Seagate STHP5000400 Backup Plus 5TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD - Black USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac, 1 Year MylioCreate, 2 Months Adobe CC Photography, 2-Year Rescue Service

I am a bit dissapointed with this 5TB hard drive. While the price is attractive, the technology they use is the SMR technology that is very slow compare to traditional CMR technology. If you only write small amounts of data at one time, you will probably not notice it too much, but who buys a 5TB drive to only write small amounts of data? When copying large amounts of data, you will only be able to see write speeds of around 60MBps which is half of what older CMR technology drives do. Together with the thicker 15mm size, making it comparably less portable than 9.5mm drives, I am not sure this is such a good deal anymore.

I have switched to Seagate external drives. I use them to store my photographs and back-ups. I had 3 WD drives crash at the same time luckily I had a back up on my Seagate 5TB external drive. I would recommend this product for its durability and price. I hope you fin this review helpful.

No entregaron el producto en mi casa lo dejaron en la casa del frente, es una neglijencia del repartidor tienen que ver bien la direccion del pedido Sorry pero tuve por la foto salir a buscarlo.

Love this brand and trust if for my back-ups

If you are considering this drive: only buy it if you’re using it for cheap bulk storage. Write speed is terrible. My old WD 4TB could do 100/MB burst loads and 60MB/s+ sustained. This drive only does 60MB/s for short writes, and craps out after a short while. To put how bad the write speeds are — it can’t even sustain a 2 file concurrent download from my FTP server! My WD could do 3 concurrent while watching videos without issues! The process usually goes like this: Downloads start out fine. After a few minutes, the drive starts overheating (50+ Degrees C). Then it starts getting unresponsive, read error rates sky rocket, response time goes from few hundred milliseconds to 10+ seconds (it shows 10,000+ms response in task manager). After pausing my download, it’s utilization stays pegged at 100% for a full 5 minutes despite task manager showing a write speed of 4MB/s. Rinse and repeat. For people stuck with this drive: enable write cache in device manager doesn’t help the terrible write speeds, but it helps improve responsiveness for programs since they don’t have to wait a good 30 seconds for the drive to response “hey, I’m still here available to write files”. Disabling it (default) will cause programs to freeze along with the drive if it’s accessing files from the drive. The only real redeeming factor is that it’s decently cheap as a pure storage drive. UPDATE: Spend the extra bucks and get the WD P10 Game Drive. While I hate the gaming marketing, this drive was able to achieve sustained 120 MB/s sequential writes. FOR 8 HOURS STRAIGHT.

A very convenient device for extremely large amounts of digital storage space. I am in fact satisfied with this product. It does what I need it to do abundantly!

This is my second Seagate Backup Plus drive. First one is still in use after several years on an earlier computer. Ive never had any issues or problems with either.

Since I bought this I havent had to delete a game yet.

It’s working awesome.

Always as advertised, a great product. I have 5 of them for the past 4 yrs and 0 failures