Customer Reviews

Seagate 2.5GB USB 2.0 Pocket External Hard Drive ( 9AF-461-550 )

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The design is really cool.

But there is this annoying blue busy light whenever you access the drive, it is really bright.

And the cable length is a bit small, 6-7 inches maybe. In my hp desktop, the usb port is right in the middle, the cable length is not enough to keep it flat on the desk or put it on top of the cpu box. Not a problem when using it with laptop.

Can be a little faster. I transferred 2gb of songs, it took like 10 minutes.

I like the design and it is a perfect size for travel and use with a laptop. I also like the idea of having a partitioned hard drive that is passwork protected. Unfortunately, the software that comes with it has a hard time opening and closing and toggling between the partitians. The software also seems to run everytime I start my computer. Annoying.

My wife gave this to me as a present. The first one failed in two weeks. Amazon was great and sent a replacement. That one failed a month later. I called Seagate to learn how to clean the memory so there were no confidential work files on it, and they couldn't do it. You have to send the unit in to them to be replaced. The problem is that I have confidential financial files on it so I can't just hand it over. They won't let me destroy it before returning the unit.

I treated this thing very gently, but I believe the problem is that it actually has moving parts inside and is not completely digital flash drive.

I would not recommend wasting your money on this one. Go get a drive with no moving parts.