Review on Seagate STEB6000403 Expansion Desktop 6TB External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 for PC & Laptop by Kenny Marozas

Summary: Pay the extra $20 and get something better. Find out why, read below. I bought this hard drive on Prime Day and thought I got a good deal. It turned out that everything was fine for the first few months, although the data transfer rate wasn't as high as I expected. I haven't used it much. I only used it as a fallback. In the best case, I've used it 10 times and transferred 2TB. Now 5 months later this hard drive is not working properly. I had corrupted data on it (I was lucky everything was at least on another hard drive) and when I asked the Seagate tool to check what's happening with the hard drive, my windows just gave me a blue screen and shut down. I've done everything you can think of to try and get the Seagate tools to work (reboot, reinstall, etc.) but it never got past the blue screen. So I contacted Seagate to return the drive and get a new one. I had no problem contacting Seagate. I had a problem when I realized I had to pay shipping. Turns out I now have to pay another $20 to ship this thing back to Seagate. Why should I pay the extra $20 if I wasn't the one who produced something that didn't work? It's not my fault, it's her fault. If you don't want to risk losing your data and don't want to pay the extra $20 when your hard drive stops working, I suggest you pay extra to get something better. For example, I have a Samsung 500GB portable external hard drive that is about 5 years old and a 1TB WD My Passaport external hard drive that is about 3 years old. I've never had any problems with them.