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Seagate 400GB Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drive
Introduction
How many times have you needed to transfer some files from your work PC to your home PC; or vice versa? You can email files if they aren't too large, or you can burn a CD or DVD. Maybe you even have a flash drive. Well those are all great ways to move files so long as they aren't very large. But if you have a need to move some really large files, or just large amounts of files, then you really need an external hard drive. One such beast, and I do mean beast with its 400GB of storage, is the Seagate 400GB Pushbutton Backup external hard drive. It's called Pushbutton as you can kick off a backup job simply by pressing the button on the face of the drive. The drive comes in both USB-only and a dual USB-Firewire version to meet your needs. With that kind of capacity and connectivity, this drive sure sounds like a winner. So keep reading as I find out if it has the performance to match.  
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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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