Seagate One Touch Hub, 20 TB, External Hard Drive
Seagate One Touch Hub, 20 TB, External Hard Drive Desktop HDD – USB-C and USB 3.0 port, for Computer Desktop Workstation PC Laptop Mac, 4 Months Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan (STLC20000400)
What’s Included
Seagate One Touch drive with hub, 18 inch (45.72 cm) USB 3.0 cable, 18W power adapter, Downloadable Toolkit software, One-year Mylio Create plan, Four-month Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan, Rescue Data Recovery Services, Quick Start Guide
Weight: | 1.25 kg |
Dimensions: | 9.3 x 22.2 x 23.5 cm; 1.25 Kilograms |
Brand: | Seagate |
Model: | STLC20000400 |
Colour: | Black – Hub |
Batteries Included: | No |
Manufacture: | Seagate |
Dimensions: | 9.3 x 22.2 x 23.5 cm; 1.25 Kilograms |
This external hard drive is great value for money I used it to backup all my files Files transferred easily and quickly No problems with it Would recommend it to anyone who needs a portable backup
Was looking for a reasonably priced but reliable external HDD for my new Mac mini – this ticks all the boxes has been reliable so far and is quick for an HDD
Delivered ahead a schedule and working very well. Actually a bit quicker than l was expecting. Although it is easy to pick up and move around, on the desk, l would not describe it as portable. It is quite bulky and not the sort of thing you would throw in your rucksack for a day trip, it does require a power supply. I’m sure Tech support is excellent but because l haven’t had to use it l can’t give it a rating. Currently running on a MacBook Pro 2022. Hope this is useful…..
I bought this as I was fed up with lousy backup options, tried another make – got one DOA.
The software seems open but is designed for this brand – download in advance see if it works for you BEFORE buying the drive.
My computer has a 500GB drive so I went for the 6TB as a decent ratio – so far fine.
Basically – USB plugged into a USB hub, Power adapter into UPS – runs fine.
Nice thing it goes into standby when the computer does.
Not a lot else to say other than the brand is one of the oldest and most reliable.
I had already purchased the same Hard drive previously and so far been Happy with it. So I have purchased another to link to a second system, and I am as happy with the new one as my original purchase. Easy to contact and get going, and it does what it says on the box, at the time of purchase, not badly priced. I am happy with my purchase.
This is a great product for the price the 8TB does what its meant to, no issues at all with regards to transfers however, there is 1 downfall which is it does slow down your system. would still recommend it.
When booting up it’s incredibly loud! It also takes a long time to boot… about 20 seconds. It has 14.5GB usable space from 16GB advertised which is normal for external drives. Get anywhere from 50MB/s – 150MB/s when copying files to and from the drive. The extra USB port on the front is a nice touch. Overall it’s a decent external drive even with the racket it makes!
This product is very easy to install and capacity is good.
love seagate, i have loads of these for storage & wouldn’t use another make, ( for USB pens I use Kingston),
I would highly recommend
I have seven (7) of these HHD’s and they hae all performed as advertized. I like that you get 2 years warrenty!!! Just n case.
bought this to keep my iPhone topped up on a long flight and fro long days at events and it exactly what was required
Use for roms for emulation on PC works well never had an issue to date not super fast but reliable would recommend
I use the product as a backup storage disc for my Mac laptop. I like the product’s storage capacity and its ease to set up.
Needed another back-up device for storing my photos and documents, and this Seagate device is very easy to use. It can hold thousands of photos and documents. It’s ready to use, no need to format it. Just plug it into the USB on your computer and just drag and drop all the files onto the new drive. This is the second Seagate drive I have bought and have been very pleased with both of them. Highly recommended.
This is an excellent device, provided you know what you are getting. The description does not describe the connectivity well, it is by standard old school USB but utilizes a keyed connector on the drive and not a USB C as described by some sellers, they also get the size wrong as well. My only criticism is that the activity indicator is on the top and not on a viewable edge.
The quality is high, but I purchased a 2TB only to discover it is actually only 1.81 TB the actual size, that is not really fair.
