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"backed" up all my info, was leary and burned multiple discs, just in case, and thank god I did, within 2 months, the drive was no longer accessible. Called warranty dept, apparently , loss of power source is a big problem, I could at my own expense, mail the drive back and they would try to access it, no guarantees, or access it myself and void the warranty all together. I don't want others filing through my personal info, so here ut sits, dead and full of my life's files. big waste of money, wish i had listened to the bad revues and not bought it at all.
I didn't use the device very often, so overheating wasn't an issue. Plus, the shipping requirements make returning your defective device more burdensome than necessary. Now I would rate this product very poorly, because the device is no longer operable, I've lost hundreds of gigs worth of information, and the warranty, frankly, is a pain in the butt. Had I written a review 6 months ago, I would have given this product 5 stars. All in all, I can understand the good reviews, but give it a few months. The new one has already failed on me within 6 months; I'm thinking the refurbished one will last me another few months.
Plus, the warranty means you can get a refurbished device, not a new one.
All of a sudden, this beeping sound kept going off, and the device was no longer detected on any computers.
Slim, but tall and easy to knock over, which I bet would kill the drives.
Ease of use and huge storage for a decent price.
As to the design of the unit, it's cumbersome and ill-executed.
Warranty is for 5 years (hah)., and if you want your data, you have to be willing to cough up the money.
If you open the casing at all in an attempt to rectify, warranty is voided.
I didn't do anything to mine, and already, it's dead.
I think many of the bad reviews come from users who have used it for a good duration, only to find out that the device has suddenly stopped working altogether.
The Dell has Vista and the other three had Windows XP, so the OS doesn't seem to be the culprit. Bought this and a 750 Gb version about the same time and used them flawlesslessly on my Sony Vaio laptop. I could reformat (yay, hours of work gone), and get it to work again with my Sony laptop. So it appears to be a 50% success/failure rate for me. Talking with people at an electronics store, I was told that they got a lot of complaints about the Seagates.as others have said, when they work, the work great. I tried it on a Toshiba laptop.same problem with the emachines PC.froze up, drive became corrupted, had to be reformatted.
Seagate techs were very helpful, but ultimately a LOT of my time was wasted on the phone, and sending HDs back and forth to Seagate for repairs that apparently didn't work. I then moved them to my emachines PC and they froze my computer up and the drives became corrupted. Have had other seagates up to 500 Gb capacity previously purchased that are working to this day, but I have switched over to Western Digital after this mess. This all take place with repeated returns to Seagate and hours on the phone with their tech support as well before i finally realized it was a compatability issue with 2 of my 4 computers. I am now using these as backup storage/archiving only with my Dell PC, on which I have had no problems like with the Sony Vaio. The one fix I haven't tried yet is to disable the orange pulsing access light--supposedly this fixes the problem in some cases, but I have given up at this point and will just use it with the Dell.it may be that the size of the drive is too much for the two computers to handle.and I also did try partitioning them to see if that would help, but it did not.
And I must say I am impressed with the 5-year warranty these things have, but I am thinking that may put Seagate out of business.
THIS IS INCORRECT PRODUCT, THE YELLOW THING THAT STICK ON THE HARD DRIVE THAT SHOWNED IN THE ADS WAS NOT ON THE ITEM WHEN I RECEIVED AND OPEN MY ITEM. AND IT DIDN'T WORK WITH WINDOWS VISTA ONLY IN WINDOWS XP. SO DON'T BELEIVE THE PICTURES BECAUSE THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT ITEM IN THE PICTURES "BOGUS". NICE TRY.
I received a phone call this morning that in a "very rare" occurance, it would cost $1900 to rebuild my hard drive. I purchased this drive about 6 months ago. Somewhat "luckilly" for me ONLY my entire 5,000+ song iTunes library has been lost. A couple weeks ago I noticed that my time machine backups were failing. The hard drive had died and I sent it in for repair and restore under my warranty. It taught me to have multiple backups of everything. I would never recommend this product to anyone.
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