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Seagate Expansion Desktop 10TB External Hard Drive HDD - USB 3.0 for PC & Laptop, 1-Year Rescue Service (STEB10000400), Black

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Digital Storage Capacity 10 TB
Hard Disk Interface Solid State
Connectivity Technology USB
Brand Seagate
Special Feature Portable
Hard Disk Form Factor 3.5 Inches
Hard Disk Description Mechanical Hard Disk
Compatible Devices Laptop, Desktop
Installation Type External Hard Drive
Color Black

About this item

  • Enjoy enormous desktop storage space for years to come for photos, movies, music, and more
  • Designed to work with Windows computers, this external USB drive makes backup, easy with a simple drag and drop. System requirement: Windows 7 or higher operating system
  • Setup is easy; Just connect the external hard drive to your Windows computer for automatic recognition no software required
  • Includes an 18 inch USB 3.0 cable and 18 watt power adapter

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Expansion Drive
Expansion Desktop

What Does a PC Crave? Extra Space.

For a laptop or desktop overflowing with files, Expansion Desktop delivers loads of add-on capacity. Take advantage of quick transfers and backups with drag-and-drop ease to help protect thousands of photos, songs, and more in one trusty place.

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Expansion Desktop, 18-inch (45.72cm) USB 3.0 cable, 18W power adapter,

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    Amazon.com Return Policy:You may return any new computer purchased from Amazon.com that is "dead on arrival," arrives in damaged condition, or is still in unopened boxes, for a full refund within 30 days of purchase. Amazon.com reserves the right to test "dead on arrival" returns and impose a customer fee equal to 15 percent of the product sales price if the customer misrepresents the condition of the product. Any returned computer that is damaged through customer misuse, is missing parts, or is in unsellable condition due to customer tampering will result in the customer being charged a higher restocking fee based on the condition of the product. Amazon.com will not accept returns of any desktop or notebook computer more than 30 days after you receive the shipment. New, used, and refurbished products purchased from Marketplace vendors are subject to the returns policy of the individual vendor.
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    Product Description

    Ideal for the home, office, or dorm, Seagate Expansion Desktop offers enormous desktop storage for photos, movies, music, and more. Backing up and transferring content is incredibly easy—just drag and drop To get set up, connect the USB hard drive to a Windows computer for automatic recognition—no software required. For Mac computers, simply reformat. Included is an 18-inch USB 3.0 cable and 18W power adapter.

    Customer reviews

    4.6 out of 5 stars
    4.6 out of 5
    3,813 global ratings

    Customers say

    Customers like the storage capacity and value of the hard drive. They mention that it provides excellent external storage at a reasonable price. They are also satisfied with ease of use, and compactness. However, some customers report issues with noise and performance, speed, and quality.

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    60 customers mention43 positive17 negative

    Customers like the capacity of the hard drive. They say it has plenty of storage space, and is excellent for the price. Some customers also mention that it provides fast file transfers and streaming of media has no lag. Overall, most are satisfied with the capacity and ease of use of the product.

    "Love the extra space. Bought this as an external hard drive for my Xbox Series X and the 10TB was just what I needed...." Read more

    "This hard drive provides excellent external storage at a reasonable price (my main reason for picking this unit)...." Read more

    "...Lost all 8TB of stored data...." Read more

    "...GOOD POINTS: PnP, Convenient size and shape, PC Found quickly, the cost and when plugged it gives you really close to the 10TB (9.10TB for me)...." Read more

    51 customers mention40 positive11 negative

    Customers like the value of the computer drive. They say it has a great price to storage ratio and is well worth it.

    "...Moral of the story? Still a great drive at better price than can be had otherwise...." Read more

    "...purely because I needed mass storage, and this was simply the cheapest per TB cost I've ever seen...." Read more

    "This hard drive provides excellent external storage at a reasonable price (my main reason for picking this unit)...." Read more

    "...in the past, but this has been a really disappointing and expensive experience...." Read more

    31 customers mention31 positive0 negative

    Customers find the external hard drive relatively easy to use. They mention that it's easy to plug in and use, and that setup was a breeze. They also say that it works well and hooks up easily to their computer.

