Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD – Black USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac, 2 Months Adobe CC Photography (STDR2000100)

Ive used this since April 2016 and carried it several times in my purse while away -- no problems (yet no banging it around, either, of course). It arrives in a proper manufacturers original, sealed little box with the data transfer cord and a Guide. This is back up for ordinary people. This is the one to get because it has the user interface: stuff to click upon to make stuff happen. In other words, you dont know how to make a backup happen on your own, so buy this one -- not the cheaper one(s) that is great for the geeks, not so much the busy person or the non-techy-geek. It is the area of 1 1/2 standard sized PostIt Notes, and very slim. Hard to notice beside your computer. This is the Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB Portable External Hard Drive with Mobile Device Backup USB 3.0 (Silver) STDR2000101 ---2 terabytes for at the time of this writing, $89. You could watch for a lower price, etc, but in the meantime your hard drive (your computer) could fail, as mine did while out of town, w/o a decent backup saved. Learn from my woes. Ive used this one for long enough now to see that it works great and is EASY to use. To unplug it from your computer, first click on that little icon that will appear near the clock at the bottom of the screen, which allows for safe removal -- this shuts it down even further than what you have already done when you xd it off, so you will retain your data and changes. Also, do not allow anyone to format this device, this drive -- this will erase forever the drivers that make it work and the dashboard user interface, along with every byte of your files and stuff. I did not use the OneDrive feature. When you travel, just take the thing with you. Try to have off site backup;I use SpiderOak. If you lose the cord or need another, buy the $5.56 connecting cord, its the proper type, here:

I purchased four of these (5TB) in 2019—two for auto backups, two as external drives. They all sit undisturbed on a desk and are not carried around. In 2022 the external drives seem to be functioning as required. One backup drive failed at about 18 months, the other failed about a month ago. Neither was even near capacity. Seagate was accommodating about the first failure even though for reasons I cant recall now the drive wasnt eligible for free data retrieval, but they retrieved data and replaced the drive at no cost to me. (It was during the pandemic, maybe they felt the need to be kind.) I havent even tried to do anything about the second failure. Like a lot of people, I just want something that works without me having to think too much about it or investigate or troubleshoot. So Ill be looking at other brands when I replace that second failed Seagate backup drive. Three stars because 2 of the 4 original drives continue to work, the replacement backup drive is good so far, and good customer service.

As a mother I take photos of my son as much as possible. Less more so now that he is a little older but when he was a baby... Oh man, I had that camera in his face all the time! My son is my pride and joy. I am forever thankful to have him. I lost all of his Baby pictures because I had everything on one EHD. Just one. And it dropped. My world shattered at that moment. I had to remind myself that it was just pictures and hes still here, so I can take more. I bought this EHD as another back up for my photos. I like that it has so much space available and is so small. Its truly portable and that I love. I have included photos to compare size to my iPhone 6s. The only thing for me personally, I wish the cable was a bit longer. This however is just a personal preference. I am giving this item 5 stars because it does the job! I have 4TB of space to store the thousands of photos of my son. I can also store my designs and blog photos. I store my photography and my RAW images from my Canon and still have so much space available. The hard drive loads up pretty fast and has a small light on the top to indicate it has connected to the computer. I have no complaints about this product and I plan to purchase another in the future to have just incase I fill this one up. =)

Great for travel

Let me tell you, the 5TB hard drive I recently purchased is a real game-changer. I can finally store all of my favorite cat videos, memes, and embarrassing childhood photos without having to delete anything. But the best part? This thing is so quiet, Im pretty sure its a ninja in disguise. I couldnt hear a single peep out of it even when I held it up to my ear. Its like its silently storing all of my digital secrets without making a sound. And the transfer speeds? Lightning fast! I was able to transfer an entire season of the Simpson in the time it takes me to make a cup of hot coco. Its like the hard drive is powered by the speed force or something. Plus, its so compact that I can fit it in my pocket and pretend Im a secret agent carrying important intel around. Overall, I would highly recommend the 5TB hard drive to anyone who needs a reliable and stealthy storage solution.

I got this hard drive to put in my PS3, since I have PS+ and a lot of digital game purchases. This is one of the first 2TB thin enough to fit inside. YouTube has videos showing you how to do this in case you are considering it. I removed it from the case, formatted it to fat32 and have 4.60 firmware. It just displays an error that the hard drive is incompatible and wont go any further. It does physically fit inside the PS3. I have the newest super slim version of the PS3, if that matters. Since I have a PS4 that could also use it, I took the hard drive straight out of the PS3 and put it in the PS4. It worked just fine. I do not need that much storage yet since I only have a few PS4 games so far, but Im sure it will eventually fill up. I am not sure what the limitation is, some people say 1TB is the maximum for the PS3, while others have said that they have 1.5TB working. I couldnt find anyone saying anything about if this 2TB drive would work, but apparently the answer is no. If you do get this working on the PS3 or have any suggestions, it would be really helpful. This is a good price for 2TB and I can now hopefully take the old PS4 hard drive, put it in the Seagate case and have a 500GB backup hard drive as well. This does not work as an external drive for the PS3 either if left in the Seagate casing. The PS3 doesnt provide enough power through the USB port for it to function. *As of firmware update 2.5 released on 3/27/15, the PS4 does now support backing up to an external HDD like this.* *four month update* The hard drive is still working great in my PS4. No problems at all.

Works great and I use it often. Would recommend.

