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

Let me preface with, I have a 2-year old windows 10 machine with 32GB RAM. The machine is configured for graphics and photos, so there is a hefty display card. When I first unpacked this drive, I plugged it into one of my USB 3.0 ports and installed the software. Right after that, I was getting mouse and keyboard lags some short and some for 10 seconds or more. Unplugged the drive, shut down the software, lags disappear. So I uninstalled the software and decided to use Windows backup. But, when I plugged the drive in again, same thing - keyboard and mouse lag (freezing up as if there was an extreme performance hit) I unplugged it from the USB 3.0 port (5 Gbps)and plugged it into the USB 3.1 port with 10 Gbps transfer speed and problem solved. Now, I have to buy a USB extension, because the one that they sent was obviously meant for a laptop and not my console machine. It is a small drive for its storage capacity - so thats good.

While all hard drives fail at some point, Seagate drives fail with enough annoying frequency for me to not recommend this drive at all. The Seegate warranty is robust and the returns are accepted and replacement drives are sent back. No problem there. But the failure rate within the warranty period is quite regular. I already backup to redundant external drives. But it is indeed inconvenient to have to backup large volumes of data over again. Do not buy.

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

I use this external hard drive daily for work. Our server at work is typically not accessible when I work from home, so saving files on the server is not worth the headache of repairing that ongoing issue. Thus, I use this hard drive every day. Its small and easy to take back & forth from work & home. Its fast, has more storage than I could ever use, and its a quality product that has continued to work as intended for over 3 years. And you cant beat the price for that. (Especially since Im hard on things; its been dropped a bunch and thrown in my briefcase daily).

So, I bought this in 2019, not realizing why I really needed it. My intentions were to transfer EVERYthing over to it and set it aside as a ‘future’ project...until Dec 2020 when I was able to get an XBox Series X...I currently use the drive as storage for all those Game Pass Games without taking up space on the console itself. Wise investment and value for this hard drive.

Does what its suppose to do!

Doesn’t work. Maybe I just got a bum one.

I had them before and they stop working suddenly so you never know when it is going to fail, and if it fails you loose everything.

This portable drive has 5T storage capacity. It will work with Macs and uses Macs Time Machine application. I had some trouble setting it up on two Mac laptops I own. I called tech support and they are terrific. I had to call several times for different issues on each machine and they were extremely helpful. First, they call you back within a few minutes. They are patient, professional, polite, and extremely knowledgeable about their drive and about the Mac operating system. So, they walked me through very specific steps that I could easily follow and for each issue, they were able to find a solution such that the drive now works on both machines and automatically backs up the system as soon as the drive is plugged in. The cost of the drive is very reasonable for the amount of storage it provides. Although I had to call tech support several times, Im glad I did and glad to have this external storage for backup.