Seagate Backup Plus for Mac 3TB 3.5" USB 3.0 Mac Storage - Desktop Model STCB3000900 Seagate Backup Plus for Mac 3TB 3.5" USB 3.0 Mac Storage - Desktop Model STCB3000900 Seagate Backup Plus for Mac 2TB 3.5" USB 3.0 Mac Storage - Desktop Model STCB2000900 Seagate Backup Plus for Mac 4TB USB 3.0 Mac Storage Model STCB4000102

Pros: - Good price
- Lots of storage
- *No need to reformat for Mac use*
- Includes several adaptors for travel
- Looks good - especially with MacBook Pro

Cons: - Plug takes up more than one "slot" on a power strip

Other Thoughts: Had quite the debate between this product and a similar drive with an all-alumninum enclosure. While I thought the other product looked better at the time, I went along with this one because of price. In the end, I am very happy with the purchase - it actually looks very nice sitting next to my MacBook Pro (I keep it plugged in all the time for periodic Time Machine synching).

Pros: none really

Cons: This unit is NOT as advertised.
It does NOT come with a Firewire 800 cable, and Seagate does not make one for this drive.
The product advertises that it can also be converted to Thunderbolt... but BEWARE... the adapter costs almost as much as the drive.

Other Thoughts: You should ONLY purchase this drive if you ONLY have a requirement for a USB 3.0 connection. It is totally useless for older macs with firewire ports and it is incredibly overpriced for newer macs with thunderbolt (as the adapter is insanely expensive.. in fact... newegg has even discontinued it... so you can't even get it from them)

Pros: Huge space. Got it for a great price with newegg promo. Good looking enclosure.

Cons: Until I updated the firmware, the drive had issues staying mounted during file transfer (running OS X Mountain Lion.)

Other Thoughts: Not that looks trump performance, but this is one of the best looking external drives I have owned. The black finish is smooth and ultra soft, almost feels like velvet. Wife-approved styling.

But more importantly I want to address the issue that some have reported with mounting problems under OS X. When I first plugged in the drive, it mounted and I began copying some files. Part way through the transfer, the drive unmounted and gave me an error. I tried again. Same thing. Transfer would get part way through and then unexpectedly unmount and fail.
So I downloaded a new firmware driver from Seagate, and it solved the problem completely. No more unmounting issues. The drive now works great.

The firmware update process was not super intuitive, so I want to make sure everyone knows the process (the first time I ran it, I was fooled into thinking my drive was already up to date, but it actually wasn't.)
First make sure your drive and all other external drives are disconnected.
Run the firmware updater.
The updater will tell you that no drive was detected.
Plug in your drive.
The updater will then detect your drive and give you the option to update firmware if your version is out of date.

*** When I first tried updating the firmware, I had the drive already plugged in. The updater then did not detect an eligible drive, thereby fooling me into thinking mine was already up to date.

So, run the updater, then plug in the drive.
I'm pretty tech savvy, so I'm bugged that Seagate phone support had to walk me through this, but there you have it. Their phone support was quick and helpful, by the way.

I've only had the drive a couple days, but I like it so far. I'll update down the road if any other issues come up. I considered giving it 4 eggs instead of 5, because of this issue, but since Seagate was quick and helpful, I am keeping it at 5.

Pros: ...

Cons: power block attached to the bottom of drive stopped working. detached and plugged straight to motherboard & psu and drive showed up as blank RAW drive, all data lost.

Other Thoughts: seagate has been giving me the runaround about help. keep offering data recovery services BUT: you only get a demo version of the service. if data is recoverable you have to pay $99.00 to actually TRY and recover it, no guarantees it will be usable data.

Pros: 3T duh. Who doesn't need 3000GB

Cons: My first drive was defective and I had to send it back to newegg. The second one I receive works 100% fine and does what I need it to.

Pros: large. USB 3.0. nice looking.

Cons: after a couple months of normal use:
problems being recognized at boot and after wakeup a lot of the time.
1 partition is now undetected by Windows 7 desktop or Windows 8 laptop. a 2nd partition is undetected some of the time.
speeds have started to drop from around 100MBs to around 20MBs over USB 3.0 some of the time.

Other Thoughts: the 2 partitions that Windows fails to detect are accessible through 1 wireless access hub I have if it's attached but my desktop nor my laptop can read\write when directly connected via USB cables. no options but delete for these partitions in Windows Manager.

getting very nervous about the 2TB+ of files I have stored on this thing. am now starting to slowly move them back to my internal drives and other storage devices before this thing stops working completely. will give it the benefit of the doubt and hope it's just accidental partition structure corruption and will reformat and construct after i've rescued all my files and retest over time.

Pros: It looks great...

