Features:

  • Want an easy, on-the-go USB drive for storage? Seagate Backup Plus Portable hard drive offers 5TB
  • The perfect complimentary laptop hard drive featuring a minimalist metal enclosure
  • Simply plug this external hard drive for Mac and Windows into a computer via the included USB 3.0 cable to back up files with a single click or schedule automatic daily, weekly, or monthly backups. Reformatting may be required for use with Time Machine.
  • Take advantage of a complimentary two-month membership to the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan for access to awesome photo and video editing apps
  • Enjoy long-term peace of mind with the included two-year limited warranty
Love the hard drive

Love the hard drive! Although, a big con for me was the set up - it had me download 2 installations but I'm not sure how necessary it was to do so. And then eventually, I saw that you could just "erase" the hard drive, rename it, and that's when you can finally start to drag and drop what ever file you'd like. I thought it was just something that I could just plug in and use as advertised, but you only get to that point after the set up. Other than that, it's fast, quick and easy! Super light and small as well!

FANTASTIC

I bought this back in 2015 to replace the 500 GB internal hard drive in my OG model PS4. This was before the console update existed that now allows external hard drives to be connected to the PS4 via USB, so to make this work I had to perform surgery on this guy to get it out of its hard shell case, which was a TOTAL PAIN and launched my stress levels THROUGH THE ROOF, but it worked and still works great today (no noticeable latency/lag). For those of you looking into using this for your PS4, don't worry, you won't need to do any of that surgery work; just plug this into the USB slot and it will work just fine as additional storage. Also thought I should note, you may be disappointed if you are expecting a full 2 TB of storage. Mine ended up being around 1.77 TB. It is normal for hard drives to have slightly less storage than advertised, but just wanted to give you all a heads up if you weren't aware of that.

Works great, no problems after a full month of heavy use.

Copying copious amount of data - having read many reviews before purchasing this. I've had no problems copying, editing material copied, playing back, opening and reviewing. Managing versions with this external drive. I've been using it for over a month and have about 30% of it filled. It is powered by USB port so no need to drag extra power supply like older drives of comparable size. I did buy a dedicated cooling table - it got warm, but not hot - other reviews were very helpful in making their case that no electronics like to get hot. I just bought a second one for another purpose - I have high confidence in the device and the technology.

Once again Seagate came through.

I bought the 2 tb in blue. and once a gain Seagate showed me that my money was well spent. light well built quite I'd dropped it on it's edge twice once for the top of my desk and again from about 12 feet. these hard drive are built tough unlike other brands I've wasted my money on like Western Digital. My files I keep backed up are files I'm spent the last 20 years researching and adding new information to almost on a daily bases. So I need a external back up that I can trust to keep my information on. I have friend that tell me I should put everything on the cloud. problem is with clouds they either get hacked or the evaporate and take your files with them. by keeping my files on an external back up I know where they are when I need them. As a music collector I have over 200 gigs of artist tracks in MP3's that you can't get from any one any more even if you try. As a photographer and graphic artist I have room for all 5 million photos and images I have taken or created. as a genealogist I have more than enough room to grow on my external Seagate hard drives. The only con I have ever found with Seagate external hard drives is they like all other hard drive get hot to the touch. So why hasn't someone at Seagate developed a cooling pad similar to the ones used on laptops?

Flawless after nearly 3 years

I got on Amazon today to purchase another one of these and just started looking through the reviews again before I made my purchase. After reading some of the negative reviews I thought that I should at least leave what my experience has been with these. I have two of these (2TB) versions with the oldest being purchased in Jan 2016. The oldest one runs every single day as my MacPro time machine back up, as well as storing and running numerous recording studio music files. I run those studio files directly from the external hard drive pretty much every day. The second was purchased Feb 2016 and that one travels in my briefcase every weekend to record live bands with my laptop (Macbook Pro) and is also that laptop's Time Machine back up disk. Both of these are still running strong with zero problems after nearly three years of working them hard. Maybe I've just been lucky, but I can't find a good reason not to stick with what has worked so well for me after years of constant use. I plan to buy the 4TB this time and hope to get the same reliability that i've had with the two that I'm still using. For what I have been using them for I have been extremely happy, and they have been well worth what I paid for them.

Xbox One? So far so good...

