Seagate Expansions 500GB External Desktop USB 2.0 Hard Drive

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External hard drives offer extra data storage to free up the space on a computer's hard drive. 3.5" suitable for desktop PCs. More storage space than a 2.5" (portable drive). Plug and play - no software to install. Simply drag and drop to save files. USB 2.0 connection. Compatible with Windows« XP/VistaÖ, Mac OSx10.4.8 or later. 2 year limited warranty. Capacity: 500GB. Holds approx. 160,000 photos (1.MB photo size), 125,000 MP3s (4MB MP3 file) or 500 video files (650MB video file)
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- Seagate Desktop Expansion Hard Drive USB 2.0 for MacOSX10.4.8 and Windows 500GB Ref SGR38034
• External hard drives offer extra data storage to free up the space on a computer's hard drive• 3.5" suitable for desktop PCs• More storage
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 "Seagate Expansion 500GB delivers" 2010-01-15
By Mr. David E. Wilcox (Cheshire, UK)
Very pleased with this purchase. It worked straight from the box as you would expect and has performed well since that time. I am using it with GFI free Back Up software which seems to provide me with the perfect solution to my back-up needs.

 "Seagate Expansions 500GB Extnl Hard Drive" 2010-01-12
By Mr. R. Walker (Notts. UK)
Still getting used to this kit. Using mainly as Back Up for pictures and Files. Easy to install and use

 "Simply Awesome!!!" 2010-01-11
By PrAdIP RaNa MaGaR
This is my first external hard drive. I decided to buy this after doing a lot of research all over the internet. This item is a true value for money.It has got a massive 500 GB, and works super fine. Have no any problems at all.

 "Seagate Review" 2010-01-10
By Mike B (UK)
Excellent product. Simply plug into the USB and use as extra or back up disk space. Cannot fault it at all. Very quick too.

 "Memory master" 2010-01-10
By Julian (Wales)
I've had this product just over a week now, and it does what it says on the tin.

It arrived safely packaged, and before the predicted delivery date. From the 500GB there is 480+ memory space to use, plenty (for now). The drive comes with a 2 or 3 pin option for power plug in, both attatchments work fine, although i have tried the 2 pin plug in, i dont think i will need ever really need it, that said its a good idea.

The product sits nicely on the desk, it doesnt take up much space and impressivly is very quiet when its running.



Overall, very impressed.


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 "Seagate 1TB external Drive" 2010-01-16
By Mr. Llewellyn J. Payne (UK)
Product is as advertised. It was purchased to give me additional space for saving files and program backups, should keep me going for quite a while

 "Drive failed" 2010-01-15
By M. Fleet (UK)
Hiya



the drive never worked properly for me - had trouble copying and ended up not being seen by the computer. That said Amazon sorted it out with no trouble at all - I think sometimes these sorts of drive are a bit pot luck. I wasn't lucky. Went back to Western Digital drives (which I have already used) and worked nicely straight out of the box.

 "A great little disk drive" 2010-01-14
By Derek Dongray (Derbyshire, UK)
This device comes preformatted for NTFS, bit is easy to reformat for another operating system (Linux in my case). It's supplied with a universal power supply with adaptors for both UK and European operation. Obviously the USB cable is also supplied.



I've been using it pretty much continuosly for 3 weeks and found it's very quiet and reliable.



I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to add a decent amount of storage to their system.

 "Amazzon Best served !!" 2010-01-14
By Mr. A. Yaqoob (London , UK)
With alot of research ... you cannot beat this product on money and relieability .. its fast .. i had 500 GB to put away .. it was brillient ... i love it .. 5*'s to seagate ..thanks for an amazing product ..!!

 "Make note: NOT FOR MACS" 2010-01-13
By Harvey Coxell (London |UK)
It may seem obvious to some, but as I was foolish enough not to see it in the reviews or descriptions:



THIS IS NOT MAC COMPATIBLE!



Nothing against Seagate or Amazon, completely my fault, but I had to return this immediately (cheers Amazon for the really easy return)

and get a Western Digital Studio My Book (with Firewire) Which is brilliant so far.



Good luck in your searches!


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 "No problems" 2010-01-11
By David Oxley (London, UK)
On the downside, this was not packaged well at all - only a thin layer of foam to protect the drive while in transit; not even a "fragile" marking on the packaging.



On the upside, the drive installed without any issues, is quiet and hasn't failed in the first 2-3 weeks of use.

 "Good standard disk" 2009-12-30
By Pascal
Bought to replace a faulty C: drive (also WD and failed after 18months, thus confidence not high but does exactly what I need). Installation is simple, operation is reasonably quiet.



A note on the faulty drive - it works for 20mins if wrapped in a freezer bag with ice, just long enough to recover my data! But, RMA with WD requires you to pay shipping costs, not obvious from their website.



A note on Amazon, failed to deliver next day as paid for, but have been prompt to refund delivery charges.

 "Great hard drive" 2009-12-19
By A. Halstead (Manchester)
Mine arrived extremely well packaged, protective foam everywhere, external box stuffed with extra paper to stop it moving around. Installed in a newly-built rig, installed Windows 7: no problem. It's very quiet compared to my old Seagate drives & Windows 7 system evaluation programme rated it at 5.9 on a scale of 0-7.9, & declared it more than adequate for a fast gaming pc. No probs so far (2 weeks in). Transfer rates are very fast, but that may be down to the very fast speed of the rest of my components. I like it. It's very good value indeed. Recommended.

 "Upgrade to 500GB drives - had problems" 2009-12-15
By A. C. Labels Clouston
I got 5 of these drives to upgrade capacity on overnight backups. One of the drives failed on it's first backup and I can't do anything with it in Windows Disk Management. The drive is visible but reported as unreadable. It has no drive letter and Windows isn't allowing me to do anything with it, like start again as if it was a fresh drive.



Due to the fact that data was written to the drive before it failed I'm reluctant to return it for a refund so I'm going to write it off and buy another. I've replaced dozens of hard drives over the years and this is the first one that failed on first use.



One of the other drives completed a backup but lost it's drive letter afterwards, so I had to reallocate - seems OK now.



We use these drives in a removeable caddy system called Idealstor. It's always possible that something else caused these problems, not the drives themselves, but prior to the upgrade we were using Seagate 320GB drives with no problems at all (other than we ran out of space and needed bigger drives, hence the upgrade).



I'm going to buy some more drives and I'll try a different brand. If I have trouble with these too I'll post a revision to this review but right now the experience hasn't been good.



UPDATE



Had no more problems with the 4 good drives, but the one that died after one backup doesn't look recoverable. I've checked reviews for other brands, hoping they would be slightly better, but they all have a similar story. Mostly happy users with the occasional problem. Seagate and Hitachi don't fare any better, at least on these larger capacity SATA drives, but I'll probably buy Seagate as I ran 10 of them in 2 different backup sets and they all worked perfectly straight out of the box and in service. I've notched the review up by one star on the basis that the 4 good drives seem OK.

 "500gb harddrive" 2009-12-04
By chily (uk)
I put this hard drive in a sky hd box it runs quiet and cool with no probs yet


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