vzqk50's Full Review: Seagate FreeAgentâ„¢ (ST305004FDA1E1-RK) 500 GB US...
I needed a good reliable drive to keep my plethora of computers backed up. When I found this SEAGATE 500gb drive I thought I would be set for a very long time. I got the first one home and started backing stuff up. It was slow, but I could afford to set it and forget it. Turns out though, it was just like my Neptune washer. The sucker died withing two weeks. I took it back to the store and they gave me another one. That was in October. Here we are in January, and guess what... DOA. Very suddenly too! The first sign of a possible problem was 5 days ago. A single file showed up as corrupted. Then over the course of the next few days nothing discernible happened until last night. I tried to watch a movie that was stored on it and it kept stopping like it was not feeding the data fast enough. I copied it to my Laptop and finished watching it, then after that POOF - I could not read a thing from the drive. BEWARE! Just because something is a trusted name, does not make it reliable.
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