Ultra Touch HDD

Easy to install. Quiet and tiny. Faster and more portable than the drive it replaced. Love the little icon. Good quality overall. I'd buy it again.

The USB C connector is a great benefit of the Seagate Ultra Touch HDD 5TB. Most portable drives like this use a USB Micro B connector on the drive. The USB Micro B connector has a long history of early failures due to a design which is not very strong and a wide profile that allows the user to apply a force with leverage that over time breaks wires in the connector. For some reason, typical reviewers of portable HDDs focus on cost only and ignore this problem with USB Micro B connectors. For Windows users, save yourself some future trouble and format as NTFS. The NTFS format allows some file types that the default exFAT format cannot handle. When you back up a large collection of files, there is a good chance that there are one or more files that exFAT does not handle.

This hard drive is amazing. The usb c to usb c feature is also very cool. It allows for much faster transfers and is super convenient. Runs almost silently. Has a small form factor. Functions as advertised.

Good capacity hard drive that is standing up to what I put it through. It did take a while to be recognized on my laptop but I am using a laptop that’s from 2011 and connecting with an adapter (this only connects with USB C out of the box). Seems fast… I’ll try it with a newer computer and see if it connects faster

While I have a desktop, I have and use 2 laptops, on for work and the other for personal use. I use this drive for Time Machine backups and archiving my downloads folders. I always set up my external drives for us on a Mac. That process is quick! Now, this drive isn't speedy if you are transferring terabytes of data to it? But when doing off loading and Time Machine backups, this drive does the job! If I fill this drive up before the end of the year? I will purchase another, organize the files by month and year. Portability is great, as long as you purchase a hard case for this product! I have MVME SSD drives I use for traveling with.

Excellent

I received the drive and it continually threw up file errors regardless of the computer or cable I used. Called tech support who confirmed it was defective. Was told they would ship one in7-10 days, and then I would ship the bad one back. No one said shipping would be at my expense. Called 15 days later about not receiving the replacement. Was first told, 'Well RMA was only created 2 days ago, you need to give us time.' I provided proof of the original conversation that it had been OVER 15 days. Then they switched tack, and told me I had to ship it to them, first, on my own dime (contradicting their 1st set of instructions) before they'd send out a replacement. At this point, I realized I could just ship it back to Amazon FOR FREE and take the credit and buy a drive from a different manufacturer. Of course, I could have shipped it back to Amazon for free, and asked for a replacement as well (but they had pissed me off by this point). So, in the future, why bother to even use technical support for a defective product when I can get it more easily replaced through Amazon itself? Charging clients to ship back a defective product should be illegal. If it is defective, return shipping should be on Seagate's dime, not mine.

Excelente producto

Unfortunately, after copying some footage, one of the two hard drives I purchased stopped working. At first, it showed errors and began turning off unexpectedly during the copying process. Now it doesn’t work at all. I would love to return it for a refund or replacement, but I’m unable to do so because it contains client footage that I can’t share or risk exposing. I was aware of the risks from some of the one-star reviews, but unfortunately, I haven’t been lucky and ended up having a bad experience myself. I really wish quality control were more reliable to avoid failures like this. The product concept and the idea of recycling materials are great in theory. Sadly, I can’t support it based on my experience and will have to stick with a different brand I’ve trusted for years.

Points positifs : Silencieux, Esthétique, Matériau de qualité, Très bon rapport qualité/prix. Points négatifs : Rien à signaler.

Looks and Feels premium, got it in sale, good for backing up memories. The space available is 3.6 TB. I was going for SSD but somehow was saved as SSDs are not meant for long term storage, if not powered for long time like a year or so, can wipe out/erased data. HDDs are best for long term storage. Also a lot cheaper. Went with this Seagate variant as I wanted type-c cable, is more convenient for my windows and mac laptop. This variant is made up of recyclable stuff, hence is bit highly priced. You can go with One touch or Expansion variants as well, they are bit cheaper. One more reason to go with this was because most of the latest reviews about the One touch or Expansion drives were pretty negative, and there is no replacement/return from Amazon. You have to run to service center, that too they may give you a refurbished one as described in one of the reviews. I went with Seagate because I had another seagate 2 TB HDD which I bought in 2015, around 10 years have passed still working as new. So trust this brand. The write speeds when I was copying from 1 HDD to another was around 70-75 MBPS on an average while copying from Laptop was about 120-130 MBPS, so works for me. No need for any faster speeds. This one works with Mac and windows, comes with ExFAT file system. This one is bit thicker and is bit heavy. Need to be careful with it. 0.9 inch thick, hence finding a case for it would be tricky. Just a tip, the case you buy for this should be at least 4 cm think otherwise the drive and the connecting cable will press against each other. I bought a new Aircase for this, it somehow got closed but the wire was pressing against the drive, thankfully my previous case for old 2TB HDD was thick enough, so kept the new drive in it, and the old one in new case. A seagate application is available to install, once you follow the instructions provided in the PDFs already saved in drive. The app detects and provides various functionalities to do with the drive, like locking etc. Also helps in ejecting the drive safely. Nice interface. The wire provided is USB 3.2 Type C cable, good quality, thick. One issue which I've encountered with this external hard disk is that during a data transfer of about 250 GB from my old drive to the new one, I noticed strong internal movement when I touched the drive, which felt unusual and bit concerning. All in all happy with the purchase, hope this works long enough like it's predecessor which I have.

Creo que le fata un poco de más velocidad, ya intentado con diferentes cables.

Son 5 TB, viene formateado en ExFAT pero se puede cambiar a APFS o lo que necesites. No da problemas, no se desconecta "de repente", todo normal. El cable es USB-C. Un poco feo para el diseño de lo que es el disco, porque es blanco y de plástico un poco cutre mientras que el diseño de la unidad en sí es precioso en material y colores. De velocidad va bien, y en general perfecto aunque está un poco por encima (~20%) del precio de otros discos similares. Seguramente si necesito más, repita compra.