• Reviews around drive (1.90 of 5)

    Seagate Portable 1TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Mac, PS4, & Xbox, 1-Year Rescue Service (STGX1000400) , Black

    • This hard drive currently holds 2 computers & an iPad
    • Seriously, just get something better, i promise you its not worth it for you to deal with the bs of having to port 2tb of games to a new hard drive
    • BUT my only complaint is that it is not as fast as a hard drive
    • My only warning is if you have a MacBook you will need to rewire the hard drive to work on apple products
    • The drive was fine for near line media storage, but 1/3 of these drives died in a year.
    • This hard drive is very affordable and does exactly what i needed it to.
    • then you will love this drive
    • Highly recommend Seagate drives.
    • This hard drive failed after only one month of use.
    • Great drive at the best price on the web
    • This drive is so slow that it would have taken 10 hours to transfer a few hundred gb of data from my computer to the drive
    • If you ever have any memories you want to save for the future, this is a good hard drive to store them on.
    • I own a ton of hard drives, I store tons of video and photos
    • Using file manager (Android), I was able to transfer about 5,000 pictures and 1,000 videos to the hard drive (there are youtube videos on how to do this if you need help
    • Bought this for my xbox and it doesnt work until i unplug it and plug it back in, now it kicks me off my games that are on the hard drive, terrible im going to try and get my money back
    • I absolutely love this hard drive especially where it's self-
    • Originally bought the external hard drive for my ps4 to give it more storage
    • Order this, tried to transfer data from another Hard drive, never worked, spent $$ on a IT, he told me it was defected, called amazon, they transfer me to the seller asking me for my CC number, for more money
    • There are only two external hard drive brands I trust for making backups of my computer systems
    • If you'd told me 20 years ago that someday I'd be able to get a hard drive with 10,000 GB of storage for $199 (1.9 cents per GB
    • Works pretty well and thankfully, I haven’t had any problems with this hard drive after owning it for about 3 months now
    • There was definitely enough power from the phone to power the hard drive
    • After three times of use the Hard drive started beeping and would never be found by any PC or laptop
    • This drive is not compatible with the Xbox Series X for whatever reason, whenever you turn on the console you just get a repeated message popping up saying that the "External Storage Drive is Ready"
    • I ordered two of these as listed "2TB EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE" - I am a photographer and I needed back up for a large number of files, I opened and registered
    • Feels pretty plastic and not as sturdy as older hard drives
    • I wanted to be able to transfer all of the photos/videos from my phone to the hard drive and it worked very well and was simple
    • This is a replacement for a WD external hard drive that died the death
    • I was running out of space on my external hard drive and decided I wanted one strictly for my pictures and YouTube videos
    • This drive dies and stops and starts trying to copy files after two months of light use.
    • The drives are slow compared to others, so I wouldn't recommend editing off these drives
    • The good news is that this does give me plenty of time to look for a better external drive.
    • This hard-drive is really good quality
    • Wow this portable 2T external hard drive is a game changer
    • Bought external hard drives before this and they were only capable for music and pictures but this one was advanced enough to be formatted for Xbox/PlayStation games.
    • This is my second External Hard Drive from Seagate
    • If you are looking for a solid, portable, inexpensive drive for backup, portability, editing HD video, its' hard to go wrong with this one.
    • I had to replace my old external hard drive that I had since 2013 which I worried
    • I mistakenly thought this was a solid state drive when I bought it.
    • Drive was good, but cable that came with it has an intermittent open in wiring
    • It's hard to find a drive with perfect reviews - but this drive has performed flawlessly so far, Recommend.
    • My old portable hard drive bit the dust, and hubster suggested Seagate
    • I immediately started transferring files to free up hard drive space
    • SO the drive still works--you just can't talk to it anymore
    • I’ve been using this as an external hard drive for my PS4 and it works like a charm
    • First time purchasing and using a portable hard drive, and this one is pretty straight forward and very easy to get acquainted with if you know anything about computers at all
    • Wanted a backup drive in "case" I lost my hard drive or computer.
