Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 3.0 Black Desktop Hard Drive STBV2000100 Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 3.0 Black Desktop Hard Drive STBV2000100 Seagate Expansion 3TB USB 3.0 Black Desktop Hard Drive STBV3000100 Seagate 4TB Black External Hard Drive STBV4000100

Pros: Super quite, reliable (I have 4 of these running 24.7.365 for a little over a year and not one has thrown a fit) , awesome storage capacity, rather power efficient. They work great (internal or in this case) for a home nas/media server (UbuntuServer + Plex).

Cons: - Little warm in the enclosure when using heavily

As mentioned in other reviews, the drive inside is a standard st3000dm1, I rather wish that the drive, bare, were at-least the same price as this or less. It's annoying to have to purchase this to get to the drive, ESPECIALLY if they are stacked, though there is no performance hit.

Other Thoughts: Great drive. I have bought several without any regret. After writing random data for them for several days as a harsh test, I have poped open the case on them and tossed 'em into my home server with the others in RAID. (note it void's warranty, this is why multi-day testing helps)

Not a one has failed and 7 full hard disks later (and a gpu) I havent' had any power problems.

Pros: drive worked

Cons: drive worked for only about 1 hour

Other Thoughts: I plugged it into my HP Vista PC (USB 2) and it was recognized. I did C/P of files (~24 GB), and the xfer rate dropped from about 34 to 20 MB over the first 2 minutes. When I came back the C/P window had closed, but the drive was not listed on "Computer", and was very warm. I unplugged the power and USB and let it sit for an hour. I reconnected all and the drive has no lights, no vibrations/noise, and it is not recognized by the PC. The drive ran for most of 1 hour and is now dead. I did also check the power supply brick. I do not want a replacement, I will wait for a sale on a different brand.

Pros: Just bought this drive a couple weeks ago, came ready for Windows, but I erased it all, partitioned it into a separate HFS+ partition and NTFS partition, use Paragon to read in on my Mac when I need to read/write to in from Mac. Use the drive for a 2nd backup, for the Mac external backup I have and the Windows backup (can never be too safe) that I have on my VM. Use DriveImageXML (free for private use) to backup one Windows based external HD to another, works well for now.

Cons: It does get quite warm when in use, not hot, but we'll see how it handles the workload. The one concern I have is some clicking noises, which might just be the drive reading sectors, but it only makes the noise if I pick the drive up to move it. I happened once also when I first got the drive running.

Other Thoughts: Good deal for the price as long as it keeps working!

Pros: Large capacity, USB 3.0 so it's fast, and inexpensive. NewEgg was reasonable about the return, although I had to call to eliminate the restocking charge that's added by default with the web based RMA request.

Cons: Worked great with windows 8, had no issues with general mounting and moving files around with windows 7 (or even XP). Problem came when trying to use it as a target for windows 7 system image backup. The backup fails with error 0x8007045D. After some searching and ruling out filesystem corruption, I found out that Windows image backup cannot tolerate the 4K sectors (See MS KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982018). From what I can tell this drive has native 4K physical and logical sectors and that isn't supported on Windows 7.

Other Thoughts: I didn't spend anytime playing with the seagate software, since I'm using this for windows image backup, that software isn't going to be there on the recovery CD, so it's just asking for trouble. However, I does appear seagate has a nice backup program (based on Acronis), but I wanted to stick with the standard Windows tools.

For trouble free operation, I'm going to stick with HDDs < 2.2 TB and verify with the vendor that the drive doesn't have 4 K sectors.

Pros: Good build quality, USB 3.0, good price.

Cons: You'll void your warranty if you plan on cracking open the external enclosure to get at the internal drive.

Other Thoughts: I plan on tearing this open for the internal drive for use in an HTPC. I've always thought its stupid that the equivalent internal drive is more expensive than the external drive. It's almost like external enclosures are becoming an additional layer of packaging these days.

Pros: Works very well no problems.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: A good buy.

Pros: None

Cons: Didn't work with Windows Backup and Restore in Windows 7. Troubleshot the problem for a few days, couldn't get any solution to work. It'd be real nice if they warned that this isn't compatible with Windows Backup and Restore and save people a lot of money and time.

Other Thoughts: It'd be real nice if they warned that this isn't compatible with Windows Backup and Restore and save people a lot of money and time.

Pros: USB 3.0 - Reasonably cool - Quiet Operation - Reliable - Fast Response - Power Mangement - Large Capacity - Good Price

Cons: No backup software preloaded.

Other Thoughts: I originally gave this an egg reduction because the drive only went to sleep when my computer went to sleep. But I have obtained the Seagate Dashboard Program from Seagate Support online and that software can set the power management options to whatever you want - so now I'm totally happy. Drive has been on line for about 6 months - works great!

Pros: USB 3
Not on a vertical stand
Transfer speeds near 90mb/sec when copying from a raid array.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Seems like a good drive, I have several seagate external drives I have used over the years and none of them have ever failed! I hope this one lasts just as long!

Pros: I keep seeing reviews mentioning the "propitiatory" cable this uses. It's not, it's a USB 3.0 Micro-B connector!!!

Cons: NONE