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nice price with no rebates.

Damnit, I bought one of these on Monday for $90.

Oh well, good excuse to grab another and mirror them.

at this price, i'm seriously considering buying this, even though i dont need it

wow scary reviews.... pass!

Yeah, some reviews are pretty bad, but most are decent. Not good enough for me. I want a freakin' drive I can back data up to and not have to worry about it.

Holding out for a quality 1.5TB if I can...That Seagate 7200.11 is just too risky...

Is that right? I thought this is one of the best rating drive in the range.

Great drive... Dont buy Seagate... they eat baconnaise hard..

#4, look at the other drives on the egg, they all have some nasty reviews. People get way angry when they lose data.

Why would you buy this HD that gets so many bad reviews when getting a more reliable drive is only a few dollars more? Don't do it! It's not worth the frustration that can be saved by spending $15 more on a drive that won't waste 20 hours of your time.

#5 - It's called a file cabinet.

Big drives are no different....back'm up.

billy_bob hit the nail on the head...

Sooner or later every drive will fail, and it's likely that there is a much-higher-than-average chance that one would post a review following a drive failure. There's negative energy floating around, and it's gotta go somewhere.

There are probably actual stats somewhere on mean failure rates for various drives. I'm just not sure that 'reviews' reflect those statistical rates. One might imagine that out of 10,000 drives in the field, 5 people make the effort to write a positive review. 100 failures (1%) might generate 5 negative reviews. So it looks like a 50% favorable vs 50% unfavorable review rate.

IMO, an adaptive response when a drive fails (it's happened to me once over the course of using 20 or so drives) is "Yikes! I shoulda backed that one up", followed by "I'll change my backup routine".

I could be wrong, but the last few generations from all drive makers have too many reports of DOA's and multiple drive failures. While it's possible to get a bad batch of drives, the frequency of these reports suggest to me that along with low prices comes poor quality control.

Hard drives are no longer tested. They make em and ship em. The ones that fail come back as returns.
In the case of Seagate (maybe same for others) they take the parts from the failed drive, remove the bad part (prob a disc), reassemble into a refurb unit, test it!, and ship that back to the buyer who sent in the bad drive. So you get back a used drive, tested more than your new drive, but potentially made of parts from a number of other peoples drives with, who knows how many miles on them!
This happened to me when I ran a new Seagate for a month to test it before I put data on it. Then I put data on it as a back up. Then it failed and, I got back a rebuilt but tested unit made of mystery drive parts. So far, it has not failed but, I never put it in a back up roll again. It is a light use drive now with non essential data.

You could open your wallet and buy enterprise level drives instead of consumer level drives. That will probably lessen your risk of drive failure. Notice I said probably because enterprise drives also fail, some with little use. They will all fail eventually or become obsolete with time if they don't fail. With RAID technology there is very little reason to fear drive failure and no excuse for losing data. There is certainly no excuse for not having a backup scenario in place if your data is hard to replace.

Considering that people tend to be more vocal about bad experiences, while those with unremarkable (but stable!) experiences many times stay silent, the ratio of good to bad reviews doesn't look too out of whack to me. Yeah, it could be a lot better, but I'd say odds of a positive experience are good (and it's only $80 to boot!). I just placed an order for one.

Back yer shitup, and shutup.

I agree. The ratio looks OK. But actually READ some of the latest reviews. Some people are getting more than DOA drive. That's pretty bad.

My WD Passport 2.5" external is clicking and locking up on me...started doing it less than 6 mo's after I bought it. I'll be damned if I'm going to back that shitty thing up to an $83 Seagate or any other drive that I'm not confident in.

This $87 1TB Hitachi doesn't look much better than the Samsung...lots of DOAs for people... Rating ratios are similar.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145233

Look at all the 1TB drives, sort by rating. This drive is second place to the WD Green drive, which is slower and initially had firmware issues.
Second place isn't bad. Buy two, when one fails send it in for warranty replacement.