Verbatim 500GB Premier Edition USB Portable 96777 500 GB Hard Drive

Pros: Incredible storage unit, wonderful performance, and reasonable price.
Cons: I wish it was one terabyte!

The Verbatim 500 Gb External Storage Drive is Outstanding! By James Zaworski I am a consumer of computer technology, and it is amazing to me how much data can be accumulated over the course of time.  Digital photos, digital music files, ...

Pros: Easy to use, great backup tool, 500 gb storage space.
Cons: None

I found my Verbatim portable Hard Drive on ebay. I’m very pleased with this product. It’s exactly what I needed.  I’m a big believer in backing up your data. When I was a novice, I lost some data important to me, and that cured me ...

Pros: cheap for the size storage
Cons: Unplugs by itself, does not mount on computer, does not work!

I bought this product from amazon recently. After transferring a few files and leaving the unit plugged in to my macintosh computer, I went to select it and it automatically unplugged itself, disappearing from my computer entirely. It has done this repeatedly. Now I cannot mount it whatsoever. I only hope I will be able to return it now that the package is open.