Worst packed HD ever recieved!
937326
This low marks are for the packaging and how I recieved my hard drive.  It was mailed in a book mailer with no padding what so ever.  I would suggest if anyone buys a hd to specifically tell them to put it in a box with padding.
3156160
This was a terrible dissapointment! My almost 10 year old Toshiba M672 was finally starting to act funny so I decided to make a change.  I bought this one, a bit high-end, but figured "you get what you pay for".  Yikes!  After the initial set up a brand new, cracked open commercial tape (also bought from Amazon), got stuck in the machine and the only way to get it out was to unplug the whole machine from the wall!  On/off button wouldn't even fix the problem!  Not at all user friendly either.  I sent it back and opted for a Mitsubishi HD, 2002 model which I got at Fry's Electronics.  An open-box special for $179.99!  Upon careful shopping, I realized that when this unit came out it cost $300.00 to $400.00 dollars.  So, I got quite the bargain. !It works great!!!  Don't waste your time with this Panasonic model!
2214576
I bought this item as a back up so havn't been really using it. Just testing it out and it is actually only has capacity of 32 GB ONLY! even the print on it said 128 GB!! This is either a scam or Sandisk mess up. Never gonna buy Sandisk again, this is outrageous.
4589447
Crap !!
Does not work with any of my HDD ...
Will not recommend it to any one, do yourself a favor and -
DO NOT BUY
1718899
I only give this product one star because, zero is not an option! The product arrived in a highly tattered box that looked kicked around a warehouse. But far beyond the packaging, the actual DVD unit although looks fine won't play a single Disk!! All the retail movies in my collection, as well as my own burned versions. Which are all in different formats DVD+R , DVD-R , DVD RW..
I should also mention I have two of the exact same units in different rooms in the house. And neither of them ever malfunction ever! However; they were purchased brand new in presentable looking boxes from brick and mortar stores.
So buyer beware if yours arrives in decent condition it should function well. I have high expectations for Sony electronics. But this disappoints on every level, it would have been ok if it had a few scratches, but functioned fine. Sadly this isn't the case.. very REGRETTABLE PURCHASE !
549094
I'm calling it quits with this hunk of crap. I am sick of losing data due to "disc access errors". I just lost THREE STRAIGHT DVDs including the filming of my daughter's first Christmas. And what is Sony's solution to this problem? They refer me to a data recovery service that wants to charge me $400+ PER DISC to get my data back. I don't usually take the time to write reviews, but people must be warned. Thanks for nothing, Sony.
3104413
It does not deserve any star at the rating. I had two Mybook 500 GB essential, 1 died after a year and 2 months, sent to Ontrack Data Recovery, could not retreive anything at all. The other drive just gave up on me 3 days ago, the drive was about 10 months old, I've called and emailed Western Digital for support, I have not hear anything from them for the past 2 days, their customer support is a nightmare.  I need my data back badly.
BTW, The drive has only 1 year warranty. I just don't trust all these external drive now aday, they don't last very long, I just use these drive for temp storage, then back them up to DVD instead.
I will never never never ever ever ever buy WD drive again.
624242
Upon delivery everything seemed fine until disks were used, at first i thought it was just the region code but upon further inspection and when played on the right region code disk video files were still corrupt.

I also bought book 3 from this seller and had the same problem.

I do not recommend buying this item from this seller.
1977681
this is the first and last Seagate hdd I will ever own.  I had the brand new 3TB hdd plugged in and formatted without bloatware crap and proceed to fill it with files.  about 750GB into the fill I get error and now it won't spin up anymore  with some buzzing sound. internet search suggests stuck spindle.  Basically COMPLETE DATA LOSS  bull s***  how can you not make the damn things correctly by this point in the game  you sell big ass hdds with puny little spindles inside  make quality product to protect or files or just get out of the business  this is apparently a common problem with seagate after I read up on the problem.  I am sticking with western digital they have yet to let me down  the money means nothing to me it is the loss of the files that really pisses me off and that will lead to loss of income for Seagate as I am always buying storage and will NEVER trust them again
4897279
This drive (128GB) does not seen to live up to it standards, first thing I did to test capacity is to load it up to capacity, which it fail, my files kept on disappearing, to make everything re appear, I had to remove drive and plug it in again, so I decide to reformat the drive and not use FAT32, still the same, so far I loaded up about 64 GB some of my videos plays in my PC, I tried to load up the files in another device and I got the warning that the drive is damaged and can not be read...for a USB 3.0 is very slow, will keep testing it a little more and if still does not performs at it should, I guess I will have to return it back.
4691542
Dont just read my product review look at every single blog online, SEAGATE IS THE WORST, their products are TERRIBLE and the customer SUPPORT is GARBAGE.

