With the Seagate name behind it, I purchased the external drive to store/archive my family photo and video files. It works great and fast. I am using it on my Microsoft Surface Laptop on the quot;hubquot; with no problem's.

TL;DR: Don't buy Seagate if your data is important! This has been a problematic drive since I bought it. The 'power saving' feature would cause it to be detected by my laptop as being disconnected when it went into this mode, which eventually lead to my laptop no longer being able to recognize it...

love the large storage capacity. great to use as a backup hard drive or to store precious photos.

Great if you want at home back up. really good value for money. Its not that quite, compared to other seagate non-powered external HD I've used. Sounds louder than my laptop fan.