Seagate 120GB External Storage
by Purav Sanghani on September 29, 2005 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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The Software
Seagate supplies backup software titled BounceBack Express, which is a simple, yet effective piece of software for making scheduled, unassisted backups of chosen data. Compared to Retrospect, which was included with AcomData’s E5 external drive, BounceBack Express is much simpler, but at the same time, offers less functionality. This may or may not be appealing, but this drive seems like it is geared towards the average home user looking for a simple, small scale solution. Take a look at some of the application screens.
Seagate supplies backup software titled BounceBack Express, which is a simple, yet effective piece of software for making scheduled, unassisted backups of chosen data. Compared to Retrospect, which was included with AcomData’s E5 external drive, BounceBack Express is much simpler, but at the same time, offers less functionality. This may or may not be appealing, but this drive seems like it is geared towards the average home user looking for a simple, small scale solution. Take a look at some of the application screens.
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foot167 - Thursday, September 29, 2005 - link
I just returned the 300GB model today after 3 weeks of use. Everything I read about them said they were terrible but I had to give them a shot anyway. Sometimes my computer wouldn't recognize the drive. it would say no drive there. then on monday the drive decided that it was unformatted and needed to be reformatted. good thing that i kept a copy of everything i put on the external on my internal drives.the 300gb one can be had for under $200 and even less after rebates.
How about some reliability tests on these drives. Does the firewire/usb interface affect the reliability of these drives? Are they prone to crashing for some reason?
ScottyDog - Friday, September 30, 2005 - link
I agree with your comments about reliability with these external drives. I have one and have the same problems with the disk suddenly becoming "unformatted". I have done a google search and this is a huge problem with these external USB or Firewire chipsets whether they are are the Oxford or Prolific flavors.Somebody really needs to do an article about what is going on here as I have resorted to leaving my drive off unless I am doing a backup and then need to restore otherwise all my data gets destroyed.
I originally thought it might be due to write caching and changing it to safe mode but it makes no difference with mine. If I leave it on eventually it becomes "Unformatted".
type this into google and you will see this is a wide spread problem with these external drives: windows delayed write failure
Googer - Thursday, September 29, 2005 - link
Dosen't it have 1394? I won't buy an External HDD with out 1394a and/or 1394b.MASCARNHAS - Monday, June 21, 2010 - link
I've used Report and although its great, I've had better luck with WheresTheFreeSpace. It is Modeled after a PC application that is very popular called <a href="http://www.wheresthefreespace.com">Treesiz... (but its for Mac).</a>