Acomdata HD500UHE5-72 E5 HybridDrive 500 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000LFH1U6
• Item model number: HD500UHE5-72
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 20, 2006

Product Description

Product Description

The AcomData E5 HybridDrive External Hard Drives combine high-performance data storage with the stark beauty and efficiency of aluminum alloy enclosures. They feature advanced 16-bit RISC processor which makes access and data transfers up to 22% faster than other USB 2.0 interfaces; hot-pluggable convenience, fanless near-silent operation, and the strong SHA-256 password encryption give you security as well as speed. With HybridDrive you can do more. Do it faster. And do it almost anywhere.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars stay away, April 15, 2007

By	R. Laurito "doowopa" (Danielson ct) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: AcomData HD320UHE5-72 320GB 3.5-Inch USB 2.0 Hybrid (Electronics)

Installed in January.
Used Occasionally.
Dead by April
They want me to pay shipping back to them.
What more can I say.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Run, don't walk, away from this cheap junk..., October 17, 2007

By	hannibalsmith "hannibalsmith" (Van Nuys, CA United States) - See all my reviews

Bought this external Acomdata 500GB hard drive recently. Windows starts giving me "delayed write failure" errors - not even the 2nd day I owned it. So I Google, find out that one cause of this is bad or loose cabling. I check the drive, and sure enough there is a ton of play on the cable - its loose enough that it can probably move on its own just from vibrations on my desk. I try another cable I had from another drive, and its loose too. The USB connector on the drive is not tight enough. Where is the quality control here? Am going to return it ASAP.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Runs hot drive motor failed at one year - maybe lost all data, September 30, 2008

By	Earth Pilot - See all my reviews

This review is from: AcomData HD750UHE5-72 750 GB 3.5-Inch USB 2.0 Hybrid Drive (Electronics)

The big thing with these drives is supposedly they don't need fans to stay cool enough to keep the drive alive.

All I can say is the drive was always warm when I ran it.

Then one day it just never spun up. The blue light on front came on but the lack of any vibration and heat makes me fairly certain the drive is no longer spinning. Needless to say windows won't recognize it and so far there is no way to get data off it.

Seems to me the spin motor overheated and is now dead.

Customer service from Acomdata requires you to fill out large form and register and then you get message you will get an email within 3 days - great.

I guess I'll wait for them for suggestions before I open the thing and see if I can get the drive inside the box to spin by manually giving the hub a spin or find a heat circuit breaker to trip (PLEASE BE ONE).

Nothing to lose at this point I guess.

750 GB of data gone.
Next time I 'll get a drive with a fan.

Or if I do get one of these I'll just take the drive out of the case and put it in my desktop box where it will get some air and be a regular internal drive.

Oh, the other pain about this is they partition a piece of the drive as an un repartionable cd area where they store a bunch of software that they want you to install like firefox, google stuff ext. I already had them so it was annoying that this always popped up . It also takes up a drive letter for the cdrom partition as a cdrom.
And of course you lose a few hundred megs of space to this annoying extra partition.