Seagate Expansion 2TB 3.5" External Hard Drive

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It copy's information at a rapidly speed (around 10 MB). Soon after the first day of use and unloading 1.two TB of information onto it the troubles started. The subsequent morning when playing music my iTunes would freeze and the Tough Drive would start the dreaded clicking. The freezing would be only final about 15-20 secs and it would be standard once more for a handful of minutes. Managed to get my information back off of it (albeit at a substantially slower rate due to the fact it kept freezing and resuming). Will be returning this drive promptly tomorrow and investing in a far more high priced and trustworthy drive. I noticed that the other evaluations posted were 50኎ (either it worked genuinely nicely or it broke down / started acquiring troubles immediately). I took the 50኎ likelihood and drew the quick straw. Do yourself a favor and just save / invest in a additional high-priced tough drive with greater critiques.

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On sale a lot more than other brands. - Reliability.- Enclosure form element (Can not stand it on it's sides), take up too much space All expansion series ƑTB, 1.5TB & 2TB) are defective.Severe design issue with Expansion enclosures. The PCB that regulates and offer power to the drive, does not place out sufficient power needed by the drive itself. That’s where the clicking noise is coming from. Seagate has been aware of the issue, but continue to sell these defective expansion boxes.Return yours if you just bought it and get your funds back. If you can’t return it to the retailer, buy a new enclosure and take the disk out of expansion & place it in to new a single. Or if you can discover a PCB that matches power & usb opening of the expansion enclosure, replace that PCB. If you send it to Seagate, additional probably you will get yet another defective unit back that you have to send it back once more. It price about ฤ to ship the disk to Seagate.

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low-cost, huge storage I purchased this challenging drive, load anything I have (about 1.5 TB) and left on prime of CPU, I accidently stripped on the on USB cable and this hard drive fall on carpet floor about a single feet high. All 1.five TB information was gone. I took them to Information recovered shop and willing to pay 񘈨 to get fexed, they opened the hard driv and gave up, stated the plater got scratched and unrecoverable. usually leave this ext. hard drive on the floor

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Holds a lot information.So far no information loss (But I'm afraid to move it.) Super slow transfer rate.Clicks loudly when being accessed by far more than one program at a time.Information rate is so slow I can't stream any media off of it, such as MP3's.Transfer rate about 25MBps - (but inexplicably can't stream MP3's?) The initially one I purchased clicked loudly and transfer at like 3mbps. I considered it Dead, and returned it.Retailer replaced it with one more a single.The replacement 1 also clicks, but only when numerous programs are accessing it.

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Since it failed nearly promptly, and Seagate absolutely refused to honor its warranty, no pros. Seagate's client service. After confirming that the clicking difficulty was fatal and my information was lost, received an RMA quantity and sent it back (at my costly - about 10% of the original acquire price tag) to Seagate. Just got it back with a note that not in warranty. Of course this is impossible since the extremely 1st of these drives is still covered by their clearly useless warranty (they have but to generate a 2TB drive whose warranty is up). I guess they suppose that I won't take them to modest claims court to get the almost 贶 that I'm out. If so, they guessed wrong. You can be confident, Seagate, that I'll end up costing you a lot far more than you expense me. And if you are nonetheless reading this, then you currently know much better than to ever acquire a Seagate product again. I bought my 1st in 1988, a 30M RLL drive. This was my final. RIP, Seagate! It is unbelievable how far and how rapidly Seagate has fallen. I'm moving all 24 terabytes to the similar Hitatchi drives that my employer has used with out incident and I recommend you do the similar. Seagate has ceased generating reputable goods.

