Customer Reviews

SmartDisk FWFL120 FireLite 120 GB 2.5-Inch FireWire Portable Hard Drive

5 star:		(8)
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3 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(5)

 

 

I own many of these and I recommend it to the many users I support. In a price/performance comparison, they are the best value around. For better performance you may want to build a SATA on firewire 800, but for the average user, a very good deal. Highly recommended.

after having this drive for only a couple of months both firewire connection ports went dead. and the drive would not mount. I returned the drive, lost my data, and received a replacement.

now, after having the second drive for a couple of months, again, both firewire connections are dead. drive will not mount... all data unreachable.

the drive was never dropped, was kept in a case... and handled very gently.

I am a cg student and need to travel daily with a large capacity drive.

this is not a reliable drive! do not look at it sideways or it may implode.

A great external hard drive for my MacBook. I keep my music and pictures on the hard drive, along with other large files. It's quiet, reliable, and doesn't take up much space.

I am in the market for my second one of these. Compact, quiet, and reliable. Keep your computer clean with one of these.

Drive is small, light, ad bus powered, which is exactly what I was looking for.

This is a great, solid product. It is quiet, fast, reliable, and portable. I think that it is all too common for people who are satisfied with a product to simply enjoy it and not bother to review or recommend it, while people who have problems jump at the chance to give a bad review. In many cases, these bad experiences are the result of stuff described in these bad reviews like the computer crashing or trying to use the drive with a USB interface. I purchased one of these drives used and it works like a champion, and it was shipped to me from New Jersey in standard USPS mail, banged up and all. I've been a satisfied customer of Verbatim products since the 90's when they specialized in floppy disks and drives. There are some seriously crappy hard disks out there, but I think that if you buy from reputable companies, and you use a stable computer system (like an Apple) there should be no issues. Word

Perhaps it's the luck of the draw, but I have been using my Firelite disk for 2 years now, without a hitch. I've used the entire capacity at times and the disk never fails to mount, it's fast, easy and it's been a lifesaver. I've taken it on several trips where it's been packed with a ton of photo gear and I've stored a ton of RAW files on it. It' always been reliable. I love the size and ease of use.

Bought this to back up iTunes on Mac. Won't mount, no answers online, absolutely no tech support. Supreme waste of time and money.

I have three of these and all are working well. They are very convenient as backup drives for Powerbooks because they are bus powered and they are capable of making bootable clones using Carbon Copy Cloner, not all drives are.

I would give it zero starts if they'd let me...I purchased this exact model. Never again. I had problems from the beginning. It worked ok for a while, then started making noises. Eventually, it stopped working altogether. Total drive failure. Techsupport is impossible. Dead links for tech or customer service. Waiting on the phone for 40 minutes only to be disconnected. I finally got an RMA to retrun the product. I paid $30 for fedex shipment, only to recieve the product, unfixed a week and a half later. No explanation. No reply. No paperwork. And still no satisfaction or reply from the company. Stay away.. stay very far away