#Seagate backup plus hub 4tb for mac portable
Look elsewhere if you need a drive that`s portable or will be plugged and unplugged a lot. My advice to anybody purchasing is to make sure you locate the drive in a place where it will NOT get bumped or disturbed, do this and you should be OK. (Just the addition of beefier connector would improve the fail-rate dramatically). Usually I could recover them by removing the case and installing them internally with a SATA lead. 3 of my previous drives failed because of this because the connector lifted the tracks on the circuit board. The drives themselves are usually fine but you can have problems with the very flimsy surface mount mini-USB connector at the rear. I`ve had mixed results with Seagate USB externals, I`ve had drives that have worked well for years non stop without error, and I`ve had drives that failed very quickly.
So time will tell if its reliable or not. The drive is in and working well at the moment.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2020 If you find this review helpful, please hit the "helpful" button. This makes these drives less portable, I wish they were USB powered. My only issue is that as I have 3 of these bad boys I need to use 3 AC sockets. The USB ports on the front makes them able to be daisychained so it only needs one USB port on your PC/laptop which is a good thing. Noise levels are not high but you can definitely can hear them running in a completely quiet room. Temperatures don't go too high either so you don't have to worry about roasting them if you provide good ventilation. None of these drives are having any issues (one is 2 years old, one is 1 and the last one is about 2 months).
As you can see on the pictures I've put mine to the test with more than 40TB lifetime writes and the drive still doesn't have any bad sectors. I use these drives to store media on them, and even though the speeds are not lightning fast, the drives are working steady with no issues at all. The package contains the AC adapter and it also has a replaceable plug for EU/UK sockets which is quite handy. I have purchased three of these drives so far (the 6TB Hub version) and I must say I am impressed and completely satisfied. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.