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The hard drive was not packaged too well, just floating around in the outer box. Also it may not work. I tried it on one of my computers and it was not reconized.
That drive has now failed as well giving it a life span of less than 3 months. Have less than 1 year old HP desktop which came with two of these drives which I configured in a RAID1 array. Again the RAID1 array has saved my data (and I back up too). Thank god for that. One drive failed after about 3 months since I live in Bermuda where warranty for stuff bought in the US is more pain than it's worth, I just bought this drive as a replacement in Nov 2009. My desktop is not heavily used, so this drive should not have been taking any abnormal beating.If you are looking for a new (not replacement drive) I would recommend looking at a different drive. I work with in IT with Windows servers and desktops and this failure rate is abnormal in my experience with over 1000 desktops and servers.
So far this hard drive is plenty reliable in my Power Mac G5 (Late 2005 edition). Very easy to install, very quiet, and fast. No complaints here.
Drive did not work right out of the box. Should have never used it since it caused trouble from the start and took a few tries to get it to work properly and be recognized by the hardware. Now it has failed again and I'm working through the exchange process. I bought 2, one worked, one didn't.
Some of these were my mistakes, but I blame them because it camw with no documentaion or cloning software. I managed to salvage the old drive and redid the process correctly, but my old chipset couldn't handle the size of this drive with one partition. I bought this and returned it within 24 hours of receiving it. Also no instructions. Now, even if I by from the Amazon site, I always check to make sure it is sold and shipped by Amazon. I had the right SATA connectors on my MB and the right plugs on my power supply. It did the cloning, but without proper instructions, I booted up on the new disk without physically disconnecting the old drive and got the drives cross-linked.
I gave up and returned it. The product is ok, but I had some problems installing it. It ran slow and sluggish. but I had to clone an EIDE (PATA) drive to it and there was no software like Seagate provides to do this. I had a 2000 version of Norton Ghost and used it. Fortunatly I bought it from Amazon directly and they have an amazing return policy. If it isn't, I don't buy it.
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