    "...Highly recommend to anyone who needs large data storage. Easy to use with plug-and-play installation." Read more

    "I purchased the 10TB Seagate expansion desktop in March. Setup was a breeze and it didn't seem loud as some of the other reviewers have mentioned...." Read more

    "...for those of you interested in shucking the external that it's relatively easy to do, and the drive doesn't have any 'protection' against internal..." Read more

    "The drive is extremely easy to set up. It comes formatted for Windows, but reformatting to MAC OS was simple and quick...." Read more

    10 customers mention10 positive0 negative

    Customers like the compactness of the computer drive. They mention it's small, portable, and has a tidy footprint. Some say that it has a large capacity storage and is not so heavy to carry.

    "...Reasonably quiet, an unobtrusive power on light and a tidy footprint...." Read more

    "Pro: lot memory storage great for console video games, affordable, and portable.Con: seagate is deliberately mislabeled HDD...." Read more

    "Lots of storage for backing up files or storing pictures.Very portable. Easy to install and use. Reasonable weight." Read more

    "Packaging box undamaged. Small portable item. Item in perfect condition and clean...." Read more

    146 customers mention76 positive70 negative

    Customers are mixed about the performance of the hard drive. Some mention that it performs very well, while others say that it failed after hours of sustained writes and became useless. Some customers also mention that the drive is noisy and doesn't always work.

    "...Check them BEFORE you remove from enclosure! ...These do work great and very fast as just USB 3 externals btw...." Read more

    "...loud, rather slow (around 5 Gbps and 5200RPM) and just average when it comes to performance. The main reason to get this is for backup use...." Read more

    "...They were working fine and passed all my stress and benchmark testings...." Read more

    "Used for additional storage for the xbox one worked great but died without warning after about 14 months of use...." Read more

    69 customers mention43 positive26 negative

    Customers are mixed about the speed of the computer drive. Some mention that they love the speed and the MASSIVE storage capacity, while others say that it's a little slower than expected and causes slow write times.

    "...These do work great and very fast as just USB 3 externals btw. But if you're brave enough I say "Shuck it"!" Read more

    "...Drive mostly worked without issues for twelve months then began to slow down as I approached capacity...." Read more

    "...Luckily I am using it around noise so it’s mute to me.Performance is good.Not sure on reliability yet." Read more

    "This hard drive is fast! 12tb Of Space!! for less than $370!! This is a great deal!..." Read more

    19 customers mention9 positive10 negative

    Customers are mixed about the quality of the computer drive. Some mention it's a great way to back up your system onto an external drive, while others say it'll fray their nerves and is not worth the hassle.

    "...After several weeks of intermittent slow downs I got errors while copying files...." Read more

    "...This was easy to get, came in quickly and has been a life saver, or in our case memory saver." Read more

    "...It GRINDS, it CRUNCHES, it's SO distracting and honestly frays my nerves...." Read more

    "...All around this is an excellent external hard drive." Read more

    102 customers mention26 positive76 negative

    Customers are dissatisfied with the noise produced by the computer drive. They mention that it is rather noisy, extremely loud, and distracting all day long. Some say that the drive was doing a rhythmic click and giving errors.

    "...Next, yeah the drive is loud. It’s annoying. Luckily I am using it around noise so it’s mute to me.Performance is good...." Read more

    "...12tb Of Space!! for less than $370!! This is a great deal! Yes it makes noise, and that is a indicator of a hard drive failing, but I've had this..." Read more

    "...And plus its not that loud, just a bunch of low volume thud like sounds...." Read more

    "...It tends to spin up and down a lot, and it makes a lot of noise doing this. Thankfully, it just keeps going and going...." Read more

