Seagate Expansion 3TB USB 3.0 Black Desktop Hard Drive STBV3000100 Seagate Expansion STBV1000100 1TB Desktop Hard Drive Black Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 3.0 Black Desktop Hard Drive STBV2000100 Seagate Expansion 3TB USB 3.0 Black Desktop Hard Drive STBV3000100 Seagate 4TB Black External Hard Drive STBV4000100

Pros: This unit is simple. Just plug it in! No problems! Just flat out works! Love it....

Cons: Price could be lower.

Other Thoughts: Saves data like poring water into the bucket. Need 5 more! Too much water!

Pros: Well its good and its fast..

I dropped it hard on the floor and it still works.. Although, there is a light noise with it.. I am probably going to pick another up just in case..

Cons: none

Pros: silent
3TB
usefull
usb3

Cons: my games who were install on it are all gone , all my thing are gone for nothing ...it erase all my stuff like my music i have 7gb of music and one day after i put all of them in the hdd it were all gone no more file ! this is not a good HDD waste of cash for sure , i have a 3tb barracuda and this one is perfect but this one is really BAAADDDDDD !

Pros: - Low Cost
- Quiet
- Runs Cool
- Large Capacity

Cons: - USB 3.0 Cable could be Longer.

Other Thoughts: I have several of these Seagate Expansion HDD's in 2TB, 3TB, and 4TB sizes. If you get them from Newegg on sale, the price is the same as buying the bare drive on sale. You get the enclosure and power supply for free. It is hard to beat that.

The drives run quiet and reasonably cool. I mount them on the side so there is maximum surface area for radiative and convective cooling. Since there are no fans, the noise level from these drives is very low, almost silent. I have these running as a replaceable backup storage on a server to provide me with switchable backups that can be moved off-site. As such, the drives run 24/7. So far, I have had no failures.

Measured power consumption is 4-5 watts at idle and 11-12 watts under 100% load. This is as low as any drive I have measured.

The 3TB drives are very fast. I measured maximum instantaneous transfer speeds of as high as 300MB/sec with average transfer speeds of 180MB/sec for a 8Gb file transferring over a USB 3.0 port. This was 15% faster than the 2Tb version of this drive and at least 25% faster than the 4TB version which spins at 5900 rpm. All the Seagate drives are faster than WD Red HDD's. The HDD used in the Seagate Expansion Drive is the fastest HDD I have measured to date (I have not tested any 10,000rpm HDD's).

I cannot speak to long term reliability for these drives other than to state that I own many WD, Seagate, Hitachi, and Toshiba HDD's. So far, I have not had a failure.

Because of the Low cost (I got some on sale for $109 with free shipping), low noise, and high data transfer speeds, I would highly recommend this drive. If they last as long as my other HDD's, I will be very satisfied.

Pros: worked just like it should have

Cons: after 7 months the USB case started to be have problems. It was working great as a backup then it disconnects itself randomly. Sometimes it works for an hour or two and sometimes for only 15 minutes. All you have to do is unplug it and plug it back in and it starts working again. The drive works fine but I think the case is the problem.

Pros: It showed up undamaged and packaged well, it worked right out of the box no problems

Cons: none at this time.

Other Thoughts: Moved 222Gb 1,318 items from desktop to ExHdd in about 45 minuets.

Pros: easily connects to my cyberpower PC with windows 8 pro OS.
fast read and write.

Cons: wont make breakfast

Other Thoughts: installed ps3 media server on my PC connected to a wired LAN. i could read my video and audio collection from the hard drive connected to my PC to my yamaha rx-a1000 and LG blu ray network player.
3 tb would allow me to save 10 to 15gb MKV files without worrying about space.

Pros: Fast shipping

Cons: Have 2 other Seagate drives both 1 tb work fine. Tried the drive on two different machines, edited dos settings ect.. drive is dead as a door nail.

Pros: Very Fast

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Very easy to hook up and extremely fast

Pros: Not many.

Cons: drive is a bit large and heavy for a portable. Had drive not quite 2 months now and it has already failed. Trying to contact Seagate for a replacement and it doesn't recognize the serial number/part number that are printed on the device.

Other Thoughts: I've been working with PC's now for 26 years and I have actually never had a drive fail so soon after purchase. Yes drives fail. Yes, I have backups of my backups of my backups. For a device to fail this quickly is ridiculous.

After failure I am trying to get a replacement from Seagate, and when I go to their website and start a return, it says that it can't find any warranty information based on my serial number/ model number.

I bought this because it was a Seagate product, and this has really spoiled my view of their products.