Seagate Expansion Desktop, 12TB, External Hard Drive, USB 3.0, for PC Laptop, 2 year Rescue Services, Amazon Exclusive (STEB12000402)

Ideal for the Xbox especially at this size and price point. I bought this for the Xbox one X but first transferred all the data from my one S, over 2.5TB of it. While the read and write speeds are nothing spectacular this drive is a good work horse and ideal for gaming. It's 6TB and in this day and age where games can be 100GB in size there seems to be no point in buying a smaller drive, any games you own are always available anyway, you only download a game to play it.When you get to the point that you've got 500 games including game pass games then you need the space this drive provides. I ran this drive for 24 hours non stop and had no problems with noise or overheating and to set it up on Xbox was easy, plug in, format to Xbox and play..Edit 30/05.I have noticed that the drive makes noises at random times that can be annoying, the noises are always the same so are a design thing and not a random problem. If you're using this for Xbox and have your Xbox set to install remotely then you may find this noise annoying as you have to leave the drive on all the time. I switch my drive off when it's not in use now..

I wanted a reasonably priced external drive I could connect to our TerraMaster home NAS for automated daily backups. ie. To give us an extra level of security. The NAS stores most of the family's documents and is also our media server.This device fits the bill perfectly. For our application, it doesn't need to be super fast and it just chunters away when required. I use the USB Backup utility in the NAS and it runs a 'mirror' backup at midnight every day.The drive is a tad noisy but as it's in a home office, that doesn't matter for us! It doesn't get hot and goes into a standby mode when not in use.Time will tell of course, but thus far all is good and we have no complaints.

Loving this thing. I recently upgraded my laptop to an SSD and therefore don't have the raw strage capacity I could have got from a traditional HDD. This is where this comes in! It swallows up my video projects and enables me to shuttle them back and forth from my laptop to work on relatively easily with a data rate of 250mb/sec that will generally scale back to arounbd 150mb/sec after a short while for larger files.I paid aroun 90 quid on a deal so was happy for the bang for buck offered.

This is my first try with Seagate in a long time (mostly a HGST guy). Inside this case is Seagate's Archive hard drive which OEM bare drive.USB 3.0 interface was fast. Tested empty drives formatted in HFS and ExFAT, both were a constant 180-190 MB per second read/write. After the drive was 90% full, large files peaked at 100MBps read and write, and smaller files averaged around 64MBps write, 80 read. Decent. Been running 6 of these for a week now 24/7 and have had no problems. All files have transferred and verified. And I performed a complete sector scan verify on one of them with no issues reported using SoftRAID for OSX.Cases are plastic so they're not the best for heat dissipation, but the drive itself sits in a metal bracket inside the case which helps. The case has vent holes on the bottom for some reason instead of the top, and holes on the back, but nothing on the front. I've been keeping a small fan on them as I've been copying and verifying for 24/7 for a few days. Probably not best to run 24/7 unless there's some cooling on them, or they're in a very cold room. But I don't imagine most people will be running them at full tilt for days on end.I would buy these and take the drives out of their cases and put into a NAS. I'm curious how they'd perform long term.

I review products on my blog and needed something to expand into temporarily....Ok let's keep the introduction simple....This is an excellent way of increasing your storage capabilities or setting up a key part of the 3-2-1 back up rule and if you're a data hoarder like me you will fear the data loss issues and so want something to solve your storage issues.So why not just upgrade your hard drive in your computer? To be honest it's not a bad suggestion but when it's going to cost anywhere from £79 for a relatively unknown Intaiell 1TB internal SSD to an eye watering £709 for a Samsung Evo 4TB internal SSD on Amazon - if you can upgrade it yourself then go for it but for the most part, those prices are plus installation. This drive works out at £16.99/TB....As this is a desktop expansion drive, it is not built to be portable - if you want portability you should be looking as a USB powered SSD because these 3.5" HDD have moving parts and also a power cable. It also weighs 948g meaning it is weighty enough to be stable on desks and tables.Within 30 seconds I got a small notification to say the driver was installed and we were good to go; you don't have to but I always reformat it again just to make sure and a minute later I was ready.So I started dragging and dropping all the documents, images and movies across and the USB 3.0 managed just fine - I think I had around a terabyte of data and it managed just fine and took around 20 minutes to complete. That was it - quick as that.Once my NAS was set up and running I was then able to reformat it again, and am now using it to store my Xbox One games and saved game data on meaning its usability has continued and will hopefully continue to work for years to come.

