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Seagate 400GB Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drive
Conclusion
The Seagate 400GB Pushbutton Backup drive puts an absolutely huge amount of storage in your hands, free to carry wherever you like. I was actually surprised by the transfer rates I could achieve; copying a gigabyte of files in just over a minute through an external interface is very impressive. Obviously you wouldn't want your OS on this drive, but the performance is more than adequate for storing music and movies or to carry files around from place to place. During large transfers, there was a bit more noise than I would like to hear from a device that sits right in front of me on the desk but during small transfers, like playing MP3s from the drive, there wasn't any noise at all. You can pickup the Seagate 400GB Pushbutton Backup drive for about $310 which is actually only a couple bucks more than a 400GB Seagate internal drive. That's actually a really good dollar-per-gig ratio for an external hard drive. So if you need a LOT of portable storage, this drive is a good choice and I recommend you pick one up. Pros Very large capacity Dual option hookup for both PC and Mac Respectable transfer speed Cons Little noisy Bundled backup software is a little clunky
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2 User Comments 1 - Posted by
CTM420
on June 7, 2005 - 5:59 pm This is the stuff that makes an audio engineer giddy like a school-girl. Oh man, gotta love firewire.
2 - Posted by
Guest
on August 3, 2005 - 9:46 am 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/... ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/102-7785672-1312160?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=electronics Add Comment To add a comment without being a member, you may omit the password field, but you must enter your name (or nickname) along with your comment. * Denotes required fields. |
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