SimpleTech by Hitachi SimpleDrive 500 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive SP-U35/500 (designed by Pininfarina)
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Customer Review: Don't buy if you want your data safe
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this in good conscience after reading some positive reviews, at the time. I wish I had waited. Go read the reviews now, nine months after the fact. I've been to several sites and many people are having the same problem. The drive crashes and all your data is toast. It will make a chirping/growling noise, and your computer will not recognize it. So, after trying to make sure my data was safe after a harddrive crashed in my brand new laptop, I was stupid enough not to retrieve ALL saved data from the external, and now all that was not saved is gone forever. I give up. Is there no product that is problem free???
So if you value the data you put on this SimpletonDrive, make sure you also back up somewhere else, because one day you'll turn it on and it will all be gone....
Customer Review: DO NOT USE THIS DRIVE if you value your data!
Summary: 1 Stars
I got this drive to backup a laptop that had gone kaput... I put all my info on this thing, then restored the laptop. I intended to back up my important stuff from this drive to another soon.. But never got the chance. WITHIN ONE WEEK of purchasing and using this drive, I started getting a clicking noise and the drive was not recognized by the computer.
I called SimpleTech and was told that the clicking noise indicated a hard drive failure; they could replace/repair the drive, but my data was gone unless I wanted to pay someone hundreds of dollars to recover it.
This thing is completely unreliable and the customer service agent was absolutely unempathic, unhelpful, and rude.
BUY SOMETHING ELSE!! I'm going for a Seagate this time.
Customer Review: Worked fine for four months, then "died" overnight.
Summary: 1 Stars
It just wouldn't start one morning. Not as a result of being bumped or any other physical trauma, as I'd taken care to position it in a safe place. Ironically, I'd used this SimpleTech drive as a "belt and suspenders" duplicate of data kept on an older Seagate external hard drive, in case the Seagate crashed. So I haven't really lost any data, just the money spent on an unreliable product. Should have paid more attention to the one-star reviews here. I wonder how many of the people writing five-star reviews have owned their SimpleTech drive only a short time. I'd have given it five stars after owning it three months, but after this experience and after belatedly reading some of the one-star reviews more carefully, I won't be buying any more SimpleTech products.Customer Review: great
Summary: 4 Stars
This is for people who say they have lost data..
I thought I lost my data once on my SimpleTech HD, but then I found a solution and got ALL of my files back & I have been using mine for 2 yrs now.
Try this: click on start menu...click on Run... ( a small window/box should open)...Type: command.... a dos window will open, you will see: c:\DOCUME~1\OWNER>..
Type: chkdsk (location of hd):/f (note: after chkdsk you will type the drive letter where your HD is located.. for example: chkdsk k:/f...K being the location of the HD). Be sure to type it like this: chkdsk k:/f .... then enter ...Then type exit to close window when done. This worked for me. I found this solution on the geek squad site. Good luck!
Customer Review: The bane of my existence
Summary: 1 Stars
This piece of garbage has been torturing me for about one year.
It is RARELY recognized by my computer, it freezes up my OS, and it has probably removed DAYS from my lifespan in terms of stress-damage.
THIS IS A PIECE OF GARBAGE, and you should trust the intelligent NEGATIVE reviews and DO NOT PURCHASE.
I am currently wrestling with it, trying to move everything from it (the piece of garbage) to an iomega hard drive.
If and when I successfully remove the files from this hard drive without suffering any losses, I would really love to deliver this to the home of "simpletech"'s CEO with a coating of something that smells exactly like what this is: a piece of CRAP.