Seagate One Touch Hub 16TB Desktop External HDD - Black

I usually buy Lacie and thinking that Seagate is essentially the parent of Lacie, I picked one of these up.
It's truly awful, it regularly unmounts, constantly drops out and takes forever to remount. I have watch glaciers drift across frozen lakes faster than this thing processes data.
It sounds like a plane about to take flight if you so much as think about moving a file onto it.

I'm very disappointed with this purchase. Never again I usually buy Lacie and thinking that Seagate is essentially the parent of Lacie, I picked one of these up.
It's truly awful, it regularly unmounts, constantly drops out and takes forever to remount. I have watch glaciers drift across frozen lakes faster than this thing processes data.
It sounds like a plane about to take flight if you so much as think about moving a file onto it.

I'm very disappointed with this purchase. Never again

Very noisy, vibrates the desk when being written to. And slow. I needed to transfer several TBs of data from smaller drives to this one in my home office. Started copying 2TB from a Seagate USB 3.0 3TB drive (through an iMac), mostly large video files and resources, in early evening. Said it would take 6 hours! Went to bed later that night and, even after shutting the doors, could still hear it clattering away! I have 7 existing desktop drives varying from 500GB to 3TB and none of them are this noisy. I have 2 LaCie 6TB drives at work and they're silent by comparison. The front USB-A port won't power a portable drive either, so there goes the...view more Very noisy, vibrates the desk when being written to. And slow. I needed to transfer several TBs of data from smaller drives to this one in my home office. Started copying 2TB from a Seagate USB 3.0 3TB drive (through an iMac), mostly large video files and resources, in early evening. Said it would take 6 hours! Went to bed later that night and, even after shutting the doors, could still hear it clattering away! I have 7 existing desktop drives varying from 500GB to 3TB and none of them are this noisy. I have 2 LaCie 6TB drives at work and they're silent by comparison. The front USB-A port won't power a portable drive either, so there goes the idea of transferring directly from the portable drives.

Does what it says on the box. A good looking unit, only marginally larger than the old 10TB hub version I had. Has a fairly open top design which seems good for heat dissipation. Noise and vibration is a complete non-issue. I was slightly worried about this given one of the other reviews here. I put it on a thin foam rubber pad (although that's probably not needed) and have it under my desk and really don't hear it at all. I'd definitely recommend it. I'd have brought the 18TB version but that seemed a bit steep in price to me. Does what it says on the box. A good looking unit, only marginally larger than the old 10TB hub version I had. Has a fairly open top design which seems good for heat dissipation. Noise and vibration is a complete non-issue. I was slightly worried about this given one of the other reviews here. I put it on a thin foam rubber pad (although that's probably not needed) and have it under my desk and really don't hear it at all. I'd definitely recommend it. I'd have brought the 18TB version but that seemed a bit steep in price to me.

Capacity advertised as 16TB but only 14.5TB is available accoding to file explorer. Is this normal for these drives?
Good speed. Ideal for my large library of high resolution raw photograph files. Capacity advertised as 16TB but only 14.5TB is available accoding to file explorer. Is this normal for these drives?
Good speed. Ideal for my large library of high resolution raw photograph files.

Yes, this is normal due to the different units of measurements used by manufacturers and the operating system. Yes, this is normal due to the different units of measurements used by manufacturers and the operating system.

PB Tech 17/05/24