Seagate STHN2000400 Backup Plus Slim 2TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD - Black USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac, 1 Year Mylio Create, 2 Months Adobe CC Photography

Purchased 2 of these for gifts I have been using my own for over a year and it is great quality, easy to set up

So I have 3 other hard drives in the house, and I needed another one. I figured this sucker would be solid, especially since its a Seagate. I got it, decently sized box as I figured, and then I open the sucker and... Its so small! Width is about half that of the other 3 I have, and its so much lighter! I wish all of them were this tiny!

I really liked this Seagate STHN2000400 Backup Plus Slim 2TB External Hard Drive Portable. It has advanced portable USB3.0 and lots of storage. I am giving it 4 star because I have used it only for a month.

It was not especially difficult to set up the Seagate Backup Plus Slim for use by Time Machine, on our 2014 MacBook running OS 10.9. I have used it also after I upgraded the laptop to OS 10.12. A quirk I didnt expect was the laptop must be using the AC adapter or Time Machine wont back up to the drive. It limits this methods usefulness for a laptop compared to for a desktop computer. I have used it a few months and it seems to work fine, although I havent tried to retrieve anything yet from the drive. All I have to do is just plug the drive and the power supply, of course, into the Macbook. However, one time I plugged the drive in only to find later that it wasnt communicating with the computer. After I unplugged the drive and plugged it back in, it was fine. The takeaway is to verify by looking for the drives icon on the desktop. On the other hand, I once left the drive upside down, and it still seemed to work okay. But I wouldnt recommend doing it. The 2 TB is more than we need for this laptop. I had wondered whether I could partition the disk and use it to back up with Time Machine on 2 Macs. But I didnt expect it, and it doesnt seem possible since Time Machine reformats the whole disk as a single volume. Im pleased with the purchase, though, were I to get another external drive for a Macbook, I might see whether a LaCie would be more advantageous.

Works as it should

These are great. Small and compact. This is the second one I have ordered. The first was for pc backup/storage and this one was for ps4. It formatted perfectly for the ps4 and has been working great. Have had this one for a few months plugged into the ps4 and gets used daily. The pc one I have had for a few years and still works great.

I bought this for Macbook Pro Time Machine backup. It works fine with time Machine. After plugged in Mac automatically starts to back up. Its just that it takes for ever to complete a backup. 12 hours?... I had this machine for only a few months and I dont even have any game installed. Its way slower than I expected...

1) It does not include an encryption software and if it does they dont make it easy to do. For the price Id expect an encryption software. 2) It feels cheap, the photos almost make it look high quality but dont be fooled. its plastic. Thin plastic. when youre backing up to the drive you can hear it vibrate thru the cheap plastic. I would have expected better quality from a company like seagate. Next time will buy a different external drive. Im not impressed.

Good size. Was easy to sync up with my Xbox for download games to it. No problems with it

The only problem that I would complaint about it would be the noise and the heat issue. Other than that it is perfect. Recommanded!