Seagate (STEB6000403) Expansion Desktop 6TB External Hard Drive HDD & Portable 2TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Mac, PS4, & Xbox - 1-Year Rescue Service (STGX2000400)

Had this drive for about 6 month then powersupply started making noise then later failed. Went to Seagate warranty online requesting a replacement powersupply. Their reply is below:"Thank you for contacting Seagate Support. We understand that your power supply failed after emitting a high pitch noise so you are unable to use the drive. We understand you wish to get the replacement. We regret the inconvenience caused. We will certainly help you. In this case, we would like to inform you that Seagate doesn't sell accessories separately. But, you can easily purchase the replacement power supply for your external hard drive by contacting any third party vendor or any e-commerce website."This reply is total crap. This product is in warranty and it is not my problem if your company doesn't sell these separately or not. I bought a product from you I expect it (all parts of it) to work!!! Especially the powersupply that when fails, causes the entire product to be useless.My suggestion to you is to buy products from companies that stand behind the quality of their products and care about the people that keep them in business - their customers. Will not buy another Seagate product!

First thing to note is that these are SMR drives. What is SMR? It means Shingled Magnetic Recording, basically the data on the drive is written overlapped like shingles on a roof. This means you can get more data on each disk platter, hence less platters for a given size and thus the drive is cheaper. Ok that's great right? Well the problem is this DRASTICALLY slows down the write speed for long sequential writes. It can get bogged down during large writes and become very very slow, like 10MB/s on average slow. Reads are fine it is only writing that is affected.That being said, the SMR technology does make this drive one of the best for $s/TB on the market, just don't expect amazing performance from it. You definitely get what you pay for, and for it's intended purpose as a backup drive it works fine. I can't speak for the long term reliability as I haven't had them for very long, but it has a 1 year warranty (most drives have a 2 or 3 year). The warranties are specifically calculated to balance between how cheap the manufacturer can go on the components and how many RMAs they will get when a certain expected % of the components fail. I wouldn't expect to get 5 years out of this drive, not that it's not possible but you are relatively lucky if you do.Summary:-SMR = slow writes-Only 1 year warranty = components of meh quality-For the price and purpose, not a bad drive

Wow, what a disappointment. This was purchased back in August as an external backup device for my pc. My computer is run with a Tripp-lite battery backup and the power also goes through one of my high-end surge suppressors. There has been no power fluxes or storms since I bought this. I've been working in the computer industry since the 1980s so I'm well aware of system operations and what can cause damage. No heat variations, the drive was never bumped or moved. Nothing.Today I noticed an alert on my backup program. No Seagate drive is seen in Disk Management. I tried the device on a 2nd computer in the house and it is dead. Dead dead dead.UPDATE: I went to the Seagate website and entered the drive and serial number. As mentioned earlier this was bought in August 2016 here on Amazon. The date of manufacturer on the drive is 02/27/2016. Seagate states "the warranty has expired".It powers up okay and the blue LED is illuminated. There's no dreaded clicking or clunking and you can feel the drive is spinning, but all computers do not see it. I can't even try fdisking it because no hardware is being registered by my operating systems.Seagate used to be better than this. Thank goodness I do redundant backups.

This drive is junk. It is slow, and it failed after less then 4 months of VERY occasional use. No longer powers up. There's no switch -- it is supposed to activate with power and when the USB3 is plugged in. Nothing. The housing is tinny. The power supply cable is very thin/cheap/fragile, and the connectors are sloppy. Has no value as a backup drive if it doesn't work.... I don't break stuff -- I have backup drives still going after 7 years.

This is my first try with Seagate in a long time (mostly a HGST guy). Inside this case is Seagate's Archive hard drive which OEM bare drive retails for $249. So for $179 it's a steal. (read about the Archive drive on Seagates website)USB 3.0 interface was fast. Tested empty drives formatted in HFS and ExFAT, both were a constant 180-190 MB per second read/write. After the drive was 90% full, large files peaked at 100MBps read and write, and smaller files averaged around 64MBps write, 80 read. Decent. Been running 6 of these for a week now 24/7 and have had no problems. All files have transferred and verified. And I performed a complete sector scan verify on one of them with no issues reported using SoftRAID for OSX.Cases are plastic so they're not the best for heat dissipation, but the drive itself sits in a metal bracket inside the case which helps. The case has vent holes on the bottom for some reason instead of the top, and holes on the back, but nothing on the front. I've been keeping a small fan on them as I've been copying and verifying for 24/7 for a few days. Probably not best to run 24/7 unless there's some cooling on them or they're in a very cold room. But I don't imagine most people will be running them at full tilt for days on end.I would buy these and take the drives out of their cases and put into a NAS. I'm curious how they'd perform long term.

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。

付属のUSB3.0ケーブルだと26MB/Sだったので、既にあったシーゲイト3.0TBHD用ケーブルに替えたところ160MB/Sの転送スピードとなった。自宅にあったものはエレコムが販売しているものだった。買われる方は一緒にケーブル購入した方が良いと思います。

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.