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

I bought it cuz I was tired of deleting files that I needed to make space. no issues still working great 5 years and 5 months. buy it you fool!

I had high hopes my second one would turn out great as my first one. Nope. Everytime I turn it on or access any file, I hear loud clanking and ticking noise. Obviously that is not a good sign.

Fouth one I have bought in last couple years. Run them 24/7 with no failures so far. Seagate has been more durable than other manufacturers.

Bought to add to an XBox One for additional storage. Easy plug and play, the Xbox will auto detect and allow you to format device. It does require a power supply plug, make sure you have enough sockets to go around. USB cord is adequate length. I have not noticed any stuttering or extended loading times, I moved almost all games to this drive. Also works seamlessly with the remote downloads from game pass. It’s the perfect drive, you plug it in, format, change the download setting in the Xbox, then forget its even there. The box is black with a blue led light, I have it in a open face console so the light isn’t intrusive. The box has a subdued diamond design so it would be fine if placed where it can be seen. 4TB for this price was a great deal, made better with my Prime visa.

This is an older drive that has been in daily use for several years. I bought it when the 5 TB drives first came out. I gave it four stars for capacity because now there are many drives with much more capacity. When I decided to switch operating systems with the next computer I bought, I stopped buying internal drives. The PC that I was using when I purchased this drive was finally replaced a few years ago with a Mac. One of the nice things about a USB drive is that when you switch operating systems you just plug it in to the new machine and reformat it to use on the new system. (back it up first). I like the way Mac OS manages the Seagate USB drives. When they are not in use, my Mac totally powers them down. As I have several external hard drives for different projects that is nice. I keep my operating system and program files on the internal SSD drive so even with my data on USB drives my machine is still fast where it counts. If you have other data that is mission critical and you need instant access, you can keep that drive spun up all of the time. As my drives are idle 90% of the time, I like that they are not wearing out while I am working on a file in RAM. I have a couple of Western Digital USB drives that I use to back up my critical data. The Mac OS does not seem to power them down. So when they are idle (even unmounted) they stay on standby. I back up once a week so afterward I power down my computer to make sure the buffers are written to the hard drives then turn off the surge protector for those drives. Otherwise the flashing lights bug me all week until the next backup. This Seagate drive has been a workhorse and has had no problems for its entire life so far.

Been a year and 8 months now. I still have it but I use a WD now because its a little quieter. But I still use this drive and it stop works flawlessly, of course I dont use it each day anymore but it does still work. Now Im thinking I may hook it up to my ps4 soon 5th month now, still no issues, it may have disconnected once i think but went right back. Still loads as fast as internal, i hardly use the internal for anything. I dont transfer stuff alot on it, but when i do my photosand videos i send them right to the drive and its very fast. I only currently have about 500gb on it but i just got a new cam and using lots of RAW files and my camcorder creates big files at 60fps so i needed this. I also should mention a few things again: 1 i formatted my drive before i transfered anything that way my pc can be more compatible per se. 2. Its only been hooked up to my one pc, if i wanna get something off another i use a flash drive between the two. 3. I dont move it, it sits on the floor where its basically been since i got it, again i dust it and lift it to do that but thats it. Remember its a desktop external its not made to keep moving, get a portable for that. So its been 4 months now and the only thing that has happened is it seemed to disconnect twice but reconnected immediately, although that could have just been my computer but doubt it. Other than that its still working perfectly fine. I keep up with what others write just to look for any red flags. I should also note that I hardly ever move or touch this drive, i moved it twice to dust it and that was minimal, its been sitting in the same spot laid on its front for the whole time. My data still loads as fast if not faster than the internal drive and has no lag. Seems this drive is hit or miss with other users. I saw these drives at walmart as well but didnt see the 5tb. This is my first external and have nothing else to compare it to, so buy at your own risk I rated 5 because its the first day. So I will explain as much as I can. First understand this device is as good as the device you connect it to. I use it for my pc, its a great pc if you have a slow older pc it may not perform at its best. Alot of reviews complain the speed is slow but you have to format it so that your computer can format it to its settings, once I did that my speeds went to about 179mbps i transfered about 410gb in 20 min it flew by, also I used the 3.0 port which is 10 to es faster than 2.0. The drive doesnt have many vents, ut I laid it on its side with the bottom facing out so that it can breath, it only gets warm, hasnt gotten hot. Also I read some complaining about the cords, well my port is very tight so the cord stays in and I have the drive sitting by the power cord so I mever even had to unwrap that. Seagate claims to have a file online to turn off the LED light. As far as noise, its low to me kinda like a light fan sound, its relaxing, I like it, some dont. Other reviews clai ed once you format it to xbox u cant use anything else with it...unless of course you reformat it to whichever device youre trying to use. Now with ,y computer the device shuts down when ,y computer shuts down and it boots up right along with it. I also noticed after just leaving my computer idle for awhile the drive seemed to go into standby (indicated by the blue light going off) but i could still access the files on it and 2 sec later the light came back on. So next thing I did was I wanted to see if I could access the files as quickly as my internal drive, I had a bu ch of HD videos and pics...in case you are wondering I used a HP slimline desktop very great computer and fast. Anyway, I was able to open my video just as fast as when I use my internal, same with pics, it actually seemed like it may have been faster at times. Now i dont know if its because the drive is that good or because my computer is fairly new but like i said its as good as the device you hook it to. I also want to note that contrary to another reviewer this device has not slowed down my pc whatsoever. I forgot to mention I have the 5tb model. Last thing I will say is, there was some reviews stating not to leave the drive running. Like i said it seems to spin down when not in use for awhile but i am ot 100% sure. Regardless hard drives are made to be used and running, my old crappy computer from 2009 i still have and i us3d to leave it running 24/7 for the better part of 6 years because i dont like restarting unless I have to and it still works. My current computer I also leave running 24/7 and no issues whatsoever. Lastly, understand this is a desktop expansion hard drive NOT a portable drive, meaning its not meant to bounce around from place to place or even room to room in my opinion, desktops are stationary as should any desktop external drive connected to it. If you plan to switch between computers etc, should probably consider a portable drive. If you have any questions feel free to ask me. UPDATE: So it has now been a month and this thing is still running smoothly, I havent moved it it has been on its side the whole month, has handled transfers smoothly, spins up rather quickly, quiet for the most part and still very fast. I really think the bad reviews come from people who move it around alot, like I said its a desktop external not a portable, so if you get this get it woth the intention of keeping it stationary as opposed to moble. If any questions, just ask

