Seagate 18TB Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
$439.99
In stock
Description
Add space, consolidate files to a single location, or free up space on your system’s internal drive with the 18TB 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 18TB 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 | 2.9 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 15.5 × 9.3 × 8.6 in |
| Storage Capacity | 18 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 (451)
451 reviews for Seagate 18TB Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
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Xzavier Crona (verified owner) –
Works well on both OSX and Windows, no Linux tests yet. USB 3.0 speeds aren’t my favorite, but they definitely can get the job done. Have an army of these things for backup footage and art assets for projects. Wouldn’t recommend editing anything from these, they are just good for storage. No heat issues, all of mine are really quiet so unsure of the noise issues for others.
Sharon Zulauf (verified owner) –
I knew what I wanted, but didn’t know where to get it, but felt the pricing was fair @ B&H Photo. Ordering was easy and it came earlier than expected, in good packaging and in good shape. I will use them again.
Freda Homenick (verified owner) –
Great size, easy use, great price, I love it
Nona Bednar (verified owner) –
Bought two of these as part of a migration from Mac to PC for photo and video work. I haven’t noticed a noise issue as some have mentioned, no noisier than the computer fans. Best speeds so far have been between 100-110 MB/s. We’ll see how they do over time.
Arnulfo Kuhlman (verified owner) –
I use this as a media library in my living room, so it’s only gotten light use over the past 3 months, but I have no issues with it.
Dimitri Brekke (verified owner) –
This is a tremendous product, while not super fast, and slight noise when under extreme load – it is 8 Terabytes and wonderful price and performance for what it is.
Lacy Marquardt (verified owner) –
The drive constantly disconnects and usually fails to reconnect. The drive’s internal USB circuit keeps crashing, pulling down the USB bus on my PC and disconnecting not only the drive but my mouse and keyboard as well. I replaced this drive with a Toshiba and my problems went away. I’ll never buy another Seagate drive … it’s not worth risking my photos and other data.
Carol Watsica (verified owner) –
It’s a disk, it stores things, and it just works.
Leila Vandervort (verified owner) –
At my office we have a dozen of these, for shuttling video files around, back-up, and on site data management. Always trouble free.
Winifred Mann (verified owner) –
1) no power on/off switch. 2) disk keeps spinning at most time even not in use. 3) not a quiet disk during sliming. 4) only mount vertical on desk (cannot reposition rubber feet) 5) noisy Fisk.
Rico Leffler (verified owner) –
This drive is being used as a backup drive for a Mac Pro and has USB 3.0/2.0 connection only. The performance seems to be in line with a 5400 rmp drive, and very quite. Warranty only being one year is of a concern, so I wouldn’t really on this as a single backup solution, but rather as a fall-back drive.
Esperanza McLaughlin (verified owner) –
Ideal for backup drive.
Sydney Brown (verified owner) –
Good one
Vince Dickens (verified owner) –
Using it for back-up storage.
Elian Zemlak (verified owner) –
This new style update for the Seagate Expansion type drives has better airflow than the WD Elements drives. In fact you can see the actual hard drive inside. It is also a little quieter than WD Elements although the amount of vibration is the same. There is a small white LED dot at the top back of the drive. So if you have this on a shelf you may not notice the blinking light. The power brick is about same size as the WD (narrower than a soda can), although I have had WD drives with the P shaped bricks as well as the more convenient sideways bricks. But the Seagate is the P shape. They also give you every power adapter under the sun. You can take this drive literally anywhere in the world and plug it in and it will work. Not my concern but good to know if you travel with your 3.5 drives… Speedwise, I would say this drive is faster than WD Elements, at the beginning of the drive. I was getting 112MB/s over a Gigabit Ethernet connection on this drive initially. As the drive fills up I expect that speed to fall. When copying large videos from a NVME drive, this drive maxed out at 182MB/s.
Jamie Bode (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.
Alvena Heaney (verified owner) –
Our new Macbook Pro doesn’t have enough storage for doing Photoshop/Lightroom so we got a 16 TB 2big Dock Thunderbolt 3 to act as the main drive for the system. The Seagate expansion drive has been the perfect complement to this setup since it allows us to do simple local backups of our main drive. So far it has proven simple and reliable. We have always had good experiences with Seagate. Highly recommended.
Ahmed Schmeler (verified owner) –
I love this and use it to upload my pictures to and then upload to y Smugmug page.. It works out great.. I love the size of it
Moriah Abernathy (verified owner) –
Well my WD Book External drive glitched on my the other day. It was one of my back up external drives. I let my fingers do the shopping and B&H had what I was looking for. Right price, 8TB is good for me. Just got this today. Hooked it up, formatted for my mac and it is sitting pretty on my home desk. It is not noisy, and like my other external drives, I will only power it up when using it. It is not a big deal for me to eject the unit and pull the power plug. For those who had a rough time reformatting this for a mac, go to you tube and find Javier Mercedes, How to format an External Hard Drive for Mac. He explains in detail what to do. Very easy-just go to Utility disk–follow his lead. thanks B&H for the swift delivery!
Megane Little (verified owner) –
This is exactly as stated its an 8 TB External USB 3.0 drive. It is very functional and fast. Plenty of storage for almost every user. bhphotovideo.com is where I purchased mine it was excellent for the price. This is not a paid review. ( I wish I was paid to review items like this 😉 ). If you need extra space this is the drive you need. If you fall into the 1% of users that need mountains of storage space this is a great addition for the cost. Adding this drive into my collection I now have 12 TB of storage space. The 8 TB are great for storing all of your HD videos or pictures or anything else you want to keep, also works as a computer backup option. Ive only had it a few weeks so I dont know how it holds up over time yet, but if its like my 5 TB Seagate Expantion its been running solid for almost 2 years with daily constant use.