Seagate Backup Plus Portable 5TB External Hard Drive HDD – Black USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac, 2 Months Adobe CC Photography (STDR5000100) by Seagate

Silenzioso, velocità nella norma per un disco meccanico usb 3.0, cavo lungo una trentina di centimetri.
Ho trasferito un tera di dati e non ho sentito nessun “click” strano (che non è indicativo ma è un suono che evoca brutti ricordi)

I bought an HP Stream 13 so that I would have a way to browse the web, work, and watch movies on my downtime while away from home. If you have a laptop similar to this, you surely understand that you don’t have a lot in the way of internal storage. You can install a micro SD card, but anything above 128GB starts to get too expensive. This leads us to the solution of an external hard drive just like this one.
I have been using the hard drive for about a week now and am very pleased with the way that it has been performing. The main features that I like about it is its portability. It is very small, very light, and requires no external power source. This means that it is powered by the USB port on the laptop. It isn’t the fastest external hard drive on the market, but to get 4TB of storage for this price, it is pretty amazing. I have also noticed that this hard drive runs very quiet, in fact, I can’t hear it at all. It doesn’t even vibrate much or produce hardly any heat. It is just a little warm to the touch which is great. I also really like the color options available. I got a blue one because it matches the color of my laptop. The construction of the hard drive seems to be of good quality. The majority of its casing is made of aluminum.
I have been able to run full PC programs from this drive to my little netbook which is great. I have noticed that the programs don’t run quite as fast as if they were installed on the internal SSD. But hey, if I can get all of my programs to work on my netbook without compromising the storage on the factory SSD, then I call that a win. Here is how I have been installing programs to my external hard drive and running them on my netbook.

1: Make a folder in your external hard drive. I prefer to name the file “Program Files (x86)” because that is what the file is named where you normally save programs to anyway.

2: Get your program, you need to either have a download code from the internet, or since this laptop has no disk drive, you need an external disc drive to initially install the program you want. Treat it as you are installing anything else you would normally install.

3: When installing the program, it will ask you where you want to install it which is set at Drive (C:) Program Files (x86) by default. All you have to do is change the location of the programs installation which now will be on your external hard drive under the new file you named “Program Files (x86)”

4: Proceed with the rest of the install.

5: Repeat these steps for other programs it is literally that easy.

Seagate Hard Drive Reliability:
Obviously I have not had this hard drive long enough to say anything about its reliability. However, every hard drive I currently own are made by Seagate. This includes 4 external hard drives, a hybrid SSD, and a 3.5” desktop hard drive. I have yet to have any of them fail. The oldest one I have is 7 years old, but I don’t use it all that often. The 3.5” internal hard drive has been in my custom built gaming PC for about 4 years. It is under use quite often and is still holding up well. The one that is used the most is the External hard drive on my Xbox One. Between my wife and I, it will run for hours every single day. That has been working well for almost 2 years now. As you can see, I have had a great experience when it comes to using Seagate hard drives. This is why I have so many of them. Over the course of 7 years using multiple different hard drives under varying conditions, I have yet to have a failure. Obviously any hard drive will fail, it is an eventuality. It is nice to have them work for a while before they do though, and Seagate has impressed me.

Lo compré en febrero 2018 para mi xbox one x, jamás tuve inconveniente, y hasta ahora; febrero 2024, ya no enciende, lo cambie hace un año a un xbox series x, corría muy bien los juegos de gears, crash, resident evil, etc. Los únicos que no se podían correr desde el disco duro eran los de nueva generación (gears 5,F1 2023, farcry 6, Forza horizon 5)… Fue muy buen producto, no hace ruido cuando ejecuta juegos o cuando se están descargando. La velocidad es muy buena y es muy práctico para llevarlo a otras consolas de amigos. Volveré a buscar opciones económicas para reemplazarlo.

Estupenda compra.

I bought the Seagate Backup Plus Slim in 2018, and to this day, it’s still working like new. Over the years, I’ve never had any issues: it hasn’t corrupted any files, it’s always been reliable, and its performance remains consistent.

The design is compact and elegant, easy to carry, and the connection is fast and stable. I love that I can take it with me and use it to back up important information without worrying about failures.

It’s definitely been a worthwhile investment. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a durable and reliable external drive.