Seagate Backup Plus Hub 8TB External Hard Drive Desktop HDD – USB 3.0, 2 USB Ports, for Computer Desktop Workstation PC Laptop, 2 Months Adobe CC Photography (STEL8000100)

Already got one and it works just as well

great product

Reasonably fast delivery, seeing as it has to go through customs before it can be tracked. It comes with a US style 100-240V integrated power adapter/plug.. so you need a US (to whatever) adapter, NOT supplied. Penny pinching from Amazon when you consider a plug is going to set you back only c.1Eu but; but if you dont have one available its a pain.

Seems like a good value drive, Has USB 3 support... Dissapointed that it comes with a US style PSU "plug" without any adapters for other countries... it is common place now a days to supply a power unit with a universal mounting system and several adapters.. it would not have cost much more, and for a product this expensive is a drop in the ocean

Just bought this in the UK and as it was advertised on the UK site I was expecting a dual power supply but what I got was a US model. Of no use to me unless I bought a new power supply negating the saving I made. I would not recommend buying this as the issue with the power plus the route and delays necessary to return it if there are any issues means the savings are just not worth the hassle. Avoid.

No English plug included, so the Hard Drive is useless for UK! Spoke to Seagate but did not get anywhere, so returned the product

Bought the 4TB drive in April 21, failed in June 22 after only 1100 power on hours. This drive was glacially slow since day one, never exceeding about 30Mps and sometimes slowing to 1 or 2Mps for no apparent reason. I was using it for its intended purpose as a backup drive so outright speed wasn’t much of an issue but it was still disappointing for a USB3 device working from a USB3 port. The bigger problem was that the drive failed without any warning midway through a backup when the backup program reported that the “Target device does not exist”. Sure enough Drive E: had vanished. I ran Seagate SeaTools and CrystalDiskInfo, both of which announced that the drive had failed with a Reallocated Sectors Count error. Online wisdom was that such an error cannot be recovered from, so I started Amazon’s return process (2 year warranty fortunately) and am currently waiting for the drive to be collected by a courier. I’m hoping for a replacement drive and I’ll edit this once the process is complete. As things stand I could not possibly recommend that anyone buys this drive.

Ótima velocidade para passar as imagens. Pra uso profissional, um tamanho excelente, fácil de usar. Recomendo

J'ai acheté ce disque dur pour étendre le stockage de mes films et séries, il me restait un port usb libre sur mon routeur. Je l'ai utilisé sous Windows 10 pour transférer mes fichiers, le taux de transfert est très bon dans l'ensemble, avec quelques petites baisses de débit par moment, mais rien de gênant. Il émet un léger bruit, mais c'est la ventilation pour la surchauffe. Le raccordement à mon routeur n'a posé aucun problème, tout fonctionne parfaitement.

Das Netzteil wird mit amerikanischem Stecker versendet, für Steckdosen in Deutschland nicht geeignet !!!!

I've only had the drive for a few days but so far I really like it. I'm using it for backups and for that role it's ideal. The information below is intended for people who really want to understand this device. If you want it to "just work", you are likely using Windows and you won't have to do very much - it comes pre-formatted with an NTFS partition that has good defaults. If you are using it that way, you will enjoy the full performance capabilities of this device. I run a 64-bit Gentoo Linux system that, among other roles, runs a Samba server (compatible with Windows File & Printer Sharing) on the LAN. You might be begging for trouble if you make a Samba server Internet-accessible (use SSH/SFTP instead), but on the local network it's great. All of my machines can easily back up files to this drive. This can be automated which is even more convenient. While the USB spec is backwards compatible (so you COULD connect this via USB2), I use USB3. I observe an average ~115-120 MB/sec speed when writing files to this drive. This is measured using the utility "iotop" while copying data several times larger than my RAM to reduce the influence of kernel caching. Read speeds from the disk as measured using "hdparm" are ~190 MB/sec (buffered) and still ~ 189-190 MB/sec using direct I/O. Read speeds just from the drive's on-board cache memory (i.e. not the spinning rust and not from buffers in RAM) are about 258 MB/sec. The spec for USB 3.0 lists a max total speed of around 625 MB/sec, though that is a raw signaling rate - accounting for protocol overhead, USB 3.0 has a real-world max of around 450 MB/sec. That's very good for an external drive designed for large capacity, not raw performance. I believe that inside the enclosure is a Seagate Archival Drive. This is an Advanced Format disk - it has a physical sector size of 4k (4096 bytes). Until recently, all (or nearly all) hard drives had a physical sector size of 512 bytes. This allows the device to transfer more data with each operation and makes sense for such a large disk. The disk will report a logical sector size of 512 bytes -- systems that don't understand Advanced Format can just treat it like any prior device and the drive's internal firmware will translate. This is known as a 512e Advanced Format device, but if your OS is modern enough, it will know the difference between the physical and logical sectors. Linux is Advanced Format aware and has been since 2009-2010. This is also an SMR drive. That's an entire research topic if you want to really understand it, but the bottom line is that there will be some write amplification. That is, if you write X MB to the drive, then internally (not visible to the system) the drive may (depending on where other data is stored) physically have to write X + Y MB. This is the trade-off of using SMR to increase storage density. So all things considered, this drive is a great balance between affordable low price-per-GB and performance, with emphasis on the former but not totally neglecting the latter by any means. To get the best performance with this disk, your filesystem (ext4 in my case) should use a 4k block size to match the physical sector size. Any partition should also begin on a sector number that is a multiple of 8 (512b * 8 = 4k). That way the drive won't have to perform extra physical operations (which would slow it down) to deal with writing data that does not correspond to its physical layout. All things considered, this drive was a bargain and I really like it. I hope that in time, I can come back here and tell everyone how incredibly reliable it is.

Produto excelente, com versatilidade de uso - tanto para Celular quanto para Descktop ou Notebook. Chegou muito rápido - bem antes do prazo previsto. O tamanho não é bem o que eu imaginava, mas valeu muito a compra. Fácil de usar, com possibilidade de registro do produto. Vendedor colocou descrição clara do produto... Muito, muito bom! Recomendo!