Seagate One Touch, Portable External Hard Drive, 5 TB, PC
Seagate One Touch, Portable External Hard Drive, 5 TB, PC Notebook and Mac USB 3.0, Space Grey, 1 yr MylioCreate, 4 mo Adobe Creative Cloud Photography and Two-yr Rescue Services (STKC5000404)
What’s Included
Seagate One Touch portable drive, USB 3.2 Gen 1 (USB 3.0) cable, Quick start guide, Downloadable Seagate Toolkit backup software, One-year Mylio Create plan, Four-month membership Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan
| Weight: | 268 g |
| Dimensions: | 2.09 x 8 x 11.53 cm; 268 Grams |
| Brand: | Seagate |
| Model: | STKC5000404 |
| Colour: | Space Grey |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | SEAGATE – BRANDED SOLUTIONS 2.5I |
| Dimensions: | 2.09 x 8 x 11.53 cm; 268 Grams |
I use this alongside my MacBook Pro to back up on a daily basis. My IT guy introduced me to “Carbon Copy Cloner” software which I linked this too, it’s so quick and fast to back up. Been really impressed, very lightweight and portable too.
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.
Very easy to set up. I just wanted something to back up my 60,000+ photo collection and this was perfect for it. Just plugged it in to my USB and dragged and dropped the files in. Very happy with it.
bought this to keep my iPhone topped up on a long flight and fro long days at events and it exactly what was required
Exactly what I wanted, so easy to use and set up practically instant. Brilliant item
Despite the answer to one of the questions, the 4TB version does not have a USB-C socket. Otherwise it is just fine.
I purchased this 4TB hard drive to back up both my iMac and my Windows 11 laptop. I plugged it into the iMac and it was recognised straight away. I connected it to my laptop to partition the hard drive (couldn’t do it on the iMac). This allowed me to set up 3 partitions for the various tasks I wanted to perform. I have found it to be both quiet and quick at data transfer.
I would recommend this product and if needed to I would buy another one.
The size of this drive also means I can use it for storage of photos and video, along with a document repository for all my scanned personal documents. The One Touch Hub comes in a variety of drive sizes.
It is password protected (although you can set it to recognise the main laptop / PC / Mac you are using it with (connected to via the USB lead) so that you don’t have to enter the password every time you switch it on). Obviously if you disconnect the drive or use it with another laptop / PC / Mac it will need the user set password to operate it – so it’s secure, protecting your data if stolen.
I’ve only had the drive a few weeks so can’t comment on longevity and not had to contact Tech Support , so I can’t rate that either. However I have used Seagate drives in the past and found them to be ultra reliable.
In a nutshell, if you want an easy to use back up solution for your Windows or Mac computer this is well worth considering. Set up and leave and it does the rest.
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.
Bought this to consolidate both main in use drives, though I now need an external power supply. Restored my backup to this drive and copied the other one over, and am off again.
Linear writes topped off at about 140MB/Sec, reads about the same. I edited some video from the drive, it works well for this purpose but an SSD scratch disk is always better.
For my own local backup that’s updated weekly with one touch, I plan on buying a second.
Great drive but if your buying it, make a backup :-). Buy two!
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.
It had better reviews and Google said seagate was my reliable so I decided to give this one a go. Glad the other one didn’t make it me as it made me look again for one and I love this and suits my needs to store my go pro footage. I also got an amazon hard drive case to go with it which it fits nicely into
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
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.
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.
Would still recommend Seagate drives which in understand have now been taken over by LaCie.
Recommended
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
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.
I’ve purchased number of these devices over the years and use them to archive data. I purchase a WD brand last year but what a faff to set up! WD embedded firmware made it hard to format on a Mac. I decide to try the Seagate brand and what a difference. Dead easy to set up, already formatted exFAT. You won’t be disappointed.
Delighted to have almost 4Tb of storage available in a small and portable package. Happy with it. Seems to transfer data fast enough. Can’t speak to durability as only used it a handful of times and not had it long. Pretty much worth what I paid for it.
It is simply a case of plugging it in an playing. It is as easy to transfer files to this media as to transfer them within the computer’s own memory. It is much more reliable than cheaper “solid state” media which always seem to develop memory problems. It is fairly pricey though.
As the standard amount of memory comes as standard with new laptops this is the perfect solution.
Why pay for Cloud storage with the risk of being hacked when you can have your own portable storage that is totally secure.
Easy to set up as plug and play. This can be used not only as an external drive but also for daily backups so even the stuff you have stored internally is safe.
The only negative I can give for this is that the lead could be a bit longe
It was almost too easy to do a complete restore from a failing machine to a brand new Mac Mini. The only way I could confirml that the process had started was when I felt the device humming slightly when I touched it. The upload was about 2 hours (for 60 GB) and everything switched off automatically when it was finished. I also had much of my data stored in iCloud, so I made a list of all my passwords before I started.
This is my third device of this series, a silverblue, red and now black model. None has failed on me so far, over two years of on average daily use.
I think all external hard drives are created equal really. I bought this brand because of the software which automatically backs up you main hard drive on a daily basis which it seems to do. Some times it reports that it does not have access to the files (which it does) but on the whole seems ok.
Bought two of these for media to plug into smart TVs and another to use as an external drive for my Mac Mini. I needed to do the media files on a Windows machine in NTFS but the Mac just recognised it and started using it without an issue. No problems so far and I will update this review if I get any. It is small – like a half pack of playing cards. The connection cord is a little short, if I was being picky but the price is excellent and the performace is great for my needs. No issues with playing the media and none with the Mac or Windows connections.
Bought this drive so I can store all of my photos in one place. Excellent piece of kit and does exactly what it says on the tin! Great value for money but I can’t understand why the black one was twenty quid more than the red one? Of course I bought the red one! Easy to use and now I can take my photos to relatives and bore the pants off them! Only one con, I was watching the map for my delivery and was told you are next, then I get a text to say ‘Your parcel has been delivered, it was handed to the recipient’. I went to the door and it was leaning against the door and had definitely NOT been handed to me. I’m lucky because I can, I think, trust my neighbours, but to leave a high value item outside the front door and not even ring the bell, I think is a bit lazy on the part of the driver!