My Seagate Central 4TB has been running non-stop for 5 years. Previously had a large noisy dedicated server doing the job of this small box. Easy to run straight out of the box and very quiet. All my media able to be effortlessly streamed via inbuilt DLNA server. Great product, highly recommended.

After a host of connection issues, 2 years after purchasing this product, it abruptly stopped working. I was unable to locate the drive on the network or directly connected to computer.

Contacting Seagate Tech support was an exercise in futility (try a new cable, if that doesn't work try to reset the device, if that doesn't work try a new cable etc.) and now they want to charge me to recover my data.

I would strongly recommend to people not to purchase this product.

My Seavgate 2TB - 2 years old - died just after 2 years. Will not work on any power point or device. Lost all my files!! Will take to Tech to see if they can be retrieved but don't hold much hope!
Don't buy one. Research brands very well before buying!

Purchased in 2015 to provide a central location for backing up photos. This device has failed in the last 2 months, and can no longer be recognised on the local network or by directly connecting the device to a PC. I would recommend looking at another brand and am now waiting on a replacement from Seagate.

I was using this hard drive for about two years as my network storage. It stopped working right after the warranty period expired. I opened the drive and found out the actual internal hard disk has died after working 2 years. Waste of money. Better to buy proper external or portable drive.

Purchased this product to store and share movies around the House, from Smart TVs to Media Players etc.
While it does offer a solution, its by no means the best option out there.

A portable HDD connected to your Router works better.

Seagate product has too many proprietary limitations and clunkiness.

I bought the 2TB version over 1 year ago. It was easy to setup and use. This is where the positives end, the device is huge and takes up a lot of physical space. It suddenly stopped working and I could not connect with it wirelessly or directly. When I called up seagate they told me that I could get a new one but there is no free data recovery service. Everything I have on the drive is now lost. This is a common problem and there are plenty of people who had the same problem when they used up more than 80% storage. I should have done more research before buying it and clearly you are smarter than me. If you already have it do not store anything important on this drive.