Customer Ratings & Reviews

Took a little understanding of how everything worked with formatting. The application Disk Utility is what you want to have open so you can see your HDD and anything else connected to your mac. Also might have to select View in the top left of Disk Utility and click “show all”. Sometimes they wont show up on the screen if they’ve been pre-formatted with different settings from the supplier. In order to get best of both worlds from this desktop external drive I partioned one half of for time machine backups and the other for normal drag and drop storage of pics, videos and whatever else. In order to do this click the external drive and then click partition on the top of the application window. Set how much you want to partition and rename it and set formats. Important part is making sure the time machine half is formatted “Mac OS Extended” and the storage part is using “APFS”. Long story short i had a old 1tb mobile seagate drive that somehow already allowed me to time machine backup and drag and drop so I just reversed engineered the 8tb desktob one to be just like it! No more switching and unplugging! Hope this helps!

I purchased this hard drive intending on using it for video game storage, it definitely holds the files but accessing the game causes it to lag or be slow because the power and data output of the hard drive seems to only be able to handle media not necessarily running a game right out of it, but other than that I have zero problems with it, very easy to install kind of does it itself when you plug it in and connects itself to your computer automatically configuring to your specific computer that is unless if for some reason your computer is from the 1700’s should be fine, stores tons from media like pictures and videos to video games running straight from the external hard drive! I’ve ran battlefield 2042 through this device and it ran just fine, although I wouldn’t recommend long term usage for video games, it’s better for storage or lower end games but hey, it will work in a pinch! Need it for games? Get it, it will work. Slowish but still. Data transfer is pretty quick when it comes to files, video games take longer just for the nature of their software obviously but all in all I would definitely purchase this again. Price is always a teeth clencher but it pays for itself in my opinion. So get it!

I am in the process of digitizing my movie collection, building a movie server for my home theatre. I have three of these now. They appear to be very reliable and sturdy as prior to building a rack for them, I had bumped them over a few times and they keep on ticking. Recommended for sure.

Good price, and value from Seagate. Quick shipping as well. Literally was plug-n-play as stated in the title. Plugged into USB port, hooked up power, and was immediately recognized by My PC I will be using for Music storage as a whole. We do have some documents which We will move there as well. If You want to use as a data recovery mechanism, Seagate has a nice online article on how to set up the data backup whether You have a Mac or PC. I mention that because I'm not a technical or computer savy person, so I take all the help I can get in this arena. Taking everything into account I believe You would be happy with purchasing this product as well, and I would recommend.

This is exactly what I needed for my 4TB Mac mini for automatic backups. It was literally plug and play and was recognized by Time Machine without any issue. I have it all set and behind my set up so I do not even think about it. Backups happen in the background and it gives me piece of mind.

To whom it may concern. I purchased a Western Digital 8 TB. Hard drive from me all. Brought it back to my home, plugged it in and it didn't work right out of the box brand new never had one do that. Brought it back to Best Buy and asked for a exchange and had no problem with the exchange. I swapped it for a Seagate drive 8 TB. Did a little bit of paperwork and walked out the door very happy 8 hair by hard drives, doing exactly what it was supposed to do initially, but sea. Gate. seems to be the boss now. In external hard drives. The cashier was very helpful. Polite and would definitely come back and purchase other items from the oil.. and I have recommended Best Buy to multiple other people over the years. Also, being a retired computer engineer.

8 TB that performs fast and easy to use. Great price! I can't lose my pics!!!

Great for storing my photos. When you shot raw you use up a lot of storage space. For the price you can't beat this hard drive.

great with lots of storage. Not too big and easy to use.

This drive works as needed. Just plug and play. It requires power cord because of the size, but the size is what I needed for backup.

Perfect expansion disk for WD NAS. Plug in via USB, all this space is now shareable on the NAS.

Lots of space to store my videos. Very easy to set up and use.

This is a great HDD with a lot of space. I haven't had any issues with it. My WD external tend to overheat occasionally as I always get a warning with them. This one has remained in the zone with ample space.

This is a Great Product at a Great Price! Ordering waseasy, my chosen product was available and it arrived in good condition at my residence. Clear instructions and easy to use. Would recommend ⁹

Easy to use. Great way to back up tons of photos, files and more. Can’t go wrong.

Purchased for work files that are important. This space is bigger than what I needed but I feel better knowing I am able to not run out of space for my files. Just what I needed speed, spacious , security and safety.

Plugged it into my Mac and PC it works great. I formatted to fat32. I can transfer my files back-and-forth between both of my computers with ease and have plenty of space for storage. I had a older model that still works and is running out of space so I Needed a new one.

This drive was exactly what I needed to backup all of my important media.

This is a reliable, fast external hard drive. This is the second one that I have owned with great success.

This will do the job for a mirror for my other external drive. Thus far, it does the job pretty nicely.