I'm curious about the security here (didn't have time to research it), as you actually log in through Seagate's site - until I know how that works I've turned the service off

I also wanted to ge a media server so that I can access my photos and music rather than relying on one of the various 'cloud' services available.

The firmware is up to date and all user guide instructions were followed, including disabling any service of the Seagate device

This is horrid customer service, and a quick look around the net these drives are severely flawed and failure is all to common

It's a horrible product, horribly slow, and even worse, HORRIBLE customer service

Enabling the services slowed transfer even more

I'll never buy another Seagate product for as long as I live, and after doing research on the company, the huge failure rate behind their drives, and lawsuits filed... awful awful product awful customer service

I will not recommend this product to anyone else because of the uninsurance and their bad customer service of how they handled the issue.

I've paid for subscriptions to cloud backup services for years, spending many more times the cost of this little gizmo, so I can assure you that this is going to rescue you from errors, mistakes, slip-ups, and goofs ... and just sit there quietly doing its job

Being single disk I would NEVER put any data on it that I could not afford to lose, and I'd be cautious about using it's cloud services (Security): but it's (Very) quiet, unobtrusive

Horrible customer service and false advertising on their part.

Seagate has a nice customer service though.

So over all, bad product, bad customer service

Fast service

After using this device for roughly a week I’ve grown to appreciate all the other streaming services that works so well over the Internet.

whereas before the best I could achieve was ~10-13mb/s and sometimes worse

I had read numerous reviews panning the upload speed, and I experienced 1.5 MB/s, which was in line with what I expected (but agonizingly slow when you're putting up digital copies of movies at 1-2GB a pop)

Transferred all my content over (right under 3TB worth [using the 3TB Seagate Central]) and even though it has a very slow r/w speed compared to most other drives I've used at least it actually worked as a backup drive.

I've rechecked everything on my network, everything is connecting at 1GBit per the router lights, and this is the only device on my network that is showing this poor R/W performance