Don't do it. Like many other buyers, I was lured into the Seagate trap because of the phenomenal pricing. Don't do it. Although super light and portable, this hard drive is a piece of rubbish should you jolt, shift, or move the drive without the care of a piece of glass. After two weeks of decent use, the drive crashed on me in the middle of an upload. Then my PC wouldn't recognize it.
This would all be fine if there was a quick and easy fix for the problem but that would be too simple for Seagate. Instead, I searched through scores and scores of articles, forums, downloaded and installed various drivers to try and remedy the solution...hell, I temporarily became an IT technician in my attempt to restore this hard drive and recover my files. Seagate reps weren't particularly helpful and kept pointing me to articles on their site that I'd already read and found useless for solving the issue. Finally I realized that the amount of time I spent troubleshooting this issue, I could have spent editing my footage.
So I cut my losses.
Thankfully I had backed up my precious footage on a large flash drive that doesn't crash. So I got a refund, purchased a WD drive and haven't looked back since. This review is for the potential buyers like me who tend to ignore negative reviews with the thought, "It probably won't happen to me." Yes, I thought that, and unfortunately, I was wrong.
Don't do it.
| Hard Drive | 2 TB Portable |
|---|---|
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 1 |
