You Must Backup Your Seagate Hard Drive By shanks on - Updated Sep 18, 2011
I have been using this drive for past nine months and must say that i am not very happy to have this. I have tried my hands on two other drives also namely Maxtor and Hitachi and here i am giving a comparison of these as i see. Well, in terms of speed this drive is second to none. Boots very fast and data access is also at superb speed. But when it comes to being reliable i will rank this as last. My hard drive crashed just after 6 months of use and believe me its not a good feeling to loss giga bytes of data. But one more thing Seagate does well is at Customer Service. They have centers all over the major cities of the world and i got a replacement to my drive in just 4 days. Again in terms of noise my Seagate product is fine and it is much quite compared to the Maxtor drive. If you own this or planning to buy one just be ready with the data backup and install some cooling system in your computer.
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Thanks for showing us the comparison. It sure comes in useful when we purchase our Hard drive.
What a shame that this crashed after six months but thankfully you were able to get another one within days!
I bought Maxtor and this seagate hard drive is a new product to me. Sad to ear that you lost your precious data in that hard drive, I can understand your frustrations.
Ouch... I don't like data loss, I think I'll pass on this.
If the reliability isn't there, nothing else really matters in a product like this one. Please let us know how your replacement holds up over the long term. I would be interested to hear.
I have had bad experiences with Maxtor in terms of crashes noise and lost data. Seagates and Western Digital have performed much better overall then Maxtor ever could.
The external hard drive that I bought from Seagate, 500 GB FreeAgent, within the first 5 months of using it, has broken and destroyed all the data I have stored on it . I am a student at Penn State University, run my own business, am an avid music lover, and world traveler, and therefore have recently lost much of the content of my life due to Seagates poor manufaturing. By simply bumping the external hard drive ever so slightly at the wrong time, the spindle within that reads your data can be thrown off track and scratch your hard drive to pieces. While Seagates products look and act tough, these characteristics are deceitful. So think again before puchasing one of their products.