Seagate Basic STJL4000400 4 TB

Nothing extra

Seagate Basic fully justifies its name. This is an affordable, simple and at the same time high-quality external HDD for those who value more than additional features. The design here is for everyone. Seagate has been fiddling with looks lately (look at the Seagate Backup Plus Ultra), but in this case they just made the most simple and practical grey box with a minimum of identification marks. At the end there is only a small company logo and a miniature indicator light strip that glows when the drive is turned on and blinks while data is being copied. But no gloss and traces of the hands.

Simple and practical body

Inside the case, a hard drive of its own production with a volume of 4 TB and a spindle speed of 5400 rpm is hidden. In synthetic tests, the drive shows good speeds at 132 MB / s for both reading and writing. It is worth noting that even with a long load, such as creating backups or transferring a library of games and movies to a new computer, the hard drive remains moderately quiet. But with the temperature, everything is not so smooth, in tests we managed to warm it up to 56 °C. Therefore, when transferring large amounts of data, it is advisable to lay it on its side so that hot air does not accumulate in the lower part of the case. Given this, it's even a little insulting that Seagate gives it only a year of warranty, against 2 – 3 years for competitors.

Simple and efficient DiscWizard and SeaTools utilities

Included with the drive is nothing but instructions, like any normal external HDD, it is seen by a computer without installing additional drivers. However, on the official website you can download a couple of useful utilities that will greatly simplify life in the future. DiscWizard will help you properly format the drive to work correctly with your system, transfer the necessary data from another hard drive, and set up a backup for the system. A small utility SeaTools helps with disk diagnostics.