Seagate Expansion Desktop

don't bother – I just wanted to move some files around. I didn't want to register it and be have it constantly want me to sign up to creative cloud. just do what i bought you for and stop stuffing me around. Show details

Large Capacity But Don't Leave Them Running! – I bought this as a cheap backup drive for my NAS. It was slightly larger and a great price compared to the NAS drives at the time. It was connected to the NAS USB 3.0 and powered on 24/7. The NAS just done it's thing and backed up to this external HDD every week...until it didn't! I was getting errors saying backup couldn't be completed as there… Read more

was no external drive. Basically, it was randomly disconnecting. Then when I'd reconnect it, you could see files and then it would again either randomly disconnect or you couldn't explore the folders. I must admit, it was powered on for about 3 years before I started seeing issues. Luckily, the files on the NAS were fine and I could just back them up to another external HDD (a 6TB Seagate Backup Plus). So while they will work for a while, these particular ones will wear out if you leave them powered on 24/7 - regardless of whether they are being written to or not. Needless to say, I only power the new backup on when I need to and eject it to spin the disks down when not needed.

Currently using the HDD in my NVR with no issues – I purchased this SEAGATE 4TB EXPANSION DESK HDD from Officework, I imediately extracted the HDD to use in my NVR. Absolutely no problems with the drive so far, i'll update this review if it experiences issues in the future. Show details

Useless cheap garbage – I've actually had two Seagates, the first one stopped working pretty quickly and I never did try to get a refund. The more recent 4TB actually worked about 9 months before screwing up. My computer failed to read it, switching it on and off again would sometimes work but I have just tried to format and transfer files again to the drive, and it is not working. Cheap useless rubbish, don't waste your money.  Show details

At least it fixable! – I collect movies, in that I translate them from DVDs and store because ultimately they do deteriorate, tried the WDs and other manufacturers versions, but an error on my part unplugged or stopped these while they were working by accident, now there only paper weights, purchased a Seagate 2tb, again an error on my part, but found the problem fixed… Read more

it self when plugged into a smart TV, this also works on USB sticks. Since then have purchased numerous powered 2tb, then because the 2s were unavailable the 3s! I'm very careful connecting and disconnecting them, but inadvertently I make a mistake and the smart TV, remedies that! So with the time and effort I've put in, the Seagates are the only mass storage unit I use now! I don't need expensive paper weights or anchors! So The Seagates are my only choice to save and backup all my data! Currently have 22, one to save and a backup of that save without any problems! All purchased over the years when I've required more space! Just bought another two yesterday!

Value for money – Being a external hard disk I use it as a Archive of my personal photos, videos.. paid 150$ and I feel its worth it .. 30$ / TB to save your memorable moments what i see. Personally, I trust seagate harddisk as it has never failed for me.. *Touch wood  Show details

Do not attempt to buy this product.... use at own risk – Please I urge you do not purchase any other product from seagate. Right now in U.S.A they got class filed lawsuit against them for selling defective products and they purposely knew about it but continue sell them. If you like me who values your data I urge you to stay away from seagate I highly recomend buying Western Digital (WD) as they have… Read more

really good reputation of reliable hdds bit more money but money well spent. Whats more important to you a hdd you got for reasonable price from a once good reputable company Seacrap or couple dollars more for hdd which Western Digital reputation stands for their products reliable and efficient to last longer. Dont get me wrong hdd will fail what you do with hdd will determined the longevity of hdd where's seagate im afraid are built just to fail. I lost 13yrs of valuable data to this company because of poor research

and product review and was suck in for special price at the time.

Terrible Seagate poop – These HDD stop working exaclty im talking E Xactly about a week to a month before the warranty is overdue. Every single time without fail they stop spinning, stop letting you access the data, the cord wont even work properly that goes to the HDD and other factors. Even upon getting one HDD back under warranty repaired it stopped working 3 months… Read more

later again.

Then i went to the seagate website for data recovery they are charging 600 to 1700 to send it in , if there software online doesnt work, which it never does.

