Product Description
Ideal for the home, office, or dorm, Seagate Expansion desktop drive offers enormous desktop storage for photos, movies, music and more. Backing up and transferring content is incredibly easy - just drag and drop! To get set up, connect the USB hard drive to Windows or Mac - no software required. For Apple Time Machine, simply reformat. Included is an 18-inch USB 3.0 cable and 18W power adapter. Plus, Seagate Expansion comes with Rescue Data Recovery Services for additional peace of mind.
Dimension
Product Height : 4.921 inches
Product Width :1.44 inches
Product Depth :
Product Weight :2.59 ounces
Features
8tb storage capacity Offers enormous desktop storage for photos, movies, music and more.
Rescue Data Recovery Services Enjoy peace of mind with the included limited warranty and Rescue Data Recovery Services.
PC and Mac compatible Automatic recognition of Windows and Mac computers for simple setup (Reformatting required for use with Time Machine).
USB 3.0 interface Take advantage of the fast data transfer speeds by connecting to a USB 3.0 port.
Easy file saving Drag-and-drop file saving right out of the box.
What's Included
Seagate Expansion desktop hard drive, 18-inch (45.72cm) USB 3.0 cable 18W power adapter, Quick start guide, Rescue Data Recovery Services
Reviews
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Best value HD 8GB
I reviewed many HD including some cheaper, unknown to me, makes and came to the conclusion that this was the best value ie cost versos reliability. this is the 5th one I have bought. so far no problems
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Meets expectations.
It works well. Nothing really difficult about the item. Meets expectations.
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Awesome product
I love it. I use it a lot for my photos and personal information. It scans for antivirus about anything to make sure no virus when it will ask you if you want. Nice! I will order more later in the future. :)
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Seagate Tech
Great piece of tech.ive used Seagate drives since 2000. I’ll always recommend this drive as they stand behind their product.
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Works OK. Reformat for "File History" backups.
I believe I received an "open box" item because the drive was not recognized by windows when I connected it to my PC, nor were the "quick start" instructions in the box. A friend formatted the drive on a Linux box, then reformatted it on my PC, and it works well now. It turns out that this was a "blessing in disguise" because the drive as formatted by the factory cannot be used for windows "File History" backups. After setting it up, working well!
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Bang for the Buck
Great deal. Lots of storage for a very reasonable price
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Large Capacity but slow
I was hopeful that this large drive 8 TB would provide storage for quite some time. I store lots of images on my external drives. I was really disappointed in the speed of this drive. I have a couple of folders that are very large with lots of images in them. It takes a minute or two for the drive to bring up the full list of all the files in the folder. I have another drive from Western Digital that accesses the same set of files 20 fold faster than this drive. Since this is a backup drive, it is tolerable, but if this were my main go to drive I would have had to return it.
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(Mac user) Time Machine and Storage 8TB
Took a little understanding of how everything worked with formatting. The application Disk Utility is what you want to have open so you can see your HDD and anything else connected to your mac. Also might have to select View in the top left of Disk Utility and click “show all”. Sometimes they wont show up on the screen if they’ve been pre-formatted with different settings from the supplier. In order to get best of both worlds from this desktop external drive I partioned one half of for time machine backups and the other for normal drag and drop storage of pics, videos and whatever else. In order to do this click the external drive and then click partition on the top of the application window. Set how much you want to partition and rename it and set formats. Important part is making sure the time machine half is formatted “Mac OS Extended” and the storage part is using “APFS”. Long story short i had a old 1tb mobile seagate drive that somehow already allowed me to time machine backup and drag and drop so I just reversed engineered the 8tb desktob one to be just like it! No more switching and unplugging! Hope this helps!
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Works well.
I have a number of this line of Seagate Expansion drives, dating back at least 5 years. They have always worked well for me. Previous models I have purchased had a built-in USB hub - which I never used. This one does not.
