Customer Reviews

SimpleTech SP-U25/250L 250 GB Portable Hard Drive - Blue

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This drive is pre-formatted as NTFS (PS3 owners will need to reformat to FAT32 if they want to use it with the Playstation 3).

Transfer speed is very fast.

Simpletech advertises single click backup... well, if you use the enclosed backup software. There is no physical button on the drive, you click on the software backup button. A little misleading.
The software is O.K., but I uninstalled it. I am using it as drag-N-drop.

This unit powers from USB/USB 2.0 port. It will power and transfer data using 1 port, if you use the correct USB plug on the enclosed "Y" cable. Read the directions!

No need for a power adapter, but you can use one (not included).

This drive fits nicely in the CaseLogic Small External Hard Drive Case PHDC-1.

I ordered the Simpletech SP-U25/250L 250 GB external hard drive primarily to back up my music and pictures. Amazon got it to me very quickly. Both the Amazon site and the SimpleTech site clearly state this comes with software CD (StorageSync). No CD was included with mine, and when I contacted SimpleTech and I was told there was no CD and the software was preloaded onto device. Nope, no software on the device. After several communications with them I was finally sent the CD, but the process was a bit frustrating and their customer service was terrible. Having said that, the device works just fine. Transfer rate is pretty fast, and the software lets you do incremental or full back ups.

I am very pleased with both the service provided and the product itself.
The product arrived earlier than I expected.
And there have been no problems with the hard drive.
Well worth the price to have peace of mind - using it for regular backups.

Quick easy way to add storage space to your pc.
Other than the long format due to the size,its painless.
-easy hook up
-very small form factor

I was looking for a portable device that is capable of storing all my videos, cartoons, university work, and even programming projects in it. When I saw this product with a cheap price I decided to give it a try and guess what? It worthed every penny I paid for!!! It did store all my files and every other stuff I needed in it. I no longer have to worry about saving data on CD's and have a hard time organizing them. I would strongly recommend this durable product for anyone who wish to keep his files and data organized with him 24/7 and on the go.

I got this external hard drive to store all my pictures on. I didn't want one that had a plug into a power outlet. I thought that this would be a good one, since it was small, but the problem is it takes 2 USB ports to run the HD since it doesn't use a power source. The other issue I had was that it works fine using Windows. However, trying to use it in Linux I had some issues. Probably they could have been resolved, but the Western Digital HD I have just works with no issues, what so ever.

So if you don't mind using two of your USB ports, and you are running Windows, this is a fine external hd. If I had to do it over, I would not buy this brand for me.

I'd say all in all this is a pretty good portable hard drive. It has lots of space for the price, it plugs in by USB which is convenient, and the transfer rate is pretty solid.

I've had this just short of a year now and I do use it constantly. I use it almost on a daily basis, so it ends up plugged in for long periods of time and the drive is constantly working. I wanted to provide this information as a preface to the below.

After one year of use, I have been starting to see 'Delayed Write Failures' in Windows when the drive has been on for a significant amount of time. What this means to me is simply that the drive completely freezes as does Windows and I have to unplug it and replug it in to get it working as well as free up Windows. Now I'm not sure if this is due to the drive overheating, or being over worked, but it tends to happen after using it to say watch a movie from the drive.

The drive still maintains all the information on it, but the more I see it the less I trust it to maintain the data I have on it.

All in all, good drive, just be careful of overworking it.

So my HP laptop screen went out and needed to go in for service (dont even get me started on Hp!!) So i went out and bought an this hard drive and connected my computer to a screen and was able to transfer all my files to the hard drive. I was using the drive to access files for class until i got my computer and i also knew it was possible my hard drive was going to be wiped out during the repairs. Anyways my computer comes back 2 weeks later- luckily they didnt wipe out my hard drive- but when i plugged in my hard drive it wasnt being recognized- and any computer i plugged it into wouldnt recognize it. I couldnt return it because i couldnt find the UPC, so i called customer service which i must say was quite helpful. they had me uninstall it and then reinstall it and it then worked. around 6 weeks later my laptop was going back for the third time - my screen was out again and i couldnt even hook it up to an external screen- and my hard drive wasnt being recognized by any computer! i tried uninstallinga nd reinstalling and it didnt work! i called tech support and i told him i tried that and he asked who otld me to do that and i said the last tech support i spoke to and he said i shouldnt do that again! (very weird!- makes me a little wary of their tech support) Neways the guy concluded i had a defective hard drive and he told me to send it in- but now i dont have a back up to my computer and i cant access anything on my computer- so i had to bring my computer in and have them manually back up my files on a CD. I eventually found my UPC and since it was after the 30 days i wasnt able to return it but they let me exchange it (this is at circuit city). I havent tried the new one yet but im hoping this original one was a lemon!

I knew little about portable HD's, but after some research this one rose to the top. The SimpleTech offers me the space I need and is easy to use for someone not so technical. And then there is the color, true blue.

I can't complain. The storage space is great. It's easy to use (plug and play). I'm not crazy about the online software that comes with it. That I found difficult to use. But so far, so good. Very compact.