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Seagate use to be the best Hard drives to buy. A few years back they bought Maxtor (another crappy Hard drive peddler) Instead of Seagate pulling up the standards of Maxtor, They allowed themselves to be pulled down by them. if u do some research or check reviews at places like BestBuy, Circuit City, Compusa, etc.. you will soon see that these drives will let you down Hard and fast. here is one of the reviews from on poor guy that did not research before he paid for the product
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The worst drive I've ever purchased 08/13/2009
By JPC703 from Charlotte, NC Read all my reviews Read all my reviews
What's great about it: The color of the box it came in wasn't too bad. Nor the RMA boxes.
What's not so great: Everything except the box it came in. Wish it was still in it at Best Buy!!
"I am a professional computer technician with over 15 years experience in PC hardware repair and trouble-shooting. I am A+, Net+, CCNA and MCSE certified. I have worked on some of the most prestigious projects on 4 continents. I wouldn't even recommend giving this to the neighbors dog to chew on, even if it was barking all night.
The product is that bad. DO NOT PURCHASE THIS DRIVE!
First, the ESATA interface is poor and flaky. I bought this drive specifically for that reason and it frequently just dropped the line. Apparently, Seagate sets the power settings to just 10 minutes by default. A professional series, large volume drive that powers down after 10 minutes!! Using their recommended guidelines, I hooked it up via USB and was able to use the Seagate software to adjust the power settings, to no avail. Even after I powered it down, changed the input back to ESATA and turned it back on, it still flakes out.
Secondly, using the USB interface for the drive is no better. Occasionally, it just drops out and my brand-new, Vista x64, i7 920 HP computer can't recognize it or even see it in Disk Management.
Thirdly, even when it does recognize the drive (if you unplug and replug it in several times, it eventually spins up), there's no guarantee you'll be able to access the files.
So, what did I do? In-between my hectic schedule, I spent a week trying to figure out the problem. Finally, I sent it back to Seagate for RMA, which took another week. Then, I traveled to a customers site out-of-state for a week, returned, and it's now having the same problem with the new one as the last one.
I don't have time to fool with a new hard drive that will not work!! I've had it! I will NEVER buy another Seagate product again!
I have installed hundreds of drives in the last 15 years and I've seen hard drives that were practically melting that worked better, but I've never seen a hard drive so poorly engineered and manufactured that it continues to cause flaky connects, file read errors and poor performance like I've experienced with my NEW Seagate Xtreme 1.5 TB drive.
Frankly, I'm so frustrated with trying to trust this drive will eventually work, I want to throw the dam thing away and chalk it up to poor choices on my part. I wish I had read this review forum before I bought that drive. This is the worst product I've ever bought.
Never again, Seagate. And Best Buy, you should be ashamed for even carrying this drive."
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Seagate - FreeAgent Xtreme , Desktop or Pro.. (1TB or over)
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