General: Device Type - Hard drive - external / Width - 4.1 cm / Depth - 16.3 cm / Height - 19.1 cm
Expansion / Connectivity: Interfaces - Hi-Speed USB
Miscellaneous: Cables Included - 1 x USB cable / Package Type - Retail
Power: Power Source - Included AC adapter
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
Mac users beware I bought one of these hard drives about two months ago. Immediately I found a problem which seems to be common on the tech support forums for mac users: the drive goes to sleep every 30 seconds, making it totally useless if you want to edit any video or large files on the drive or listen to music off it. I reported this to seagate tech support and they referred me to a support chat, who then told me that it was a defective drive. I sent the drive back and have since got a new drive with exactly the same... more info
Steer well clear! Totally died after only a couple of months and still under guarantee. Seagate are of no help what so ever. The ask a crazy amount of money to retrieve lost data and only after several very expensive phone calls did they agree to replace it. That was two months ago and they haven't done this yet after sending several follow up e-mails. I'm now looking at alternative brands and strongly recommend to anyone thinking of buying one of these to save their money and look for an alternative. I lost a lot of... more info
Invaluable I've now owned this drive for almost a year - mainly for media storage and to occasionally back up my own documents. The drive is elegant and sits neatly on the end of a desk, and looks rather sleek. It is quiet at all times, even when being scanned or during transfers. Transfers themselves are quick and reliable. It is also easy to set up - I was up and running with it within minutes.
WARNING - UNRELIABLE I suppose you get what you pay for. I've been using one of these for just over ten month (Nov 08). It fell over onto it's side, no great fall or particularly hard landing, now it does not work. Having searched the 'net for a clue as to why it should stop working I am amazed at the number of people out there who have had similar experiences. ANyhow, I've lost my lifetime collection of photographs of my family, places, holidays etc - which were on that drive for storage - and my backed up programme files.... more info
