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Technical Details
- Plug n¿ play with no software to install- Simply drag-and-drop to save files
- 7200 RPM performance, 1TB
- Built-in power management ensures energy-efficient operation
- USB 2.0 Interface
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By Geo (Chula Vista, CA USA)
As soon as I opened the box, I noticed the center of the hard drive had a rather bulbous lump in the center (like a tumor). Once plugged in it started making this loud clicking sound. This clicking wouldn't stop. While watching a video on it, the hardware would click, freeze the video for a period between 5 seconds and a minute, then resume the video, time elapsed. This got very troublesome since I'd have to rewind the video to see what I missed. At first it was just a really annoying minute problem, then this started happening every 5 minutes. I took it to a local computer repair shop and they told me there was nothing they could do, in fact that's the reason they refused to carry anything made by Seagate. It finally broke down and shut off completely today. Totally lifespan of about 2 months.
To put it briefly, don't by ANYTHING made by Seagate, their stuff's only practical use is decoration or what's mentioned in the title.
By florida bob
Great product with a great price. Use it to BU my entire hard drive. Needed additional software program to accomplish that on a regular schedule, but well worth it. (Acronis)
By Sp007
I was expecting small size but anyway it was little bulky other that everything is Good.
By Neoprimal (Alexandria, DC USA)
This review is for the 1TB product, just so we're clear. Amazon seems to slap them all together ignoring the drive sizes and you can't do that with hard drives. I'm a Seagate man. All my hard drives/externals are Seagate or Hitachi...keep that in mind.
I purchased the drive in June of 2010, it was in it's death bed by August of 2010.
The drive was used with a media box, a hdprimo to be precise, from brite-view. The drive worked fine for about a few weeks and then developed clicking noises.
I performed tests from Seagate (Seatools) and the drive tested fine, so I figured the drive was probably just one of those louder ones which make noises when either going to sleep or waking (despite my better judgment which states "loud clicking hard drives are 90% of the time ready to die" - my view changed because recently I noticed and have had several situations (that other 10%) where loud clicking drives worked fine for years. The tests were passed, but I'd only done short tests.
A few weeks later, the clicking noises became constant and the drive light blinked even when the drive was unplugged from the usb. These drives sleep when unplugged from the USB....it's not a REAL sleep mode though, because the drive has no power switch meaning technically it's always on. Generally though, the green light goes off when the device is no longer getting a usb connection ie: there's no power over the usb cable. So when the HDPrimo is powered down, the drive light goes off.
Not only that but now it would take upwards of 2 to 3 minutes to see the data on the drive from the HDPrimo or the computer.
It got so bad that the media box eventually stopped detecting the Seagate external at all.
I did the tests again and lo and behold, the drive failed the Short Drive Self Test. I used the code and sent the drive for repair/replacement. They sent back a brand new external which a few days later (yes, I said days) is clicking again :/
I may just be unlucky. But it's expensive bad luck. I'm actually out of the US right now and paid upwards of $100 dollars to send the drive back to Seagate and get the new drive cleared through customs. Yes, that is even more than I PAID for it on Amazon.
($30 for shipping using Fedex, $70 for freight/customs back to me). I begged Seagate warranty to send me a different TYPE of external, any kind....as long as it wasn't this and they assured me 100% that these drives are top notch...regardless according to the agent, the drive cannot be switched or swapped for another type.
Well, all I have to say is not s'much Seagate - whatever you're putting into these things SUCK.
You Amazon customers have been warned. Generally I love Seagate but this is a really bad batch of product. I don't know if there are interface issues or if the 1TB drives they put in them are the problem but 2 bad drives in 3 months is enough for me. I have a classic Freeagent with usb2 and esata (the ones with the orange light) and that things been kicking since I got it more than 4 years ago.
P.S I want to note that even if you're in the US or able to send the drive back for 'free' - it's not really free at all; you're looking at shipping costs which are $10-$20 depending on how you do it, normally I use Seagate's Advanced Warranty which is $20 and I'd get the new drive back and a box to put the bad one into to send back with prepaid shipping.
That however cannot be done internationally. If the drive fails on you 4 times in 2 years (and it will, call it a premonition), you've paid for it twice in warranties considering the drive itself is like $80. That's just a quick thinker for you. Seagate will under no circumstances swap the type of drive so you're really not benefiting from the 2 year warranty....unless of course you're one of the very few people who gets one that lives for more than a few months at a time.
Good Luck.
By Lesley O'Byrne (Dublin 3, Ireland)
The usb connection has become loose and I can't access any of the important data I have stored on it. The company I brought it to said it was the 4th one that they'd seen that week with the same issue and they thought it was a design fault. I am checking to see if I have any recourse through the manufacturer but sending me a replacement isn't sufficient as I need the data off the broken one.
Very disappointing
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