    Merry Xmas to ME! Drives inside (Review for 14TB External STEB14000402)
    5 Stars
    Merry Xmas to ME! Drives inside (Review for 14TB External STEB14000402)
    I bought 2 of these from Amazon for the purpose of shucking them & using inside my case as internal SATA drives. To my great delight the drives inside were "Seagate IronWolf Pro 14TB NAS" 7200rpm Internal Hard Drives! (See pics. I numbered my drive & blacked out identifying #s. for pics here) ...The drives were NEW and Pristine. The model externals I bought had the STEB14000402 model number, but I notice those don't seem to be available right now on Amazon since my last purchase. The 14TB external available now is: # STEB14000400. So maybe the STEB14000402 models, at least right now, may have the IronWolf Pro's in them. ...I believe this just varies at any given time though depending on what Seagate has available at the time of manufacture. But you will get I think, either these 7200rpm IronWolf Pro's OR an Exos 7200rpm drive in these externals no matter what the model # is for the 14TB external. ...It seems to be just "Luck of the draw"! In any case, shucking took 5-10 minutes and the drives do not need any special partitioning or formatting etc. once shucked and installed as bare drives. Windows 10 recognized them the same as when they were attached via USB 3.0 andthey are VERY fast! ...The NEW Ironwolf Pro's are around $200 - $250 MORE if you buy the bare drives. By shucking the externals, you will save a BUNDLE. However, as most who would attempt this know, you will VOID ANY WARRANTY on the drives. The case tabs are going to break when they are shucked/removed from the external enclosures (They are designed that way!) ...So you COULD still put it back together to use for yourself for other drives etc., but you could NOT put the original drive back in and send back to Seagate for warranty repair. They would KNOW it had been shucked is the point. But any drive failure would most likely occur after the 1st year anyway, and that's all the Externals are covered for. ...Just be sure to check your new external using "CrystalDiskInfo" and maybe "Seatools" before shucking to check for any issues or bad sectors etc. that it could have left the factory with. Check them BEFORE you remove from enclosure! ...These do work great and very fast as just USB 3 externals btw. But if you're brave enough I say "Shuck it"!
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    Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2021
    I bought 2 of these from Amazon for the purpose of shucking them & using inside my case as internal SATA drives. To my great delight the drives inside were "Seagate IronWolf Pro 14TB NAS" 7200rpm Internal Hard Drives! (See pics. I numbered my drive & blacked out identifying #s. for pics here) ...The drives were NEW and Pristine. The model externals I bought had the STEB14000402 model number, but I notice those don't seem to be available right now on Amazon since my last purchase. The 14TB external available now is: # STEB14000400. So maybe the STEB14000402 models, at least right now, may have the IronWolf Pro's in them. ...I believe this just varies at any given time though depending on what Seagate has available at the time of manufacture. But you will get I think, either these 7200rpm IronWolf Pro's OR an Exos 7200rpm drive in these externals no matter what the model # is for the 14TB external. ...It seems to be just "Luck of the draw"! In any case, shucking took 5-10 minutes and the drives do not need any special partitioning or formatting etc. once shucked and installed as bare drives. Windows 10 recognized them the same as when they were attached via USB 3.0 and
    they are VERY fast! ...The NEW Ironwolf Pro's are around $200 - $250 MORE if you buy the bare drives. By shucking the externals, you will save a BUNDLE. However, as most who would attempt this know, you will VOID ANY WARRANTY on the drives. The case tabs are going to break when they are shucked/removed from the external enclosures (They are designed that way!) ...So you COULD still put it back together to use for yourself for other drives etc., but you could NOT put the original drive back in and send back to Seagate for warranty repair. They would KNOW it had been shucked is the point. But any drive failure would most likely occur after the 1st year anyway, and that's all the Externals are covered for. ...Just be sure to check your new external using "CrystalDiskInfo" and maybe "Seatools" before shucking to check for any issues or bad sectors etc. that it could have left the factory with. Check them BEFORE you remove from enclosure! ...These do work great and very fast as just USB 3 externals btw. But if you're brave enough I say "Shuck it"!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Merry Xmas to ME! Drives inside (Review for 14TB External STEB14000402)
    Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2021
    I bought 2 of these from Amazon for the purpose of shucking them & using inside my case as internal SATA drives. To my great delight the drives inside were "Seagate IronWolf Pro 14TB NAS" 7200rpm Internal Hard Drives! (See pics. I numbered my drive & blacked out identifying #s. for pics here) ...The drives were NEW and Pristine. The model externals I bought had the STEB14000402 model number, but I notice those don't seem to be available right now on Amazon since my last purchase. The 14TB external available now is: # STEB14000400. So maybe the STEB14000402 models, at least right now, may have the IronWolf Pro's in them. ...I believe this just varies at any given time though depending on what Seagate has available at the time of manufacture. But you will get I think, either these 7200rpm IronWolf Pro's OR an Exos 7200rpm drive in these externals no matter what the model # is for the 14TB external. ...It seems to be just "Luck of the draw"! In any case, shucking took 5-10 minutes and the drives do not need any special partitioning or formatting etc. once shucked and installed as bare drives. Windows 10 recognized them the same as when they were attached via USB 3.0 and
    they are VERY fast! ...The NEW Ironwolf Pro's are around $200 - $250 MORE if you buy the bare drives. By shucking the externals, you will save a BUNDLE. However, as most who would attempt this know, you will VOID ANY WARRANTY on the drives. The case tabs are going to break when they are shucked/removed from the external enclosures (They are designed that way!) ...So you COULD still put it back together to use for yourself for other drives etc., but you could NOT put the original drive back in and send back to Seagate for warranty repair. They would KNOW it had been shucked is the point. But any drive failure would most likely occur after the 1st year anyway, and that's all the Externals are covered for. ...Just be sure to check your new external using "CrystalDiskInfo" and maybe "Seatools" before shucking to check for any issues or bad sectors etc. that it could have left the factory with. Check them BEFORE you remove from enclosure! ...These do work great and very fast as just USB 3 externals btw. But if you're brave enough I say "Shuck it"!
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    Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2021
    I’m not sure how all these people made it this far without knowing for the past 20 years the difference between advertising or base2 vs base10. Yeah it’s a shady practice but it’s been that way for 20 years and with every drive I own that isn’t a SSD.
    Due to mathematic differences, every 1GB you lose 70MB thanks to stating it in base10 for us but computers use base2.