    • and I’ve only been using the hard drive for about two weeks
    • This drive did not work at all from day one
    • This is the best valued portable hard drive you can get
    • Within a week the hard drive was already beeping indicating a failure that requires me to send it in for data recovery
    • Because I didn’t have enough storage to download Boot Camp on the hard drive of my actual MacBook
    • Great hard drive for your ps4,Xbox 1,or pc.. plug any play with no power cord
    • good drive for what I needed
    • The drive itself seems fine though, so I took it out of its case to use as an internal drive, only to find that they hobble drives to prevent this, such a waste
    • I was unable to reformat the drive as well
    • We recently had several of our older WD drives fail so we bought two Seagate portable drives to see if they might be more durable
    • I returned the hard drive because the HDMI port was bent (metal casing).
    • This little hard drive works!
    • This drive seemed to work very well - quiet and fast - but one partition failed after less than two years of use and I couldn't reformat it
    • When I plug in the Hard drive, it only makes a low peeping sound on all of my computers.
    • What good is a noisy hard drive.
    • Nice drive.
    • This drive has so far been very unreliable
    • Buyer beware from these scammer sellers, bought a 2TB HARD DRIVE, was out of
    • This portable hard drive fit my needs - a great external drive to hold my pictures.
    • Very good hard drive for PS4
    • The extra storage and setting up the hard drive is pretty easy, I've had my fair share of disconnecting issues as well as the wire is extremely faulty
    • These drives are not as sturdy as the old Seagates were
    • I paid over $100 USD on 08 August 2021 for this Seagate 5TB external hard drive
    • The THKAILAR is The Best Flash Drive to use
    • the drive was pretty decent and worked well
    • This hard drive worked the way it should for less than two months.
    • I have not had to delete anything from The hard drive
    • Love seagate, I always use them for external hard drives for my game systems.
    • This is a great hard drive
    • I’m frustrated because I ordered and paid for 2TB and was sent 1TB hard drive
    • Good price for the small portable hard drive.
    • I was so nervous because my last external hard drive was getting very old
    • The case felt nice, the drive was sleek and lightweight, and I was able to transfer all my data from my aging hard drives
    • The drive worked well coming out of the box, though obviously slower than solid state drives.
    • I received the replacement hard drive and to my surprise, not only was the product
    • This is the third Seagate portable drive I have bought for my various computers (Macs).
    • The slowest drive I've ever seen in both saving and deleting.
    • Even when the PS4 gets shut off unexpectedly, this hard drive reboots with no issues
    • i was not sure if this was the right drive to use for my xbox ..turns out it works like a charm ,,,setup was beyond easy and the load is fast very plesed with this drive
    • This was a great external hard drive - until it stopped working
    • I have purchased several Seagate hard drives before
    • Thought I got a good deal for a hard drive for my ps4
    • This was a great external hard drive - until it stopped working
    • After the initial burst of high speed, this drive slows down to a crawl
    • but it seems more like an SSI drive instead of hard drive.
    • I have a WD portable drive with the same dimensions and it weighs twice as much
    • Seagate should focus their efforts on producing an external hard drive that is actually 5TB instead of focusing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    • It appears that Microsoft has done some sort of update for the XBox that makes it where it will not recognize a lot of the external hard drives.
    • it's a hard drive, not a solid state
    • my only complaint is that when i turn on my xbox the notification that the hard drive is connected sometimes spams on my screen till i click it
    • I bought this hard drive to serve as a place to store media (movies, music, etc.) for me to play mainly on my Xbox, but sometimes on my PC
    • The case felt nice, the drive was sleek and lightweight, and I was able to transfer all my data from my aging hard drives
    • Good price for the small portable hard drive.
    • Got the wrong drive i ordered the 2 terybite drive
    • For example, if I have a picture that needs to be resized for a particular program I have to resize it and save it on my desktop first and then move it to the hard drive
    • This is a great hard drive
    • I have used Seagate in the past and loved it (no issues with my 5TB drive from them), and really wanted to like this drive
    • I bought this hard drive to store my games and for the first couple of months it worked, but now my pc wont detect the hard drive and after a few hours of trouble shooting it I've giving up.
    • Had for a few months and now the hard drive is corrupted
    • I just plugged in the drive and it is broke out of the box
    • As a photographer, I need my drives to be reliable and durable and this doesn't seem to fit the bill.
    • This hard drive worked the way it should for less than two months.