Just what I needed. Good storage capacity. Also use as a backup as I have two.
Put 16 flash drives of data on it and it’s so much easier for work
Again value for money.
Product was used to download my computer data as backup.
I bought two of these and they are working well.
This drive is the first of this size I’ve used, previously WDs. So far I’ve had no difficulties with Seagate and they were well recommended. 5TB is generally the largest in this size and portability, so are pocketable and recommended.
All my previous seagate external hardrives have solid plastic cover this one have brushed metal one feel kinda empty inside, can’t say nothing about durability haven’t drop it as yet. Old seagate drives I still use after 10 years. Hopefully with this will be same
It would appear that I was lucky and got the 4TB version on offer for just under 90 which was great value. Bought it to use as a dedicated drive for Windows backups and seems fast enough. Seagate as a manufacturer in this market need little introduction as a quality supplier. Product very compact and runs silently.
When I bought my new Macbook I need a new portable disk drive for Time Machine backups. I thought one of the small portable SSD drives would be ideal, but the first didn’t work at all and the second took an eternity to do the initail back up and although files seemed to have been created Time Machine didnot recognise them and proceeded to start another full backup. At this point a decided to use a conventional drive. The backup was around 6 times faster with the Seagate and it has worked fie ever since.
im confused by the actual capacity of the drive. I bought this 5TB drive to increase the capacity on my PS4. On connection to the PS4 the machine recognised the capacity as a 5TB drive. After formatting to be recognised by PS the capacity went down to 4.6TB, but no problem i thought. Then after installing 999Gb of data, the spare drive capacity is now showing as 1.8TB, which means the total capacity is now being recognised as 2.9TB. I’ll install more data over the weekend and see what happens.
Some have said the drive is noisy – i haven’t found that to be the case at all.
I’ll update this review after the weekend regarding true storage capacity for this unit.
I have a selection of Seagate portable HDDs that I’ve gathered over the years. Most live in a “safe place” and contain monthly backups and archives. I got this latest one as a TimeMachine drive for my MacBook and, as far as I can tell, it’s doing the job nicely. Daily (automatic) backups seem to run, and random checks on retrieval, work. By having multiple backups I’m less concerned about reliability as it would take at least three drives to fail to have a significant impact for me (as I would then need to spend time downloading from cloud backups). Me paranoid? I’ve had to recover data for people who have lost it without having a proper backup, and it rarely goes well. I don’t consider data safe until I have backups off-site and totally air-gapped.
Seagate drives, as all drives, can fail. But, if drive failure causes a significant problem, your strategy need’s reviewing. These drives are low cost and there’s no excuse to be too frugal.
I use SDDs (Samsung T5/T7 at the moment) for working – Seagate HDDs for backup and archiving.
I have purchased a number of Seagate drives over the years and I am confident this one will be as good as the rest. However, it is noisy compared to others. This could be a function of the size of the drive and the fact that it is doing a Time Machine backup. For that reason I dropped a star from the rating. Will update after a few weeks.
Would still recommend Seagate drives which in understand have now been taken over by LaCie.
Recommended
This is the 2nd one I have bought, after my son dropped the first one and knackered it. but that is no fault of the design, I guess any brand would break as it has moving parts inside (unlike a more expensive SSD). Easy to set-up, has ample storage and is good value for money.
If using for PS4 or anything similar, I would advice getting some sticky feet to attach it to your console so it doesn’t get knocked off
I’ve tried other “reasonably priced” storage devices only to find that they are not the capacity they claim to be. This one is the 2TB it claims to be (I’ve tested it). The reasonable price is due to the fact that it’s HDD not SSD, but I have had another Seagate SSD drive for years without any reliability problems, so I don’t foresee any problems with this one.
I still don’t understand why I can purchase this Seagate expansion backup unit for less than the cost of the naked Barracuda drive inside. Any hoo, if you want to use the drive as intended, it is designated a backup drive because it comes with software pre-loaded and the drive itself has two partitions, an EFI boot partition and a standard NTFS partition for your data. The idea being that you can easily boot from this unit in the event of a PC issue. But for those of us running Home Theatre PC’s, the case is fairly easy to get into to harvest the naked drive. I have all the proper spudger/case tools, but I was not able to open the case without breaking a few case clips, but most of us don’t keep the case after harvesting anyway.
