This is the stuff that makes an audio engineer giddy like a school-girl. Oh man, gotta love firewire.

I will assume you were paid well to provide a good review for a drive that is well known for being DOA or that works once and never again. Did you actually use the drive or just look at it? You should edit your review and apologize to anyone who bought one based on your review. I guess it is possible Seagate would send a fixed sample, one that actually works that is, to you.

The first time I used the drive it took several tries for the system to see it. I got errors and it kept powering off. I reformatted it and it was fine after that and I was able to back up my drive.
The second time I used the drive it just started clicking, then it went clank, and then it was dead. End of story, just like that. Now it's on it's way back to Seagate for replacement. I guess I am lucky I found out during a routine backup and not when I needed the data on the drive. I hope the replacement has the problem fixed, but from the reviews at Amazon, I am not going to get my hopes up.
I wish I would have read the reviews on Amazon.com before I bought that drive. Most seem very familiar to the fate of my drive. You should read those reviews, over 90% describe the same problems.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/...
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