    • Unable to access the drive to erase it so I cannot return it because the disk still contains sensitive financial information
    • First, you need to format this hard drive for the mac using "disk utility"
    • I am very happy with my purchase of the 2TB Seagate external hard drive
    • Bought this to triple my storage capacity on my Xbox Series X. Plugged the hard drive in and it was instantly recognized and formatted for game downloads
    • Don't waste your time purchasing this drive
    • Seagate replaced the hard drive which is on its way to me, now.
    • Very good hard drive for PS4
    • Those aging hard drives, though 5+ years old and having traveled across the planet a few times over were in fact still much better than this
    • I usually always buy my drives as portable drives so I can pull them out of the enclosure at a later date and use them internally
    • but you really only get 4.7 TB or so, which is not unusual for hard drives.
    • This portable hard drive fit my needs - a great external drive to hold my pictures.
    • This is my second Seagate external hard drive and I'm happy with both of them.
    • The hard drive looks pretty and runs fast, but it miss 200G......
    • My MacBook ran very slow after plugging this in… even if there is nothing on the hard drive
    • Perfect fit for my 2TB external hard drive
    • Just a heads up for those who own a PS5 and want to buy this, make sure you reformat the hard drive to exFAT or
    • I bought two Seagate drives to replace old portable drives before they went bad and lost a couple of decades of data/wok
    • The hard drive was a great price and was just what I needed to save my old photos.
    • I typed in PS5 external hard drive, this came up
    • My computer only has a limited 128 GB of storage space, and this hard drive has saved my life.
    • What good is a noisy hard drive.
    • Oh yeah...).LOVE this hard drive!
    • The price was reasonable and the size of the hard drive itself made it easy to transport it from one place to another
    • Used as external hard drive.
    • After researching like a mad man on what is the best way to store photos, I came to a conclusion— unless I want to pay a flat fee for cloud storage; an external hard drive was the way to goMy Seagate from 2008 is still going strong, but I was petrified when I recently found out that Hard Drives are not permanent storage solutions
    • I'm enjoying this drive and being able to travel with it if I want to
    • This little hard drive works!
    • This drive seemed to work very well - quiet and fast - but one partition failed after less than two years of use and I couldn't reformat it
    • I feel more comfortable knowing that my files are backup locally on my Seagate external hard drive in addition to my cloud storage.
    • However, you can get the a Seagate 5TB portable drive for about $20 cheaper at Costco.
    • However, my experience with their portable drive was most disappointing
    • This drive is heaven extremely spacious and portable, but my god is it slow
    • 4Tb portable drive was in use for 1 month
    • This is the best valued portable hard drive you can get
    • this thing is amazing, my old hard drive was slow and corrupted frequently whereas this one is very fast and has never let me down
    • When I search for external hard drive that is compatible for my mac, this external HD came out first
    • In June, I ordered a 2 TB Portable Drive
    • Great hard drive for your ps4,Xbox 1,or pc.. plug any play with no power cord
    • I have several brands of hard drives, and that's just my opnion.
    • These are great storage drives.
    • Everything anybody suggested on any online forum about these Seagate hard drives not connecting
    • Great little drive and appears to be quite quick backing up my computer
    • My last external hard drive fried
    • After a bit over a month (just outside the return window!), it intermittently failed as my Time Machine backup drive.
    • I’ve been using this as an external hard drive for my PS4 and it works like a charm
    • First time purchasing and using a portable hard drive, and this one is pretty straight forward and very easy to get acquainted with if you know anything about computers at all
    • and I am happy to say that they have not disappointed me on this hard drive
    • Was able to transfer all my pictures from a older computer to this drive no issues
    • If you are looking for an external hard drive this is an AMAZING one!
    • My old portable hard drive bit the dust, and hubster suggested Seagate
    • It's a LOUD drive, and can be distracting, particularly when you're editing a video clip
    • The worst external drive.. always fails to be mounted and lost all my data several time
    • Both external HDD hard drives were purchased new from Amazon in October 2021.I performed a photo folder transfer speed test comparing the Seagate Portable
    • I used one drive, but got tired of issues (namely the need for more hard drive space needed on my laptop to perform certain functions
    • Wow this portable 2T external hard drive is a game changer
    • Some of the reviews here complaining about speed problems either have a technical issue (like they're connecting to a USB 2.0 port), or they don't understand the speed limitations of spinning platters of metal like these hard drives
    • These drives are great drives, but a few
    • It didn't happen and I had to wake up the hard drive to check.