Regardless of whether you are using as intended, or harvesting for another purpose, I have been running an HTPC for twelve years and have found the Seagate Barracudas to be incredibly reliable. Even the drives running almost 24/7 have lasted for a minimum of 8 years. I have also found that Barracudas never just work one day and not the next, they seem to gently remind you that they are starting to reach end-of-life. I ripple the older drives through the house network storage unit, which runs in RAID1. You will walk down the hallway and notice one day that the array is rebuilding. That is the indication that one of the Barracudas has done all it can and it is time to order a new drive. But even then, the Seagate drives usually hang on in for another two months, giving you plenty of time to order a shiny new one from Amazon. So, as long as Seagate keep making them, I’ll keep buying them.
Really slow transfer of data, But i only got this for steam games and it works great. So if you don’t mind waiting two or three hours depending on the size of the game, then yes it’s well worth the price.
This product is great for my job as it means I can offload Terabytes of footage unto a local (enough) device when a project is complete. 10TB is great to have and for the price I am delighted. However, the Drive makes a lot of noise and vibrations. This is due to the poor build quality of the product. The hard drive is encapsulated in a cheap plastic material.
For the first few hours of using the product, I kept thinking my phones was receiving a notification to finally realise that it was the hard drive making so much noise and the disk inside moving so much that it was causing the vibration.
Apart from that… It does what it’s meant to
This review is for the “one touch” 14TB hub. I bought this drive due to my 10TB getting almost full. I’ve been using seagate drives for years with no issue. Some reviews state they don’t get the space advertised. Simple answer you do & you don’t. The “B” in the TB stands for bytes. So, if you buy a 14TB drive you will get 14000000000000 bytes, so in this sense you are getting what you pay for. In another sense 14000000000000 bytes is equal to approx 13.2 TB. Same goes with all the other sizes, this is standard with most manufacturers.
I can’t testify to the one touch function as I didn’t use it. When you first connect to a pc, click the “start here” icon. This will open your browser for the registration page. You only have to put your name and email to activate the warranty. Next it will ask you to download seagte software. I skipped this part as I didn’t want the one touch back up. I prefer manual copy or transfer, especially with large amounts of data. I got an average write speed of over 200 mb/s (approx 211 mb/s). I managed to transfer 9TB of data in better than expected time. I was so impressed that I have since bought another 14TB hub.
Just remember, this is a Hub so don’t directly connect it to another hub or you will likely only get 25 mb/s transfer rate. Connect it to its own USB port on your PC.
When it comes to storing your files and backing up your data, nothing beats the reliability and convenience of a quality external hard drive. The Seagate Portable Drive 2TB External Hard Drive is a great, cost-effective choice for users who demand a large, reliable storage solution.
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The Seagate Portable Drive also has an impressive 2TB storage capacity. This is enough to store up to 500,000 songs, 1.5 million photos, or 250 hours of HD video. It also comes with a two-year warranty, so you can be sure that your hard drive is protected from any potential issues.
In terms of performance, the Seagate Portable Drive is no slouch. It’s fast and reliable, with read and write speeds of up to 120MB/s. This makes it great for backing up large files and transferring them quickly. It also has a built-in shock absorber, which helps protect your data from being damaged by accidental drops or bumps.
The Seagate Portable Drive also comes with a variety of useful features. It supports PC, Mac, and Android devices and is Microsoft Windows and Mac compatible. It also comes with the Seagate Dashboard software, which makes it easy to back up your data, manage your files, and monitor your drive’s health.
Overall, the Seagate Portable Drive 2TB External Hard Drive is a great choice for anyone who needs a large, reliable storage solution. It’s fast, reliable, and comes with useful features like a built-in shock absorber and Seagate Dashboard software. It also looks good and is cost-effective, making it a great choice for anyone who needs a quality external hard drive.