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 Great for XP, not so much for Vista December 2, 2008
L. Weaver
The drive works great under XP, but has severe problems with Vista. I now own 4 of these drives and it took a while to figure out why I was having problems. I first started using the drives under Vista and they seemed to work well, but suddenly Vista started freezing up and after a power off and reboot Vista chkdsk couldn't fix the drive. I finally moved it over to an XP machine and the chkdsk fixed it with no problem. It took quite a bit of experimentation to find out that if the drive is more than 2/3 full (more than a TB written on it) when vista tries to deal with it Vista locks up and trashes the drive (happens in both 32 and 64 bit Ultimate Vista). XP has no problem whatsoever with the drive, so for now I have them in the XP machine and can't use them for video streaming under Vista which is why I originally got them.
 Two bad drives in a row. December 2, 2008
Daniel L. Mueller (SIOUX FALLS, SD United States)
I bought a 1.5 tb Barracuda 3 days ago. After 18 hours, it crashed my Macintosh. None of my software recovery could do anything with it. I took it to a local computer store. They had no luck with it. So I exchanged it for another new one yesterday. I brought it home, and it would not even mount. All I heard was a clicking sound. So that one was returned also. I have since warned the computer store about the problem. Don't buy until, or if, they get all the kinks worked out of this device.
 Great Drive December 2, 2008
M. Aravena (Santiago, Region Metropolitana Chile)
I have always bought Seagate drives, recently upgraded my MBP to a 320 MB Seagate, same with my MacMini; so even after reading so many negative reviews I decided to take a chance with it. I upgraded the 500 MB drive in my Time Capsule with the 1.5 TB Seagate and it works perfectly, it not only provides backups using Time Machine for all my Macs, but also works as a media server for all my house and I can stream music and videos from it without a single glitch, even streamed different music for two Macs at the same time. The drive is very fast, very silent and has massive storage. Maybe I just got lucky and the one I received has the new firmware, I actually never even checked what version it was, just installed it. I would definitely recommend this drive it's just awesome, huge amounts of space, quick, silent, low heat, very very affordable and so far very reliable; just hope it stays that way, but so far it's an amazing drive.
Failure November 29, 2008
Thomas Fields
I should have believed the other reviews. After about 15 minutes of working, I was no longer able to access the drive. And ofter 2 days of trying different things, I returned it for the 1TB.
 formatting was a chore November 29, 2008
Dr Beeper (Iowa)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
connect to an XP or Linux machine to format. Took a few hours to format using vista. Only 4 stars because, although it works great, it has no competitor at 1.5tb to compare to.
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