    Next, yeah the drive is loud. It’s annoying. Luckily I am using it around noise so it’s mute to me.
    Performance is good.
    Not sure on reliability yet.
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    Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2021
    Color: BlackCapacity: 10TBStyle: Desktop HDDVerified Purchase
    Picked this up in February of 2020. Drive mostly worked without issues for twelve months then began to slow down as I approached capacity. After several weeks of intermittent slow downs I got errors while copying files. I quickly ordered a larger drive as a replacement to back up my files to. Today I checked to see what my options are with a potentially failing drive only to discover that the warranty has expired two months ago. Ask yourself if you think one year is a fair price for what you're paying. Then consider another product. Very disappointed.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2022
    This hard drive is fast! 12tb Of Space!! for less than $370!! This is a great deal! Yes it makes noise, and that is a indicator of a hard drive failing, but I've had this for 10 months now and Haven't had any issues. My only concern is how long it will last me. I hoping for at least 5 years.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2023
    Color: BlackCapacity: 10TBStyle: Desktop HDDVerified Purchase
    The #1 area that this excels is in reliability. It doesn't fail. I've owned many flavors of the Seagate external drive over the years, and they are workhorses. This one tends to be loud, rather slow (around 5 Gbps and 5200RPM) and just average when it comes to performance. The main reason to get this is for backup use. It tends to spin up and down a lot, and it makes a lot of noise doing this. Thankfully, it just keeps going and going. So it's good to have for anything that doesn't require speed.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2024
    Color: BlackCapacity: 10TBStyle: Desktop HDDVerified Purchase
    This was a great addition to us. We needed to back up our files and complete family photos from our failing computer. This was easy to get, came in quickly and has been a life saver, or in our case memory saver.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2024
    It's Seagate 12 tb got this cheap so good thing. So far it's still functioning.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2021
    Color: BlackCapacity: 16TBStyle: Desktop HDDVerified Purchase
    Have 5 of these drives now, 4 I bought early last year, and 2 I just bought to add to my server. In early 2020, if you added the X16's serial number into Seagate's online warranty checker (or add to your account), the warranty would come up as ~2-2.5 years; odd it wasn't the full 3 for the X16, but it was more than the 1 year that the Seagate Expansion drive's S/N comes up with. I chalked that up to manufacturing time between the drive being made and it going in to the Expansion.

    That isn't the case anymore. When I went back into my Seagate account to add the two I just bought, I noticed that the other 3 now showed warranties had ended in 4/2020. Same happened when I tried to add the new ones. Other I drives I had were now accurate. I removed all the drives, and re-added them with the Expansion S/N's, and all obviously still come up with their respective 1 year warranty expiration dates.

