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

A great amount of storage for a low price. I have put so much of my computer files on this and there is still so much room. It is a great size and easy to use

It’s working awesome.

I am super happy with this external HDD, works perfectly and the shipping was really fast. Definitely i will buy it again soon.

I bought the external HDD last black Friday, great deal 89.99. But...... At first, it seemed to work fine, it came with one exFAT partition, macOS recognized the partition, but I could not eject the disk, so I reformatted, then the problems started. I made 3 partitions, one exFAT, one ext4 and one for Mac. Nowadays just one of the 3 partitions is recognizable OSX, one in windows. My fix: Low-level format again and 4 TB of data transfer. Not recommended.

easy to use. back-up a lot of stuff. needed and useful if you care about what is on your computer, this is a must. good, solid quality.

This is awesome! It’s a common issue for me to have not enough space on my consoles so as I got a new system I didn’t want to feel limited in space. This is the biggest external hard drive I have. These aren’t readily available where I live so to get this is a real good thing. I’ve been downloading so much cool games and it’s still not even halfway full. That’s what I like. Thanks so much! Will buy from you all in the future!

If you are considering this drive: only buy it if you’re using it for cheap bulk storage. Write speed is terrible. My old WD 4TB could do 100/MB burst loads and 60MB/s+ sustained. This drive only does 60MB/s for short writes, and craps out after a short while. To put how bad the write speeds are — it can’t even sustain a 2 file concurrent download from my FTP server! My WD could do 3 concurrent while watching videos without issues! The process usually goes like this: Downloads start out fine. After a few minutes, the drive starts overheating (50+ Degrees C). Then it starts getting unresponsive, read error rates sky rocket, response time goes from few hundred milliseconds to 10+ seconds (it shows 10,000+ms response in task manager). After pausing my download, it’s utilization stays pegged at 100% for a full 5 minutes despite task manager showing a write speed of 4MB/s. Rinse and repeat. For people stuck with this drive: enable write cache in device manager doesn’t help the terrible write speeds, but it helps improve responsiveness for programs since they don’t have to wait a good 30 seconds for the drive to response “hey, I’m still here available to write files”. Disabling it (default) will cause programs to freeze along with the drive if it’s accessing files from the drive. The only real redeeming factor is that it’s decently cheap as a pure storage drive. UPDATE: Spend the extra bucks and get the WD P10 Game Drive. While I hate the gaming marketing, this drive was able to achieve sustained 120 MB/s sequential writes. FOR 8 HOURS STRAIGHT.

I had a back drive from Seagate, I had a problem placing the data on a new hard drive. At no charge Seagate recovered the data and installed it a new hard drive, plus replaced my old back up drive with a new one, all at no charge!

I have an old Seagate external drive that still works well but has limited storage capacity for my current needs. Out of the box I liked the size of the new portable 5TB drive. It was very cost effective. Unfortunately the Toolkit software they include did not work correctly with my new Dell XPS laptop running Win10. I followed the prompts exactly to get started but the backup hung with 2 min remaining and never finished. After several attempts I uninstalled the software from my laptop and reinstalled a fresh download from Seagate with the hope some bug had been fixed to no avail. After several attempts to backup it finally gave a backup complete message but the backup had skipped my most important folders containing my photos and Lightroom catalogue. I am impressed that the customer service answered my inquiry within 24 hours but the advice was to use the Windows backup software instead of their own Toolkit. No suggestion was made to trouble shoot their Toolkit software. So far an OK external drive but forget about their preloaded backup software.

The drive is very compact, very portable.