Seagate One Touch 5TB External Hard Drive HDD – Black USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac, 1 Year MylioCreate, 4 Months Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan (STKC5000410)

This is my second 5 TB Seagate Hard Drive, and it's worth noting that data transfer via USB 3 is extremely slow. The transfer of 2 took more than 26 hours. A total of one terabyte (TB) of video! br>br>It's also worth noting that this device has a three-year warranty. My first one died three weeks after the warranty had expired! This, of course, leaves no other option, but I still needed a 5 TB drive, and this was the next best thing. Expect to pay around $30 per year for this storage, but BE PREPARED TO SAVE YOUR DATA AND MOVE IT TO ANOTHER DRIVE AT THE FIRST SIGN OF PROBLEM.

Lionel Hines

| Apr 08, 2021

This item is far too slow to be useful. I bought it to back up the SSD on my laptop, which holds about 600 GB of data. I estimated that the first 100 GB I transferred to the Seagate drive would take "about a day" to complete. br>br>I looked for write speed specifications in the item's box and booklet because I couldn't believe the drive was that slow. There were no speed specifications available. I looked up the specifications on Amazon's product page. In addition, there was no mention of it. I read a few more reviews that mentioned the same issue and realized the drive must really be that slow, which explains its low price—and why write speed is specifically avoided in the product description. br>br>I attempted to reformat it in a Mac-friendly format. Although it was in a more user-friendly format, it was still quite slow. I'm returning this item because I don't see how the 2 TB would be useful if it takes 24 hours to transfer 100 GB.

Nayeli Stokes

| Jun 14, 2021

The One Touch 5TB Extern Hard Drive HDD is the subject of this review. I thought this was an updated version of the Backup Plus style drive, which I thought was no longer available when I bought it. I also thought that the 7200 RPM would be a good upgrade for seek speeds. This drive, unfortunately, will not meet my or anyone else's requirements. br>br>The read speeds were noticeably faster than on the Backup Plus, where I was getting around 250-300 pages per minute. The One Touch averaged 270mbps, which was impressive, but write speeds were only 50-70mbps on average. 60mbps. It was surprising to me that I couldn't get it to write any faster than that. This will simply not work for me, but others may find it acceptable. br>br>While I am a big fan of Seagate drives in general, I believe there are better options out there right now that cost a little more but provide significantly faster read and write speeds for the same capacity. Overall, this drive appeared to be in good shape, and I'm sure the read performance is adequate if that is your primary requirement.

Banks Decker

| Mar 22, 2021

I worked for a year to obtain my data, and it was all lost a month later. This external hard drive was only good for a month. Purchased in December 2020, all but a few of my files had vanished by the third week of January. On all the work and time I put in, I shed blood, sweat, and tears. SEAGATE IS THE LAST THING I WILL EVER BUY. I do have an older Seagate drive, but I'll back it up to something else. I'll stick with My Book drives because I've never had any issues with them. What a blunder! I purchased this drive because it was small and simple to use.

Aurelia Combs

| May 10, 2021

13). For Macs with Time Machine and a Seagate as an external backup drive. (1) After plugging in the driver, make sure to open the "Mac" installer link. (2) This link will take you to a website where you can register for the product (which you should do), as well as a number of other trial products. Ignore them and then exit the website. Meanwhile, you should receive an email stating that you have successfully registered your new Seagate product! (3) Run Time Machine using the new driver. It may request that you ERASE DISK - which may appear to be frightening, but try it! After that, try running a Time Machine backup once more. (4) If you continue to receive an error message about the driver's FORMATTING (NOT FORMATTED FOR A MAC, ETC), simply eject the device, remount it, and try again. (5) Keep in mind that it takes 5 HOURS to backup your data for the first time, so be patient as the progress bar remains blank ("preparing backup") for a long time before it starts to chug along and count the megabytes.

Lincoln Ali

| Nov 21, 2021

The term "One Touch" has no meaning. I had assumed there would be a physical backup button on the drive. No, they provided a link to software download. All back- Your computer is in charge of the pop-ups. It'll suffice for my needs.

Erin BEVAN

| Sep 12, 2021

The "One Touch" version was about $25 more expensive than my first drive, but it came with the software I needed to create a backup, so the extra $25 seemed reasonable. When I used the Toolkit software to create a backup plan, it only backed up the C: drive. It does not recognize that I have another drive connected (F:) even when advanced settings (see picture 2) are enabled. I could still drag and drop files from one drive to the other, but I wouldn't be able to keep them in sync as a mirror image that way. I'll have to purchase additional software to create the backup, so I'd be better off purchasing two of the less expensive Seagate drives rather than the "One Touch" model. The backup options are overly simplistic, so I docked two stars. If you keep all of your data on your C: drive, you should be fine. You won't need to back up external or mapped drives if you use this method.

Barrett Willis

| Oct 02, 2021

Despite the fact that I have a Western Digital from years ago, it still works and has never failed me. I just needed another for extra files and storage. Unfortunately, this brand isn't for me, and both make a strange noise that I've heard about. Not quite deserving of a no, but the readable functions and write speed, as well as the failures, are enough to make me say no!.

Nevaeh McKinney

| Mar 20, 2021