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oh WOW! Finally a USB powered 1TB drive! Nice! I have the 500GB and its super useful. I backup all my pron on it.
That's a killer good deal, the 640G for $90 is $0.14/GB, this one is $0.149/GB. wow.
nice.
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32 one-star reviews on Ama.zon.
From Tiger Direct reviews:
"The Micro USB connection is poor. Slight movement of the drive or cable and you loose your connection. Returned the drive the next day"
"Bought and returned on the same day. The new micro connection is really unstable and if you move the drive you will loose your connection. Very frustrating. Don't do it. "
I bought mine from B&H almost 6 months ago. Yes, the 1TB 2.5" (333GB/platter x 3-platter) version.
99% of people on Amazon are noobs.
Facts:
- Micro-B makes better connections than Mini-B, lasts longer. My Micro-B connects solid to the drive and is much, much more reliable than Mini-B. I bet people aren't fully inserting the Micro-B and not letting the "teeth click." I unplug several times daily, no issues. I have a distinct feeling that people are screwing up their Micro-B by not inserting it the correct way, just like they do Mini-B as well. Micro-B is supposed to be more tolerant, but if you're a noob, then no vendor can protect themselves fully from that.
- If it won't safely remove, that's because you have Windows Explorer open on the drive, or something else accessing it! (duh, same problem with any USB drive -- again, duh). People keep blaming the "read-only CD" image for this, when it is not remotely the issue. That's on them, not Western Digital.
- The "read-only CD" image is actually an intelligent approach, even works under Linux, it is _not_ proprietary. If you don't want the software, you can say Cancel to installation. It hasn't prompted me again. You can also turn off autoexecute for the device, which Windows remembers. I honestly think people are mega-Windows *NOOBS* and the software is designed *EXACTLY* for them!
- It's 999.5GB usable, works perfectly between Linux and Windows for myself. I have sliced it FAT32, NTFS and Ext3 (even LVM2). No iss... [Truncated]
wonder how hot this thing runs
@6 I have both the old style passport and the new one. The performance is identical and I'm not convinced Micro-B is anything more than a new cable for you to lose.
I give the drive 9/10, but I'm still annoyed that I have to pack another cable around with it.