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This is just a general post .... i have not yet bought this certain device.... i am much more of a western digital individual myself.... ?????? if there is a clicking noise and its prevented by moving farther away from an electronic sorce one it tells me that the insulation onterior to the difficult drive isnt sufficiant but if u move and goes away .... then move it ...... 2nd thought if they seem to fail really speedily would make it a difficulty with the energy provide which could also be the clicking issue caused by interferance of electronics. 3rd thought and suggested answer to "failed hdd" open the plastic situation disconect it from the internal power supply and either purchase a separate external hook-up or set up the difficult drive in yet another laptop or computer 90% of the time the tricky drive isnt dead........

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Good size, comes pre-formatted. No pre-set up computer software garbage. Drive died in beneath 30 days. As the rest of these testimonials mentioned, the tough drive heads begin to click quite loudly. It stops reads/writes anytime you hear the noise. Speed drops to properly below 1MB/s. Newegg need to seriously take this item off of its web page. So a lot of men and women all more than the net have been complaining about the very same dilemma. I just went to seagate.com and I'm waiting on an RMA so that I can hopefully get a working 1. But judging from the world wide web consensus, the replacement drive could be f-ed up as nicely

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Lots of space for a faily low value. Looks sleek. Doesn't function nicely by means of a sleep cycle. Coming out of resume, the drive is not detectable and I have to power cycle to get it detected. Oh, and to energy cycle there is no energy button. It may well operate well for machines that never energy down. This is the 2nd seagate external drive I have, the other ones didn't have these cons. I'd investigation choices a little far more prior to settling on this one.

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The price is ๜, cheap. It operates fine, no problems. speed is ok, not very quick.

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- Fairly low cost when on Sale only!- Spacious capacity- Simple setup, straightforward to format - Reasonably slow transfer speed; Seagate retail box/website does NOT state transfer speed!- NO power button to switch on/off; it stays on when connected to USB port- Can NOT be configured adequately to function through a network with Win2000 mainly due to the automatic energy down function that's built into the drive- Tech support is a JOKE, NO tech information discovered at website, slow tech email response with generic answers :( It was fantastic I saw it on sale contemplating it's a 2Tb External drive.Effortless to setup and format, just plug n play.Problems:- Slow transfer speed so use it as soon as initially for your very first backup copy then make incremental backups- Windows 2000 does NOT recognize drive effectively due to the automatic energy down function that's built into the drive; you can NOT access the drive to shut OFF the power down function; everytime it powers down (after a couple of minutes) then powers up (when used), the drive literally disconnects itself then re-connects itself to the personal computer that it's connected to! WHAT A Pain!- Returned the device right after 1 weeks use!- Poor tech support which is Typical of Seagate

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I've had this drive for about six months know and I swear by it....I DJ for clubs and 1 evening I'd gotten drunk and wrapped up my drive in a t-shirt and place it in my car or truck. Well, I forgot all about the drive and then somehow, It managed to get into the washing machine without having me knowing. Needless to say, It went thru a entire cycle in the washing machine. Put the clothes in the dryer.. and heard it banging about. Took it out, let it dry for a week and plugged it in. Worked fine.. no undesirable sectors and/or clicks. I dont know how, but it survived. A little slow to spin up from time to time.. esp as soon as it gets hot.Alot of complaints about it spinning down, but you get utilized to the drives slow reaction time... I dont suggest attempting this.. but it's great to know that it in fact survived anything like this.. I coulda swore it woulda been a paperweight right after that.

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nice style started clicking and died right after I backed up all my data from my computer system to it. 1.5TB lost. In about 1 month. when getting to these capacities, vendors need to have to have much better excellent checks and cheaper data recovery.

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It had a lot of space and was cheap Right after 1 month of use it has begun clicking, the positive sign of a challenging drive failure. Subsequent time I'll be getting from a distinct brand.

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High Speed 򞀠 rpm and nice information transfer rate. Affordable, works fine with XP, Vista and 7 transfering of information straight to USB flash drive requires much more time compared to the time it requires to transfer from HD to USB Flash Drive.

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It's been trustworthy for me. I shipped it about the planet to move information to remote offices. We have a couple of them. No problems with either. Not the fastest and runs hotter than I'd like. For the value I can't complain.