Excellet product if not for the price, well worth your money however if you have games like Red Dead Redemption and other triple A games installed on your Xbox.I love the design and installation is simple just plug it in format and you're good to go, its a sturdy bit of kit and the start up noise is the only sound it makes when on.Overall it is a great addition to your gaming or office set up and would consider buying another soley for extra storage on my laptop.

I'm always wary of things that say you can plug it in and use it straight out of the box... nothing to do with computers is that easy, is it? You have to turn this on and agree to that and read all kind of stuff, right? I'm not a new computer user and can handle the day to day use of a computer, but still have to pick the brains of my husband about things most days but I was determined to do my best to get this set up totally alone if I could, after all they made it sound really easy in the description so this would be a big test for it as far as I was concerned.I nervously plugged the two leads into the right holes, plugged it into the plug socket next to my computer and into the USB thingy (and discovered an extra USB port and another thing that isn't a USB port but looks very much like it lol)... it whirred a bit which made me nervous in case I'd already done something wrong, but seconds later Windows Explorer popped up and there was a new drive! This one! I hadn't broken it after all... not yet, anyway lolI clicked on the drive thingy in Windows Explorer and my computer instantly recognised it. My confidence was starting to build up ever so slightly now. Created a folder on this drive, and started off the backups. Surely it wasn't as easy as that, was it? I must have done something disasterously wrong like I always do with computers! 45 minutes later and all my backups (about 35GB worth at the time) had completely finished with no stress or anxiety or worry or even asking my hubby for advice or reassurance.I've used it 3 times now and each time I've used it has been as easy and stress-free as that first time. It really is that easy. I'll definitely be buying it again when I next need to!

A decent hard drive and works seamlessly with the PS4 Pro. Easy to install, looks great and works well.Might just be me, but I have encountered a minor sporadic issue. When coming out of Rest Mode it has lost connection. However pulling out and plugging in the power fixes it fine.

El disco llegó en buenas condiciones y en tiempo. En mi experiencia, estos discos son buenos, tengo varios y me han funcionado muy bien. Este en específico tiene el problema del ruido que hace, es algo llamativo, pero en cuanto a funcionamiento ha salido muy bueno.

Excellent.

Super bra pris och mycket snabb leverans

Fijne externe harde schijf. Een aanrader.

Ce disque dur va bien au-delà de mes espérances. Je ne comptais utiliser que son espace de stockage, passant par USB3, je ne m'attendais pas à un tel niveau de performances.Mes premières copies sur ce disque dur dépassant 150Mo/s et mettant au taquet mes autres disques durs internes (pourtant dans les gammes "performances" des autres constructeurs), j'ai décidé de passer un petit banc d'essais pour mesurer ses performances, et quelle surprise !Bien évidemment, je ne peux pas comparer ce disque dur externe à mes SSD, et encore moins au SSD NVMe qui arrive à un taux de copie de plus de 3.6Go/s, mais je joins en pièce jointe (photo) les performances mesurées sur 3 de mes disques HDD (les deux autres sont internes, branchés via SATA) pour vous rendre compte des performances plutôt exceptionnelles pour un disque dur externe (HDD).Je signalerais tout de même un point plutôt négatif, à savoir la qualité du plastique utilisé en guise de coque, bien que très joli ne donne pas un sentiment de grande solidité.Ce HDD pèse son poid, ce n'est cependant pas vraiment un point négatif, celui-ci étant branché en permanence à mon PC et reste posé sur sa tranche (Avec des petits patins anti-dérappant, au poil).Je suis pleinement satisfait de cet achat, d'autant plus que je l'ai acheté pendant les French Days (Début Juin) à un prix écrasant toute concurrence. Je recommande ce produit, y compris au prix habituellement affiché, il les vaut bien.