Seagate (STEB8000100) Expansion Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop

Love this and its super fast just moved almost 50,000 photos to it from my laptop and it took less than 30 minutes!

This is the best external hard drive out there I started of with western digital that had 2 drives in one box it was suppose to mirror each other so I started putting my photos and movies on it every once in awhile I would check and my items were on 2 separate drive then one day I turned on my computer and the external hard drive didn’t show I called up western digital and gave me to man to go through different prompts that didn’t work they sent me a mailer to send in my external hard drive so I did about 10 days later they sent my a nice letter and a new external hard drive it said in so many words they couldn’t get my items either I lost it all so I was talking to a friend of mine and he told me about Seagate he said what he does it he has 2 separate hard drives and put his items on one and then copies them to another one separate he said a lot of people use the cloud but you pay so much every month he said this way he can take his projects on one of his hard drive to work and plug it into a tv and it shows and this way he has his other one at home so that is what I do now with Seagate and haven’t had any problems keep up the good work seagate

First of all, i dont understand why microsoft doesnt have an external hard drive out if they make it so the built in one fills up so fast. Mine was filled in less then a year, and i was constantly deleting games everytime i got a new game, which sucks because it takes hours to download a game (especially since i buy mostly digital copies). I was weary about buying a hard drive that wasnt made for the xbox one, but It had to be done so i went with this one, and im happy i did. You just format it to the xbox one (it asks you if you want to when you plug it in) and set it so all new downloaded games will go to the external harddrive. I have about 25 games and I am only using about 10 percent of the hard drive, it will be a long time before i fill this up and i buy a ton of games. and even if i ever do fill it up, theres room on the xbox to plug in a second one at the same time! the only somewhat downside (doesnt bother me what so ever) is that you do have to plug it into a power outlet, its not powered by the xbox, and sometimes when the xbox is off you can here the hard drive working, i think its only when there is a game downloading or updating though. besides that, no complaints!

My Apple Time Capsule failed a few weeks ago. I went to the Apple Store to get another...only to find out that Time Capsule is a discontinued product. This did not leave me pleased, since we have a number of computers in this home that use the time capsule to access the internet and backup data. So, I bought a new router and this 6TB hard drive from Amazon to recreate the Time Capsule function. After a few minutes of reading, I was able to configure the router to recognize the hard drive. A few clicks in the Time Capsule applications, and computers started backing up to the new drive. I think I am all set...and I have enough capacity that I will not worry about local storage for many years. Yes, I also back up in the cloud, but I have become accustomed to relying on the Time Capsules ability to go back in time to recover files that may have been changed incorrectly or corrupted. BTW: For computer historians, I bought a 20 MB hard drive in 1986 for $1,295. So this drive cuts the cost per bit by over 3 million times!