    Moral of the story? Still a great drive at better price than can be had otherwise. The shorter warranty is what it is; it sucks, but doesn't really surprise me. Just want others to be aware of it :-). However, if you intend to use the X16 without the included Expansion case, you had better hang on to that case for a year (or at least the bottom half if you have more than 1).
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    marcus vinícius
    5.0 out of 5 stars Estabilidade e confiança
    Reviewed in Brazil on January 30, 2022
    Color: BlackCapacity: 10TBStyle: Desktop HDDVerified Purchase
    Eu só acho que já deveria vir formatado para ser usado diretamente em Blue Rays, e não só em um computador. Um ponto negativo do aparelho é que ele não tem 10 TB disponíveis. São 9,09 TB efetivos. 1 TB foi "esperdiçado", então, com sistema operacional e etc.
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    Elizabeth Alvarez
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente producto
    Reviewed in Mexico on May 14, 2021
    Color: BlackCapacity: 16TBStyle: Desktop HDDVerified Purchase
    Tiene muy buena capacidad y velocidad, muy práctico, en mi caso lo uso para almacenar juegos de mi consola y ha funcionado muy bien y fue fácil de formatear, además de que no se calienta tan rápido y casi no ocupa espacio por lo que se puede colocar en espacios pequeños y su acabado hace que se vea bien.
    Steve O
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good value for the money. Works as expected
    Reviewed in Canada on August 30, 2020
    So the first thing I noted on my device was that it had no power button. Because of this I knocked off 2 stars from portability. If you are looking for an off-line/cold backup disk it is kind of a pain to have to physically unplug the drive to shut it off.

    For those of you interested in the speed of this drive I didn't run bench marks but instead decided to put it through real-world use case of backing up files.

    I took an assortment of data ranging from pictures, documents audio files, isos etc and timed the transfer from a server running ZFS with 2 mirrored pairs (4 X 4TB NAS drives). This data was approximately 245GiB. It took 31M 54s to complete

    Rough math breaks that down to approximately 7.7 GiB/minute or 127MiB/second

    Next I took media files that were all over several hundred MiB. I transferred 8.5TB in 15.3 hours.

    That is roughly 555GiB/hour or 9.25GiB/minute or 154MiB/second

    I thought this was impressive that over 15 hours the drive did not suffer any speed slow down on the big files.

    From the hardware, the case is ok, but it lacks any active cooling and the case itself feels like plastic. That means it does not do a fantastic job of dissipating the heat. As I do not plan on using this drive constantly, but rather as a drive that goes in a fireproof safe, this is acceptable.

    NOTE: the command 'blockdev --getbsz /dev/sdd' which gets the physical block sizes of the drive reported 512 bytes. I'm shocked at this as I thought most modern drives had moved to at least 4096.

    Overall this drive performs well for the price and will serve its purpose
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    anj
    5.0 out of 5 stars Archiviazione
    Reviewed in Italy on August 31, 2021
    Color: BlackCapacity: 10TBStyle: Desktop HDDVerified Purchase
    Tutto come da descrizione
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Disque Dur de très bonne qualité,avec grande capacité de stockage et longévité à l'épreuve du temps.
    Reviewed in France on February 4, 2020
    Color: BlackCapacity: 10TBStyle: Desktop HDDVerified Purchase
    J'avais acheté ce disque dur grande capacité 10 To car mon pc commencé à saturer en place, et grâce à ce disque dur externe, ça allège mon pc.
    Je le recommande à quiconque serait intéressé, le prix est cher, mais la qualité est là, et comme on dit chez moi :
    La qualité n'a pas de prix !
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Disque Dur de très bonne qualité,avec grande capacité de stockage et longévité à l'épreuve du temps.
    Reviewed in France on February 4, 2020
    J'avais acheté ce disque dur grande capacité 10 To car mon pc commencé à saturer en place, et grâce à ce disque dur externe, ça allège mon pc.
    Je le recommande à quiconque serait intéressé, le prix est cher, mais la qualité est là, et comme on dit chez moi :
    La qualité n'a pas de prix !
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