Anyone use this as a working hard drive rather than a backup drive? Want to use it for Photoshop Lightroom Libraries!
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There is no magic here. There is a 3.5" SATA HDD inside the case. If you do a web search on 'teardown ST3000DM001' (or whatever model you choose) you can get instructions how to pull out the drive so you can install it inside any system. These are always cheaper than bare drives. Go figure. Of course you are likely to void your warranty in the process.
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I use mine as a movie and music drive and works great. Another drive was used for my TimeMachine backup and works great.
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I use mine as a working harddrive to store my music and photos it works great.
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I use mine for my Ps3 game back ups and movie/program applications. So far so good.
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It would be pretty slow compared to an internal hard drive. You could probably make it work alright if you keep the Lightroom catalog on a faster internal drive, and only used the USB drive to store image files.
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I bought this drive back in May 2014 as a working drive for a Channel Master DVR+ (16GB High Definition) and it works great! I really do not notice a difference between accessing it and the built-in drives in my cable system DVR! Seem pretty fast. Accessing from a computer would depend on the the CPU set in the computer! One good thing I miss is the noise I use to hear with my old external hard drives. It operates very quietly.
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The drive is used for dvd backups and picture storage. When the old drive failed, I purchased another USB 3.0. That didn't help. I recovered almost 1 TB in two days. Then, since I had not yet received the new 3.0 card, I tried using the USB 2.0 to transfer from another backup (a western digital) to the Seagate. In 3 days, I moved about 300 Gb. That was left on 24 hours, too. After I got and installed the new 3.0 (I still doubted the old one), all remaing 500 plus Gb moved in less than 3 hours!. I never measured or recorded the speed. And the old 3.0 USB worked similarly.
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Hi, I'm so sorry, I can't help you: I never, ever use the back up software in these drives, my laptop is already slow and I find it makes it worst, so I copy/updates my files manually. Good luck with yours!
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Yes, I have. There is no problem doing this as these drives are generic. However, the company I bought it from sent me one which appeared new (with new packaging) but tested as having thousands of hours of use on it. The test said it was working just fine but it wasn't a new device. I did not pursue the matter further as I did not intend to put this computer into daily use and it was not worth the hassle.
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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.
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I installed 2 "Seagate Backup Plus 4TB USB 3.0 Black Desktop Hard Drive STCA4000100" and it seems to be working fine. I found it cheaper to pull them from the housings.
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I have the 256 model, same drive. I use it as a bootable backup drive. It works. It's a little sluggish compared to a firewire connection.
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This is a great drive for backup. I have 950gb of pictures,video and other important data. It's small light easy to carry with you. I would not hesitate to buy another. Get it you'll love it!
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Not sure what your question is, but my drive failed repeatedly when I tried to copy the files from an old drive. I sent it back, got my refund, and bought a Seagate. I was using it with an old Mac OSX.
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We bought two of these drives. One we do just that with it. 2 TB for Time Machine & 2 TB for general backup. The other we use with Adobe Lightroom to host our libraries. They are great drives. Very reliable. We had been disappointed with drives from LaCie & MyDisk.
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I am currently using a 2 TB WD My Book for Mac on OSX 10.9.1. It works flawlessly and am very happy with it. I set it up when I was still using Lion. Then upgraded to Mavericks and had no problem.
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You will find only negatives answer questions like this. I've had the 128gb model for over a year. I'm a photographer, i keep my lightroom catalog on it and all of my current working files. I transfer large amounts of data between this and my home network as i work, along with editing the files directly on the flash drive. Bottom line is this drive gets used very heavily. Still going strong.
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I used it as an external drive. Even if you can take the HD out, you still need a sata connecting cable ($8.66 for 2). It has a USB-3 cable which is faster than the conventional USB-2. I wonder why you would pay the price of an external drive and use it as an internal drive, which usually costs less for the same capacity. I bought a WD 4 TB internal drive as D:
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Yes, treat it as a standard removable usb drive, don't run the "backup" software.
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no it's a piece of junk send it back. I tried it in 3 different computers with 4 different drives emailed to me from the company and never got it to work. All I got for the seller was a sorry and to send it back to some place in China at my own expense. also they have poor tech support not really knowing their product.
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p/n: 9tn158-301fw version: cc34if Your looking to get one beware I bought 2 of these and both died within a year. both where used as extended storage drives. need a logic board lol?
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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..