Seagate 1TB USB 2.0 FREEAGENT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE - SILVER Reviews

I purchased a Seagate FreeAgent 1TB Desktop External Hard Drive to serve as a backup drive.  I have not been a big fan of Seagate hard drives in recent years due to quality issues, but the price was right and the 5-year limited warranty definitely helps (most external hard drives from other vendors have a 1-year or less warranty!).  I addition to my regular backup schedule (RAID for real-time; daily off-site), I connect this drive weekly or bi-weekly, syncronize my data, and then store it locally to have on hand just in case I need to recover something from the last week or so.  I purchased...

1TB USB 2.0 FREEAGENT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE - SILVER

After losing information to two different computer crashes over the years, I wanted to get an external hard drive to back up my computer to.  I also wanted to purchase a large capacity hard drive since I am currently enrolled in a course to become a Medical Transcriptionist.  I will need to keep audio files for a long period of time.  This seemed the perfect solution.

I have not had this hard drive long, but the set up was literally "plug and play".  I did not use the backup software that came installed because reviews I read said that you...

I have had this hard drive now for about 6 months and it still works well. I have taken it all the way to Afghanistan to store all of my music, movies, games, computer programs, and other things that I wanted to take with me and it has handled it flawlessly. Within a couple of weeks of getting in country I accidentally dropped this hard drive from about 3 feet. I was worried that this would make it so that it wouldn't work at all (previous experience) but was completely suprised when I plugged it in and it fired right up and 5 months later now it is still working. It has a crack down the side...