Seagate STEB8000402 Expansion External

Typical size for a desk top external drive with good looking case. The profile of the case seems to imply that it can be used in a vertical orientation, i.e. standing on it's long narrow side, as with a lot of other drives, as it has slightly protuberant feet allowing ventilation, but it is unstable in this orientation and falls over regularly unless you can arrange additional support. In this orientation the beacon light is on top. If it is used flat one may not be able to see the beacon. This may well not matter to you. A generous length of cable is provided from the plug-in power supply with a large (ish) connector, handy for sauage fingers or stifff hands. Downside is that as always the cable is not as flexible as it could be and over time will probably be prone to cracking at bends, especially at exit of connector. The USB cable is a good length, good quality with used friendly connectors.On the positive side the data transfer and saving seems to be genuinely quick (subjective opinion, not measured). Not saying that other makes gild the lilly in this area, but not with this unit. It is silent in operation and is the fastest to connect at power-up of hte various drives I have.Overall nitpicking niggles do not outweigh the positves. Very happy purchaser.

Ideal for the Xbox especially at this size and price point. I bought this for the Xbox one X but first transferred all the data from my one S, over 2.5TB of it. While the read and write speeds are nothing spectacular this drive is a good work horse and ideal for gaming. It's 6TB and in this day and age where games can be 100GB in size there seems to be no point in buying a smaller drive, any games you own are always available anyway, you only download a game to play it.When you get to the point that you've got 500 games including game pass games then you need the space this drive provides. I ran this drive for 24 hours non stop and had no problems with noise or overheating and to set it up on Xbox was easy, plug in, format to Xbox and play..Edit 30/05.I have noticed that the drive makes noises at random times that can be annoying, the noises are always the same so are a design thing and not a random problem. If you're using this for Xbox and have your Xbox set to install remotely then you may find this noise annoying as you have to leave the drive on all the time. I switch my drive off when it's not in use now..

An early Christmas present of a PS4 Pro console for the family saw me looking to buy another external HDD. Have already bought the same Seagate 6TB external HDD earlier this year when my son's X-Box One became full, and had no hesitation in coming back to buy another one. I even got a better deal as while I paid around £110 for the last one, this time I found one in the Amazon Warehouse for £85 simply because the packaging was damaged.Now while HDDs can fail, the simple fact is any brand of disc will give up over time, and some will be faulty straight out of the box. Nothing in life is perfect or lasts forever, but Seagate has been one of my go-to brands for many years. I have rarely had issues with any discs, whether internal or external, and price versus quality and storage means they sit comfortably within my budget.While they are only a single disc unit, given they are being used to store games that I can reload if anything should go wrong, I deem the need to backup them up as unnecessary. Unlike the rest of my computers where everything is backed-up in triplicate. While I could go into all the technical aspects I'm gonna leave this review simple and state the HDD runs pretty fast when connected using the 3.0 USB, and noise wise is almost silent when operational.The only modification I have done to either HDD is add slightly deeper felt strips on the base. (A pack of which cost me £1 and I still have loads left.) This helps to absorb any vibrations, and raises the HDDs higher off my units to allow for a better airflow to aid cooling.(https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07C7V494X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)