Seagate 6TB Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
$87.49
In stock
Description
Add space, consolidate files to a single location, or free up space on your system’s internal drive with the 6TB 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 6TB 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 | 2.86 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 9 × 8.3 × 3.1 in |
| Storage Capacity | 6 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 6TB Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
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Toney Konopelski (verified owner) –
What can you say about a little black box that you plug in and let it do its thing to store all kinds of data, photos and videos. It just works. Easy to reformat for MacOS. This is number three of these for my workgroup and will not be the last.
Marjolaine Howe (verified owner) –
no frills adequate
Tia Rogahn (verified owner) –
Good one
Rowena Casper (verified owner) –
fast this
Prudence Rutherford (verified owner) –
As a owner of a production company, having multiple backups drives is a way of life. Every year I upgrade my drives to avoid a failure. This HD was the right size for the right price.
Leta Streich (verified owner) –
Unit suddenly lost power, will not restart, (NO Power) ALL our back-up GONE!! Seagate should be ashamed for producing such a poor quality product. Now to RMA it back, we have to pay out of pocket, were done with Seagates Expansion Desktop Drives. NEXT Western Digital and HGST, hopefully we have better luck. we handle these items with kid gloves and to have them abruptly fail is sad.
Ressie Yundt (verified owner) –
Good product easy set up as usual
Sierra VonRueden (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.
Reggie Quitzon (verified owner) –
Works as expected. Good value for an external hard drive.
Adolph Gulgowski (verified owner) –
And for a great price
Adolfo Roberts (verified owner) –
I have Windows XP and I purchased a PCI card with USB 3.0 ports on it to interface with the Seagate drives. Unfortunately, In the small print on a PDF I got from the Seagate web site, not in the published sales information, was the requirement that it required Windows 7 or later OS. My USB ports connected to the drives but the OS did not recognize them. I then purchased a used desktop computer with Windows 7 installed and 4 USB 3.0 ports. I then started to transfer files from my older 3 TB hard drives to one of the new 8 TB drives. I wasn’t disappointed with relatively slow transfer rates thinking that it was the USB 2 rating of the old 3 TB drives. However, I then started transferring files from one of the new 8TB drives to the other 8TB drive and the best data rate I got, with them both plugged into USB 3 ports was about 26 Mega-Bytes per second. It took over a day to transfer the 2.9 TB of data between the two new 8 TB drives. I’m not sure what the problem was but it was painfully slow. Back to the review: B&H did nothing wrong and the drives were delivered quickly in good shape and I want to be sure that the reader does not equate my issues to dissatisfaction with B&H. However, I am les than satisfied with the performance of the Seagate 8TB hard drives. I’ve been a fan of Seagate and these were the 6th and 7th USB external Seagate drives I’ve purchased for data storage on my computer(s).
Laurie Oberbrunner (verified owner) –
I don’t know why the vendors expect us to review drives when we first plug them in. How can I give a hard drive a 5 star rating until they’ve run for 4 or 5 years with no issues. So far so good, however. I use a product called Crashplan for cloud and local backup option and I recommend it. I find it works a little smoother on Macs than Carbonite, which works great on my wife’s Windows PC. I use one STEB3000100 3TB for my data, and a 2nd one as backup to the data drive. Crashplan backs up my important files to the cloud on an ongoing basis, for me that’s about 400 GB. I also have Crashplan backup all my data to the 2nd Seagate and keep them identical. Works fine. I don’t even know it’s there.
Vivianne Skiles (verified owner) –
I have used several of this model external hard drive. They have all lasted over 5 years. Transfer rates are at most 100 MB/s. usually about 50% less given it uses USB 3.0 and a slow hard drive (~5400 rpm). Great for back up.
Dolores Thiel (verified owner) –
Bought 2 of these 8TB hard drives. Easy set up but it took over 10 hours to transfer 1.4 TB of pictures.
Adolfo Harber (verified owner) –
Not the fastest drive I’ve ever owned but great for storage which is why I purchased it.
Keyshawn Fisher (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!
Matteo Quitzon (verified owner) –
I’m really disappointed with this purchase. The USB connection was not detected right out of the box.
Marjory Stracke (verified owner) –
Working as expected. Only 4 stars because nothing is absolutely perfect.
Madonna Heaney (verified owner) –
The Seagate 8TB Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive is high quality, fast and reliable. I strongly recommend it.
Zoey Hills (verified owner) –
I use them for my high-density music files such as iso;dsf;dff;flac;wav…etc., and using it directly play music files daily. Their normal speed for copying are between 90 to 150 MHz….So far so good! Reliable! B & H is the most reliable seller in the World….