I bought this drive for the purpose of backing up all my files. Unfortunately, it randomly started disconnecting from USB after I had copied only 21G to it. This drive is completely worthless to me. What good is a hard drive you cant even copy files to without it disconnecting? On the bright side, the problem is with the SATA to USB board, not with the drive itself. If you crack it open and put it in a decent external drive enclosure, they underlying drive seems fine. Heres my kernel log, showing what happened. [Jan16 20:39] usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd [ +0.020804] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=3322 [ +0.000001] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 [ +0.000000] usb 2-1: Product: Expansion Desk [ +0.000001] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Seagate [ +0.000001] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: NA8X3X3G [ +0.001700] scsi host6: uas [ +0.000451] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate Expansion Desk 9401 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [ +0.037362] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0 [ +0.000136] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Spinning up disk... [ +1.011494] . [ +1.024019] . [ +1.024045] . [ +1.024006] . [Jan16 20:40] . [ +1.024016] . [ +1.024056] . [ +1.023996] . [ +1.024027] . [ +1.024020] . [ +1.024027] . [ +1.024014] . [ +1.024027] . [ +0.000267] ready [ +0.000321] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] 15628053167 512-byte logical blocks: (8.00 TB/7.28 TiB) [ +0.014343] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off [ +0.000002] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 4f 00 00 00 [ +0.000198] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesnt support DPO or FUA [ +0.133111] sdf: sdf1 sdf2 [ +0.001198] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk [Jan16 20:51] sdf: sdf1 sdf2 [ +25.070120] sdf: sdf1 [Jan16 20:52] BTRFS: device label odin-backup-2 devid 1 transid 5 /dev/sdf1 [ +11.666367] BTRFS info (device sdf1): disk space caching is enabled [ +0.000002] BTRFS info (device sdf1): has skinny extents [ +0.000000] BTRFS info (device sdf1): flagging fs with big metadata feature [ +0.034597] BTRFS info (device sdf1): creating UUID tree [Jan16 20:53] BTRFS info (device sdf1): qgroup scan completed (inconsistency flag cleared) [Jan16 21:03] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 5 [ +0.014015] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Synchronizing SCSI cache [ +0.243925] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Synchronize Cache(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ +0.232031] BTRFS error (device sdf1): bdev /dev/sdf1 errs: wr 1, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0 [ +0.009188] BTRFS error (device sdf1): bdev /dev/sdf1 errs: wr 2, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0 [ +0.009206] BTRFS error (device sdf1): bdev /dev/sdf1 errs: wr 3, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0 [ +0.009266] BTRFS error (device sdf1): bdev /dev/sdf1 errs: wr 4, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0 [ +0.009266] BTRFS error (device sdf1): bdev /dev/sdf1 errs: wr 5, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0 [ +0.009347] BTRFS error (device sdf1): bdev /dev/sdf1 errs: wr 6, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0 [ +0.009252] BTRFS error (device sdf1): bdev /dev/sdf1 errs: wr 7, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0 [ +0.009228] BTRFS error (device sdf1): bdev /dev/sdf1 errs: wr 8, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0 [ +0.003229] usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd [ +0.005963] BTRFS error (device sdf1): bdev /dev/sdf1 errs: wr 9, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0 [ +0.009214] BTRFS error (device sdf1): bdev /dev/sdf1 errs: wr 10, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0 [ +0.005402] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=3322 [ +0.000002] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 [ +0.000001] usb 2-1: Product: Expansion Desk [ +0.000000] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Seagate [ +0.000001] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: NA8X3X3G

First off, i was wary of the number of review stars on this drive since A) its a seagate which seems to get a bad rap as of late, and B) most of the 5-star reviews are vine voice reviews of free products. Over the last year or so ive come to the conclusion that these elite reviewers would rather keep their free stuff coming than provide honest reviews... but who am I to judge... id probably do the same. Rant aside, this drive is fast as hell. I was surprised how quickly it comes out of sleep mode (~ 2 seconds vs the 10-15 it takes my old(er) WD 3.0TB drive). I ran a long SMART check that came back clean and ive copied about a TB of stuff over to it. Zero complaints so far... but as others have said, well see how it fares in the long-term. If I needed another 5TB right now, I wouldnt hesitate on buying another one of these. Amazon packing was a little sketchy... the air bags stopped the HD from moving horizontally in the box, but not vertically. Other than that, im happy with this purchase. (Update 06/29/2016) Drive is used daily and still comes back clean with long SMART tests. Still very satisfied with this drive. (Update 02/16/2018) Now being used as a nvr drive for 10, 4MP ip cameras -- pretty much constant writes for over a year and still going strong. Id comfortably say this drive has exceeded my expectations.

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 thats 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 dont expect amazing performance from it. You definitely get what you pay for, and for its intended purpose as a backup drive it works fine. I cant speak for the long term reliability as I havent 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 wouldnt expect to get 5 years out of this drive, not that its 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

Had this for over 6 years and it still works. I should have reviewed a long time ago, now I want to buy a another soon.

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This works well but be careful when you set it up, and make sure you do it according to the directions. There are only two steps -- plug it into the power source and the plug the USB cable into the computer. I did it in reverse order and it did not come on. I thought it was dead, but then I did it correctly, and it works. Another issue I had was it was really slow in the beginning. However, I found out that my computer port was corrupted, and all I had to do was switch to a different port. Now it runs fast. As for noise, this little guy is nearly impossible to hear when it is idling. When you are reading or writing to it, it makes a barely audible sound but no more than the internal one in my computer. It has a nice blue glow light on the top to let you know when it is on. It goes to sleep when my computer sleeps and wakes up when my computer wakes up. I did not know which end of the unit was up until I ran my hand over it and felt the tiny black rubber feet on the bottom. I am very pleased with this unit. It is easy to setup and use. I highly recommend it.