It wreaks of scam! con and set up and revenue raising ,

What a stinker!!!!!

Other companies seem to charge 4 times less the price for data recovery and their HDD lasts 3 times longer.

Don't trust Seagate External Drives. Take care – I bought a new "Seagate Desktop External Hard Drive 5TB USB 3.0" and after 3 months it crashed. I need it to store all my backups that I had in several Small HardDisks. All my works of 15 years were lost them all :( Of course, Seagate offers me a branded new HD. But that don't help me in recover my lost life works. Search for another brand.  Show details

DO NOT BUY Seagate for your data backup needs – Purchased a 5TB Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive to backup all my files in May 2016. It stopped working in late October 2016: plugged it in and no response - doesn't turn on, so can't access any of my data. Laptop has also carked it so no access to any files. Can send it back for assessment - but data recovery is not part of their warranty and… Read more

under no circumstances will they ever return your original drive. If found in your favour, the best they'll do is send you a refurbished drive (to use at your peril). Data recovery from a third party source is $90 consultation + $900-$1800 to recover any accessible data off the drive. Do yourself a favour and DO NOT BUY this brand just to save yourself a bit of money. You will pay for it in frustration and heartache tenfold.

Constantly dismounts during file transfers – You can't leave these drives unattended during large backup tasks, as they frequently dismount and remount, requiring the user to constantly respond to error dialogues to keep the process moving. Don't expect to set off a large backup task, and come back a few hours later to find it finished. You'll only be disappointed.

Repression – I have 3x of your desktop 2tb hard drives. Well it does say 2tb but even after formatting I only get 1.81tb. To me this is just an out right untruth if I was to only get 1.81tb please indicate that is what I am buying. Yes you may need to add things into the driver for me to use BUT not at my expense. Will no longer buy this product or recommended it.

no reliability – 2 drives have failed in the same service over a 2 year period. The drives were being used on a LG TV to record TV (ie as a PVR function). Perhaps they are not suitable for this use. I would look elsewhere. You might ask why buy a second when the first had failed ?. Benefit of the doubt and they were on sale at the time. And to the IT expert no these drives sat in one spot well ventilated and suffered no physical damage

New and Not working – My PC running Windows 10 would not recognise the drive. Tried the trouble shooting, to overcome a drive number conflict. Says it is online but "unallocated". Still doesn't recognise it. Makes the USB sound when plugged IN and OUT, still does not appear in File Explorer. It's going back. I tried it with my Panasonic twin tuner PVR, and it did recognise it and seemed to copy files onto it.

Disgusting! Dont waste your money! – Had it for a year then it just stopped working! Tried everything to get it to work but no joy. It's just a piece of crap. Regretting this purchase! Don't buy it! Don't waste your money! This brand is supposedly a top brand but that's a crock if you spend $180 for the product and then it stops working a year later! Disgusting product!

This works Great! – I bought this as an external drive for my Xbox One. Its working fine I have had no problems. It is important that you have the Xbox turned on before you plug it in for the first time or it wont be seen but if you plug it in to the Xbox while the Xbox is turned on and then power it up it is detected and formatted straight away and it works… Read more

perfectly.

I have seen some bad reviews of these drives on here and as an IT professional I must say that I find them hard to believe.

I would point out that all Hard drives with moving parts are very fragile and an external drive is not something you can throw around like a USB stick. I suspect many of the people that have had multiple failures of these drives are not handling them correctly.