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Looks truly cool. Transfers fairly speedy. It wasn't even a full 24 hours of use ahead of you hear "bad heads making clicking/knocking sound". I transfered 500g from old HD the afternoon I got it, then set a 300g job though I slept, woke 5 hours later to move the final 2g when all the knocking and clicking began. Worthless.

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Really? None. It kicked in with the clickety-clack of drive death in much less than 24 hours of ownership, and that was with me handling it Incredibly gingerly and carefully. This issue is just not even worth keeping around as a paperweight, which will be what it ends up serving as if you purchase it. It didn't even last 24 hours just before beginning to die on me. And, even although NewEgg was good about refunding me my income and initial shipping fees, I nonetheless had to dish out about ส.00 just to ship it back, which WASN'T reimbursed, so this factor essentially ended up COSTING me money in the extended run. SO not worth a single penny! This drive has completely tarnished Seagate's name in my thoughts. I'd relied on their good name when I bought this drive, but I can't even fathom why it is that they're even bothering to continue to sell these. They must be employing them as bricks to build structures, not serve as technique storage. Just walk away from this thing... No, wait, RUN! : P NewEgg, as constantly, provides excellent alternatives, and fantastic consumer service, but this item really should be boycotted all round. Anyone that has had achievement with this drive must definitely contemplate themselves lucky, specially considering all of the unfavorable evaluations that I've read, 'Net-wide, on this external hard drive. It just isn't worth the headaches that it'll bring.

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Fast speed! Lots of Space! seems like it is stable as properly as I have not had any memory faults with it!Purchased it in the course of 1 of newegg's sales so it was fairly cheap!Wonderful for backups! None!

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Arrived ontime. Price was good All of the Seagate drives I bought are failing. Even correct out of the packaging. Don't acquire these!!! Just go get a my Book. Never had a dilemma.

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Huge capacity. Misleading item info. I was given this HDD as a gift. Was annoyed by the useless sleep mode. Anyway, I decided to switch the enclosure. Turns out there is nothing at all maintaining it awesome and is a significantly decrease rated HDD (the HDD in it is a Barracuda LP). Drive still operates and I use it as an extension for my MacBook Pro.(BTW, it does operate on a MAC, you just have to format it with a MAC-OS partition in the Disk Utility). I'll retain a really close eye on it. The minute I hear anything suspicious, I'm receiving a superior HDD to replace it. Seagate enclosure is a piece of junk. No joke.

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Lots of space, I paid only ๩ for 2TB hardrive, Rapid enough to move files, Optional Extended Warranty, Also heavy to carry, really short USB cable and power cord, Often tough drive clicks when not in use New Egg has not let me down, I am going to come back once more. Very good Quick service with free of charge shipping.

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Cost is low, capacity is substantial. Sleep functions (default 15 minutes) are very easily turned off, if required with the Seagate Manager. The utility necessary to disable the sleep function wasn't integrated on the disk, and I had to download it from Seagate. I located lots of complaints with regards to the sleep function, and not possessing a way to turn it off. Since I'm attaching it to my WRT160NL to be utilized as NAS, I necessary to disable sleep. I downloaded the Seagate Manager (http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/software/FreeAgentCN.zip) and was able to rapidly change the setting even though the drive was connected to my desktop. I wouldn't be concerned about the sleep function, and I'm not concerned with drive longevity or electrical energy fees so I don't will need the disk to spin down or 'sleep'.

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Cheap. Lasted about three weeks. Now clicks and turns off often for no cause like all the other evaluations. I'm coming to a in no way buy seagate conclusion.

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Works precisely as it need to.Don't notice any excess noise than any standard external would make. None so far, have owned for 5mo. now Actual read/writeable storage space is 1.81TB2tb in marketing terms.

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Looks Great. no sound of rotating disks as i had in my prev. EXT HDD. smtimes disconnects automatically with out power loss. NA