Name: Seagate Expansion 5TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive
Brand: Seagate
SKU: SESTKM500040
Price: 129.99 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4.7 (80 reviews)

Seagate Expansion 5TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive

Seagate Expansion Drive

Seagate

Adorama

Computers

Drives, SSD & Storage

External Portable Drives

Seagate External Portable Drives

Seagate Expansion Drive 

Top Rated Gear: Seagate Expansion 5TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive Color: Black, Drive Features: Battery Power, Operating System: No Operating System

While compact in design, the Seagate Expansion 5TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive delivers a powerful punch in terms of storage capacity and performance. This high-performance, portable hard drive is your ideal companion for on-the-go data storage and transfer. It offers an expansive 5TB storage space, allowing you to instantly augment the storage capacity of your PC or Mac, and effortlessly carry large files, be it high-resolution photos, videos, or extensive databases, wherever you travel.The setup process is as straightforward as it gets. With a single USB cable, you can connect the drive to your device and be ready to go in no time. The drive draws power directly from the USB cable, eliminating the need for an external power supply and making it even more convenient for travel.The Seagate Expansion Portable Drive is designed to work seamlessly with both Windows and Mac operating systems. It is automatically recognized by your device, eliminating the need for any additional software installation or configuration. This feature ensures a hassle-free, plug-and-play experience.Transferring files to the drive is a breeze with the intuitive drag-and-drop functionality. The drive is equipped with a USB 3.0 interface, ensuring fast data transfer speeds when connected to a USB 3.0 port. This means you can quickly move large files or perform backups in less time.In addition to its robust performance and spacious storage, the Seagate Expansion 5TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive also comes with Rescue Data Recovery Services. This provides an extra layer of protection for your valuable data, giving you peace of mind as you store and transport your files. With its durable build, reliable performance, and the backing of a trusted brand like Seagate, this portable external hard drive is a solid choice for all your data storage needs.

The product came as described. The product was delivered within 1-2 business days after placing the order.

Extremely Pleased with Services

Easy to use, working great so far. Love the compact size.

Good value

If you're looking for storage for your files, this device is easy to setup and use. It was up and running within minutes of opening the box. Highly recommended.

Seagate Expansion Portable Hard Drive

I purchased this to use as a Time Machine for my MacBook Pro. Delivery was quick and seamless, formatting was easy, and it has been working just fine. Also, I really like the physical feel of the drive?nice bonus! And finally, Adorama has great prices!

This is the one

It works as expected. Seagate never disappoints.

Seagate is Reliable

Great product

This is an awesome product. I use it to free up space on my computer.

Excellent product. I need it to backup all my photos. I feel it is safe and secure. Would recommend it and I would buy it again.

Excellent product

Excellent product, at a great price. Plug and play basically to set up. Works great, no bottlenecking when transferring data from the SSD. Which blows my mind, considering it's a 5400 RPM HD. Well worth the money.

Well worth it.

I am quite impressed by my new external archive drive. Plugged in to a SATA USB3.0 port on my Lenovo, it's pretty snappy, even after moving about a terabyte of archived data from my old Canvio drive.

One of the best purchases of 2021 so far!

Bought it more than two months ago. Complete waste of money.

Poor quality

Looks good

At first when I bought this, I felt like it would fulfill a need based on the space that it provided. However, at not even a year old, I find this HD continually either needing repaired or running into crashing issues when I open it to either access the photos or add to them. I dug deeper and read some reviews on it to find this is a frequent problem with this model. 

Not sure if I’d buy a replacement of this brand at this point.

I ordered the wrong drive.  Have since received one for a Mac, and love it so far.

Using it for backup.  It is doing a good job.

Hard drive

Exactly what I wanted, easily formatted for my MacBook, works flawlessly.

Excellent external backup drive

Great item! Received very quickly! Operates as expected.

Seagate 2TB Hard Drive

It works.  I have used it to move files from a machine running Windows XP over to one running Windows 10 with no problem.   The packaging for shipping was just a padded envelope, which apparently proved adequate with the manufacturer's packaging.  (Which was a bit of a concern as I used to ship remanufactured alloy wheels, and we packed those to survive a 4 foot drop onto concrete, which was adequate for the extreme drops in the sorting and handling equipment of UPS and the Postal Service. )

It works as advertised

This drive works really well. I recommend it to anyone.

Perfect backup drive

Great

This was absolutely perfect.  I do some video editing at home and I needed an easy way to store the files and then transport them to the office.  Since some of the work I do is proprietary, I didn't want to rely on a cloud.  This fit the bill completely.

Makes life easier!

Works great.  I should have bought the bigger one.  Size and weight are good for travel.

Goof for travel backup

This is an upgrade from my 10 year old WB so I think technology wise anything is an upgrade.
It’s lightning fast in comparison about the same physical size and weight is a little lighter.
 Instructions are not very good and I would suggest a YouTube search if you want to use the seagate preloaded software.
 All an all I’m pleased with my purchase and would consider this company in the future

Seagate hard drive

Enjoying the Seagate 2TB hard drive

Works as expected on my Ubuntu 18.04 desktop

Works well

It does exactly what I wanted,  It gives me a lot more storage at a very reasonable price, it was very easy to install, it doesn't take a lot of space physically and it kept me from having to buy a new computer.

External hard drive solved my problem.

This is the third drive I have purchased, good value for the amount of storage.

Solid Value

Works great but comes formatted for windows!!  It needs to be reformatted to work on Apple products. Videos are found on YouTube and it’s an easy enough process. 

I almost sent it back until I did some research.

It can be formatted to work with Apple

Looks like the picture.  Mounted thru the USB-3.0 port and was recognized instantly.  Seagate is my go-to brand for storage and has been for 20 years.

Loaded Up Instantly

I needed a external hard drive for use with a note book that only has a 32gb flash type drive in it if I am understanding the storage it has. I only use this computer for surfing the net, word processing and my photography. Works perfectly for this. It small and doesn't take up much stowage room. Seagate make very reliable drives so I would recommend this dive.

Seagate Expansion 5TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive

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