Any issues with mounting/ re-mounting this drive often?
894555
none. I have had no problems with mounting/ re-mounting this drive. I recommend this drive to anyone
178452
I have 5 of these drives in a Sans Digital RAID box configured as two 2TB RAID 1 drives with a hot standby replacement drive. I've been running almost two years with no problems. I chose the lower spin rate (5400RPM) to be more reliable. I use the RAID 1 drives for backup/archive of other computers.
1830766
Graham, In my experience, I have good luck with the Seagate drives in that model. Their reliability seems to be fairly good, in my estimation.
1502980
It's hard to say. I've had varied experience with Seagate drives. Some have lasted 7 or 8 years; and one lasted only 2 years. I've only had this one for a few months. I don't take chances. I back up my computers daily to this drive; and I back it up monthly to another large drive that I keep away from the house.I hope this helps.
607375
I have a Synology DS1812+ with eight standard Seagate 3TB desktop drives, and a five bay expansion chassis with five of these Seagate 4TB NAS drives. Over the past two or three years that it's been running, I've had to replace about 5 of the 8 desktop drives, but not one single one of the NAS drives. Now as the desktop drives are failing, I'm replacing them one at a time with the NAS drives, as I can't afford to keep buying new drives every 3 months or so, since most of the drives are out of warranty now. Even though these may cost a few bucks more up front, they certainly save me money in the long run, since they are better designed to handle the heat and 24 hours/day usage of a typical NAS. I feel much more confident with the data that is on these drives than the data on the desktop drives, since these drives seem to fail so much less frequently (at this point, I can't even give you a comparison since not one of these has ever failed, yet - knock on wood).
962536
I've used this drive for back-ups for all of my files (about 350-40 GB), and I haven't noticed any heat issues. You should be ok.
1502977
It's hard to say. I've had varied experience with Seagate drives. Some have lasted 7 or 8 years; and one lasted only 2 years. I've only had this one for a few months. I don't take chances. I back up my computers daily to this drive; and I back it up monthly to another large drive that I keep away from the house. I hope this helps.
580083
This is my first experience with an external drive. I've had no problem with this item. I do suggest you get a larger capacity drive as the prices have been falling lately on the external drives.
1992832
I have been using G-Technology drives (various models) every day for over two years without any problems. Solid build.
1590998
sure be ok. it is ok when i use the 1Tb. but it is better that you check with the Seagate service team
2156759
Using 5 drives without redundancy is just asking for problems... I would venture to say that one of those drives is going to fail within a year. I have a 2x 2GB RAID1 system for the past 4 years, and had to re-sync them once. In the last 15 years I've had ~5 drives crash or get corrupted. Never again will I leave valuable data in only one drive.
806380
I haven't had any problems with any of the 3.5" drives I have tried. I think I have a Western Digital Green 1Tb in one and a 1.5Tb in the other at the moment (I have two, one for my main drive, the second for my backup).
962629
I have 3 TB drives in a raid 5 configuration. No issues yet. We use it primarily for time machine backups.
2128624
I bought 2 units with 2 Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 7200 RPM 3.5-Inch drives 7 months ago. Both of the drives have been running 24/7 non stop without any issues.
1362910
I have had no problems, not close to max storage. I have one for each of my computers, a PC & a laptop.Not sure this helps but it's all I know to say
1528892
Hasn't been a problem. I have a 2012 MacBook Air if that helps any. I even washed this drive and it still worked after. With no issues.
926434
Although I don't own this particular drive, I am here as I am looking to buy this one also to add to my two other Seagate 500gb Freeagents that I already have that have been working flawlessly for me for over 12 months now. I honestly think that your experience was most likely caused by a faulty unit. Without knowing your computer configuration (windows, mac or linux) it's hard to say if any extra steps would need to be taken to set it up, but for a windows or linux based pc it should be simply plug and play in my experience. As you see on this site, there is only one bad review of the product. If you think about how many of these must get sold every year, one bad review is pretty good as almost everybody will take the time to complain, but very few will come back to write a positive review as a working product is what most people expect. So I guess the short answer from me is yes, I would give this drive a second chance, but then again, i may be biased by my great experience. I hope that this is of some help to you..