Seagate 4Tb External Drive

I'm using this Seagate 8TB drive in a dual external bay, next to my Seagate 4TB to backup the backup of my photos and music. It's quiet even when writing, and it backs up my photos at approximately 145MB per second. I also use it as a scratch disc when using Photoshop. It goes to sleep after about 20 minutes of non-use, as it should, and takes about 10-15 seconds to wake up.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The Seagate Portable 4TB External Hard Drive HDD really impressed me. It's a great way to store my files. It is made with a durable metal enclosure, so it's protected from bumps and drops. It is so easy to transfer files to and from my desktop. I like how small and portable this product is. I can take it with me wherever I go.

Fit my Seagate 4TB portable drive with room to spare. Has elastic strap inside to keep drive from bouncing around.

I am a biased user when it comes to hard disks and use only Seagate manufactured units. Both the 4TB and the 7200 rpm 2TB, 3.5 versions have performed well. These two units was my first 3.5 purchase since the appearance of laptops, other purchased units were 2.5, replaceable for internal drive if needed. The price of the 3.5 4TB unit, for an external drive, was why I did not buy a more expensive 2.5 drive. Mind you I do miss the performance of the old 2.5 models with 4 GB of solid state cache; not seen in the catalog recently.

Purchased this to transfer photos from another WD 4TB external hard drive as a backup.

This enclosure works great for me, it's just what I needed, I use it as a external photo drive, with a 4TB SSD.

Small external drive used for back up of all my photos. i have had Seagate drives for almost 20 years and have never had a failure.

Works just like every other Seagate external I have, that's why I trust them.

I love having this 4TB drive in a compact size, and it's definitely my favorite external hard drive so far, writes quickly, and is super reliable. Only thing that I've noticed is that it sometimes buzzes against my desk, but if I move it that sound goes away. It definitely is quiet, but if your perception is attuned to it, you might hear it, there is also a slight vibration when you touch it, so that's probably why it buzzes occasionally when it's not flush to the surface of the desk.

I use this hard drive in an external Thermaltake USB3 dock for creating my offsite backups. The 4TB is perfect for my system configuration and the drive is fast and quiet.