comes pre-formatted as NTFS. The PS4 can NOT read NTFS but it can read haddrives formatted in FAT. Now heres the tricky part...You need a PC in order to re-format this drive from NTFS to FAT and to make matters worst the Windows OS doesn't allow hard drives over a certain storage limit to be formatted to FAT. I think anything over 2TB cannot be formatted from NTFS to FAT using Windows OS (XP,Vista,7,or 8). But don't fret there's actually another solution that I found out during my frustrating trying to find a way to format this drive so that I could use it with my PS4.THE SOLUTION: I stumbled across a forum and found that with a recent update to the PS4 that gave us the media player so we could watch our digital backed up videos SONY also allowed the PS4 to read another file format and its called "exFAT". After looking up and comparing exFAT with NTFS and the original FAT I found that exFAT is the superior file format you want to re-format this drive in to work with your PS4 and heres why.....NTFS: Can only be read by Microsoft Windows PC and XBOX ONE. Its has a max file size of 16EB.....not KB,MB,GB, or TB....but EB....a whole new level we as consumers won't see for a long time on the market. As of right now its pretty future proof.FAT: Can be read by many devices such as PS3, your Android smart phone/tablet,XBOX 360 and of course the PS4 and XBOX ONE....,BUT! FAT has limitations that in this HighDef world we live in now simply can't keep up (HELLO 4K Elitist). FAT has a file capacity of 2TB and a max file size of 4GB per whatever digital file you're trying to copy or move over to your drive thats formatted in it. FAT is the past and the present but not the future and are best used on devices like your smartphone/tablet and PS3.exFAT: Is the future. exFat has virtually no limitations on file size whatsoever. If you're a MAC and PC user then you already know about exFAT because both OS can read your drives without the need to convert them back and forth from NTSF for Windows and FAT for Apple Macs. SONY really did all of us a favor by letting the PS4 be able to read the exFAT file type. Something I wished the PS3 could do years ago and to this day but "CANNOT". This means you can back up your BLU-RAY disc or wherever you get your digital content from and not have to worry about the file size being over 4GB,20GB or even 100GB per piece of 1 file. The file size of a movie on a BLU-RAY is probably from anywhere to 10-30GB. So exFAT is the ideal format to go with (and most likely only) when using any external HDD over 2TB.THE TRICKY PART: Now you just have to format this drive with a windows computer I think with Windows OS 7 and higher. I cannot confirm if XP or VISTA will let you do this but I really don't see why not if you're updates are up to the latest. I also can't speak for MAC users either as I have never owned an APPLE computer and most likely never will. Ok so here we go!****OH CRAP I FORGOT HOW I DID IT.....LET ME UPDATE THIS LATER GUYS WITH A 1...2..3 STEP TECHNIQUE. SORRY AND THANKS FOR YOUR PATIECES BUT IT DOES REALLY WORK WITH THE PS4. IF YOU HAVE A XBOX ONE I THINK YOU CAN FORMAT IT WITH THAT ALSO BUT I"M NOT SURE IT DOES IT IN exFAT , BUT IM SURE NOT IN FAT ALSO AS THE XBOX ONE LETS YOU BACKUP GAMES AND PLAY OFF THE DRIVE.....THE PS4 DOES NOT (ATM). I'LL FINISH THIS LATER GUYS WHEN I GATHER THE INFO AGAIN.******AND SEAGATE I'M CALLING YOU OUT!!!! START PRE-FORMATTING YOUR DRIVES IN exFAT! SO PS4 and APPLE USERS DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT GOING THROUGH THIS HEADACHE LIKE IT TOOK ME. FORMATTING THIS 5TB DRIVE IS NOT AS SIMPLE AS GOING TO MY COMPUTER AND RIGHT CLICKING AND CHOOSING THE FORMAT TYPE. exFAT WON"T SHOW UP AS AN OPTION ONLY NTFS. YOU OR MICROSOFT NEED TO ADDRESS THIS A.S.A.P.

Love this and its super fast just moved almost 50,000 photos to it from my laptop and it took less than 30 minutes!

Fouth one I have bought in last couple years. Run them 24/7 with no failures so far. Seagate has been more durable than other manufacturers.

