Features:

  • Easily store and access 2TB of content on the go with Seagate Expansion Portable hard drive
  • This external hard drive for Windows computers makes backup a snap—just drag-and-drop!
  • To get set up, connect the portable hard drive to your Windows computer for automatic recognition—no software required
  • This USB drive provides plug-and-play simplicity with the included 18-inch USB 3.0 cable
  • Enjoy long-term peace of mind with the included one-year limited warranty
Love This Drive!

I had installed an internal hard drive that was the same brand on my laptop and it seemed not as good. But this particular external drive is a BEAST. Super fast transfer, lightweight, and very portable, it's been around the world with me and still going strong. I need another hard drive and will definitely opt for this one. Important to note (maybe) that I made my purchase in 2016 and perhaps the quality of it has changed since then (like many things being made more cheaply nowadays), but I've had luck with this almost 3 years old drive so far.

Purchased for Xbox One--No issues

I purchased this for use with my Xbox One, specifically to hold all of the huge, DLC heavy games like COD, Fallout, Skyrim, etc. Ever since I've plugged it in 9 months ago it's never given me any issues. I followed my Xbox to format it, moved the games over, and made it the primary download location for most of the games and DLC I've downloaded ever since. The content loads fast and I have no complaints. Purchased another one to use with my MacBook Pro.

Great for backup - 2TB is so 21st century

What will they think of next? I had been using a 1TB portable external hard drive to backup my laptop, but my laptop now has over 1TB of data on it. What could be better than a 2TB portable external drive. It's USB, so it's fast. It gets its power via USB, so its easy to set up and quite convenient. It comes formatted for a Windows machine, but I erased it an set it up for a Macintosh using Disk Utility. I see no reason you can't use it for LINUX, assuming you like that sort of thing. As with all disk drives, I can't say more than so far, so good. I'll probably get another 2TB drive like this one and alternate backups. That way, if one fails, I can still recover. The prices are better than ever, and they're much better than what it would take to recover from a serious data loss.

Bought for my Xbox One and don't have to worry about memory for a while lol

I got tired of having to delete and reinstall games from my 500gb Xbox One, so I looked up videos on how to expand the memory and found it was easy enough. It was seriously plug and play. I plugged it in, and at first the Xbox wouldn't detect it, so I did a full restart and voila! After installing deleted games onto the external hard drive, I was back to playing video games that I missed. Hopefully this thing doesn't go bust, but if it does, Amazon has a pretty generous 30 day return policy on this. After that if something goes wrong, I'm counting on the 1 year warranty from Seagate that I made sure to register for today.

Skeptical About 1 Star Ratings - 3 months later, still works

I purchased this AFTER reading the 1-star ratings. I just hope and pray I don't regret purchasing this. But I had a 1TB, WD My Passport Ultra that I've had for about 2 years and unfortunately, with one slight smack against the dining room table, crashed. I never realized how sensitive the WD My Passports are. So I took a chance and purchased this 2TB Seagate Expansion drive because of the price and included a case. I didn't like how I was promised a delivery date but didn't receive it until a day after, but the product itself, I am impressed with thus far. It was easy to plug it in to my laptop and begin moving files over to the external drive. Now, to prevent any mishaps as mentioned above with my previous external drive, I have it inside of the case that came with it, which is pretty thick and durable. I am happy to have a 2 TB because I work in Photoshop a lot so I am able to save the PSD files and graphics I create. I am very nervous about reaching the 3-month mark because a lot of customers who purchased this, started to have problems after the 3rd month and Seagate not honoring the warranty. So I'll be keeping a close eye and will be updating my review if I start to see issues. *UPDATE 3 months later! I am very excited to say that my external hard drive still works. I still have it in the hard shell case and everything is good so far!

