Seagate Expansion 18TB External Hard Drive HDD - USB 3.0, with Rescue Data Recovery Services (STKP18000400)

This traditional hard drive is so easy to work with and so reliable. I bought one several years ago and got this one for back up Yes I tried SS drives but this works best for my R_volution player mini

I have purchased these Seagate hard drives for many years now and have almost one of every size! They have all worked great except one got dropped once and didn't work again, rightfully so. If you have a lot of digital data that needs storing, these are great!

I bought this Seagate to replace one of my failed Western Digital (WD) external drives. In fact all my WD's have not performed well. I was very used to have to wait for the WDs to fully open. When I put in the Seagate I was blown away at the speed of performance. It's always ready to get to any files. I had a couple of questions about the drive and called All4Computers. Guess what - they answer the phone! The place is in the USA too. And the guy that helped me couldn't be nicer and more helpful. I will not buy a WD again. I liked it so much I bought another one.

This is wonderful for holding all my flac files of music

This is a review for the Seagate 6TB desktop hard drive. The portable models I've had before (4TB) have been virtually silent, but this one is not. Immediately upon plugging it in for the first time, it starting making a fan-like whirring noise that has been constant. You'll notice it if you're in a very quiet location, but some moderate ambient noise in your environment would be enough to mask it. The noise is enough for me that it's not going to be acceptable leaving it connected constantly, but that's OK, I can demote it to an emergency backup drive.Noise aside, performance has been great so far. This is my fourth Seagate drive (previous ones have been the portable ones). My oldest one is about six years old. They've all held up well so far. I format them into 2TB partitions for Linux and it works great.

I bought this drive to use for File History (Window's version of Apple's Time Machine). Purchased this in December of 2022, and the only use the 6TB drive got was as the File History backup drive. Yesterday I received a notification that File History hadn't run in 10 days. So, I checked and learned that the disk drive was no longer visible to any of my file management programs. Neither was it visible in the File History setup. Poof. File History gone.Could I bother working with Seagate to try to recover the files? Possibly. In my case, I deemed it a waste of time. File History is merely one of four different backup routines I run. I've got backups of all my current data. True, if the occasion arises where I wish I'd had an older version of a file, I'm out of luck.Bottom line, I can live with the lost drive and investment in it. I replaced this with a Samsung SSD. I'm losing 2TB of potential backup, but I can live with that for now.For what it's worth, this is the second Seagate Drive that has suffered this fate. I won't buy another Seagate product.If you are considering using this Seagate Drive, I suggest you have alternate methods of backup or storage. If this is your one trick pony, you may end up regretting your purchase.

This drive provides a massive amount of storage. I got the 18gb version and formatted it for my old Mac to use as a file server. It is about the size of a paperback book (maybe a little larger).I have had a lot of success with these drives (as opposed to several failures from competing brands).The only con about this drive is that it is very noisy, and the noise is made worse by resonating through my wooden desk. Otherwise, it is great.

I purchased this hard drive to store and play PS4 games on my PS5, and I haven’t had any issues with it yet. Though it was a little disappointing that only 5.5 out of the 6TB of storage it has is usable, I don’t have an issue with it since that’s still a lot of storage I have.The hard drive can transfer games and files at a speed of around 150 MB per second, which was a decent improvement from my previous Segate 2 TB hard drive at speeds of about 60 MB per second.For $120, I would say that this product is definitely worth the money. I may not use all of this space, but I do feel that it’s definitely worth it since this hard drive feels and functions perfectly for what it’s being sold for.