Looks great but failure caused FAT corruption on HD
593616
Ended up having to return this unit.  It worked for 5 minutes, then the drive cut out on.  When it returned, the computer claimed FAT was no longer valid or corrupt.  I confirmed that the drive's FAT was no longer valid by placing init in another drive bay.  40GB of data lost.  I subsequently placed a known blank drive in this bay only to find that the computer was having issues finding it when plugged into the computer.  I'm not sure if this is due to others claiming the the USB port is not drawing enough power or if I need to have a USB cable with a induction block.

I did however like the look and weight of the drive.  It would have made carrying it in the bag nice.  The addition of the small screw driver was convenient as well.
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
659769
After not even a full week of using it as for a ubuntu lts server and just letting the computer do its thing in the corner undisturbed, the drive started to fail. When doing some maintenance I noticed some errors that were being caused by corrupted data and the errors leading to the impression that it was the drive. Checked the smart data and it was really bad for not being a week old (would still be considered fairly bad had it even been in use for a while longer) did a surface scan and found multiple bad sectors.
Gonna return the drive and just get a smaller ssd since hdds always seem to fail way to fast.
126482
Not sure what happened but the card failed. Luckily I keep everything backed up. Still a pain though. Now I am waiting on a different 32gb.
4352248
I purchased the VTX-25SAT3-120G drive about 2 months ago and installed it in a totally new system with name-brand parts running Windows 7. On the second day of having the OS up and running, the PC rebooted and gave me a general "OS not found" message from the BIOS. Upon investigation, the OCZ drive was not showing up in the BIOS. I finally powered the PC off and back on, went back into the BIOS, and the drive was there. I also had to edit the boot order to get things back running. After making those changes, the OS loaded OK.

The same problem happened 3 more times during the next few days, so I updated the motherboard BIOS. I thought this would fix the problem, and the system was stable for a couple of weeks.

Last night, however, the PC got really laggy and finally bluescreened which it had never done befor. I hit the BIOS again and saw the same problem as before with the drive not showing up.

After I got the OS running again, I checked the Windows sytem log and found a few general disk errors for that volume a couple of minutes before the BSOD (blue screen of death).

After this recent problem and finding plenty of refernces to this drive and BSOD, I will contact the vendor. I would not buy this drive again. If not not this problem with the drive, I'd give it 5 stars as it's really fast.
2021944
This started to click then died two weeks past warranty date.  WD said they would replace it but not recover the data, come to discover that costs $250 to assess and hundreds more to perform data recovery...  I lost Everything. Experts later told me the smaller the drive and the more data on it the more fragile it is.  WD has a rep for failing, look at YouTube for how to repair a passport....  Have been advised to seek alternatives, But, if you must, Please, at the first sign of a click noise please copy it to something else before it dies.  And get it serviced asap.
2159041
I experienced similar problems as others.  Drive failed very quickly after purchase.  Wrote to the company and jumped through a bunch of hoops trying to fix it, to no avail.  They were not willing to issue a replacement without my sending the old one back, which is not unreasonable except that I have very sensitive data on the drive and cannot delete or reformat the drive (despite downloading their programs and doing other heroic measures).  They had no other solution except (a) keep an unusable drive and lose my money, or (b) send us your sensitive data and we'll send you a new one.  I offered a few ideas that they wouldn't listen to.  Truly disappointing when a company is so inflexible and won't stand by the quality of their products.  *sigh*.
4107228
I cleaned the hard drive and it wouldn't reboot. Customer support offered to help me fix the problem, but for 35 bucks since the warranty was over. Kind of disappointed me since it was a product failure, I felt they should have helped me for free. especially since it could be done over the phone.
1627977
They look great. And clients always are happy with how cool they are. BUT every other one has gotten corrupted.
Literally every other one. Which is super annoying.
My computer had to run for three days straight just to compress a ZIP file and then upload it to send it to a client who had two corrupted USB drives.
4870532
Installation was easy.  The instructions were easy to follow.  There is a noticeably decrease in boot time.  I was a little worried about the crash problems.  But the rebate made it worth giving it a shot.  I am extremely happy so far (just one day).

Update:
I've had this hard drive almost a year now. Chkdsk runs about 2-3 times a month.  I get a blue screen once or twice a month.  I've lost some data due to file corruption.  I backup more frequently because I'm afraid it may crap out completely one day.
I don't think I would buy this again.  I'm thinking of switching back to standard hard drive.
2851085
For the short time I had the drive it worked very well. Then it got corrupted (99.5% sure this was my fault) and I haven't been able to use it since.
1548683
It has been a great external hard drive with great ease in use from one computer to another. However I knocked off the desk and it wiped everything clean. Not sure if I trust it anymore. My data recovery tells me it is now corrupt.
468126
1TB hard drive included has failed! All stored data saved is no where to be found. The hard drive is not appearing as a formattable device. Company I installed for is very disappointed, especially because there was 2 robberies while the device was inoperable! Now I have to eat the cost, due to short return window. Overall, system runs great, good video quality. But a bum hard drive does no good!
2679607
Guys.. I give it a try with imageburn and with the option of "force overburn everuthing" was ok. I'll try with "trunck" today. Dont worry about oversized iso files.
3761987
The end result is quite good.  Installation instructions are less than comprehensive. If you're replacing the hard drive in a Windows laptop that has some mileage on it, you can avoid some backtracking by checking the drive for errors first. Check all partitions on the drive. Installation will fail if there are sector or cluster errors which could be corrected beforehand. This can save hours. Note also that errors found in free space can be ignored, but only once they are found.  In any case expect the process to take hours - check progress periodically.
788660
For the first 2 years and 7 months I owned this I used it to back up all my important files, which equaled approximately 200GB. And up until the day before this writing I'd have given the product 5 stars. A short while ago, however, I noticed the drive was unreachable with the error that the data was corrupted and its blue LED light was blinking. Using the steps at Seagate to attempt to fix the issue, it seems that the device is dead according to the company: "If that does not correct the behavior, and if the drive is also not detected by your computer, the blinking light is probably a symptom of a larger problem. If those steps do not return the drive to correct function, it is very possible, even probable, that the drive has failed and needs to be replaced."
375153
Works great but I have to re-install the software fairly often. My HDD?
Error screens do not tell what is wrong. The text on them is not pertinent.