Is this purchase free of monthly subscription charges as I have found with other external drives?
1059952
Its free, but bad news unit. I have the 1Tb and the backup software Is garbage. Crashed my computer and many others when trying to utilize. Would not buy again for any reason, or tell anyone to do so. Cant believe Toshiba is partner to this outfit.
1059953
No monthley charges...software is pretty much useless but works great for my uses
1059954
I don't know of any additional charges so I would say no. It's a hardware purchase not a service plan and I do not recommend the product. Toshiba has other external hard drives that have worked well for me but not this one.
892179
Most welcome. You might consider getting the 64 GB version of this drive instead of the 16 GB. It will give you a lot more flexibility, and at $24.99 you'll be paying 39 cents/GB instead of 63 cents/GB for the 16 GB drive. Just a thought.
1817811
No I am using it without any subscription. I think the subscription that Adobe is promoting is for cloud storage services, and not the products. I would be very unhappy if they decided my paid for product now required any subscription :)
1841793
It does not. But I concurrently purchased one from amazon or Newegg for a very inexpensive amount (I'm sure it was under 5 dollars). So far, the drive has worked flawlessly.
1978981
No, but you can buy an external drive from Dekcell for $79.95. It works great and is quite compact and easy to transport.
298084
Hi. First 30 days are free than you need to pay a subscription fee of about $15 a month.
192513
updating with the software is there an addtional charge or is it free with this product
1302010
I dont' pay anything. I think the only way you have to pay a monthly fee is if you use there cloud for storage of your documents. I store them on my PC so I don't pay anything. Hope that helps
32939
There is not a monthly fee. You will receive instructions on how to set up your accounts. There are yearly updates that you may purchase if you like but is not necessary for the program to continue to function.
830776
I dont know enough about computer to know how to do that so I didnt play around with the hardware too much. However, im pretty sure that if you use your own PC and memory there will be no charge. I pay like $7.00 a month for the website.
1822531
The unit I purchased came with a 500GB HDD. I don't know if it's offered with other options.
1497948
Unsure, but be advised that while this drive in eco friendly it pays the price in speed, this is a very slow drive. I use it for gentle backups, nothing serious or fast.
382733
First I didn't pay $75 for mine. I paid about $60, including shipping. I'm very satisfied with it; it automatically backs up my computer every night, and just a few days ago I accidentally deleted my Outlook .pst file, which I easily restored from the backup on my WD external drive. I just looked up the WD drive you referred to, and it seems like it would do what's needed for an external drive, and I'd probably buy it. Mine came with easy-to-use backup software; I'm not sure about the WDBUZG5000ABK-NESN. The thinness is/was not an issue for me.
2207817
You are paying for their software, which is arguably the best one. I haven't tried FreeNAS but I would be very surprised if it was better. In any case the enterprise drives are the bigger part of the cost. Also these boxes come with excellent cooling and temperature monitoring.
208721
No. It's not free.Yes. If you so desire, you can have a year's subscription charged to your account.
1278010
I did have the same problem but contacted Amazon support. They were very useful and put a credit the equivalent of the discount on my account. This way, a few minutes later when I was finally able to complete the purchase, the $30 discount showed at check-out and I was able to get the drive at the deal price. You can try contacting them in case they would do the same for you. I received my drive today and am in the process of installing it. Good luck!
1722536
I just leave it connected to my computer and backup once a day using time machine. There's no charge that I'm aware of for the cloud back-up.