Customer Reviews:
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 Works Flawlessly September 5, 2010
D. Cruise (California)
I personally bought this item (the 640 gig model) for simply backing up music and pictures. Upon arrival, I plugged it in via the USB cable and Windows 7 recognized it and opened it. I then copied the folders I wanted to back up, hit paste in this drive, and about an hour later 60 gigs of music and pictures were saved onto a device barely larger than my iPhone.
No muss, no fuss. If you intend to use this as a full-time external hard drive, then I suppose you'd want to get the Seagate software to avoid the drive going to sleep issue I've seen other reviewers comment about. But if you have a ton of music, pics, and/or general stuff such as documents, spreadsheets, etc. etc. and would like to have all of them somewhere safe should your computer ever go belly-up, how much more can you ask for?
This device is simple, portable, and rather fast for only operating off the USB power supply. A definite 5-star rating.
 It's very slow when it was idle for 10+ minutes September 2, 2010
Manuel Castro (Medellín, Colombia)
The drive it's as advertised and all you expect (small, easy to connect, decent transfer), but what I really don't like is the slow response after the PC has been idle for several minutes, for being and external drive I expected a faster response, but sometimes I have to wait for 5 minutes for the drive to save a simple Word document, and sometimes I even have to retry.
 Either defective out of the box or needs a Y-Cable To Get Power August 30, 2010
Nick Trojan (USA)
Tried this drive on four different machines out of the box - 3 Macs, 1 PC. Result was the same for all - power light came on, the drive was never recognized. I followed the advice of one reviewer on here and waited for several minutes to see if the drive would show up, to no avail.
Went to the Seagate forums to see if there was anything I could do and read this:
"If your drive is powered from the USB port, try using a Y-cable, if not already.
A single USB port is current limited to 500mA. Your drive requires around 850mA to during spin up, and about 400mA thereafter. Sometimes you need to pick up power from two USB ports via a Y-cable."
If that's the case, why not include a Y-cable with the drive in the first place??? Just doesn't make much sense.
Or, as I said, it might have been defective. But, as it just plain didn't work out of the box for me, returning it and probably won't buy Seagate again.
Idiot-Proof August 30, 2010
Miho Toyha
While I have techno-joy, my sister has techno-fear and needed a straightforward way to store her pictures, music, papers and what have you while I wasn't around.
It was totally plug and play, she had no trouble simply dragging and dropping.
Write-speed was reasonably fast, even for her volumes of stuff.
Small, lightweight and totally portable (unlike some of those bricks),
I loved that it ran off the 5V on the USB (no extra cables),
and in her words, "OMG it is so totally cute!"
Seems pretty durable - we'll see how it holds up after this semester.
Great deal August 29, 2010
Matt
Fast transfer speed, very compact and easy to use. Great price. Haven't owned it long enough to comment on reliability, but so far so good!
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