Seagate Ultra Touch HDD 4TB External Hard Drive - 15mm, Pebble Grey, Post-Consumer Recycled Material, 6mo Dropbox and Mylio, Rescue Services (STMA4000400)

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I had read a review about WD external drives being good with Macs, but it wasnt compatible with Big Sur, and I got no help from WD. So I found the Seagate Ultra Touch when I read a report about the best external hard drives for Mac that worked with Big Sur, and it worked perfectly from the get-go. I was SO relieved, because all the time I wasted ordering, waiting for, then trying to troubleshoot the WD drive put me VERY behind on an important photo editing project for work. I would definitely recommend this one. (In fact, I bought 2 of them.)

As noted in other reviews it worked right out of the pkg on my MacBook Pro w/o any formatting. Used solely to store my tens of thousands photos. Bottom gets pretty warm as it is a HDD & not an SSD. Write speed is slow but I knew that when I bought it for the price. Device side of cable appears proprietary (see photo). Didnt use any of the SW provided on the drive. Nameplate says made in Thailand in 2022.

I like that it is compact but holds a lot. Easy to use and now has all my home videos stored onto it.

Bought this for an IT client. Installed as second backup drive. Works great, and client is happy.

Its a fine hard drive for the price, but I bought this because I thought it used a USB-C connection. instead, its a proprietary connection leading to a USB-A...with an A to C adapter. That means one more thing to remember every time I want to connect this hard drive to a modern computer.

I use this as a portable drive for back and forth between offices for important files. It also acts as a secondary backup drive, which I manage manually. I dont use the backup software on this drive, but I do on other Seagate drives, where it works adequately.

It just set itself up as soon as I plugged it in. No external softwear needed and its fast!

Like the feature of having to login each time you use it. I have two computers and my data is safe.

The external hard drive seems to be working as described so far.