Fantastic value, horrible speed for large sustained transfers. If you're broke, just copying intermittently, or not copying tons of data, go ahead and buy one, if not, read on...I was under the impression Seagate's newer models had eschewed SMR "archive" drives for higher performance barracuda's, but apparently the new barracuda's are now equally as crippled, and you have to get a "pro" for decent performance. My unit appears to contain a st8000dm004. I spent a couple of days testing to ensure it had no gremlins, then started copying data...Starts off very briefly at 160MB/s filling it's buffer, after 60 seconds that's halved, by 90 seconds I'm averaging sub 20MB/s speeds. The included screenshot shows copying my scan folder... purely transferring images, which is about the easiest (fastest) thing for a drive to handle. My aging (5 year old?) 3tb seagate external handles the exact same transfer settling in at a stable ~60MB/s average, and the ironwolf I purchased to replace this averages 135MB/s. Adding smaller files to the mix causes speed to plummet further, frequently grinding to a dead halt (yes zero kb/s). And I'm not talking thousands of files, even just adding XMP sidecars for RAW files (each 24MB raw paired with a 7kb file) is a problem. While read speeds were better, they were also well below expectation at 60-80MB/sec for the same folder.The drive still passes seatools tests and smart data shows zero issues, so I have to assume it is working correctly. If Seagate was upfront about performance I'd happily have moved on, and recommended this to all my friends as a fantastic value for uses where speed isn't a factor, or where only a few GB need copying at a time. Just dumping another HD movie into storage? No problem... doing real work? Think again. As an "expansion" drive rather than a "backup plus" where you advertise a drive specifically to expand storage "without compromising performance" this is not acceptable. I've wasted several days of testing, lost my window of downtime for my project, and feel entirely misled.Seagate I have nothing against you as a company, and I have purchased an ironwolf to replace this, but you need to get your marketing together and be upfront about this kind of thing. I have never previously rated a working product one star - while I can understand and forgive the occasional DOA drive, I can't forgive deceptive marketing from an industry leader. 1 star for an extremely disappointing experience.

Compré el dispositivo en noviembre del año pasado. Tiene 10 meses y falló hace una semana, tengo información delicada en el y me puse en contacto via telefonica con Seagate para tramitar la garantía y me dijeron que la garantía la negociara con el vendedor. Amazon me dijo que me apoyaría solo si obtenía la respuesta por escrito de Seagate... la comunicación que ha sostenido Seagate ha sido de apoyo técnico y en terminos de la reposciión del equipo me indican que me enviarán una unidad usada y que debo pagar un envio de 85 dolares para que mi dispositivo llegue a sus oficinas y puedan intentar hacer valida la garantía. No estoy de acuerdo en seguir gastando por un dispositivo que debía ser confiable y que se ha cuidado sobremanera. He perdido dos fechas de entrega de material importante por el proceso de recuperación.

外付けＨＤＤの８ＴＢも大きく下がってきたので、４ＴＢＨＤＤからのお引越しです。いろいろ探しましたが Amazon のこの商品が最安値でした。この値段以下もあることにはありますが、再生品となるためおすすめしません。当方、再生品の方を買って使用したことありますがほぼエラーが発生します。しっかりしたメーカー品にしてからはそういうこともないのでＨＤＤは新品（再生品外）が無難です。大抵、３年くらいは持ちますので保障なんかもいらないかと。その間にまた上のグレードの値段が下がってきますので同じようにお引越しして前のＨＤＤは売却。という流れが一番ですね。※追記ちなみに 22800円 で買った人のレビューありますが、この商品は定期的に 19800円 になります。なので買う場合はその時を狙って購入しましょう。3000円OFF は不定期なだけで１週間ほどで有効になるようです。購入しちゃった方は待てばよかったですね。。令和元年8月２台目も8TB購入してます。まだやはりここが最安値な模様。というかなぜか10%割引で販売しており、当方は17000円前後でゲットしてます。この商品ほんと変動が激しいですね。私買うときにはいつも安くなっていてタイミングがよかったようです。後日見てみると21000円になってました。参考にしてください。

Pros: Great deal for an 8 TB drive that can be used for data storage or backups.Cons: Can be noisy depending on what surface it sits on; using it as your OS drive not recommended due to its SMR designSummary:I bought this drive to replace my 4-drive Mediasonic Probox backup system as only having to deal with one drive made it much more portable. I typically store this drive off-site in case of fire.You could easily use this drive to actively store your data, and yes the drive's case can be "shucked" so you can use it as an internal drive. The only thing to note is that it's missing a couple of mounting screw holes, so depending on what your PC case is like you may not be able to secure it as well as normal drives.This drive does make more noise than expected when being accessed; this can be reduced by laying it flat on its side or by placing it on carpet. If you shuck the case and install it as an internal drive, you can reduce the noise if your PC case is somewhat soundproofed.Now about the performance... yes, the drive inside is usually a Seagate Archive series unit, which uses "Shingled Magnetic Recording" technology (i.e. SMR), which means your write speeds could be significantly slower than reads. However, I personally haven't had much of a problem; copying over various files in various sizes generally stick within the expected 60-130 MB/s speeds (speed varies depending on where the drive head is moving on the platter). However, since I use this drive as a backup, I don't have it constantly writing to itself as if I were using it as my OS drive (i.e. my C: drive). I wouldn't recommend using this drive as your main C: drive, but it's perfectly adequate for storing your documents, pictures, music, video, and even games (although I would recommend "short-stroking" the first TB or so of this drive if you plan to store your games on it, as it will keep game read times as fast as possible).Notice how I said above that the drive inside is "usually" a Seagate Archive model... this is because rumours have been flying around that some of these drives contain higher quality drives that don't use SMR and are thus more responsive overall. Even if these rumours are true, there's no way to tell which drive you'll be getting until you receive it and either use a HDD analysis tool or shuck the case to find out the exact model. I've confirmed that my model is an Archive model so even if you get one of these your performance should still be more than adequate.

yes i not you always lose a little when buying a drive but this takes the piss pay for a 6TB drive and you end up getting 5.45TB what a piss take atleast make it just over 6 gig or a little under NOT buying another drive from Seagate again thats for sure