Very few reviews at this time. Can anyone update their experience with using this hard drive for storing DVD Movies? And overall performance.
1105331
Can't say anything specific about DVD movies (you mean ripped files?) Performance has been great, just as you'd expect for USB3. I've also tested it's backwards compatibility with USB2 and it was fine. Overall, it's a very simple plug-and-play drive with no issues.
1105332
I have not tried DVD movies but the 50GB of data that I have transferred went well. Only limited by the data transfer speed of the computer apparently.
1105333
Its Fast, and i know that sound sterotypicla, but im using this drive with USB 2.0 PC ports, will this drive is USB 3.0.I Get 25-30MBps on this drive will copying and pasting files, but with USB 3.0 im sure you'll get more.I Store some movies on this drive, and there is nothing to complain about.It works, and i like the sleek design, and oslo be sure to buy the amazon basics portbale harddrive carrying case for it to.I hope this answers you question!
1105334
I have two of these and, while I don't use them for DVD viewing, my wife uses one for taking entire TV series back and forth to work to watch during down time. She is VERY rough on her things and this has held up being tossed in her bag, banged around and dropped. Overall a great buy for the $
1105335
This has been a great device, we have not had any problems with it. Stores heaps of movies and TV series. Just plug in to computer and drag and drop to copy files to it. Plugs straight into the TV or DVD player (if it has a USB port) select input and play movies. Easy!
482507
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.
1251926
They work great for just data backups. They will not burn DVD movie backups for some reason I always get a "Burned Failed" error after my DVD burner burns the movie. So I wasted another expensive DVD DL.
308963
Frankly I have found NO external drive either desktop or portable that have been particularly easy to work with and customer service of all (WD, Seagate, or Toshiba) either don't reply period or if they do it's gooble-de-gook. Seems as though that the hardware is perfectly capable of storing data but retrieving it is another question. The software is totally, absurdly complex. (Ditto thumb drives with password protected sectors. Impossible!) IT folks decry the fact that no one bothers to back up anything. Guess why?
615413
Actually I can copy something to a disk, but I haven't tried to watch movies on this drive. The only thing is sometimes it just can be recognized by my laptop. And I have to try several times to make it to be recognized.
1924374
It performs well. I have an extra one , if you are interested. I actually have 2. Just purchased one with a hard drive so I can record.
1120023
So is better having DVDs for back up?I have a SimpleTech external HD I use to back up my data maybe once a month, I don't use it that often. I have one year with it, it's never failed. But I wonder if I'm only using the external HD for from time to time back up it will last longer or not.
2045776
I use mine as a movie and music drive and works great. Another drive was used for my TimeMachine backup and works great.
150410
I agree with you there. They have started lumping lots of items together. Different versions and disc formats of movies etc.. There is really a big difference in performance and other factors in hard drives. The larger the drive capacity, the smaller the track when you get to the max number of platters. I doubt they can fit any more platters in this form factor and they are now making 5TB drives! I have always stayed away from capacities that are on the cutting edge. I wait for the early adopters to find the flaws.At least they keep the Q & A separate.
955539
I've had mine for a while now and I haven't had any problems. It's a Western Digetal company so it has a good name. I've loaded my 4tb up with Blue Ray movies and I get beautiful results.
580083
This is my first experience with an external drive. I've had no problem with this item. I do suggest you get a larger capacity drive as the prices have been falling lately on the external drives.
545233
Thanks Vito, I have one more question mayby you can answer...The specs on this one say..."Store your music, videos, photos and documents with plenty of space to spare SuperMulti 8X DVD+ with Double Layer Support Play and create CDs and DVDs with this DVD/CD burner drive"...I would like to know if this computer is capable of RE- writing DVDs, or can it only burn them once??? or is this function merely dependant on the type of disk used for any computer??? I am so tecno-challenged!!! Can you tell???Thanksjz
482506
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..
231176
I also purchased this drive as an upgrade for my 40 GB "Thick" PS3 and have not noticed any performance issues at all. I would not imagine that the slower rotational speed and smaller cache of this model is the reason for your issues. The increased data density likely makes up for the difference as more data is read during each rotation. Additionally, this drive (or likely any current model 2.5" HD) is much improved over the stock HD included in the PS3. While not an expert on hard drives, I believe there are a few reasons that you mat have issues: 1. The drive may be hesitating due to occasional thermal recalibration. 2. The drive may be trying to read data that is magnetically weaker, has correctable errors, and/or is re-allocating bad sectors. 3. The drive may be accessing data in a non-sequential fashion (e.g. fragmentation, or remapped sectors). Those are just hypotheses, so what I would do in your shoes is take the drive out and run a diagnostic and/or performance tool like HD Tune Pro. A program like that (or similar) can do a sector by sector read of your HD and show both bad sectors, but more importantly the seek time for each sector. If there are several sectors that significantly under-perform, it may indicate physical problems with your drive or significant remapped sectors. Additionally, tools like HD Tune Pro (or even the freeware version) will show S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic results and health counters to show if there are likely any current or likely imminent problems. Hope that helps and good luck with solving your issues!
1208630
You mean, a hard drive for modern (2013) applications? I used it for a laptop I bought in '08 and my hard drive became too small for my purposes (not enough storage) so I upgraded to this. It worked well for everything I needed it for. Granted, I am maybe a little above average in computer skill and proficiency, but by no means am I a huge techie or gamer. I used it for personal stuff (internet, email, writing), school, work, movies, and music mostly. No complaints from me.
31546
This Hard drive work with No problem. I have Games Movies and music download on this hard drive and would recommend it to other
1128179
Just got mine in hand yesterday, ordered it Monday.....so far so good...hooked it up for the drive to work just to get familiar with it.....seems to be a great gadget. Going to order another one now for my gf for a X-mas gift. Great deal @ $249. I wonder how much more it can go down from here until X-Mas?