Waste of money – In the past 3 months I have gone through 2 1TB seagate hard drives. The first one broke within 4 days of having it. Luckily I got it exchanged but i lost all my data that I had stored on there and now my second one has broken as well. It has started to connect and then disconnects within a few seconds and now it wont connect at all. For the amount… Read more

of money you pay for these you would think that they would be able to fix this problem. My friend has the exact same one and has had no problems whatsoever with hers. Its very dissapointing as I cannot get to the shop I purchased this from as I have now moved to a very remote town in western australia and the sole purpose of buying this hard drive was to store as many movies as possible to keep me entertained. Absolutely ridiculous

Pathetic – I am disgusted with the Seagate Expansion hard drives, i have the 2TB desktop one, they are not cheap!! this is my second one in just over 2 years now out of know where this one decides to stop working it is pathetic I am not wasting anymore money on a money hungry company!!! this is pathetic and if I could get my money back I would!!!! I am going… Read more

to announce to all my friends what a horrible hard drive it is, this company should be investigated or shutdown!!!!!!!

Garbage – Don't waste your money on this piece of garbage, will not work at all, no lights, no noises, no nothing, tried on 4 different machines, complete waste of money, might be useful for a paperweight I guess, or a perhaps sinker :(

Major issues with file systems, speed and compatibility out of the box but solved it – Hardware wise this drive ticks all the right boxes with a decent 12 v power supply, robust USB3 cable, nice case design and a decent HDD inside. Compatibility was another ball game altogether, the drive seemed to be formatted to some bizzare proprietary/ format and I noticed there was some pre-installed Seagate Software on the drive, I tried to… Read more

low level format it to FAT32*1 and it failed miserably. After that the the drive became totally unreadable and I was unable to partition or reformat the drive let alone rebuilt GPT or MBR.

The solution> Open the case, disassemble the drive and cut the data lines from the standard controller chip the custom EEPROM chip and reassembled, Problem solved.

Disclaimer, I didn't check forums but was an electronics design engineer previous to current role.

The drive now performs excellently and formatted as FAT32 seamlessly on thee first attempt. the USB ID is also different and is now just a plain standard USB-SATA controller device instead of a specific seagate expansion product.

*1 (FAT32 is a old format but my aim was to provide the best compatibility with set-top boxes, standalone media players, Macintosh, Linux and a specific mp3 player unit.)

Never Again – 2Tb external hard drive, have had 2 in the past 3 years stop working, lost everything, only used at home so doesn't get bounced, but never again will I get another.

Unsuitable drive for PVR external storage – Seagate expansion desktop drives 2TB usb 3.0 seem to be incompatible with many PVR recorders. I purchased two Seagate 2TB desktop drives to use as external storage for a LG PVR. However despite many hours of trying it would not register and was not recognised by my pvr. Tech support was unable to assist or give an explanation or reason why. I… Read more

tried to use the drives in several other pvrs with the same result. They couldn't recognize or format the drives. So they appear unsuitable for using as an external storage for pvrs. We tried the drive on the computer and it seemed fine. So we went with a western digital 2TB. Mybook drive and it worked perfectly.

3 year warranty... try 1 month! – About a month ago after my macs internal hard drive blew up, i bought the Seagate Backup Plus Slim 1TB Portable Drive, to hold all of my photos and all my VCE work for school. I haven't even had the device for a month, and it is hardly even a 10th of the way though full, and it has already stopped working. Yesterday it worked perfectly fine and i… Read more

saved my work for upcoming year 12 exams and the next day it won't register on any computer, laptop or device known. Very disappointed with it :(

Extremely slow, but quiet – Bought this as a 2nd backup drive. Took 1 hour 42 minutes to back up a 3.53GB directory. My 1st backup drive, an ASTONE, took just under 9 minutes for the same job. Both drives are 2TB external connected to USB 3.0. For fairness sake I do have to add that the Seagate drive is much more quiet than the ASTONE, but that's the only good feature I can ascertain. Very quiet Speed - or better the lack of

Good Drive – I've had this 2TB drive running off and on for over 12 months now. Sits under my desk most of the time and I connect it when required. Backs up all my photo's and movies of the kids. Pretty fast when doing the larger files (90-120mb/s) but a bit slower when doing the smaller photos (30-40mb/s) but this is expected as small files always take… Read more

longer so no complaints. Freaked out once when my daughter knocked it off my desk onto the wooden floor but after plugging it back it it's running like a champ. I've had other external drives from WD and Verbatim fall over after a couple months so I'm happy this one is still rocking along.

