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Buyer's feedback: - * Works Great, Beautiful ...
I have two of these drives now - the first for several months now, and the second for about a week - and they're both great. I haven't experienced any problems at all. They look good, they're compact and they work.

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Buyer's feedback: - Great for Apple Computer's.
It's a great drive for Apple products. I don't own a PC so I wouldn't know for them. Quiet, a lot of Space, and looks good too.

Customers complain the drive freezes. This is due to turning "On" and "Off" the power manually on the drive. I have not had it freeze because I never manually turn the power to the drive "Off", I just shut down my computer.

If you want to use the drive for storage hook it up and store to it. Don't turn the power on and off (via the drives power button). If you use it this way the drive works great.

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Buyer's feedback: - * Works flawlessly. ...
Perfect for Apple, although, contrary to my expectations, I couldn't get my computer to recognize it while in windows XP mode (dualbooting).

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Buyer's feedback: - Do NOT believe the marketing
I purchased this device at Best Buy. I paid the extra money, because of the lure of the 3GB/s data transfer rate. I was EXTREMELY disapointed when I realized that the ACTUAL data transfer rate will NEVER exceed about 60 MB/s. I discovered that after being on hold with customer service for about 45 minutes. As the member of tech support informed me, the transfer rate tops out at about 60MB/s. However, that is ONLY if you are transferring files that are several gigabytes in size. If you are transferring a bunch of small to medium sized files, you will get the crappy performance that I received, which equates to a data transfer rate of 3-12MB/s. The 3GB/s, as stated by tech support, is only a THEORETICAL data transfer rate that MAY be available when solid state drives become available. It would be nice if this tid bit of information were on their website, or their packaging.

To their credit:

I purchased this device for a windows PC. Speaking of which, there was no information inside of the box for how to format the drive for windows (why put a windows logo on the outside of the box if you're not going to show how to make it pc ready on the inside???) However, one quick call to tech support showed me how to get it up and running in like 5 mins. Makes me wonder why I had to wait 45 minutes today.

Bottom line, I gave them 1 star, because had I known what I know now, I would not have spent the money to buy this drive to try and get an unattainable transfer speed. With that transfer speed, it will take like 6-8 hours to back up my laptop. That means that I'll be backing up my HD like once a year :(

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Buyer's feedback: - * Almost perfect ...
This drive has worked great with my MacBook Pro. Other users have complained about failing drives, but WD gives a 5-year warranty on this unit, so I don't see how you can go wrong. Five years is amazing for a hard drive. In my experience as computer technician, I've seen very few WD hard drive failures. They seem to be very reliable units. Most of my customers' HDD failures have been related to Maxtor drives.

I've been using this drive with Leopard for six months and have had no problems.

I have only two complaints about this drive:
1. It takes a long time to mount after I connect it via FireWire 800. Sometimes up to ten seconds before the icons show up on the desktop.

2. The FireWire 800 connection is very sensitive. A slight bump to the computer, the cable, or sometimes even the desk will often cause the drive to disconnect.