Customer Reviews:
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 No problems. July 26, 2010
C. Amico (Camarillo, CA United States)
This is a great product. I have had no problems with is so far. It's quiet & quick, what else do you need? I would buy another if I needed it.
I love this drive July 1, 2010
Maynard Handley (Pasadena, CA United States)
I've owned a lot of hard drives over the years, and this 1TB unit from acomdata has to be my favorite.
Let me count the ways.
- It's small, much smaller than the competition
- It has a nice clean shape that stacks easily, not the weird curves and bulbs of some drives
- It runs very cool and very quiet
- It handles power cycling well --- it sleeps when it's not in use, and wakes up when it's needed, without balking. (You might think this is trivial, but I've had multiple drives from other vendors that have a 10% chance of hanging themselves when they wake from sleep.)
- It delivers the performance I expect (over USB 2, so not great, but what can you do). I don't have an eSATA port, so I can't comment on its eSATA performance.
- Really, my only complaint is that I wish it included an FW800 port
One more thing. When I bought this, it was the only drive at the time that was smart enough to include correct instructions for how to format the drive for a Mac (which involves a non-obvious process of changing the partition type from MBR to GUID). All the competitors either did not care about mac, or were too stupid to include a slip of paper in their box explaining this procedure --- they'd rather eat the tech support calls and returns. This indicates to me a company slightly more "with it" than their competition.
I've had this drive what, over two years now, and it continue to delight me --- the one drive in my sea of drives that has never once given me reason to complain.
I see a few people complaining that their drives failed, and I don't know --- maybe I was lucky, or maybe the manufacturer switched from WD to Seagate drives as the internal drive? All I can say is that the model I bought, quite some time ago, is fantastic.
Saving me at work June 15, 2010
Judith Herwer (Port Townsend WA)
Had a back up that my boss used that had died unexpectedly, and had on the same day, another hard drive that our bookkeeper used that was not compatible with his new computer. Ordered 2 of this hard drive and had it within 3 days, plugged them in, and bingo everyone was back to being able to back up daily with no training or hassles. The price is more than fair and shipping was quick.
 Didn't work right out of the box May 17, 2010
Dave A. Wandrocke
I too was excited to get this drive. Plugged in and followed all the instructions to the letter. (not the first USB drive I have used either). The drive made the familiar searching sounds and then nothing. I tried everything without any luck to get it to be recognized on my Win XP System. Returned the drive for another one; waiting for the new one to arrive to see if I get the same results. :( I hope it was just a fluke and the new one works great. The only reason for this review is there seems to be a pattern with the drive not working at all. I hope I don't regret purchasing this drive.
UPDATE: 5/20/2010
Amazon.com was fantastic getting the replacement drive to me in 3 days..Totally Awesome. Unfortunatly it was bad as well. It worked at first, or at least I thought was working. I noticed the light was staying red not the blue it showed on all the packaging and it really seemed much slower then my other USB 2 drives. Checking the drive with MS check disk, I was told the drive needed to be formatted and this was after I had transferred some files on to it. I thought that was strange, but nonetheless I decided to reformat it anyway. After more then 6 hours of formatting a pop up window told me the drive couldn't be formatted. I tried both NTSF and Fat 32 with the same results. I have used many portable hard drives on the computer without any problems at all. This drive was by far the worst one I have ever experianced. I am returning this 2nd drive for a refund and I have ordered the Iomega 1tb esata/usb drive instead. I hope this review helps someone else avoid the problems I have had with this drive.
I do wish to say Amazon has been great with their easy return process... KUDOS Amazon.
SERIOUSLY I LOST EVERYTHING April 29, 2010
H. Herrera
I thought all my stuff was nice and safe in this thing and after a month. NOTHING.
I'm so maddd!
it worked fine for a bit but who cares if it's gonna erase your stuff!
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