literally hours after i got the product, it accidentally came unplugged, nothing was being uploaded or downloaded. And NOW my computer doesnt recognize the external hard drive, it just continues to blink.
The fact that unplugging it without "Properly unplugging" is Ridiculous, that SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN, THIS is 2012 damn it. WTF!
Seagate, well lets see if they can get my 200gb of FILM that cant be replaced, its PRICELESS, i tried doing a RESCUE & REPLACE service plan after i registered my product and they cant find it...
Im going to call them tomorrow and honestly if they don't make shit happen, well SHITS about to DROP lol... wow im so pissed
1192210
Amazon's packing is still insufficient for a hard drive.  Hard drive was wrapped in one layer of bubble rap facing down on the bottom of the box with nothing beneath it.  Although on top there were 3 air packets.  But this only prevents the hard drive from sliding around, not from any impact.  With the way shipping is handled you don't know what could have happened to your hard drive.  This could cause hard drive failure and im not sure about whether to trust it or not.  Honestly I would not buy a hard drive from amazon again.  But the hard drive itself is nice, especially with 32mb of cache.

UPDATE>>>>>>>
5 months in a this hard drive is dead as a rock.  Does not respond whatsoever.  I blame this on the poor packaging.  Be wary of purchasing this from amazon.
126577
I have the 500GB version of this Seagate drive.  What a colossal disappointment -- after just a mere 10 minutes or so of non-use, the drive spins down.  It's a six-to-eight second wait for the drive to spin back up for the most trivial of tasks, such as a displaying a file open or save dialog.

THAT was aggrevating.  But what is infuriating is the Seagate's unreliability!  Just a couple of months into use it died with a badly corrupted directory.  Reading through the comments here and on this model with other size drives I see that this experience is common rather than unusual.

I never bought Seagate before, but I had thought it had a good reputation.  I'll never buy Seagate again!
404161
What a bad experience!!

I am an IT consultant, I bought so many of the Synology products, few months ago we found the response to open any TIFF files is very very slow, we changed the network switch to all Gig ports, and it did not help!, we opened a case, and regardless we could not speak to anyone we sent email, they emailed back, asked us if we can test with SSD HD!, and we did, on my expense I boght another similar Synology and SSD but it was the same bad performance, and finally after few months Synology admits it is bug on the code with the TIFF files and they will try to fix it, but no fix date, and I almost lost my client forever.

Even after few months they have no ETA on the fix date, Synology do not care about you as customer, I will try another brand.

Keep away from Synology

I can provide full trail of the email case, with case # etc
3279169
This is my second attempt to get a good drive.  The first unit delivered reported 1.28TiB from my attempt to format it with GPartEd on my Ubuntu 16.4 system.  I sent it back via an RMA and have received another drive, with the same problem.

I am making some boneheaded mistake, or are these drives really much smaller than advertised?
1111782
I have a 4tb drive I use on my xbox one and it's been working great, no problems.  I bought this for my Wii U and it died within a couple of hours of use.  I can't believe how crappy it is.  It not only died, but got a head crash.  I'm returning it for a refund and have already ordered a Western Digital as a replacement.  Don't waste your money on this.
1546752
Seller shipped a USED drive.  Date code 07475 corresponds to 2007-05-27.  The drive was 8 YEARS OLD!!  Totally misrepresented the product!  Should be banned from Amazon.  I spent an  entire day installing new OS, applications and network configuration.  Drive failed within 24 hours.  Totally dead drive.  Drive would not even run Seagate DOS test program.  What a mess.