Seagate 12TB Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
$239.99
In stock
Description
Add space, consolidate files to a single location, or free up space on your system’s internal drive with the 12TB Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive from Seagate, which is preformatted exFAT, meaning it is compatible with Windows and Mac right out of the box. This hard drive provides a storage capacity of up to 12TB and connects to your host system using its micro-USB 3.0 interface. Copy and saving data is easy – simply drag and drop. Included is an 18″ USB 3.0 cable, an 18W power adapter, Seagate’s Rescue Data Recovery Services, and Toolkit backup software.
Please note that reformatting may be required for use with Apple’s Time Machine. Also, Rescue Data Recovery Services is not available in all countries.
Additional information
| Weight | 2.95 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 8.6 × 8.3 × 3.1 in |
| Storage Capacity | 12 TB |
| Connection Interface | 1 x USB 3.2 / USB 3.1 Gen 1 (USB Micro-B) |
| Pre-Format | exFAT |
| Internal Interface | SATA (Unspecified) |
| Type | Hard Disk Drive |
| Power Source | Included AC Adapter |
| Cooling System | Passive |
| Dimensions (L x W x H) | 7.0 x 1.6 x 4.9" / 177.8 x 40.6 x 124.5 mm |
Reviews (459)
459 reviews for Seagate 12TB Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
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Simone Kihn (verified owner) –
Installed and using it from last 2 weeks. Till date it is working fine with no problem. It is compact with amazing capacity.
Jadyn Murray (verified owner) –
it works great, and is just what I needed. Is the best price I found on the market.
Richmond Buckridge (verified owner) –
Great so far. Haven’t nearly reached full capacity yet. Works well with my other Seagate drives.
Lilian Zulauf (verified owner) –
The Seagate was easy to set up and use. Very thankful for it.
Kamille Bins (verified owner) –
I am a professional photographer. I have been buying Seagate drives to back up my clients projects. The drives work and the price is fair. What else is there to say. However, I have a story to tell. I always work with two drives at a time. One of the drives failed two weeks ago. The drive was out of warranty. Seagate had me send them the drive to check out. They replaced it with a working drive. Now that is a stand up company!
Rory Morar (verified owner) –
This is my third 8TB Expansion drive. I formatted it as a Mac Extended (Journaled) drive. It seems to be working great with the Mac. The other two drives were formatted as Windows 10 NTFS drives and have been in service for a couple of years. Absolutely no glitches yet. I have used many Seagate drives since the 1980s. I have had only two failures in all that time. One was 35 years ago and I was able to recover that drive. The other was about 15 years ago. I thought I was clever and ran a mirrored RAID array to automatically back up my data. When I got bad sectors on the primary drive, the mirrored drive copied them. If I had used an external drive for weekly backups instead I would have recovered the 25,000 RAW photos that I lost. That was a hard lesson. Even though I trust Seagate with my data every day, I still make regular backups.
Marquise Heathcote (verified owner) –
Excellent Hard Drive for the price.
Mathew Gutkowski (verified owner) –
I did not expect to buy this model, but with a great sale price I was able to get more memory than I expected.
Christa Reichert (verified owner) –
Exactly what you have read about this product : a lot of disk space for a cheap price.
Santina Ebert (verified owner) –
For the purposes for my studio this works perfectly
Leon Corkery (verified owner) –
incredible how reliable is this big hard drive for the low price it has. I have 17 hard drives full of back up of images, I am a photographer and I always rely on seagate hard drives, for years
Richard Schimmel (verified owner) –
I haven’t used it for very long but so far so good. Out of the 80 to 90 drives I’ve owned I’ve had fewer Seagate drives fail than any other brand I’ve used. Actually had one that started failing once but Seagate was able to recover my data for free and gave me a new drive. Haven’t been as lucky with Western Digital but I still buy both depending on which is cheapest. Since I have everything backed up I don’t worry about going with the cheapest. Strangely if you do the math a 14TB drive is cheaper per GB than the larger drives. It isn’t a huge difference but it doesn’t seem logical that would be true.
Chaz Grimes (verified owner) –
I have been purchasing Seagate products for probably 20 years now. It is one of the first brand names I look for when purchasing a new drive.
Caden Bayer (verified owner) –
This Seagate 18TB drive performs consistently well so I’m going to address a few of the criticisms stated here: 1. Noise is no worse than any other hard drive you may have 2. Speed It is designed for huge chunks of data and speed is not/should not be the primary consideration. If you want speed then get an Nvme SSD. It is not going to be as fast as your internal drive or an SSD but it is acceptable for what it can do. I use it with a Mac myself, but did not reformat it and left it in EX-FAT format. Yet even so the speed is not bad, and it makes it more universally usable for transfers, etc. It is primarily a backup for me; I wouldn’t use any external drive as a primary source for data. Thus I am using Nvme SSDs for speed and then backing up on this drive. It is perfect for that purpose.
Delta Lueilwitz (verified owner) –
Fast and plenty of storage, Not much more I can say. It’s a great product
Lolita Witting (verified owner) –
I got worried when I noticed the packaging only said Windows compatible, AFTER I had already opened it. lol But I just had to reformat, and all is well. Nice form factor, relatively compact for the capacity.
Macey Herzog (verified owner) –
These hard drives are awful. It is literally chance to get this thing to mount successfully. Rarely does it work on the first attempt, and sometimes it just simply won’t connect. I also purchased two others in 8TB sizes at the same time I purchased the 14TB and they have the same issues. These are some of the least dependable drives I have ever owned.
Irving Murphy (verified owner) –
Don’t try to back up anything quickly with this thing. It is slow as molasses. But it works and has a ton of storage.
Elise Fadel (verified owner) –
Mine came with a 14TB Seagate IronWolf Pro. This drive can go for over $400 on Amazon and at the $200 price I paid for this, it was a steal. Tested with CrystalDiskMark, Sequential speeds of 250MB/s read and write. Great for bulk storage of videos, games, etc. Can be shucked to use the 14TB drive as an internal hard drive, albeit voiding the warranty.
Sydney Prosacco (verified owner) –
I currently own 4 Seagate drives. The smallest is 500GB purchase at least 10 years ago from B&H. I use it for all my music files that I play every day. Been a solid drive. However I was worried that it would die and I would not have back up for that one. So purchased the 4TB. I have a similar one purchase about 5 years ago. Used on my other device. I will always buy Seagate. Easy to use, plug and play. I don’t use any of the Seagate automated functions. Just do my own backups and storage. I did have a Seagate drive crash a while back. Which was used every day almost continuous playing audio files. But that is to be expected. Plus I think it got knocked over a few times. Can’t go wrong with Seagate.