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(More customer reviews)I can only say, very dissapointed! At first I was lured to this HD due to its capacity, 880 Gb, but very dissapointed after testing it. Physical details, the HD is thick, about 3/4in and about the size of a 3.5in desktop HD. At the back, there are several tiny holes from where the LED power light will go through, telling you the HD is connected.
I wanted to use this HD on a Macbook Pro. On November 2009, I bought one for about $129.00, connected to the mac and the HD immedialtely died, the indicator light on the HD immediately start blinking and that was the end of this HD. I tried plugging it to a PC and no luck so I returned the same day.
On February 2010 I decided to give it another try, since it was on sale, $109.00. I first connected it to a PC, let the HD and pre-loaded software do their think and then proceeded to reformat the HD on the PC. After this I plugged it on to a Mac, reformated the HD to be mac compatible, and used it as a Time Machine backup HD. A month went by, so far so good, I was backing up my mac via Time Machine every week or so. (Up to this time, the LED indicator on the HD was always on when the HD was plugged in)
After a month this HD died, I wasn't able neither to enter Time Machine nor to access the data backed up in the HD. At this point, the LED indicator of the HD would dim and light up constantly. I tried reformating it and interestingly though, it worked! So I set it up for Time Machine again. I noticed that the HD has become really slow to write data on it.
Well, it did back up the data via Time Machine but looks like it stopped several times, when accessing Time Machine I noticed 5 or 6 different backups for the same day. After two more days of trying to back up the data, the HD died again. Pretty much I wasn't able to do anything with it. When plugging it to a PC, the computer would recognized it but the HD wouldn't show up in My Computer.
Plugged it back to a mac and used Disk Utility to format it and repair it, interestingly it worked! However, I didn't want to go through the same trouble again so I returned the HD. I have spent a combined time of about one day trying to figure out and keep the HD but at the end was very frustrating, gave up and returned it.
I haven't used it exclusively for PC, so that must have been the problem in the first place, but once formated for Mac it should have been ok. Has anyone encountered this problem?
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