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  4 Star Review

  Reviewed by: deshwasi

  Updated:08-30-05

  Duration of ownership:

  Strengths: Great Size. USB & Firewire. Good software.

  Weaknesses: None.

  Overall Evaluation: This is a great size drive for backing up the whole system or just storing lots of movies/video/music etc. and carrying it around. It has both USB & Firewire interfaces for max compatibility and th eincluded backup software works well. All in all a great buy although a bit pricey.

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  1 Star Review

  Reviewed by: hoge

  Updated:08-13-05

  Duration of ownership:7 Days

  Strengths: None

  Weaknesses: Completely useless with the "Delayed Write Failed" error

  Overall Evaluation: I kept getting the "Delayed Write Failed" error while I was using this hard drive. Once I got the error, all I could do was to restart the computer. I googled for a solution for days to no avail. I tried a number of registry tweaks, two versions of Windows(2000 SP4 and XP SP2), and even different chipsets (VIA and Intel),but all were in vain. I bought this product because my friend had the 300GB model of the same lineand it seemed working fine.However, after all this, along with the negative reviewes I found here,I don't think I would ever buy another product from Seagate.

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  5 Star Review

  Reviewed by: ledojoh

  Updated:08-04-05

  Duration of ownership:2 Months

  Strengths: Easy setup. Fast enough to watch videos from. Quiet.

  Weaknesses: About 6-8 second wait time from sleep mode. Noise/drone.

  Overall Evaluation: This is a great drive. Added 400GB to my notebook. The setup was a breeze--plug-n-play, literally. The access time is great, too. I thought it'd be slow, but it's not. I can watch DVD-quality movies from it with no problems. If you connect 2 Firewires, it'll transfer at 800 Mbits. I like the design too. I'll be getting another one, and you can stack them.The noise is not too bad, either. Depends on where you place it. I'd like it absolutely quiet, but.... I had it on my desk and it would drone--not too loud, but none-the-less. I've got it on a shelf now, and it's quiet.

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  1 Star Review

  Reviewed by: JamesFL2005

  Updated:07-16-05

  Duration of ownership:6 Months

  Strengths: None - totally unreliable

  Weaknesses: Intermittent write errors. Tried everything recommended by microsoft - caching, no caching, system page registry tweak, etc

  Overall Evaluation: I've never written one of these before but I am really disappointed with this product. After decades of buying computer products, this is one of the worst. It has a serious write error problem that does not appear to be fixable with any Windows XP tweaks. Has the same problem with both my Dell Desktop and Dell 600m laptop running Windows XP. After a write error, the computer must be shut down to disconnect the drive. Completely useless for partition backups or copying large files. I've used a Maxtor 120GB and it has worked flawlessly over the years. I bought Seagate because of their good reputation in the past but this drive was a severe disappointment. No acknowledgement to date on their web site that they have a problem. Example: You can copy a 4GB image and it will work one time and then fail with a write error the next time. (Delayed Write Failed error) Trying Microsoft article 330174 using a value of 0xFFFFFFFF for system pages did not fix the problem. This is the typical workaround fix for the Delayed Write Failed problem with large capacity drives. I've come to the conclusion there is a basic design flaw with the drive itself.

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  1 Star Review

  Reviewed by: lordboots

  Updated:06-10-05

  Duration of ownership:60 Days

  Strengths: Um, it's fast when it works

  Weaknesses: They have this one-way ticket to shutdown feature, it's called the "sleep" mode. It will NOT come back to life when it sleeps. The host computer must be rebooted to start it back up.

  Overall Evaluation: I've been dealing with Seagate support on this, and they don't seem to care that the drive does this. It's losing data, it shuts down whenever it feels like it, right in the middle of a program using it. Frankly, it's not a hard drive, it's a paperweight. If SeaGate doesn't write a fix for it, I'll make sure to recommend to every company I work for now and in the future to NEVER buy SeaGate drives in the future. What the heck were they thinking when they designed this?Their developers should put down the crack pipe and write proper firmware for their drives.

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  1 Star Review

  Reviewed by: tonycantu

  Updated:06-05-05

  Duration of ownership:7 Days

  Strengths: None

  Weaknesses: I bought one and did not even work. They exchanged it and had a lot of writing errors. Nothing would work. Harddrive overheated and failed.

  Overall Evaluation: I bought one and did not even work. They exchanged it and had a lot of writing errors. Nothing would work. Harddrive overheated and failed. Seagate does NOT have it together with this drive, DO NOT buy!!!

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  5 Star Review

  Reviewed by: erichuang

  Updated:06-02-05

  Duration of ownership:10 Days

  Strengths: Easy to setup

  Weaknesses: No

  Overall Evaluation: I have this thing up and running in 30 minutes. I attached it to my NAS. Since it go through network, I can not tell how good the performance is. The design is very users friendly. Overall quality is good.

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  1 Star Review

  Reviewed by: jddflorida

  Updated:03-10-05

  Duration of ownership:14 Days

  Strengths:

  Weaknesses:

  Overall Evaluation: Kept dropping connection -- disconnection of data transfer (to or from) was proceeded by a muffled thump sound. Returned this product after dealing with this for two weeks -- after reading the other comment on the two bad experiences in a row, I am hesitant to order again. Maybe just a bad design by Seagate.

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  1 Star Review

  Reviewed by: brandon530

  Updated:03-06-05

  Duration of ownership:

  Strengths: packaging is nice.

  Weaknesses: this one has serious defects.

  Overall Evaluation: Oh my god.. this product is very unstable and defective. I have a lot of dvds and movie files, so I bought 3 of them from supply tech. but first one is totally dead in a week with the heavy clank, so I lost all of my datas. second one also clanks and loses it's connection continuously with my pc. I didn't open third one yet, and I don't want to open it. I will return all of them even though I have to pay 15% restocking fee. I can't trust seagate anymore..

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  5 Star Review

  Reviewed by: photodoc

  Updated:02-17-05

  Duration of ownership:5 Months

  Strengths: Excellent capacity with a 16mb cache option

  Weaknesses: not firmware updatable like scsi

  Overall Evaluation: It would be nice to see Seagate offer 4 drive raid systemswith raid 0, 0+5, 5. It should also have high tech coolingtechnology with oversized fans. It should also be equipt with a triple interface. ( firewire400, firewire800, usb 2.0.

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