Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
Great HD at a great price, December 5, 2008
By
Sam SunsetI purchased this HD to store my iTunes library and connect it to my iMac via Firewire 800. I have many movies that I stream my iTunes library to my Apple TV, so a fast read/write speed and fast connection my my iMac is very important to me. This HD works perfectly and has exceeded my expectations (I notice absolutely no lag time when streaming a movie from my HD to my Apple TV... the firewire 800 connection is blazing fast).
No driver or installation problems. Literally just plug and play.
Works Great, Beautiful, November 15, 2008
By
Curtis Jones (New York, NY USA)
I have two of these drives now - the first for several months now, and the second for about a week - and they're both great. I haven't experienced any problems at all. They look good, they're compact and they work.
Great for Apple Computer's., November 14, 2008
By
Adam Dryden (LA, CA. USA)
It's a great drive for Apple products. I don't own a PC so I wouldn't know for them. Quiet, a lot of Space, and looks good too.
Customers complain the drive freezes. This is due to turning "On" and "Off" the power manually on the drive. I have not had it freeze because I never manually turn the power to the drive "Off", I just shut down my computer.
If you want to use the drive for storage hook it up and store to it. Don't turn the power on and off (via the drives power button). If you use it this way the drive works great.
Works flawlessly., September 9, 2008
By
Marcel VelasquezPerfect for Apple, although, contrary to my expectations, I couldn't get my computer to recognize it while in windows XP mode (dualbooting).
Do NOT believe the marketing, September 9, 2008
By
Bob Leavell (Evansville, IN - USA)
I purchased this device at Best Buy. I paid the extra money, because of the lure of the 3GB/s data transfer rate. I was EXTREMELY disapointed when I realized that the ACTUAL data transfer rate will NEVER exceed about 60 MB/s. I discovered that after being on hold with customer service for about 45 minutes. As the member of tech support informed me, the transfer rate tops out at about 60MB/s. However, that is ONLY if you are transferring files that are several gigabytes in size. If you are transferring a bunch of small to medium sized files, you will get the crappy performance that I received, which equates to a data transfer rate of 3-12MB/s. The 3GB/s, as stated by tech support, is only a THEORETICAL data transfer rate that MAY be available when solid state drives become available. It would be nice if this tid bit of information were on their website, or their packaging.
To their credit:
I purchased this device for a windows PC. Speaking of which, there was no information inside of the box for how to format the drive for windows (why put a windows logo on the outside of the box if you're not going to show how to make it pc ready on the inside???) However, one quick call to tech support showed me how to get it up and running in like 5 mins. Makes me wonder why I had to wait 45 minutes today.
Bottom line, I gave them 1 star, because had I known what I know now, I would not have spent the money to buy this drive to try and get an unattainable transfer speed. With that transfer speed, it will take like 6-8 hours to back up my laptop. That means that I'll be backing up my HD like once a year :(
