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

It exceeds expectations, easy to set up and comes with software that loaded automatically.

I purchased the drive in March 2021. Everything seemed okay at first except I was getting frequent messages to scan the drive or to reconnect the drive. Around the July 21th I discovered a message stating Last backup 3/28/2021. I searched the documentation trying to find out what was going on. First of all , this is not a plug-and-play drive. There are several programs that you have to navigate, Sea Tools, Toolkit, DiscWizard, and others. The quick-start guide consists of 3 small diagrams with no text. The bulk of the quick start dealt with the Mac computers and the various foreign languages. Deep down in the other documentation, I discovered that incremental backup was not supported in Windows 10 computers. I spoke with tech support for more that an hour while he searched to find out why the drive status showed that it was shown as locked in Explorer. Also, the Toolkit program could not test the drive. At that point, I had had enough. Im going to toss the drive in the recycle bin. In the past, I have used Toshiba, WD, HP, and Seagate (Barracuda) drives. I used another drive software and it generated a page full of errors. I am not a novice. I have been a systems programmer, a certified network solutions engineer, and a manager of tech support.

Most drives have you charge an exorbitant sum of money for stuff like extra hardware protection, better storage space, and faster uploading speeds, but heres the deal: if you dont need to be constantly on the go at all times, this drive is more than satisfactory for storing and saving files. Im a video editor and I primarily use this drive to keep all my projects when Im not editing any of them, so it sits right next to my computer. I havent had any problems so far in a year of using it- very satisfying!

IDK whose bright idea it was to put carpet on a portable HD...imo not a good plan. The stupid thing collects dust like your grandmas faux flower arrangements. You even look at it sideways and some misc weird black mark will end up on the fabric. Impossible to keep clean. Other than that, it works fine. Please do not put carpet on computer peripherals. Next time opt for idk some cool LED patterns like ASUS does. More futuristic aliencore, less grandmas pet HD.

I dont know why I keep buying Seagate backup external hard disks. Every one Ive bought over the years has been troublesome on my Windows PCs. The hard disks themselves have been flawless but the automatic backup software has routinely failed to automatically back up my data. This one sometimes gives me an error that the volume cannot be found and that it needs to be formatted but then the next time I turn the PC on, it works fine. Every few minutes I get a pop-up message on the screen, sometimes saying the backup has failed, sometimes saying the backup was successful. On the other hand, this one has the ability to add a password to protect the contents of the hard disk, which is a good security feature.

Producto calificado, de calidad

Compact and works well. I wish it would run while my computer was sleeping.

I needed to transfer files from a PC to a Mac and this did it without trouble. No software to install or setup required for what I was doing. Dragged & dropped the files from the PC, unplugged it, connected it to the Mac, and dragged the files off. Easy.

Got this for my son to use as an external storage for his PlayStation 4. Works like a champ. Had for a year now and hasnt had any problems. Ive always liked the reliability of Seagate drives

good but data transfer is slower than altirnatives