    • But that's not really the purpose of these drives -- they're much cheaper than the faster drives so they're much better as a solution for stable archival storage.
    • Purchased this to function as the backup to my hard drive via Time Machine
    • so I just transferred the external drive to my PS5 the same way and boom an extra 2TB
    • The description on this hard drive says that you can automatically back up your files
    • its a very bad drive.
    • Feels pretty plastic and not as sturdy as older hard drives
    • Gta V and Modernwarfare/Warzone are on the hard drive and work just as they should
    • I have used these hard drives for years and they always crap out on me eventually after about a year but this was a new record
    • I cannot return this hard drive because I am from Belize
    • either at the end I came to the realization that I have a dead drive and it only lasted me a month.
    • There are only two external hard drive brands I trust for making backups of my computer systems
    • For a guy that was asked to pay $2000 for 200MB hard drive back in the
    • I'm buying hard drives since 1998 and this hard drive has been connected to my iMac as a backup drive
    • Imagine my surprise when I went to write more photos onto the drive and despite the drive being able to be located on my computer (the same one I originally uploaded all my data from), the drive was however unable to be opened
    • I absolutely love this hard drive especially where it's self-
    • If you ever have any memories you want to save for the future, this is a good hard drive to store them on.
    • I highly recommend purchasing a different external hard drive.
    • I purchased this so I could back up my video and photo files and operate off of an external hard drive rather than house large amounts of data on my computer.
    • /use the contents of the hard drive on my laptop as well
    • All that I needed to purchase in addition to this hard drive was a USB C to USB 2.0 OTL cable adapter
    • This is on a fresh drive out of the box
    • I can play ps4 games directly from the hard drive
    • This is my second buy of this make and model external hard drive
    • Seagate is a great company and the hard drive is small meaning when I'm on the
    • I used this to back up my desktop hard drive
    • I needed an external hard drive for my music and videos and this one fits the bill
    • Worst drive ever owned
    • This hard drive is very affordable and does exactly what i needed it to.
    • This drive broke completely after one fall, all files were lost
    • The drive was fine for near line media storage, but 1/3 of these drives died in a year.
    • I plugged the hard drive into my phone
    • BUT my only complaint is that it is not as fast as a hard drive
    • What can I tell you, this hard drive is crap is not even two months old and it already makes a beep sound and does not connect
    • I put the hard drive in the case in a cool, dark and dry area and left if for a few weeks
    • My only warning is if you have a MacBook you will need to rewire the hard drive to work on apple products
    • I have an APPLE laptop and this product transferred unknown files with time machine to the hard drive with unknown names and no readable files were transferred, even after I programmed it.
    • This product is smaller and needs no electrical outlet unlike the external hard drive it replaced
    • This hard drive destroyed my PS4
    • This item does working for ps4 unless it could affect your controller getting delayed when downloading or updating in your hard drive
    • I didn’t have this external hard drive a full month when it started beeping and didn’t connect
    • Ordered on April 26, 2021, drive died on September 23, 2021
    • It’s listed above that this hard drive is compatible with pc, Mac, ps4 and
    • If you have the latest software for the Mac, this external drive is not compatible
    • This external hard drive has been able to hold all my stuff without a problem
    • Fast drive and easy to use.
    • This drive is easy to use and has good capacity.
    • The hard drive works exactly as it should
    • That's why I believe in backups, and the reason why acquired the Seagate Portable 2TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD – USB 3.0 when I had a fair amount of reward points accumulated somewhere
    • But, what I got was a 32GB external hard drive
    • Does what a hard drive should do, bit slow to transfer data, but it's a hard drive, so yk
    • hard drive by Seagate
    • It helps me a lot, I had bought a hard drive from another provider and they scammed me, but with this new provider it arrived quickly and is very useful for me, I highly recommend it!
    • It’s a great portable drive.
    • Seagate Portable 1TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Mac, PS4, & Xbox, was exactly what I needed to back up my computer
    • New xbox series s will send constant notifications that external hard drive is ready
    • I have been looking for a external Hard Drive that was affordable from
    • This drive failed a month after getting it with 2TB of important data.