So just like the headline says. I bought this in 2017, and Im about to buy another with more space when I came across this one again and saw the reviews. I use the one I have to store MANY videos, pictures, and recipes. I have almost filled up this drive with many episodes of anime and have brought it with me on vacations over the years. Its still perfectly fine and running without any issue. I still also frequently add new episodes to it to this day. Theres no lag, and barely any large amount of waiting time even when Im literally putting in an entire series into the device. (I put all the bleach episodes on it recently and it didnt even take that long. Mind you thats 366 eps. including extra OVAs.) Unless your banging it about and expecting the speed of sound with every little upload, youre not going to be disappointed with this little guy.

BOTTOM LINE: I own and regularly use multiple Seagate external hard drives (mostly 2TB units). This larger 4TB seems equally sturdy and idiot-proof; chugging without a hiccup - loading/deleting & re-loading. Other reviewers may have had issues with Seagate products but in over 5 years use and seven different drives of various sizes, Ive had zero problems with any of them. And ALL of them are still in active use! Therefore... 5 STARS! THOUGHTS: I have several 2TB Seagate drives I use to store my library of movies & TV shows --- which Ive been slowly converting to MP4 format. I plug one into any USB port on the back of my HDTV and have hundreds of hours worth of movies & TV shows at my fingertips, with just the push of a few buttons on the TV remote. (No buffering on the internet and no rummaging through my piles of Blu-rays & DVDs to find something to watch.) And in all these 5+ years I have NEVER had ANY problems with any of these various units. In fact, one of my 2TB drives recently took an accidental 4ft drop from the back of my TV onto our hardwood floor ...and it still works like nothing ever happened!! (I also have a couple of 2TB units from Toshiba that work fine but seem to a little power hungry, compared to the Seagate drives. I have a multi-port USB hub and if I run anything else while the Toshiba is plugged in it just clicks and will not work. I dont have this issue with any of the Seagate drives. Not saying Toshiba sucks, just thought it should be mentioned. I also have a Western Digital 2Tb drive that works fine on my computers but for some reason my TV will not read/recognize it, so thats become my wifes back-up drive for her desktop now.) Anyhow, this 4TB Seagate is my primary movie back-up/odds & ends storage unit and I have had no problems whether Im dumping huge files or small ones; it just works and works. Consider me a happy Seagate user. :-)

I bought this hard drive on january 2016, I take care of it like it was my son... The drive is working fine, just a few times it gave me some problems but nothing i could worry about that time, because i knew the drive was new, i opened crystaldiskinfo to test another drive but the surprise was that the risky drive was my external 4tb seagate hard drive... wait WHAT? it has 4344 hours and has been turned on 474 times, i have others drives with 3 times more usage and they are on good shape i tested it with SeaTools like i noticed in other comment and at 10% of scanning it shows a failure i tested it with hd tune and it showed some problems ------------------------------------------------------- HD Tune Pro: Seagate BUP BK Error Scan Scanned data : 3976 gB Damaged Blocks : 0.6 % Elapsed Time : 11:24:33 1 Error at 3349 MB (LBA 6859096) 2 Error at 3501945 MB (LBA 7171983560) 3 Error at 3501945 MB (LBA 7171983688) 4 Error at 3501945 MB (LBA 7171983816) 5 Error at 3501945 MB (LBA 7171983944) 6 Error at 3501945 MB (LBA 7171984072) 7 Error at 3501945 MB (LBA 7171984200) 8 Error at 3501945 MB (LBA 7171984328) 9 Error at 3501945 MB (LBA 7171984456) 10 Error at 3501945 MB (LBA 7171984584) 11 Error at 3501945 MB (LBA 7171984712) 12 Error at 3501945 MB (LBA 7171984840) 13 Error at 3501945 MB (LBA 7171984968) 14 Error at 3501945 MB (LBA 7171985096) 15 Error at 3501945 MB (LBA 7171985224) --------------------------------------------------------- HD Tune Pro: Seagate BUP BK Health ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status (01) Raw Read Error Rate 100 93 6 555868863 ok (03) Spin Up Time 98 96 0 0 ok (04) Start/Stop Count 94 94 20 6218 ok (05) Reallocated Sector Count 100 99 36 0 ok (07) Seek Error Rate 60 59 30 73033273588 ok (09) Power On Hours Count 96 96 0 246771640963319 ok (0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 97 0 ok (0C) Power Cycle Count 100 100 20 474 ok (B8) End To End Error Detection 100 100 99 0 ok (BB) Uncorrectable Error Count 66 66 0 34 ok (BC) Command Timeout 99 98 0 12885098526 ok (BD) Unknown Attribute 100 100 0 0 ok (BE) Airflow Temperature 72 57 45 689373212 ok (BF) G-sense Error Rate 100 100 0 0 ok (C0) Unsafe Shutdown Count 98 98 0 5337 ok (C1) Load Cycle Count 93 93 0 14814 ok (C2) Temperature 28 43 0 51539607580 ok (C5) Current Pending Sector 92 92 0 672 warning (C6) Offline Uncorrectable 92 92 0 672 ok (C7) Interface CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0 ok (F0) Head Flying Hours 100 253 0 159618164589082 ok (F1) Unknown Attribute 100 253 0 6729511771 ok (F2) Unknown Attribute 100 253 0 14109218391 ok Health Status : warning ------------------------------------ The thing is that i dont wanna use seatools or hdd regenerator to try to fix the hard drive because there is a chance to lost all my data and i dont have anywhere to backup 4TB of information... (it is almost full) plus my life is on that hard drive... what should i do now... is the warranty still alive or what?