I read some of the comments about the older (smaller) models (1TB, 1.5TB), and there were several bad reviews particularly about the 1.5TB hard drive. Well, there were many good ones too, but of course statements like "lasted only 2 weeks", "could not access my data anymore" and so on are kind of alarming.
Anyway, because I have already 2 old Maxtor external hard drives (250 and 300 GB), and they accompanied me successfully now during the past 6-8 years even when moving from Europe to USA, from USA back to Europe and then back to USA again, and because I found the listed price to be very convincing to try, I ordered this new Seagate 2TB external hard drive end of December 2009.
It arrived quickly and is working absolutely reliably, quietly and absolutely satisfyingly for me.
I set the power management to shut it off after 3 minutes idle time (as it was also for the older ones). So, you can imagine, I am not sending huge amounts of data in a short period of time.
But I copied about 300GB of data to it right away. Not a problem.
And generally the connected computer (and others on my private network using the shared drives) is on continuously mostly during the day.
Everything is still working. There are no problems connecting after system reboots, no strange clicking sounds, no lost data (yet - knock, knock, knock).
It was totally easy to install, I guess I won't need the installed SW, my daughter likes particularly its "cool" design, and it gave me so far only the best impression possible.
A great purchase - so far.
Based on the other mentioned reviews, of course I am looking also forward to mid and long term experiences hoping the drive will continue serving me as well as it does now.
Only negative comment : the "revival" period from the idle state back to active state takes about 15 seconds (about 5 seconds longer than the old Maxtor units).
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(edit) I think it's been over 1 and half years, both of my Seagate 1tb drives have been going strong, no errors, click etc. (knock on wood) Looking at another this christmas, or even a bigger size.===(edit) 9 months in:I just bought my second 1tb drive, I now have 1tb external and 500 on my laptop, with a little 320 usb portable drive. All Seagate except the little travel drive. I have had my 2nd 1tb Seagate for about a week and like the first drive no problems. Maybe there was a batch of bad drives to get the negative review? Not sure but I am happy with my purchase. Cheers! (great prices on these drives everywhere)===(edit) 6 months in:I have to say I have not had a single problem with this drive. No clicking, no loss of information. I was VERY worried after seeing all of the negative reviews on Amazon. But (knock on wood) NO problems with the drive. I now have a Macbook Pro and have USB 2.0 and the transfers are much faster than the 1.0 (or 1.1?) usb connection I had. I wouldn't hesitate to purchase another Seagate drive again. An will purchase another one of these this Christmas. Cheers.===I have had my drive for one month and have not had any major issues with the drive. I am on a Mac and bought this at a brick and mortar store instead of online. The prices were the same but the cost of shipping and wait made my decision. As well as the review about bad drives bought from Amazon. The prices seem to be fluctuating week to week so I would check around, but Amazon seems to have a decent price online.Firstly, there are many ranging review most people seem to either love the drive and have no problems or received a DOA drive. (reviews on newegg were similar)First thing I did was reformat since I am on a Mac. (open disk utilities) Size comes to 931.39 gb.The usb cord could have been longer, nothing major. There is no on/off switch. The drive "sleeps" after a period of unuse. Which is nice to have but can be annoying when it take a few seconds to "wake" back up. (about 5-10 seconds) When you power down the computer the drive seems to go to a deep sleep with front indicator lights going off. (again with no power switch no way to "fully" turn it off)With a new drive the initial copying of data is the longest. I am replacing a 500 gb drive and moved over about 400gb and it took about 12 hours. (external USB drive - to - external USB drive, which is very slow anyways) Moving about 200 gb from my internal drive to the Seagate took about 6 hours. Speed is abit slower than I was expecting from this drive. I have a 500gb Seagate in a Vantec case and it is about 20% faster than this drive.All in all I am happy with my purchase, I got a great price on the drive. (100 us) It looks good on the desktop. Slim footprint when standing. It could be faster. (there is a firewire + usb version of this drive also)I haven't had a problem, but the negative reviews kind of ruins your peace of mind about the drive though. I felt like I was "taking a chance". But, knock on wood in 15+yrs of computing, about 6 external/internal hd's, I have not had an issue with Seagates, which I why I took the chance on this drive.