Cons: I thoroughly reviewed this item b4 i made my purchase, so i thought! After receiving the Seagate Drive i immediately starting using it. I was able to transfer some files from my both my Mac Pro & Mac Book Pro, then out of nowhere Glitch came to life! This drive would dismount from my computers without any warning! I tried to trouble shoot the issue which lead me to believe that i had certain permissions on my Macs that needed to be corrected. After that didn't work i turned my attention to the Seagate Drive and i reformatted the drive as i was able to at that time bcoz i was in the early stages of file transferring! After reformatting i loaded this drive with about 500 gigs of data and files. These files were very important to me and by now i had a sense of confidence in the Seagate Drive. This proved to be a BIG mistake!!! Now the Seagate Glitch Drive is good for one thing, and that's reading the information that i have written to it. The files have somehow become scattered all over the Drive & some of them are no longer readable! It's almost as if i didn't designate a folder for these items to be put into. Now my disc manager kicks the drive out right away (as if i be darn if you put me through this again) however it now stays mounted with my OS much longer! But im stuck with this useless Drive until i order a relieve drive and try to salvage my information as best as possible, ugh!!! So as i read on all the different sites about people who purchased this drive i started to see a pattern in with a great number of the complaints. Yes you may have guessed it... people all over have problems with these drives un-mounting during a file transfer! When this happens it basically leaves some or all of your information in a none retrievable state! I also noticed that when transferring large blocks of data e.g. 40 gigs or better, this Drive is more likely to develop Alzheimers right in the middle of that task!!! I needed a backup drive 5 months ago so when i got this one i immediately opened up the dam and starting using it... Now i cant put the information back where it came from nor can i discard it! The Drive at this point is only useful to me as a ROM like device, there was an era code telling me that the Drives keys were displaces. Also one more note after all this happened and Disc Utility started to kick this drive out on start up, i installed a copy of OSX 10 on the drive hoping it would let me access my files through it. Now even that doesn't work! So after reading all the other post regarding mounting issues with this Drive, i have decided against purchasing this brand until this issue is resolved: rather it's an Apple issue or a Seagate issue. I have been descriptive, thorough and fair as possible despite my disappointment in this product also considering the money i have wasted. Best of wishes to anyone considering purchasing this product, i'm sure it works just fine in someone's home...

Pros: It looks good...

Cons: I thoroughly reviewed this item b4 i made my purchase, so i thought! After receiving the Seagate Drive i immediately starting using it. I was able to transfer some files from my both my Mac Pro & Mac Book Pro, then out of nowhere Glitch came to life! This drive would dismount from my computers without any warning! I tried to trouble shoot the issue which lead me to believe that i had certain permissions on my Macs that needed to be corrected. After that didn't work i turned my attention to the Seagate Drive and i reformatted the drive as i was able to at that time bcoz i was in the early stages of file transferring! After reformatting i loaded this drive with about 500 gigs of data and files. These files were very important to me and by now i had a sense of confidence in the Seagate Drive. This proved to be a BIG mistake!!! Now the Seagate Glitch Drive is good for one thing, and that's reading the information that i have written to it. The files have somehow become scattered all over the Drive & some of them are no longer readable! It's almost as if i didn't designate a folder for these items to be put into. Now my disc manager kicks the drive out right away (as if i be darn if you put me through this again) however it now stays mounted with my OS much longer! But im stuck with this useless Drive until i order a relieve drive and try to salvage my information as best as possible, ugh!!! So as i read on all the different sites about people who purchased this drive i started to see a pattern in with a great number of the complaints. Yes you may have guessed it... people all over have problems with these drives un-mounting during a file transfer! When this happens it basically leaves some or all of your information in a none retrievable state! I also noticed that when transferring large blocks of data e.g. 40 gigs or better, this Drive is more likely to develop Alzheimers right in the middle of that task!!! I needed a backup drive 5 months ago so when i got this one i immediately opened up the dam and starting using it... Now i cant put the information back where it came from nor can i discard it! The Drive at this point is only useful to me as a ROM like device, there was an era code telling me that the Drives keys were displaces. Also one more note after all this happened and Disc Utility started to kick this drive out on start up, i installed a copy of OSX 10 on the drive hoping it would let me access my files through it. Now even that doesn't work! So after reading all the other post regarding mounting issues with this Drive, i have decided against purchasing this brand until this issue is resolved: rather it's an Apple issue or a Seagate issue. I have been descriptive, thorough and fair as possible despite my disappointment in this product also considering the money i have wasted. Best of wishes to anyone considering purchasing this product, i'm sure it works just fine in someone's home...

Pros: See my previous reviews in October and November 2012. I'm really glad I got this drive. It is still working great.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I leave this connected to my computer.

Pros: Nothing has changed in regards to the pros. This external drive is SUPERB. No issues at all have presented themselves in the two months it has been in service. I am very pleased with this drive.

Cons: None other than what I originally pointed out by on 11/7/12. Hard to find any cons, though. This drive just performs. The Paragon driver is still "wonky." I am using this drive on a USB 3.0 connection on a PC 100% of the time so I simply repartitioned and reformatted as GPT and have all 3TB available.

Other Thoughts: Great drive, and Seagate has a real winner here. This is THE DRIVE TO GET if you need speed AND capacity.