Has anyone taken this apart and see what maker of the HDD is? WD/Seagate/Hitachi/Samsung? Thanks.
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taking apart will void the 3 year warranty and there is a seal that would be destroyed if attempt.
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Yep. After using it initially, I couldn't get windows to see it any more so took it apart. The drive is a Toshiba, which gets great ratings on drives. The problem with the errors could be a windows USB3 driver. Still not sure. Might re-assemble it to see if anything has changed.
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I don't recall. The laptop completely died within a month of installing this drive. The drive worked fine, the power supply died. I no longer have it so can't look and see what the Brand name was. /sorry
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I am migrating to the WD Red drives. I have the 3 TB versions and will start using the 4 TB versions as I upgrade. I had Seagate Barracuda 2 TB ST2000DM001's installed and they have been failing VERY consistently. I deployed the Seagate's at work in a DS1511+ and have had similar issues with them there. I am replacing them with WD Reds. I wanted the higher spindle speed of the Seagate's but to have them failing so much I'm never using them again. Thankfully I recovered before we had a catastrophic failure.
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Hello Malenda, I don't have that answer I am sorry. But you can probably contact the Company they are pretty good at answering Questions. :-) http://seagateproducts.com/ I just know it works great for my Family and I. Have a Blessed Day
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I bought the Hewlett Packard 15k sas drive not seagate. I wish I had bought that brand though
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I don't know the actual manufacturer and I don't know how to determine that without removing the drive from the case. I do know that there has been a change in the disc description. I have a number of older drives and they are identified as "Fantom HDD Media". However, the two newest ones I got are identified as "JMicron Generic Media". That may mean nothing, but I am concerned about who makes the drives now. I sent in a request to Fantom to find out what this change means but I never got a response. Manufacturers like OWC (MacSales) are very open about the exact drives that are installed. Just for the record, I have had three hard drives crash and are totally useless - two from OWC, one from Buffalo. So, far I have had no problems with the Fantom drives but I have owned them for much less time. Unfortunately, hard drives do not last forever. Just to be sure, you need more than one backup.
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This external hard drive contains a SATA-2 5400 rpm hard drive with a 8mb buffer.I would tell you the model number but it gets deleted when I post it.I would tell you how I know for sure but that gets deleted also.So in other words you just need to use your noodle and seek out the info you need; there are ways but this will probably get deleted to so what's the point in all of this?PS I Bought this thing and I have hands on experience with it!
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SATA. Brand? Based on it uses a SATA interface, I would go with a brand your familiar with. Western Digital is my #1 choice for most of my things. Or Seagate.
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Sorry, I can't find that info in my booklet. Try going to the Seagate website.
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I need to swap the print circuit board, since PC cannot detect this drive any more. I have tons of data on this drive that needs retrieval. So I placed another order again. Hope I will get exact model as I bought in Nov, 2010. The model I received last time is also WD20EARS-00MVWB0. Can someone report what's their model number now, if they bought it recently? Thank you. I will report mine once I get it on Monday.
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First: do not open the drive until you check the warranty with WD. If the drive was made for HP or Dell good luck. Since my drive was still sealed I was able to send it back to the seller and they paid shipping. If I had to buy another drive I will go to Newegg.com.
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Could you plz put the HDD drive out from the device to check if there is problem with the HDD drive? Also plz check the HDD cable is well connected to the HDD drive?If you want to reset the device, you could go to the "tool" OSD menu to reset it.
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Mine was just a drive in a box. However, Seagate drivers are online with good support, especially Seagate Tools, which is why I prefer this brand.
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Well once it is complete you can navigate to the seagate drive through finder and try to open the files to verify they are there. How it is done? I still have not gotten it to work, but seagate sent me some info because I have had trouble. Check seagate's website.
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Send it back, it's defective. They shipped out a lot of defective ones... esp. around December for the holidays when they were on sale. I suspect while they were on sale & they were selling lots of them, they put inferior drives in them to increase their profit margin.
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i agree seagate is not even worth looking at now just taking up shelf space. i have older maxtor, WD and other drives and still running good. I got a seagate from an expensive company that sells decent computers but after 1st power up of a 1tb single disk plugged it in and drive shut down and stopped working. i got a WD for almost the same price.
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Save your receipt. I have had to obtain warranty service in the past, and unless you have a dated sales receipt they go by the date of manufacture. I happened to purchase a drive that was on a shelf for several months after it was manufactured. WD honored without any grief the sale date on the receipt.