SimpleTech by Hitachi SimpleDrive 500 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive SP-U35/500 (designed by Pininfarina)
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Customer Review: Pretty, but brain dead.
Summary: 1 Stars
This device is new and pretty much useless. With Snow Leopard I am getting the same idiot response as seen in many of these reviews. This will only transfer a couple of gigs at a time before shutting itself off and sulking. It looks nice. Well, OK anyway. Whoever wrote the drivers should be banned for life from ever working in the electronics field again. This is a Chinese product that lives up to the attention to technical detail we've come to expect from anything slithering out of that country. It was obviously constructed at a QA-free facility. Don't bother. This one is a turkey.Customer Review: good news: it came with a warranty
Summary: 1 Stars
this hard drive failed after one month.
granted, I used it rather heavily, and it was on for at about 12 hours every day. It became hot, especially at the bottom, and it started making beeping noises every once in a while before it failed.
Now, the fan has all but stopped spinning and the hard drive may not be read from any computer.
If anyone is planning to use this drive heavily i would strongly urge them to get another one. For more casual use, perhaps it will suffice, although make sure to back up any critical data that you might be storing on it.
Customer Review: Flashing Red Light Problem - Keep always two backups
Summary: 2 Stars
Seems a good product. But I noticed some people they had the same problem that I had last week.
I had the 500gb. Suddenly I got flashing red light problem and everything stopped working. I opened the box and I completely disconned the hard drive from the box. Then I connected the HD using "USB 2.0 Drive Mate" kit to my laptop and fortunately my laptop recognized the drive as a usb drive and everything worked fine. Quickly I backuped my data in another drive.
Seems my problem was about the smal board in simpletech box which connect the HD to the usb port.
Customer Review: Still the Best External Drive I've Ever Used After 2-Years
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had mine for nearly two years now and have never had the least bit of problem with it. Of course I'm not stupid enough to leave it running all the time and only turn it on a few times per month to back-up on like a normal human.
Most of these people giving this (not to mention just about every other hard drive) a bad review don't know how to use it properly. If you want to mess up an exteral USB drive and lose the memory stored on it, just try unplugging it, or turning off the power, without using the Windows "safely remove hardware" utility.
Customer Review: refreshing
Summary: 5 Stars
After struggling for months with a western digital passport drive, never knowing whether it was going to power up or not each time I used it, the simpletech is very refreshing in its reliability. Sure, the power cord and larger size makes it less portable, but for a home backup drive I have no problem trading portability for reliability. This product relies on a good ol' fashioned wall outlet, rather than a USB port, for its power, so you never have to worry about whether your USB port will provide enough power for the drive to work properly.