Amazon.com: Seagate One Touch Hub 20TB External Hard Drive Desktop HDD – USB-C and USB 3.0 port, for Computer Workstation PC Laptop Mac (STLC20000400) : Electronics

There is no ON/OFF switch !!!!! Every time you want to turn it off, you have to yank its electrical cord from the wall ! Come on Seagate, for $500 buck, you could install at least a simple switch. Or are we asking for too much ? Don't get it.... Duh !

Does it work? Yes. Does it work well? Not really. Or rather, it seems to struggle a lot, and I mean a lot, when it's handling large amounts of data. I have 11.3TB on it, which means there's still several terabytes worth of free space, but it lags a lot. It seems to me that it defaults to a sort of "sleeping" state when not in use, and whenever you want to put any data on it or interact with it in any way, it needs to first "wake up" before it can do anything, causing it to lag for 10-20 seconds during this start up process and make all kinds of rather concerning grinding noises while doing so. Once it is "awake" though, it operates as normal. It's difficult to tell how long it stays "awake", but if you don't interact with it for a certain period of time, it goes back to "sleep," meaning you have to repeat the long lag time basically every time you try to use the drive. I don't recall it doing this when I only had a few terabytes of data stored on it, so I believe the drive gets slower as you add more data, but if it's this annoying to operate at only 60% of its capacity, I can't imagine how miserable it would be to try to use closer to maximum capacity.

My only real complaint is that this stores 18.1 terrabytes of data, and the industry allows companies to "round up" to 20 Tb for marketing purposes. I have 2 of these, I could have gotten by with only 1 if they really held 20 Tb.

Was super excited to receive my 20TB external drive, especially since I got it on sale for $330! I had a WD drive that died on me, so I decided to switch to Seagate. It looks nice, and doesn't take up too much space on my desk. The included USB cord is not long enough to keep the drive somewhere on a shelf or on the floor, so you have to keep it on the desk. As soon as I plugged in my hd into the computer for the very first time, it started making period clunking noises. It sounds like when you're playing an xbox game and you go into a menu and are mousing over different options, and it makes that bass-y "bum" sound. I tried laying the drive flat on my desk, but that didn't fix the issue. It's also making that noise even when I'm not actively writing anything to the disk, which makes me think it's something with the disks rubbing or hitting against each other. So unfortunately shipping it back.

Ok first off, most of these are EXYOS or IRONWOLF drives with no warranty, just the warranty for the plastic case. second off, if you use something like usbtree or hdsentinel you'll see seagate is purposely limiting the SATA speed to SATA II, so even though these advertise sata 3.2 10GB you wont get better than 3GB (like it makes a difference, it's just techno babble and tech lies). Dont buy these, do yourself a favor, buy the enterprise drive thats like 10 less for no chassis and buy a REAL usb 3.2 2x2 usb chassis so you get a 5 year drive warranty (if you go seagate, WD you can complain and get a 5 year warranty for anything). but these are garbage with how they SAY they are 10Gpbs usb 3.2 but are only connecting at SATA II speeds (they do connect at sata III on a real enclosure). Dont let the prettiness or worthless hub fool you, because you are paying extra for JUNK cases that cripple the drive