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Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 3.0 3.5" Desktop External Hard Drive STBV2000100
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In stock.
Ships from United States.
Most customers receive within 7-9 days.
- Drag and drop file saving right out of the box
- Fast data transfer with USB 3.0 connectivity
- 1 year manufacturer warranty
Overview
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The Seagate® Expansion™ External hard drive by Seagate offers an easy-to-use solution when you need to instantly add data storage to your computer.
- Drag and drop file saving right out of the box
- Fast data transfer with USB 3.0 connectivity




The Easy-to-Use Storage Solution
The Expansion external hard drive installs easily by plugging in two cords. You can start saving your digital files to this hard drive within seconds of removing it from the box.
Instantly Adds Storage Capacity
Digital photos, video and music files can tax your computer's storage, causing performance to decline as its internal hard drive fills to capacity.

- 1Photos based on a 10-Megapixel camera producing images 5MB in size
- 2Songs based on average length of 4 minutes, 4MB size
- 3HD video based on 720p or 1080i video
- 4Blu-ray HD Movie was calculated at 16.2GB per hour recording rate

Installs in Seconds
Seagate® Expansion® external hard drive features like these make it easy to start using this drive within seconds of removing it from the box:
- Simply plug in the included power supply and USB cable
- The hard drive is automatically recognized by Windows operating system—no software to install and nothing to configure
- Drag and drop to save files to the Expansion external hard drive
- Built-in power management automatically ensures energy-efficient operation

What's in the Box
- Expansion External Hard Drive
- USB 3.0 Cable or USB 2.0 Cable
- Power Adapter
- Quick Start Guide
- 1-Year Limited Warranty
Warranty & Returns
Warranty, Returns, And Additional Information
Return Policies
- Return for refund within: 30 days
- Return for replacement within: 90 days
- This item is covered by PC'Living Return Policy
Manufacturer Contact Info
- Manufacturer Product Page
- Manufacturer Website
- Support Phone: 1-800-SEAGATE
- Support Website
- View other products from Seagate
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Pros: This is a great, small, quiet, relatively energy efficient, well constructed external hard drive at a reasonable price from one of my favorite manufacturers. On USB 2.0, it works as well as any other portable hard drive. On USB 3.0, it is almost as fast as the same drive plugged directly into the motherboard. The drive, a Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT166, is essentially identical to one I have used before inside standard desktop cases, with no customer complaints. This unit works on USB 2.0, as well. Backing up my old Windows XP system took 13 hours on USB 2.0, but only eight on USB 3.0, so the faster interface is worth getting if you don’t have it already. If you want a reasonably cheap, simple way to have your computer in one place, and your data in another, this drive is a great way to do it. Put it in a secure, fireproof place, and you won’t go wrong.
Cons: One must use the included USB 3.0 cable, and a USB 3.0 port for maximum speed, but this is not a con because these are required for any true USB 3.0 device. This cable is a bit hard to find now, if you lose it, but I suspect that this will change as USB 3.0 gets more common. I suppose I would have liked the activity light on the front of the case rather than on the top rear, but this is also not really a con unless one wants to stack several of these, or use them in odd positions, which might make this enclosure get too hot. The case is clearly designed to work only in one position, but again, I don’t think this is a large drawback. I would not suggest using this enclosure on carpet, but this is common sense for many devices. This drive does not power down by itself when not being used, but I don’t think any USB drive does this, so this also is not really a con. An on-off switch would have been really great, but if one wants to save power, one can naturally unplug the unit. I do this anyway for anything I am not using, so this is not a huge drawback either. Windows 7 Backup, WHICH IS EXTREMELY SHAKY AT BEST, will cheerfully backup to this drive, but can’t restore from it, possibly due to a physical versus logical sector size problem, although I have no way of actually verifying this. This appears to happen on a number of newer high capacity drives and is NOT really a fault of Seagate. This is not an issue that Seagate is familiar with, probably because very few people actually use Windows 7 Backup. You must use third party software, as in XP, to backup and restore Windows 7 successfully from this drive. Seagate’s free "Disk Wizard" will actually backup to and restore from this drive, and if you mount the image it creates, will allow you to browse for files and restore individual ones, but not without some inconvenience. So you might still want to use or purchase another program for your backup needs. This issue is a gentle reminder to completely TEST a backup and restore solution before actually NEEDING it. If the drive had come with really great backup software, I would have given it the full five eggs.
Overall Review: It is hard not to like this drive. It has none of the drawbacks of a couple of my other portable drives. It has no noisy fan, no cheap, disintegrating case parts, and no second rate components of any kind. It also does NOT come from an anonymous vendor with no support. It even uses a modern 12 volt DC switch-mode power supply, which could conceivably be replaced with something else locally available. The instruction pamphlet shows a version with various inserts for worldwide plugs. This unit is the USA version without this feature, although the supply itself will run on any voltage from 100 to 240 VAC. So you would just need simple adaptors to use it while globetrotting. I won’t bore you with my benchmarking results, because these are about the same as ones available all over the place for similar drives, as the USB 3.0 interface really does not cramp its style.