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SimpleTech DUO Pro Drive

82

Very Good
  • Pros
  • Hardware-enabled RAID
  • Well-designed chassis
  • Cons
  • Drives are not user-accessible
  • Pricing: Expensive: $280 (12/23/2008)
  • Performance: Superior: 96
  • Features: Good: 77
  • Design: Very Good: 86
Find out how these four scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Pricing

Expensive: $280
Cost per Gigabyte - $0.28

Performance

Superior: 96
PC World Tests (seconds)
Interface Tested External SATA-300 
Primary Volume - Virus Scan 153.25 
Primary Volume - Windows File Search 111.58 
External Read - Files and Folders 64.01 
External Read - Large File 43.97 
External Write - Files and Folders 68.69 
External Write - Large File 40.22 

Features

Good: 77
Basics
Drive size (GB) 1000GB 
Supported Interface(s) External SATA-300, USB 2.0 
Speed (RPM) 7200 
Other
Installation Kit Hardware USB cable 
Bundled Software Fabrik Ultimate Backup and Fabrik Local Backup 
Support & Reliability
Labor Warranty (years) Three 
Parts Warranty (years) Three 
Weekday Support Hours 11 
Saturday Support Hours 0 
Sunday Support Hours 0 
Toll-Free Support Yes 

Design

Very Good: 86
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User Reviews for SimpleTech DUO Pro Drive

  • Reviewed by: andydg

    Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks

    Strengths: plenty or space, quiet even with fan.

    Weaknesses: Have to initialize each time it is reconnected. Tech support is non-existent.

    Overall Evaluation: Running Leopard I first could not format the drive properly. Kept giving me input/output errors. Had to format it via a windows machine. Tried contacting tech support, haven't heard back from them even though promise within 24 hours. Been nearly two weeks now. Also when not in use I store it. Reconnecting it I get an error each time telling me the drive has to be re-initialized. Huh? Doubt that I'll be keeping this as I just do not trust it to save my data.

  • Reviewed by: martesian

    Duration of ownership: 2 Days

    Strengths: Product was not operational when I received it.

    Weaknesses: On two different purchases, both had loose screws inside the sealed case. Warranty restriction did not allow me to open the case.

    Overall Evaluation: It is apparent that the Quality Control of this product is weak or non-existent. Both should never have been shipped to the reseller. The product operational quality may be O.K. but they must produce a product which allows it to be used for me to find out.

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