I hooked this hard drive (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TKFEEBW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) with USB 3.0 to its USB Micro port. It transferred data like I expected - maybe 40Mbs transfer rate. I figured this would be a nice storage unit for my ArcGIS Imagery files which, in order to actually use tiled imagery in a live ArcMAP application or serve it to the public (which I am planning on doing) - I needed to utilize my IBM blade servers and all the fun it is to maintain any virtualization blade technology. Well, little did I know my brand new Lenovo ThinkPad P50, I7 Skylake, with 64GB of DDR4 RAM, 4GB 3-channel RAM with GPU technology. I thought if I beefed up the laptop with RAM, CPU, and Video card I would be set... WRONG! My P50 came with an Intel Thunderbolt 3 port onboard. I did some research an purchased a USB 3.1 TYPE-C adapter (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013G4D0GC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) for $10. (Compatible with my Thunderbolt 3 port or course.) I hooked the USB 3.0 into the adapter and WOW! The data transfer speeds increased by 5X. I then purchased a $15 Thunderbolt USB power hub and a 20GBs USB TYPE-C cable to attach it to. I have 4 devices running on ONE thunderbolt 3 HUB - 1) Samsung EVO 850 PRO SSD using the SATA III adapter. 2) This 5TB External Hard Drive. 3) 1TB SATA III 2.5 HD I had laying around - using the same SATA-USB adapter as the SSD. 4) An cheap USB 3.0 DVD writer (Laptop Didnt come with one). All devices are powered by the TB3 port. My point is: when you purchase your next computer - get an Intel thunderbolt 3 port onboard. I am cancelling my cloud service with ESRI (that hosts my data) and am going to daisy-chain four Thunderbolt 3 external hard drives. My data transfer rate will be a minimum of 220mbs for each device. That is fast enough to serve my GIS data and FTP service for all my clients. I am switching my P50 to Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter edition. That will allow me unlimited VMs and external drives that are fast enough to host them on the TB3 external drives. For the first time, I can install my Oracle service and point the tablespaces to external sources - take the load off my CPU and let the INTEL chipset transfer data to my web server @ 40Gbs - and let the client machines do the rest.

I purchased this HDD on 8/10/2020 to extend the storage capacity of a PS4 Pro. As of 2/08/2021, the drive is now frequently disconnecting, resulting in corrupted data that needs to be repaired. This literally just started happening yesterday evening. There were no accumulative failures or warning signs leading up to this point. So, at just shy of 6 months, the drive is rendered useless for its intended purpose. I am seeing a lot of reviews mentioning garbage power supplies. I will be looking to procure a replacement power supply to see if that resolves the problem, but as it stands right now I cannot recommend this drive based on the reliability. I will concede that I have used Seagate drives exclusively for over 20 years, and this is the first one that I have had problems with, but its not looking promising considering the similar widespread issues that others are experiencing. All that being said, at 8TB this drive gave me what I needed, with plenty of room to spare. Setup was hassle free, and it worked perfectly fine up until now. If it hadnt suffered this premature failure, I would have given it a 4 star rating (one star docked due to the fact that this drive is not particularly quiet, and can easily be heard from 12 feet across the room). ** Edit 04/19/2021 - I replaced the power supply 2 months ago with an OMNIHIL (OMNI0811170166), and the hard drive has regained normal functionality. I have not experienced a single instance of the previously mentioned problems since then. It would appear, as others have said, that the included power supply is junk and should be considered a likely culprit in the event of similar issues arising with your drive. ** ** Edit 05/04/2022 - This drive is still going strong over a year after I replaced the faulty included power supply. The drive is heavily used, as its the default install location on my PS4 Pro, and I am an avid gamer. **

Great capacity, no tech support needed; worked first time out of the box.

With data storage becoming more and more necessary with everything under the sun becoming digitized, Ive had in recent years been forced to switch from DVDR platters and Caseline cases to external hard drives. My first external HDs were Seagate and WD USB-powered drives and these (pairs of at 2 and 4 TB) have been fairly reliable. I eventually ran out of space and decided to centralize my storage into 2 8 TB external drives, each with independent power, thinking that would make these have faster access. Long story short, these work just fine after 3 months, access time is exactly the same as the USB models, however every time I need to read one of these drives it takes about 20 seconds for it to wake up (unless Ive accessed it in the last 20 minutes or something). My old USB drives used to sometimes need a few seconds of wake up time as well, but only 5 seconds. This is disappointing since I was hoping that the independent power source would negate this spinning up time. Oh well, at this point Ill just stick with these until the SS drives become practical for normal consumers.... Btw I always have 2 sets of external hard drives as a precaution against failure. Also more and more of those old DVDrs are starting to fail. I have a feeling well all be back to vinyl and self-stick photo albums in a few decades...