Seagate Expansion Portable 2 TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop (STEA2000400)

I have been using an old 1TB drive for a few years now and felt it was time to upgrade. I could not believe how cheap this 2TB drive was and thought it must be cheaply made, I was very much mistaken. The drive is fantastic it comes with its own software on it but i never had to install anything, I simple plugged it in with the usb cable that came with it and boom it was straight there on my This PC page. I transferred over alot of material from the old TB and the speed it did it was great even tho my pc doesnt have usb 3 capability. I can only imagine how fast it would be at usb 3 speeds. Also the drive looks amazing, sleek and shiny black with a nice cube pattern on the top. The size is at least four times smaller than my old TB and this holds twice as much data. The usb cable isnt mega long which was no problem for me as i have the drive sitting on top of my tower so i have ample extra lead. The size makes it great for transporting and since it doesnt need to be charged as it gets its power from the PC you dont have to carry a plug charger around with you if you want to bring movies or data to another location. I have had no faults or any complaints with this product and maybe even buy a 4GB drive if I ever fill this one up. The drive also worked instantly didnt need time to charge up i just plugged it in and the blue light came on and i was good to go. All in all a great buy and at such a great price, well worth it

I bought this drive to try and help salvage my ailing iMac (which in itself is a rare thing). The internal drive has started to fail, and I needed to get stuff off quickly. I used this drive to actually run the Mac OS on, based on a 1.1TB time machine imagine that I had taken a few days before. I have to say, I am pretty impressed The drive itself comes well packaged in a neat box, with only the required amount of materials (no wastage here). Inside the packaging is the drive itself, which has a nice look and feel to it, and a proprietary USB cable that provides both power and data transfer in 1. Keep this safe, its an unusual cable so not sure how easy it would be to replace. I connected the drive, and set about formatting it to the right volume type to be a bootable MAC HD. Formatting was done quickly and I was away - able to install the OS onto the drive from a time machine backup, and have been running off it since. The drive itself is not silent, but neither is it noisy - you know its working by the blinking blue light on the top of the drive - but that's about it. I plan to velcro it to the back of my Mac so that its up and out of the way Size wise its about 25% bigger than a deck of cards, but also about 25% slimmer. The drive gets warm through use, but not hot and nothing to worry about. Read and Write speeds seem pretty good, and i am able to make use of nearly all of the 2TB of storage. I plan to use the drive for extra storage on my Xbox One once I have finished using it to run the Mac OS. Really pleased, and would recommend a good drive at a great price.

Wow! So much capacity in such a small device. I bought three off these beauties, one for my main data storage and two for backups. One backup stays next to the computer while the other one travels with me wherever I go, they are small enough to put in your pocket. I use the Mudder Hard Drive Bag Carry Case for Seagate Expansion and Backup, and WD My Passport Ultra (Old Model) 2.5 Inch Portable External Device to keep mine safe when out and about. Four Terabytes is enormous! I have partitioned them up so I can back up my wife's Macbook as well. I use the terrific SuperDuper application to create bootable clones of our Macs and these drives copy and boot without problems, just use Disk Utilities to format them to Mac Journalled and they are good to go. I have had no speed issues with using one of these as my main data storage and the cost saving over buying my Macbook with a measly 1tb SDD is huge - and these drives hold 4tb, wow! I can play HD video from them without problems, edit video using Final Cut Pro, everything works perfectly. Of course they are not as fast as an SDD but they are fast enough, I have noticed no speed problems with data transfer or running any applications They are silent in operation and did I mention the storage? Yep, 4tb, that is amazing!

Very useful.A good quality.

Ottimo, dati al sicuro, e abbastanza veloce sia in lettura che scrittura

The product does what it is meant to. Been using it to store ps4 games from ps5 and it has been doing its job. Game Performance is still the same which is a plus.

El espacio que mi hermano tiene en su PS4 original es de 500 GB y como sabrán no es lo suficiente como para tener muchos juegos. Teniendo Red Dead Redemption 2, Star Wars Battlefront II, Uncharted 4 y otros juegos indie su espacio libre básicamente desapareció jaja. Le obsequié este disco duro externo para que pueda tener un poco más de espacio y después de haberme comentado de su experiencia creo que también adquiriré uno para uso propio jeje. A continuación escribo la opinión del producto basado en los comentarios de mi hermano después de haber tenido el producto por casi un mes. Lo que le fue más atractivo a mi hermano obvio fue el espacio adicional que tendría para descargar más juegos (le compré el de 1 TB) El hecho de que también lo pudo configurar por si solo fácil y rápidamente fue otro aspecto muy positivo para el. Básicamente solo tuvo que conectar el disco duro externo al puerto USB frontal #1 de su PS4 y lo detectó de inmediato. Realizó el proceso de formateo (requerido por el PS4) y le indicó a su PS4 que cualquier juego descargado o instalado se almacene en su nuevo disco duro. La única observación que se debe de hacer con respecto al uso del disco duro con un PS4 es que SOLAMENTE lo podrás utilizar con tu PS4 (desconozco si este es el caso con un Xbox) así que no podrás utilizar la mitad del disco para almacen de archivos en general y la otra mitad para juegos de tu play aún así le quieras hacer particiones. -En cuanto a su desempeño mi hermano me comenta que juega sus juegos sin ningún problema. La unidad no se sobrecalienta ni hace ruidos excesivos fuera de lo normal. Lo deja siempre enchufado a su PS4 sin tener que conectarlo y desconectarlo cada vez que la encienda y lo ha leido siempre sin problema alguno. Cumple con todos los requisitos para utilizarlo con un PS4, funciona al 100% y mi hermano está muy contento con la unidad. A mi me alegra que le haya gustado y por su parte lo puedo recomendar a todo aquel comprador que busque ampliar el espacio de almacenamiento de su PS4 :)

Good item. Easy to connect to laptop and transfter data fast. Seagate may think of easier adapters like C-type cable to connect with laptops

Amazing product, is what I was looking for