Includes 200GB Cloud Storage
Mounting: External
Share files easily between Windows and Mac computers
Quick file transfer with USB 3.0 connectivity
Control with the Seagate Dashboard, Create easy customized backup plans with included Seagate Dashboard software
Windows and Mac Compatible
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Had one of these for a while and working fine as an external drive.
I think they'd work well as dedicated external 'archive' drives, though I definitely wouldn't recommend them as dedicated internal/NAS drives.
Those posts seem to be from people who have extracted the internal HDDs and put them in Servers, workstations ect, which may not be the use for everyone.
I attest to the horrible experience with Seagate for this specific product, never again!
Used as an Internal or external? I had terrible experience with the 3TB variant (fail rate too high), but the 5TB version seems to be actually quite good.
external, had so many problems. the warranty was horrible experience, the replacement is still the same problem, now i'm stuck with this stupid hdd, buyers beware seagate!
So yes, working fine as an external HDD, not so well as disassembled Internal HDD.
Good point, especially for people looking to take them out and use internally.
For the external - I have few of those and I am quite happy with them (as oppose to the 3TB version, which was horrible)
so these 5tb are reliable?
dont want to lose 5TB worth of stuff not that the data is important but my steam library lol 5TB is alot to download on non-NBN =(
Not worth the risk at all! Seagate tried to send me to a data centre to pay for data recovery.
Go WD
Looks like lovepeoplenotmoney has different experience. I had terrible experience with their 3TB HDDs, pretty much 5 of them died within 18 months of use (attached via USB to a media PC). their 4TB and 5TB seems to be much more reliable, I am yet to see a problem. Having 4TB for about a year, 5TB for about 12 months.
—- UPDATE —-
I stand corrected…. Must have jinxed it
Came home today and one of the 4TB HDD now shows 15% health in the HDSentinel :-( Moving data out now.
Runtime: 760 days 11 hours, Start/Stop count: 229, estimated remaining lifetime: 23 days
I have two of these POS and they like to disconnect from the USB for no reason at all. One drive is significantly worse than the other. Swapping USB ports, USB hubs, or connecting directly to different PCs made no difference.
Idling for too long? Disconnect. Reading a lot of data? Disconnect. Writing to the drive for more than 5 minutes? Disconnect. It took me a month to fill 4TB due to the frequent write failures.
I had two of these, ripped them out and used them internally in a PC, worked fine for a while.
Put them in a new build and both died within hours of each other.
Maybe best to leave them as external drives.
Got three 8tb WD mybook through the last deal from Amazon UK. Using two as external backup and thinking of using one internally.
It's probably constant head parking which killed it. The firmware on the drive must not be made for internal computer use.
I have one used as an external backup and am yet to have any issues with it.
Please read through here before buying http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=34052.0