Does this drive really damage hard drives? I am reading two recent negative (1-star reviews) both claiming their hard drives fried. Please help!
897449
No, I have had it over a year now and it works fine. You do understand that each button controls a separate hard drive. If you push two buttons, only one will boot your computer and the other one will just run. Just remember to shut your computer down before you restart a different drive.
897450
Been using it for some time and haven't had that problem. I have 5 drives, three which are on all the time and two which I switch between between power offs. Have never had a drive fry.
897451
Hello, I have two and have not had an issue. This is only switch connected between the Power Supply and Hard Drive. If anything these have actually help save selected drives from running unnecessarily when not need. I have 2 of these units that control 12 Hard Drives. No issues in 2 years.
897452
I have been using my unit for 1 1/2 years with no problems. I am happy that I purchased it. As with all electronics, it is possible to receive a bad unit.
897453
i have it for 2 months, and all my drives are ok, i have 4 , one 4tb wd green, 2tb wd green, 256gb seagate, 750 wd green.
1511969
Hi it's a bit confusing, and hard to figure out who you are ordering from on these drives. Did not buy mine from Oceanside. Might want to look at similar drives from Fry's. They have the full warranty.
1128924
That raises the question: What is the "proper packaging" for this drive? And the corollary question: How do you know it when you see it? What I do know is that mine has worked without a qualm since I bought it.
27160
OMG, NO! We had one fail without notice and it was a major problem. We thought the dual drive on ours would be a safe backup system, but the entire drive failed. A service company worked on it and we were fortunate to retrieve most of the data, but it was a very close call and expensive. Now we have TWO separate backup drives on all systems.
1210303
All of my 3 drives failed after over a year. Contact seagate to replace it while in warranty asap. The drives are not designed to be left powered on and accessed all the time. It is really just for backup.
497216
I've purchased two of these. The first one seemed to disconnect if I transferred a lot of data through it; I saw a review stating the included USB3 cable was really cheap and ordered a different one, and it's worked perfectly since swapping the cable. I ordered a second unit (and a second replacement USB3 cable). It still disconnects even with the different cable - to the point that I had to purchase a disk repair utility to recover the files that were on the disk. I haven't contacted support yet to see what they can do. I'd consider this a 'high risk' investment until they can more reliably deliver a stable product. I've purchased two of these. The first one seemed to disconnect if I transferred a lot of data through it; I saw a review stating the included USB3 cable was really cheap and ordered a different one, and it's worked perfectly since swapping the cable. I ordered a second unit (and a second replacement USB3 cable). It still disconnects even with the different cable - to the point that I had to purchase a disk repair utility to recover the files that were on the disk. I haven't contacted support yet to see what they can do. I'd consider this a 'high risk' investment until they can more... » Read More I've purchased two of these. The first one seemed to disconnect if I transferred a lot of data through it; I saw a review stating the included USB3 cable was really cheap and ordered a different one, and it's worked perfectly since swapping the cable. I ordered a second unit (and a second replacement USB3 cable). It still disconnects even with the different cable - to the point that I had to purchase a disk repair utility to recover the files that were on the disk. I haven't contacted support yet to see what they can do. I'd consider this a 'high risk' investment until they can more reliably deliver a stable product. « Show Less
632287
I have heard of this issue in ASUS laptops, but have not experienced any kind of Drive failures in mine. Though Ive only had mine for a little over a year now. Sorry to hear about that, hopefully you can recover the data.
1995473
Hi D. Petitpas,I was wondering if anyone would ever reply to my post. I didn't know that these drives were shipped pre-formated and I don't think that it is listed in it's description here on Amazon. Thank you so very much for setting me straight!
1308907
I can't speak for my experience with hard drives on Amazon, but I've dealt with other items I wanted to order that were under review and they were only unavailable for a few days. Also, a certain hardware website named after an item a chicken produces has these drives for the same price right now, if you're dead set on this drive. A lot of us have had bad experiences with them, so I am not comfortable advising people to take the risk, but it seems more people have had success than failure. And of course, Amazon has a decent return policy so you can put the drive through its paces and return it if they have problems, if you're willing to do so. Good luck!
1089816
I can only tell you about my experience - I was in the process of transferring files to the drive. The transfer stopped about an hour in, and my system no longer recognized the drive's existence. Rebooting did not help. I also tried the drive on other computers, and they failed to recognize the drive also. The return process was fairly painless and my refund was processed very quickly.
1210078
Hi fellow amazon customer, i attached the the hard disk and i got no response from it. Probably the one is recieved got damaged, im in the process of returning it.
777950
I have been using the this drive for several months and I have had no buzzing noises. I would be concerned about that. Sounds like there may be an issue with the drive. I had one of the book drives start dropping out like it was getting disconnected then it finally just died. I had it for about 4 years before this happened though and had already purchased another one a couple of months before the old one died. The one I have now seems to be working fine but I am not sure I would buy another one.
482506
I have been loking around for an external drive, and I've noticed they all fail! IMO the best way to gois to have 2 of the drives and do a periodic copy of each to each. I have a free agent on my mac and it has been working perfectly, but I am looking for a drive to back up between a PC and a mac. Two cheap drives may be more reliable than a single more expensive, since they all fail and you cant "pay out" of the uncertainty. Change that: Buy two expensive hard drives and dont even fool with the Seagates..
973627
So far, for me, when the computer sleeps, it disconnects the drive. When it wakes, it mounts it again. Sometimes, it just disconnects and reconnects for me while I am working. :(
1210305
I have not had any trouble at all with mine. However, I will admit that I only use it as a backup drive and it is only on about once a month for the length of time it takes to back up the drive it is linked to.
1697049
The 1st unit we purchased about a year ago did the exact same thing! It was broken. Sent it back and got new one that worked fine. I am betting yours is defective too. We now have 4 of these units setup and they work great. One note is that the 1st drive can't seem to be over 1.5 tb to work correctly with our windows systems. Some sorry of windows problem. So we setup drive 1 as 1.5tb & the other 3 drives are 3tb each.
1502981
Hi, unfortunately I'm not able to ensure how long it would last but I can tell you, I've been dealing with Seagate drives for years and I have never had a problem. I've been using this particular one for a couple of months now and it has been working perfectly. It is powered externally, not thru the USB, that's one thing that guarantees a better performance and long-lasting life.