bad copy of this external drive, perhaps? kindly advise. Seagate makes the best externals, period, but, b. don't go over ?
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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..
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I am not a tech guy. But, my experience with this drive is simple: it does not work. It looks like it saved the files but then the files are not there.
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I've been using this drive for months and have had no issues with corrupt data. How can you know the data is corrupt?
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Hard to tell, but if the drive was working fine before putting it in the enclosure, then there's a good chance the enclosure is defective. The quality is pretty bad, unfortunately... Same thing happened to me. I complained and got a replacement. Any chance you can put your drive in a different enclosure, to test it?
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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.
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I found that the drives are several years old. I bought a bunch of them (10+) it was a mistake. I tried to get warranty from WD and they did not honor the 5 year warranty and in fact when I returned the drive, they claimed it wasn't manufactured by them. I ended up returning the drive to the seller for a replacement. Don't count on the 5 year warranty, better yet buy it from another manufacturer. I've had too many failures of WD drives in the last year or two. I have switched to Seagate.
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I like their design but drive went down. Looking to replace their Seagate with another manufacturer drive.
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NOT from this seller - I checked both serial numbers on Seagates Warranty Validation page and see "The product you identified was sold as a system component. Please contact your place of purchase for service."I have a failed drive, and no response from the seller - can't send it back to Seagate.. uh oh.
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I have long been a Seagate user, in part because I live in Brazil and both their distribution and support here are excellent, reputable and well-established for many years. My home desktop PC has two Seagate HDDs and I never had any problems with them or their other Seagate predecessors. However, Seagate has been having one serious problem after another in the last couple of years, with many "bricked" HDDs due to serious firmware flaws and other issues. Not only that, it has denied the existence of such problems until the amount of complaints and outcry was too staggering for it to ignore. While those problems happened mostly with their internal HDD models and I have never had any direct experience with their *external* HDDs, I read the user reviews before buying a new external drive, and the FreeAgent Go is having lots of problems, especially messing up Windows' handling of USB ports (or the chipset's, it's not clear) and having unrecoverable write errors in Windows, for which Seagate had not yet offered a solution when I last looked. No wonder that Seagate has had billions in losses in the last quarters, even taking into account the recession, and its stock has plummeted. It has lost a lot of credibility - and sales. Since Toshiba and Samsung external HDDs had even worse complaints (many angry users with "dead" HDDs just after a few months' use), and Iomega drives seemed to be good but were way too expensive and had no service or warranty in Brazil, I went for a WD My Passport Elite (and have just bought an Essential as well). At least so far, working great with no problems at all.
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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.
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Every drive I have ever purchased has been new - and worked great. If I got one that was old or used I would have certainly returned it - and if you are indeed buying new and got used, I would expect that you could contact Amazon for a return.
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Suggest you contact Seagate support. Have had no issues with the drive. Am not using USB interface, connected the device using the SATA connection directly on a Pogoplug device.
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will I loose all my data that is already on the 4GB, or is this an additional drive? I tried to use the Seagate 1TB external Computer drive, but it wouldn't work.
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I am having this problem as we speak. Seagate just finished telling me that they believe the power supply is dead, and the warranty department says we need a new one. Unfortunately, they don't have any in stock, and they "don't know" when they will have then again... maybe a month, maybe more. What the HELL am I supposed to do to access my data until then? DO NOT buy this stupid thing. I had maybe 10 hours of use on the power supply before it died. Seagate told me immediately that the problem was the power supply, so they absolutely know this is an issue. GGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
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I'm sorry. I don't know. I had a drive cloned *for* me. I suggest you contact Seagate. They're awesome.
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ABSOLUTELY. I have been using a pair of 3TB, a pair of 4T and a pair of 1 TB seagates for some time with no problems. I do not use any of their special back-up software. (KIK, Ph.D.)
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I just had a Western Digital 2TB My Book fail miserably (miserably!!! Dead!) after two months. I've never had any other drive fail (and I've used much smaller capacity WD external drives w/out issue in the past). But i'm now a Seagate (1TB Freeagent) user because I won't trust the larger WD's any longer. Once bitten! ;) Since the failure, many of my colleagues have admitted the same type of failure from their WD's and are using Seagates with good results. If you search online, you'll see very mixed reviews with similar negative views of the Seagates, but I can only speak from my own very frustrating experience with my WD. I just had a Western Digital 2TB My Book fail miserably (miserably!!! Dead!) after two months. I've never had any other drive fail (and I've used much smaller capacity WD external drives w/out issue in the past). But i'm now a Seagate (1TB Freeagent) user because I won't trust the larger WD's any longer. Once bitten! ;) Since the failure, many of my colleagues have admitted the same type of failure from their WD's and are using Seagates with good results. If you search online, you'll see very mixed reviews with similar negative views of the Seagates, but I can only speak from my own very... » Read More I just had a Western Digital 2TB My Book fail miserably (miserably!!! Dead!) after two months. I've never had any other drive fail (and I've used much smaller capacity WD external drives w/out issue in the past). But i'm now a Seagate (1TB Freeagent) user because I won't trust the larger WD's any longer. Once bitten! ;) Since the failure, many of my colleagues have admitted the same type of failure from their WD's and are using Seagates with good results. If you search online, you'll see very mixed reviews with similar negative views of the Seagates, but I can only speak from my own very frustrating experience with my WD. « Show Less