    • I now have a different company's external drive and it works fine.
    • Perfect hard drive for gamers Amazon deliver same day
    • But here we are, living in a world of 18TB hard drives and getting a 10TB hard drive for a mere $199
    • For this company they should install better plastic body of hard drive
    • I think these are the best drives.
    • This also doesn't have any software upgrade path or way to password protect this drive
    • I bought this thinking I would have a reliable external drive to back up my photos and embroidery patterns.
    • WHAT I WANTED' and I have had several external hard drives that never ask for registration and agreement to accept cookies and access to your ip address, personal information etc.
    • this hard drive is okay until 2 weeks because it decides to corrupt itself
    • I bought the hard drive late last November and loaded some photos on it over a few days.
    • I have older external hard drives that are chugging right along.
    • The only saving grace is that those older aging hard drives which have been through dust storms and general military craziness in Iraq, multiple airports, dropped and aged for years STILL work better than this
    • Fifty bucks for a terabyte of storage is a pretty good value, so I would certainly recommend it to anybody thinking about purchasing a hard drive.
    • Since I bought it when I turn on my Xbox I have to keep unplugging the hard drive and plugging it back in for it to read my games
    • Bought this for my series x and the cord keeps coming lose from the hard drive.
    • Amazon should remove the product from their line of hard drives or at the very least make Seagate state that the product does not drag and drop for Macs
    • Anyways, I really wanted to like this drive, but the first drive being broken and now this error message and vibration issue has made me lose trust
    • The unplayable transferred games say you need a faster drive to play with it on the drive
    • But this new drive is so slow that it's absurd
    • Am not about to gamble because the last thing I want to do is format a computer and worse while getting a portable backup drive to work
    • Now the drive works fine
    • Such drives have been fine in the past with no mounting issues or other issues
    • so I had to reformat the hard drive
    • See I thought this was gonna be super easy just plug in and download some games but this drive is so slow that for newer games like r6 siege and others my Xbox popped up with a message saying that this game can be played on this drive because it’s too slow
    • This is a hard drive with the shortest life I ever bought
    • Drive is defective...
    • , I use this external hard drive to do so and it has worked wonders for me
    • My drive failed after less than 6 months
    • It's not flash storage folks; this is as fast as it gets for a single hard drive
    • To my knowledge I have done nothing to damage the drive
    • I've been using Seagate backup drives for years and these ones are no different, they work great and get the job done
    • I already owned a 1TB Seagate Exteral Drive and liked how efficient and easy it is to use.
    • The first hard drive I received was dead straight out of the box
    • This is the second time I bought this external hard drive because I liked the first one so much but needed a second
    • It was a royal pain in the butt trying to figure out how to get this external hard drive to work with my iMac
    • I've had problems with external hard drives in the past
    • Just got this today and have been trying to clean the drive for 8 hours now
    • I always like the quality of seagate and it has been my go to choice for portable drive
    • This is advertised as a TWO TERABYTE hard drive.
    • I moved all my pictures off of my laptop to free up hard drive space and to back them up
    • As others have already mentioned, this hard drive is extreme slow!
    • Perfect hard drive for gamers Amazon deliver same day
    • Had to return and get a faster drive.
    • so I restarted the computer and now the hard drive not showing at all
    • New xbox series s will send constant notifications that external hard drive is ready
    • nice 1TB External Hard Drive small this right next to
    • Seagate Portable 1TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Mac, PS4, & Xbox, was exactly what I needed to back up my computer
    • This was a perfect replacement for my last Seagate portable external drive.
    • I trusted this decently priced hard drive with all my memories and it failed me spectacularly
    • This 5TB Seagate external hard drive is just a big black box with only 32GB
    • That's why I believe in backups, and the reason why acquired the Seagate Portable 2TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD – USB 3.0 when I had a fair amount of reward points accumulated somewhere
    • The hard drive works exactly as it should
    • The cord came out of the external hard drive.
    • I’m extremely happy with this hard drive
    • It’s listed above that this hard drive is compatible with pc, Mac, ps4 and
    • Don't bother with the hard drive.
    • Litterally can’t access any of my games on the hardriveAnd is very disappointed in hard drive recovery
    • No more out of storage messages plus as a Second hard drive I can be worry free when I download all my dlc packs!!