I'm using this for my Xbox One. The XB1 only came with 500 Gb of memory, which is pathetic. Adding 2 Tb (actually 1.8) helps a lot. You just plug the USB into the back of your Xbox, wait for the format screen to come up, let it format, and you're good to go. So far I've been using this as my default memory for both downloading and playing games, and I haven't noticed any problems at all. I'm withholding judgment until I see how this thing does for the long haul, but for now I am really pleased with it.

Great for a PS4 Pro

Great for a PS4 Pro. I have over 200 PS4 games and I have all of the ones that I play downloaded to this external drive (91 games currently) with plenty more space for future downloads. No lag, no indication that I am playing on an external drive, loading times have actually decreased. I got the 4GB version and am completely satisfied. I love being able to play any game I own without having to worry able deleting games and redownloading because of space issues. Awesome drive!!!! If you have a PS4 and want more storage this is the way to go, much easier than replacing the stock drive which I have done before on my regular PS4, just plug this is and setup external storage from your PS4 settings menu....too easy. It has taken over a week to download my games but now I am free to binge game.

Incredible Asset

I need to get a T-shirt with how much I recommend these drives. In the IT field i'm constantly being asked for good portable drives and these cannot be topped in overall value. I personally own 7 of these and have probably purchased 20+ more for different clients for backup and portable file storage. As a photographer/Documentary film maker an average project may be between 50-500gb of footage so having good, safe backups is a great asset. ( i just wish they would come out with a bumper like they have for the smaller model.) They keep coming out with larger (data) versions while keeping the price point around $120 which I really appreciate. I also appreciate that when they come out with larger versions they keep the same general form factor because my various bags and cases have been bought specifically with pouches that fit these drives. Great read-write speeds. I have dropped them from 3ft (not turned on) and they have never failed on me (although i don't recommend dropping them) All around the best portable drive on the market for large file storage.

Easy to install and get it going...

With modern cameras taking about 700-1000 photos in the course of an afternoon hike, or any event, the computer 1 Terabyte memory gets used up awfully fast. You're not taking pictures of your granny and grampy or the birthday party, so clearly, that computer space gets filled up awfully fast. Enter this Seagate Backup Plus slim 2 TB Portable Hard Drive External USB 3.0, Blue (with 2 months Adobe CC Photography...) There are two lights to indicate that is working: a larger blue light and a smaller light in the left corner. For re-assurance. Photos in this storage device are readily and easily accessible for future retrieval as the Hard Drive shows up on your desk-top as a separate drive. It did take about 10 hours to transfer almost 980 GB of photos. (And, of course, as the computer memory starts to get filled up, the computer becomes less stable and more wonky.) But many reviewers wrote with negative comments: apparently, there is a failure rate with this product of 15% . And any external Hard-Drive cannot last forever. Well, that make this (and any) external back-up drive an iffy proposition. Clearly, a choice has to be made about where you want your photos stored for both storage and easy access. A Cloud storage arrangement would seem to be a less expensive alternative, to say nothing of being a safer alternative. The angst of losing a life-time of photos--who needs it? Caveat Emptor.! I haven't used the Adobe...

Low power use, fast transfer up/down, gets LOTS of use and still going strong w/no problems.

BOTTOM LINE: I've used multiple Seagate external hard drives over the years (mostly 2TB units) with no issues of any kind and this 4TB seems equally sturdy and idiot-proof. It's still chugging along after a ton of daily use loading/deleting & re-loading. Other reviewers may have had problems with Seagate products but in over 4 years' use and seven different drive of various sizes, I have had no problems with any of them. Therefore... 5 STARS! THOUGHTS: I have several 2TB Seagate drives I use to store my library of movies & TV shows which I've been slowly converting to MP4 format; I plug in one of these drives into one of the USB ports on the back of my HDTV and watch whatever I want with the push of a couple of buttons on my remote. Never had any problems with these various units. In fact, one of my 2TB drives survived a 4ft drop from the back of my TV onto a hardwood floor! Still works like nothing ever happened!! (I also have a couple of 2TB units from Toshiba which work well, but seem to be more power hungry compared to the Seagates. I have a 4-port USB hub and if I run anything else while the Toshiba is plugged into it, the Toshiba drive just clicks will not work. I don't have this issue with my Seagate drives. Not saying Toshiba sucks, just though it should be mentioned.) Anyhow, this 4TB Seagate is my primary odds & ends storage unit and I have had no issues with it, whether I'm dumping huge files or small ones. It just works and works. Consider me a happy Seagate user. :-)

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