Unlike the Toshiba, however, the case is more ornate, being decorated top and bottom by a faceted design. Similarly to the Toshiba, the drive has an indicator LED and the branding in relief on the case.
Inside is the USB cable with the classic Seagate “rounded” moulding and the hard drive inside a protective resealable plastic bag. Inside are leaflets and a bespoke plastic clamshell. This particular drive seems to be part of the August 2019 batch. The top of the box has a plastic hanger tag and details of warranties – in the Asia Pacific region, including Australia, the warranty is three years. It technically could be used with other devices, especially after being reformatted to the correct format, however I suspect this might not make their other “specialised game drives” sell as well. The side of the drive says that it is compatible with Windows, USB2.0/3.0 and for use with computers. It claims to be “add on storage for your PC”.
The box itself is made of a thin but rigid corrugated cardboard, sealed with holographic seals for tamper protection.
The Seagate Expansion drive comes in an easily recognisable orange and white box colour scheme, with the faceted-design drive shell featuring prominently. Deciding to hedge my bets, I picked up one of these from Officeworks for AU$139 which arrived next day in the same small box with no void fill. Literally moments after I bought the Toshiba Canvio Basics drive reviewed in the previous post, Seagate fired back by matching the price on their Seagate Expansion Portable 4TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive.
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