Good if you use them for what they should: backup storage

I always get incensed when I read reviews of people shooting down external drives for failing. Failures will sometimes happen, even if you do not do anything wrong with your drive because nothing is 100% safe. Now many of the people giving one star are complaining that they lost data due to the failure and that is what incense me the most since these external hard drives should only be used for either backup or data transfer. Let's recap the storage options from safest to least safe: - Cloud storage. It is very safe since it is guaranteed by very large corporations that will likely have many backups. The downside is that you will have to share your data with them so it is a question of how much trust do you put in them. The other downside is that it is not a cheap option past a few gigs. - SSD drives. No moveable parts. All storage is electronic. The downsides is that their lifespan is smaller than regular drives (theoretically) and that they are more expensive per gigabyte than any platter based hard drive. The upside is their very large transfer speeds and very small sizes. - Internal Hard drives in Raid. The upside is that they are not too expensive to own these days. The downside is that because they duplicate every bit, you need two 1GB for instance to get 1GB of data. The other one is that it is more technically difficult to instal and it can only be used internally (not much transport feasibility) unless you use a NAS. - Simple internal hard drive. Because you are not likely to move your computer a lot, it is reasonably safe. - Last is the external platter Hard drive. It has moveable parts, its transfer speeds depend on the USB connection. It is much more likely to fail. So why did I buy this Seagate 4GB external hard drive then? The answer is simple: for backup of my internal hard drives and for transferring large amounts of data from one PC to another. It also allows me to backup my data in another physical location than where my desktop is operating. I had the misfortune once to have a fire in my building and I had left my backup hard drives in my apartment. I was left with nothing. So I did learn to backup my data regularly and to store the backup at a different location. Now why the Seagate over any other brand? For no real reason but the price and the fact that Seagate has proven to work well in most cases. It is running at 5400 RPM (most internal HD are running at 7200 RPM) but still provided me reading speeds in the range of 100MB/s. So, for its intended use and for what it is worth, 5 stars!

Great little hard drive!

Great hard drive! I'm ten years old. I asked for this for Christmas because the iMac I was using to download my photos and videos filled up. I asked for this one because it has the best reviews. It works great, but to get it to work with my iMac OS X El Capitan I had to reformat it. To reformat it you: Open finder - go to applications - open Utilities - open disk utility - press on the seagate drive on the left side - press the erase square at the top and name the hard drive, then press erase. Then it works with iMacs and OS X El Capitan. It is very small and has a very small USB cable because it is made to work with laptops, but it works with iMacs, too. Great little hard drive.

Great storage capacity and price!

Seagate Expansion 2TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEA2000400) - I bought the Seagate 2TB portable hard drive recently in China while I was doing educational consulting work. I needed something with a lot of storage capacity, and Seagate was a brand that I was familiar with and had used over the years n the US.When I left China, I gave the 2TB portable hard drive with all of my files and videos to the school that I had been working working with for over four months (There was still over 1TB of space remaining on the drive.) When i arrived back in the US ! immediately purchased another Seagate Expansion 2TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEA2000400) . I have been very happy with the the 2TB portable hard drive. It is compact and ideal for someone that needs lots of storage capacity when traveling for work or pleasure. Note: when traveling out of the country, be sure to pack the drive in your computer case or in your carry on luggage.

Fast, easy to use, portable, flexible...it's a brilliant drive made by a quality brand.

The rise of SSD & NAND flash and it's eventually affordability has brought the price of traditional mechanical HDD's down considerably. A few years ago 4TB in an external USB 3.0 drive was a pretty penny, this Seagate is not only great quality it's a great deal. I'm using mine with my PlayStation 4. We Sony fanboys had long been disappointed with the PS3's lack of external hard drive support and for awhile it looked like the PS4 wouldn't have it either. Thankfully Sony added it in an update a few years back so adding one to your system is pretty close to mandatory. Even if you replace the internal 1TB to a 2TB drive you can run out of real estate fast with games today being so large. A standard AAA MultiPlat can go 40-60GB easy and some titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 can hit near triple digits. With this drive and the 1TB inside my PS4 Pro I feel like I'm set for awhile. I had mine formatted and up & running receiving downloads in minutes. This is a great drive and to me is only second to the DualShock 4 controller as most important PS4 peripheral. Highly recommended.

Working as intended for PS4.

I bought the 2TB version and it does work with the PS4 (current version 4.50). At first it said it didn't support it but after I restarted my PS4 it worked. Currently works as intended. There's 1.84TB usable after formatting. It took 19 minutes to transfer 3 games (118.3 GB) over from the internal hard drive to this external hard drive. Will update if anything arises. Edit: It had been a little over two months and its still working as intended. To answer a common question: It works out of the box. Literally just plug it into your ps4 go to devices under settings then USB storage devices. It should pop up under there, select it then it will say "Format as extended storage" and select that. The support for external hard drives is absolutely great. If you have a TON of downloadable games then you can simply just have multiple external hard drives and download all you games to them. Then you can just plug in the external hard drive with the game you want and you're good to go. I highly recommend looking up how to set it up if you are still having trouble. It is very easy.

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