Samsung Story Station 1 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive HXDU010EB

by Samsung

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.7 x 1.6 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002C46042
• Item model number: HXDU010EB
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 7, 2009

Product Description

Mfr Part Number: HXDU010EB Features: Two ways of backup: Scheduled or in real-time SecretZone: Secure area for my private contents SafetyKey for protecting your precious contents Power Saving mode: Automatically going into standby mode if there are 5 mins of inactivity LED brightness control by knob switch: lighting pattern change by operation mode Smart Power On/Off Easy to set up, easy to use Capacity: 1 TB Interface: USB 2.0 Max External Transfer Rate: 480 Mbps Operating System: Windows Vista/ XP Home/ XP Professional/ 2000 Pro; Mac OS x 10.4.8 or later Form Factor: 3.5" Color: Gray

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent External Hard Drive, December 28, 2009

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Jack R. Isbell "Sierra Jack" (Chester, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung Story Station 1 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive HXDU010EB (Personal Computers)

I've seen complaints on another vendor's website about this drive being formated in FAT32 and the time it takes to reformat into NTFS. I did a "quick" reformat and it took only a few minutes to reformat into NTFS. This unit is nice looking and solidly built. I plugged the drive into the wall, the USB into the computer, started the back-up, had dinner and by the time I was back, the drive had finished the back-up. If only my Seagate internal hard drive worked this well. IMHO, you can't go wrong buying this drive.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Failure is an option:, June 17, 2010

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adollarfifty (A quasi arctic State.) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Samsung Story Station 1 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive HXDU010EB (Personal Computers)

On the strength of our very positive experiences with previous Samsung products, we purchased this drive to serve as a plain vanilla, last stop backup. It was used only about ten hours a week. It was connected to a new Windows 7 machine. It was never moved, disconnected, etc., and was run off of a battery backup. All the same, after being turned on just about four months to the day of first use, it immediately ground itself into oblivion. At a certain point it is good to just laugh, but to put trust in another one, no.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great hardware- Zip documentation and support, February 24, 2010

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Bernie J "Bernie" (South Carolina USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Samsung Story Station 1 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive HXDU010EB (Personal Computers)

We are euphoric over our large kitchen appliance by Samsung - had a minor problem and support was great. With that background, along with good reviews on Amazon (the authority), we were ready to buy a Samsung external hard drive -
Great product if all goes well -
Formatted to NTFS without issue -
Documentation is very poor, between the PDF manual and the Help button - no mention of what to do when you receive some of those pesky error messages.
Have a few minor glitches that I thot could be resolved with a quick message to the support group - surprise! Received an auto reply with a link to download the backup software.
Obviously no one read the question. If I had not installed the software, I could not possibly have experienced the glitch which prompted the question. (I had already re-installed it just in case)
The auto back up feature is a good one - I am going to hang in with the Samsung for a while longer, and see if I can work out the glitches. If not, I can use Nero on a schedule.
Docs and support definitely not up to Samsung standards.