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There are some downsides to the unit, which is why I gave it four stars. The upsides of this unit are the capacity, price is not so bad, the enclosure looks nice, it is a quiet hard drive, that does not seem to overheat a whole lot. This unit is capable of fitting close to 1TB (little bit less, about 160GB cause it is formatted), in an enclosure that isn't so big. This is a great hard drive by a wonderful company that provides amazing customer service when needed. I'm considering buying a second so that I can back-up everything on the first.

Note some of the reviewers had no problems as well.Д«ottom line, I love this drive and it has served all of my purposes. Maybe all these people were having problems because there was a bad batch of units or something. I do think you should wait to buy until it's $325 or cheaper, and Best Buy recently had the drive on sale for $200 a drive for some reason.

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I admit, I didn't have the patience or time to wait for the drive to reformat for many hours, so I simply ran a quick format of the drive to make it NTFS (these options are right under the formatting settings in Windows XP or Vista). Perhaps people are having problems because they're leaving the drive formatted as its default, FAT 32 (which is slower and less efficient), as opposed to formatting it NTFS. I backed up over 200 gigs of data to it immediately after buying it and have continued filling it since. The drive held up fine to all of my usage.

This drive is rated as the fastest 1tb external drive out there and I can see why! The drive did randomly start re-detecting in Windows XP a couple times, but I ran disk error-checking and the problem went away immediately. I have used this drive on two IBM laptops since August 2007 and haven't had any real problems. I haven't had the whole 'shutting down' problem.

I don't know what everyone is complaining about.

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