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

I had this for coupme months and works great! Really fast on my xbox one s. It was able to transfer not ultra fast speed but it was fast for me to not be impatient to wait. Thankful for the hard drive easy use and no issue with it yet!! If cant afford 4gb hard drive this good for those who cant afford more expensive hard drive!! Highly recommend for xbox or laptop. It sucks i had format it to xbox and cant longer use it laptop or computer but thst fine cause main purpose i bought was for my console

I thought that I was purchasing a solid state external hard drive but it a spinning disc and a lot slower that I’d like. With that being said the price was right, storage and size is great. I was also backing up 500 Gig from one computer and 750 Gig from another so that’s a lot of data to transfer.

A good and useful external storage for back-ups. Complicated navigation for a given task.

The drive has to be reset for use on Mac time machine backup, making their mirroring software incompatible. Transfers info fast and has great storage for the price. Would recommend.

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.

Bought this in 2020 and it lasted me 2 years . Once it starts beeping say bye bye

Works great! Easy to use.

The drive works fine and installed easily as my Time Machine backup drive for Mac OS. Has been working fine for about a month now with no issues. I didnt use any of the included setup software. I just plugged it in, formatted it, and was on my way. However, I can definitely hear it spinning--a constant low-level whine/hum here on my desk. Its not terribly loud, but definitely audible. I guess Ive just become so used to the silence of SSDs that I forgot what spinning, disk-based drives sounded like. So, thats the only reason I deducted 1 star.

Seems fragile but serves its purpose. The fact that i got a free amazon music subscription with this was a plus.

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.