Fantom Drives GreenDrive 1TB USB 2.0 / eSATA GreenDrive External Hard Drive GD1000EU

Pros: it is a functioning HD

Cons: makes a constant noise that is similar to noise torture. reeet reeeet reeet reeet reeet

When I first got the drive it would only make the noise after it had been on for a significant period of time. Now it does it all the time. I would suggest going with another brand that doesn't have complaints like this one.

Other Thoughts: I want to get it fixed, but hardware companies are notorious for not caring...I simply will buy another brand before this one fails.

Pros: Design and exterior build.

Cons: I wrote Fantom about the sreeching noise it makes as if the needle is scratching a record.
They said I have to mail it back and then maybe they will do something- or I may owe money.
It's a faulty product! I expect consumer coverage for their issue. DON"T BUY FROM FANTOM
**Should be a switch for the annoying blue light (at night when sleeping)

Pros: Bought this in 2008, and it is still spinning like an mc at an all night dance party. It is on nearly 24/7. Never had heat issues, whether propped up in the stand or laying flat. Manageable footprint either way. No complaints about read/write speed, quiet as can be.

Cons: I'd have to struggle to think of any. Maybe, the external power supply is a little on the bulky side.

Other Thoughts: Takes a few seconds to spin up and access after its been idle for a while, but I knew that's what I'd get from a "green" drive. Once I tried to take it apart and stick another hard drive in there, however the connector was some strange thing I didn't have an adapter for and I couldn't identify.

Pros: I purchased this device in 2009. Here it is, 2013, and it's still humming along just fine (unlike many external HDs I've owned over the years). I have it attached to a MacMini that I use as a media center. Access speed is fine. No complaints about the noise.

Cons: I suppose the only con I can think of is that it can run pretty warm when under heavy use.

Pros: Installed for a client, using the USB interface to do nightly backups of an old Server2003 box.

Only in service a few weeks, but so far, so good!

Cons: none so far

Pros: At least the green light still works.

Cons: After two years of occasional use (once every few months), the drive malfunctioned and is no longer recognized as a valid drive by Windows OS. The drive hardware still works, as it powers on and hums, but it is totally unreadable. Micronet (the manufacturer) recommended I try to recover the data, admitting that the drive is unusable after 2 years of light use.

My attempts at data recovery have so far been unsuccessful because the drive is simply "unknown" to my OS.

Other Thoughts: Lost all my photos from the last 10 years. Don't trust this drive with anything valuable.

Pros: Love this External Drive, Ive been working it non-stop for the past few hours copying over tons of files via USB 2.0, and its just barely warm. I gave up on external HDDs a few years ago when one burnt up on me and I lost a ton of data. But i just bought a SSD and need to move over 100s of gigs of files to store for when I format everything and reinstall windows. But again so Far im loving it

Cons: The reason why I gave it 4/5 eggs was the exclusion of an esata cable. Yes yes I knew before I clicked "buy" that it didn't have one, but COME ON! how hard would it have been to include one? and jack up the price 5 bucks? it sucks to have to deal with USB 2.0, because im still waiting on my esata cable to arrive

Pros: Runs cool, looks cool, automatically go into deep standby status during periods of inactivity, uses very little energy, extremely silent, seems fast enough to me.

Cons: This is really minor, but there is no apparent flickering light to tell if there is any HDD activity or any LED color change to indicate standby status...as far as I can tell. However, I'm partially color-deficient so it may just be me. Also, it takes a few seconds to wake from sleep, but this is to be expected given the "green" nature of these drives; the lack of minor inconvenience compared to the energy savings is well worth it.

Other Thoughts: I have had two of these drives hooked up to my Synology 209 NAS/Server for at least three years without any issues. One is used for Apple Time Machine backups and the other is used for movie archiving. They just work.

Pros: I've had this drive now for over two years and it is still working great! love the SATA interface!

Cons: None.

Pros: It worked for 6 months??

Cons: These are the worst drives I have ever purchased and if you have a problem and a warranty you can forget about having it fixed. I buy and use a lot of drives and I buy mirror drives, so always a set of two. The first drive lost my data...It would not mount and I could not access the data. I lost the data and sent in the drive. Tech support quickly said there was nothing wrong with it and returned it. The second drive now will not eject... Customer service says "what else can we do?" and tells me that a warranty does NOT mean they will replace a product.. It is strange to me because that is not the case with any other product I have ever had under warranty...it is fixed or replaced. If you do buy one of these, back up on another drive from another manufacturer and for heavens sake don't buy an extended warranty... a warranty is not honored the Fantom/ Micro Net Technologies.

Other Thoughts: It may be worth checking out a companies customer service. If they do not stand behind their products even when under warranty...it may be worth going somewhere else. I have had really good experience with my Western Digital drives and I hear Very good things about Cliff drives (they will even provide data recovery if you have a problem).