Review on 🔌 Seagate Expansion 3TB Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (STEA3000400) in Black by Ada Samoraj ᠌

Name: 🔌 Seagate Expansion 3TB Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (STEA3000400) in Black
Item: 🔌 Seagate Expansion 3TB Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (STEA3000400) in Black
Rating: 2

October 30, 2022

I didn't like it, I don't recommend buying.

I made a disappointing conclusion for myself: the disk is not suitable either for archives of important information (due to frequent software failures), or for processing heavy files or working with large data, and everything else starts very slowly. In my case, this disk is simply useless.

Recording technology, sort of like SMR, which apparently allows you to increase the recording density and cram 4GB into such a small case.

SMART data, via smartctl:

smartctl -d sat -i /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.5 2022-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-42022.0-38-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2022-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www. Smartmontools. Org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: ST4000LM024-2AN17V
Serial Number: XXXXXXXXX
LU WWN Device Id: X XXXxXX XxxXXxXXX
Firmware Version: 0001
User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5526 rpm
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Mon Nov 13 21:20:07 2022 MSK
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enable

Pros

It works quite fast, the upper limit of the write speed that I observed is more than 120 MiB / s. Quiet enough. Interface SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (not 3.0, 3.0 Gb/s like most of my WD My Passport and WD Elements) Honest 4 TB capacity.

Cons

The dimensions are slightly larger than the usual external 2.5" drive (the same WD My Passport, Elements), but it does not catch the eye, it does not create any inconvenience. Addendum, with a downgrade, which has to be written after a period of use in real conditions: After some time, serious shortcomings appeared. So, when writing large amounts of information or writing a certain number of heavy files, the speed drops to 1.5-3 MiB / s., In fact, the process has to be stopped. Already several times there was a problem with the partition table, which had to be restored using standard Windows tools. It seems that only for a while, the disk can work quickly, after which it "runs out of steam" and loses speed. The partition system used is NTFS.

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