Seagate Expansion 3TB USB 3.0 Black Desktop Hard Drive STBV3000100

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: 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

Pros: Bought it on January, and it's still running flawlessly. Just make sure to backup your most important files elsewhere just in case.

- Amazing price
- Huge capacity
- Decent speed (Don't use it for OS partition)
- Flawless shipping, as usual.

Cons: - Didn't come with a sammich

Other Thoughts: Drives with such high capacity are more failure-prone. If you really want to get this bad-boy, just keep that in mind.

Pros: It held 3 TBs of my data!

Cons: It lost 3 TBs of my data!

Other Thoughts: Think of the future and avoid Seagate as much as possible. Spend the few dollars more to buy a better quality brand.

Pros: giant size, low price, compatible, after six weeks still durable

Cons: none so far

Other Thoughts: I broke the hard drive out of the case and installed a 500 gig drive in the same case. so far both are working perfectly.