OLD MODEL Seagate Expansion STBX2000401 2TB 2 5-Inch USB 3 0 Portable External Hard Drive

For my use, this drive is just perfect, and the price was great for a 2TB capacity storage device, even better pricing at Amazon than Costco! I'm using this with a mid-2010 MacBook Pro as a backup drive. I've partitioned the drive into two 1TB partitions. I use Carbon Copy Backup to back up my drive. I alternate partitions which allows me to keep 2 copies of the last known-good configurations of my computer. I do a lot of beta testing for Apple and this allows me to be a bit more fearless than if I had only one backup. This drive was easy to work with out of the box. My MacBook Pro can't make use of USB 3, but this drive is backward compatible with USB 2 and performs perfectly fine for my usage. I like the idea that one day, when I upgrade, this drive will give me the maximum speed available via USB. I once had a Seagate drive that went bad after a few years, and I contacted the manufacturer to exercise the warranty. The drive was promptly replaced, without any questions or hassle. It's made me a loyal Seagate customer to know that they stand behind their products. If you're looking for a portable drive with 2TB, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the Seagate Expansion Portable External Hard Drive. Read more

I bought two of these to extend my Xbox One's space. I didn't plug them into a PC at any point so I can't speak to that. Both Xbox Ones immediately recognized the drives and asked to format them. Formatting was finished in seconds and I had 2.3TB of total storage between the internal and external drives on my console (with nothing installed). This is a very small drive, it fits in my hand. I like that it is powered over the one USB cable. They drives are quiet, I can only barely hear them running when I'm within 2 feet of the drives and the room is silent around me. I've permanently stored them behind the consoles so they are essentially silent even when my rooms are quiet. There is one small blue status light that blinks when its being accessed. Luckily its a pretty faint light so it shouldn't be an annoyance in dark rooms. I've been running them for about 2 weeks now with no glitches or issues. The drives seem fast which is a must for gaming, I chose this drive because of other's reviews showing they usually reach their advertised speeds. My only complaint is the short USB cable, its probably 1 foot long. If you're using it on your desk with your PC or just looking to extend your Xbox One's storage it should be fine. Pros: -Small -Quiet -Works great with Xbox One Cons: -Short cable Read more

I wanted an External Hard Drive to use with my PS3 for playing music and videos. This 1TB (931GB out of the box) hard drive is simple and does everything I need it to. You simply plug it in to your computer and start dragging and dropping files. The first thing I did after setting it up was dividing it into two 465GB partitions; one for simple data storage and one for PS3 use. In order to make it compatible with the PS3 you have to format the hard drive to FAT32. Unfortunately Windows doesn't support this, so I downloaded a quick program ([...]) that formatted it in mere seconds. The problem with FAT32 is that it only accepts files under 4GB, so you can't have Blu-Ray quality DVD rips on here. So far the Hard Drive runs very smoothly. File transfers are reasonably fast, even when using a USB 2.0 port. The unit runs quiet and doesn't generate much heat, and it's small enough to easily fit in a coat pocket. I also think it's important to say that prices on this thing fluctuate like crazy on Amazon. One week the 1TB drive was $100, then $65, and now about $80. So if you can, have some patience and wait for a price drop because the price changes frequently. In conclusion this hard drive is simple and should work for anybody with file storage needs, and it's also proven to work great with the PS3. Read more

Let me just say that I chose this drive because I had luck with it's predecessor, a 500 GB expansion drive. Here is benchmark info for this drive: Sequential Read : 98.938 MB/s Sequential Write : 95.644 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 40.616 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 59.437 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.581 MB/s [ 141.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 3.186 MB/s [ 777.8 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 1.103 MB/s [ 269.3 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 3.274 MB/s [ 799.2 IOPS] Test : 50 MB [D: 14.7% (136.5/931.5 GB)] (x1) Date : 2013/12/26 11:15:14 OS : Windows 8 [6.2 Build 9200] (x64) I own a USB 3.0 Adata flash drive and it did slightly better in the read speeds, but RIDICULOUSLY better for the write speeds. (95.644 MB/s vs. 22.700 MB/s for sequential write). Compared to the older Seagate expansion drive I have, it is much nicer. The green LED is replaced with a blue one. The beveled edge is much more gentle. Most importantly, the glossy finish is replaced with a matte finish. The glossy finish was a fingerprint magnet, but the matte finish shows none (A smart move by Seagate). The mini USB cable is replaced by a special USB 3.0 plug cable. As usual, the included cable is around a foot long. When you get the drive it comes with some software files. I didn't even bother with them. However, I saved the Autorun and SeagateExpansion.ico file. These two files allow for the drive's picture to show in the Hard Disk Drives section of My Computer/Computer/This PC. If you don't want to look at these files though simply hide them like I did. Of course, thanks to USB 3.0 it is also much faster than my older drive. As you can see, all my files barely put a dent in the storage capacity. I'm only using 14.7% of the storage capacity despite having many videos, pictures, etc. FYI I am using this drive for backing up my files. In order to do so, I use FreeFileSync. It's free and I highly recommend it. Overall, I highly recommend this drive. I believe 1 TB is more than enough storage for anyone. If anyone has any questions fell free to add a comment below. Read more