My only complaint is the propriety cable connection on the hdd unit. If you lose your cable.. your stuck as no other generic cable will fit. Cheap, relaible, speedy, quiet. propriety usb3 connection.

Terrible – Worked well initially but after only a couple of months it totally died ( eg. it wouldn't even mount ). Most of the trouble shooting help assumed the drive could mount so they couldn't help. The online help was way too complex and the forums did not respond. I have just ordered a Buffalo - hopefully that will be better. Worked well initially No support, Inconvenient to troubleshoot

Plenty! – Great portable hard drive. Not the smallest of things but at least it offers the data space you need. little blue light for no apparent reason but to show the transfer or activeness of the device. Does the job in the end but doesn't have much to offer other than a hard drive. Needs more than 0.5V Reliable, Cheap, Does what a hard drive does Too big, Power Hungry

Cheap - but nasty! – I bought a Seagate Expansion external 1TB drive from office works - great price (about $120) plenty of storage. So far so good. Connected it up to the desktop and copied what I needed. Not very intuitive - Slooow - but there was a lot to transfer. Set it up to back up regularly - it did so but files had weird file names - I probably was too new to… Read more

the game to do it properly ...However, the worst thing was that I eventually got rid of the desktop after 6 months or so and the expansion drive sat around for a year or so doing nothing. When I finally got to use it to back up some laptop stuff - NO GO! It was deceased! I couldn't access any of the stuff on the hard disk so it was useless for storage. Lucky I'd transferred the photos and files to my laptop as well otherwise I'd be knackered. From other internet stuff I've read eg whirlpool - these hard drives are well known as being ??@#$% From my own experience I'd say don't waste your time - check out consumer reviews before you buy as I'm doing now. I wish I'd known their reputation before I bought that's for sure. cheap, lots of storage for the price No software, not reliable,

Just about perfect for file storage. A great buy! – Bought on-line on a Sunday afternoon and delivered (free) from Officeworks on the Tuesday at 0730 for $117. (Pretty impressive Officeworks!) Works silently and easy to install. (Well, actually installation consisted of plugging it into my PC and/or TV - as appropriate). No formatting required, works straight out of the box. With Windows 7,… Read more ·  2

File Transfer is a simple "Drag and Drop".

I am using this HDD to play back video movies of virtually any size on my Samsung LED/LCD TV by plugging into the USB port on the rear of my TV. Together with my Samsung TV Remote it plays flawlessly virtually any video format. (The Samsung remote alllows you to access and explore directories similarly to how you would on a PC, then select play, fast forward, pause, stop, rewind, subtitles, just like a DVD player).

Being USB 3.0, file transfers are significantly faster than USB 2.0 drives.

As an expansion HDD rather than a portable one it requires you to use the AC 240V plug pack provided. (The plug pack comes with a range of adaptors- AU, US, UK- you simply slide on the one you require- and is a much more elegant solution to using the plug-on adapters to convert to AU plug than I have seen before). Easy to install. Large capacity. Quite inexpensive. 3 year warranty. Officeworks delivery serice. The green operating LED was a little annoying as the drive sat under the TV- however this was switched off with a Seagate download.(Can be reactivated if required).

Not happy, jan – External hard drive usb input power cable large storage to keep photos, videos, music, files and folders quiet, noiseless bleeping light indicator is on Worked well for 6 months Stopped working. lost a lot a important data

Essential piece of equipment! – I have looked into this product, since I needed another HDD and it is on special at the Australia Post Office at a very good price. Having read many bad reviews for this product, I need to say that I have had a Seagate Expansion Drive in constant use for at least over a year, and it is working perfectly well. I decided therefore to buy another 2… Read more

Seagate Expansion Drives, this time portable ones, one for my daughter and one for myself. So far so good. I hope malfunction of external drives is mainly due to misadventure - drops and knocks. reliable, inexpensive, simple to use, looks good