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Seagate Personal Storage 3000XT 160 GB FireWire 400 (1394a) Hard Drive

Seagate Personal Storage 3000XT 160 GB FireWire 400 (1394a) Hard Drive
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Large but unreliable storage

Written: Sep 07 '02

Product Rating: Product Rating: 1.0
Pros: Large storage capacity!

Cons: Lost all my data on the disk with no prior warning! Had to reformat drive.

The Bottom Line: Don't buy unless you absolutely need the 160GB. Try removable drives instead.
realengineer's Full Review: Seagate Personal Storage 3000XT 160 GB FireWire 40...
The firewire electronics seem fairly uncomplicated; works well on Win2000 machine without further need to download any drivers. The Maxtor 1394 cards were a snap to install. Apparently there is some software issue with 1394 cards that have Ti firewire drivers in them; your typical firmware/spec interpretation issue.

The speed of the drive isn't too bad. Even at 5400rpm it doesn't take too long to transfer 40 to 80GB of data over.

However there is a disadvantage. First, as a EE I know something about drives.. and how to take care of them. I was handling them like eggs! Even with this utmost care, I ended up losing 160GB of data on the drive, just when I was going to back it all up! Need I say more?



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