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Customer Reviews:
Never again! Long delays, and unreliable!.......2007-08-28
I have the 500GB version of this Seagate drive. What a colossal disappointment -- after just a mere 10 minutes or so of non-use, the drive spins down. It's a six-to-eight second wait for the drive to spin back up for the most trivial of tasks, such as a displaying a file open or save dialog.
THAT was aggrevating. But what is infuriating is the Seagate's unreliability! Just a couple of months into use it died with a badly corrupted directory. Reading through the comments here and on this model with other size drives I see that this experience is common rather than unusual.
I never bought Seagate before, but I had thought it had a good reputation. I'll never buy Seagate again!
great!.......2007-03-11
I received my package in a timely manner, and my product was completely new, shrink-wrapped and ready for use. I will definitely use this in the future
An excellent hard drive.......2007-02-14
This is certainly one of the best external hard drives that I have ever owned. It really is reliable and has a much better build quality than many of the others that I have used. The 16 mb cache also makes a difference for those huge file transfers which I am apt to do. Firewire connectivity is also a great advtantage. Theoretically it should be slower than USB 2 but the type of connection to the PC allows it to be faster and to transfer files much more quickly.
All in all, a great hard drive and one I truly reccomend.
it's alriiiiiiiiiiiiight but not all that great... learn from my experience.......2006-11-07
If you're like me, you have read these reviews a hundred times because you:
a) want to get the right thing for your precious data;
b) are thoroughly boggled by the sheer quantity of hard drives out there from 300 different manufacturers.
Well hopefully I can help you rule one of these out. Yep, the ubiquitous Seagate external hard drive. Stores seem to love these Seagate drives; professional reviewers do too. But we plebeians that write reviews on Amazon have dogged this hard drive. Including me, in this review.
I'd actually ruled out this HD, but then I found it at a price I couldn't refuse and got it. In terms of data storage, it's been reliable, sure, but it has some other mitigating factors that REALLY irritate me.
Read on and learn from my experience.
What it is actually good for, i.e., where it scores points: for being a reliable hard drive to store data. I haven't had any data problems (like crashing or loss of data). I can fit tons of stuff on it. So the Seagate 400gb External gets points for those things. However, all of those features are things that ANY hard drive should have: the given amount of storage, and reliability. So although it gets points for these things, that's like giving an employee high marks for the mere act of completing what they're supposed to do.
Here are the problems that I have with this drive:
PROBLEM #1: I found the backup software basically useless.
I couldn't get it to work at all. (And I do computer tech support so I'm not a moron!) A few back-and-forths with the provider's tech support got me nowhere. (It's a 3rd party app.) That tech support seemed like it consisted of one guy who would start ignoring me when he couldn't figure out what happened. I eventually gave up on it in favor of Karen's Backup Replicator, a free online utility that works like a charm. (Karen has tons of other awesome free utilities too.)
PROBLEM #2: The drive has SERIOUS lag time when I try to access it, durring which it whirs, hums, sputters, etc.
I got the Seagate to replace my old HD, which was a W_stern D_gital brand. Some professional reviews have dogged that brand, but for me it was a great drive: it worked like CHAMP through four years of daily use, with constant data writing/rewriting; it was quiet and made no noise; I never had any problems or data loss; and it would always access folders and subfolders VERY quickly. (i.e., when I'd browse to it and then down into folders, it would respond and show me the contents just as fast as if it were my actual C drive.)
The ONLY reason I was looking to replace the WD-brand drive was that I'd filled it up, and that after four years, I was worried that it might start developing problems, even though it had not been showing any signs of problems at all and was working just as well as the day I got it. So I decided to get another drive and just have everything backed up in one additional place.
The Seagate drive hasn't worked nearly as well. When I browse to it, it invariably (as in, EVERY TIME) lags... takes several seconds to open up, another few seconds to go down into a submenu, etc. Sometimes it even takes a moment to FIND the drive. During this time, it whirs and sputters and generally sounds really constipated... like it needs some Ex-Lax to squeeze out a list of folders for me.
PROBLEM #3: The BIGGEST problem I have with this drive, though, is BAD and UNRELIABLE CONNECTIVITY.
My connection to this thing uses the very standard USB cable between it and my machine. The cable is in fine shape, and it plugs in snugly to both the HD and my machine. But for some reason, this connection just winks out ALL THE TIME. Several times a day. Which causes my machine to give me the annoying "hey! new device found!" thing every time. If I'm listening to mp3's stored on that machine, it wipes out the playlist when the connection goes out. If I'm watching an mpeg or avi, then it vanishes when the connection winks out. And I can't even count how many times this has caused a "write failed" error when I'm trying to back my stuff up.
Yes, this could be the fault of the USB cable, and no, I haven't tried a different USB cable to isolate the problem. I just believe that this should work right out of the box with no problems; and by now I'm probably out of warranty.
THE BOTTOM LINE:
Yes, this thing gets the basic job done (data storage), but it has SO MANY ANNOYANCES that I wouldn't get it again if I could go back in time to when I got it. I find myself using my mp3's, etc. LESS because of the wonkiness of this drive. So I'm about to go out and get another one-- such as WD brand-- and then relegate the Seagate to be not even my main backup, but to be my backup-of-a-backup. By then I'll have my junk backed up in so many places that it won't be a huge problem when one of them-- probably this one-- craps out.
Based on my experience, I won't purchase another Seagate drive, period.
I'd read such good things about Seagate, and maybe their internal drives live up to the hype, but I wouldn't get one of these again. Besides, in the short time I've had my drive, they've come out with two or three bigger models-- they seem to be in such a rush to push toward a one terabyte model that they can't possibly be doing much quality control on this now-punier model.
Learn from my experience. It has held my data without failing, yes, but I hate this thing.
Dependable solution for my Mac.......2006-08-21
You can never have enough hard drive storage. Especially if you manage digital photos, video and music files.
This is the third Seagate External Drive I've purchased. I own two of this model (ST3400601CB-RK), plus a 200GB version. I use firewire (slightly faster than USB 2.0) with an iBook G4.
=REVIEW=
Pros:
- 16 MB cache
- Two firewire ports so you can daisy chain multiple drives.
- Generally quiet.
- They are well ventilated and don't seem to overheat.
- Good quality/dependable.
Cons:
- Stackability. I originally bought them thinking I'd stack them. Problem is, when you lay them flat and stack, the stiffness of the firewire cable tends to shift the drives askew. I use a thick rubber band to keep them nested in place.
==STRATEGY==
Remember to come up with a good backup strategy:
- Backup on a frequent basis (once a week).
- Make multiple backups in case one becomes corrupt.
- Store a copy off site (i.e. parents house, office, safe depost box) in case of physical disaster. You could get two drives of same size, backup all data identically to both of them. Then keep one off site. Just trade them on some regular basis so both are relatively up to date.
==PERFORMACE TIPS==
- When looking for a Seagate model, note that there seem to be 8MB cache and 16MB cache of each model. Get the 16MB. Price difference is minimal.
- If you are backing up more than one computer, consider partitioning the hard drive to keep each computer's data separate.
- Get two smaller drives rather than one big one so you can safely store a backup offsite.
There are lots of great articles online about preventative backup. Do a little research, figure out what is right for you and stick to it!
Good luck!
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