Pros: I ran Hard Disk Sentinel on the drive and it has perfect SMART readouts. There are no bad sectors on the drive; it is at 100% health. When I plug it in, the spin up sounds perfect. You don't get any of those weird sounds that the old Seagate externals threw out. The drive comes with excellent software, Samsung Drive Manager, that allows one to use features like "AutoBackup, SecretZone, Diagnostics, & Disk Management. It also has an eject USB external disk button built into the Drive Manager. The SecretZone feature is awesome! It allows you to set security encrypted partitions at anytime. It can use free space from the overall current drive space and allocate it to as many Secure Drives as you want to create with their own assignable drive letters. You can Mount or Unmount these partitions at will. Those Secure Zones need passwords to mount whereas your normal partition comes up in "Computer" like normal.

Cons: The micro USB-B 3.0 port on the back of the drive could be a little more sturdy. I personally feel the USB-B connection for 3.0 technology should be have a larger connection type for 3.5" devices the same way that USB 2.0 ports have a nice firm square port. The USB 3.0 cable is 1 meter. I would prefer it be shipped with a 2 meter cable, but I'll just pick one up on theBay.

Overall Review: Runs at a nice temperature of around 105 degrees Fahrenheit in a normal room temperature house of 75 degrees Fahrenheit. I've had 2 Samsung Story Externals as well as a Samsung internal; they are all 2TB drives that I've had running with logged power on times of over 1 year each. They all still have SMART readings of 100% Performance & Health. I think that is quality. They have impressed me so far. 2 years from now I will be able to compare them to Western Digital's long held reputation. Just take a look at the Androids they have created! If they can make that happen with such brilliance, I am confident of what they can do in other technological aspects.

Pros: Cheap... compared to buying a 3TB internal it was about 10 dollars cheaper, so I bought this one

Cons: None yet,

Overall Review: I was looking for a 3TB at the lowest price, I bought this one even though it has only a three egg rating, the first thing I noticed on the box, is even though it says Samsung, on the bottom, it says "Manufactured by Seagate"... took it apart and it is a ST3000DM001 so I don't know what the fuss is about. I checked out my USB3 connection before tearing into it, and it worked fine. I don't see any unusual issues, if it malfunctions, I will just put it back in the case, and utilize the 3 year warranty.

Pros: 3 TB size, Included software is very good, Quiet! ZZZZZZZZ! Easy install

Cons: The VERY short USB cord!! Come on guys, get it together. This cord sucks!!! Lost an egg for that I bought a 6 footer to replace. I wish they had an on/off switch

Overall Review: I bought 2 of these drives. Am using them for BU & they are working great. Got them on sale as well which is a good thing! Seagate drives in the Samsungs now for anyone that doesn't know that. Been fine so far!!

Pros: Not a bad price. Pretty standard cost for a 3TB drive.

Cons: The power jack on my drive stopped working properly after a couple months of use. Unfortunately it wasn't something that could be fixed externally. The provided USB cable was also quite short, which wasn't a problem for me, but I can see how it could be problematic for other users.

Overall Review: I ended up cracking open the case and installing the drive in my computer since the power jack failed on me. The drive on the inside was a Seagate ST3000DM001-1E6166 drive. I use the drive to store media files and it is in almost constant use, and it's still working well. I can't comment too much on its features as an external drive since I've been using it as an internal drive for most of the time I've had it.

Pros: Tons of space, USB 3.0, quiet operation. Nice looking enclosure, and it works as advertised. Bought this on sale, so it was a good value.

Cons: This drive gets quite warm. Mine got up to 53C while performing an initial transfer of about 1.1TB of data.

Overall Review: The heat issue rubbed me the wrong way. I would have given this 3 eggs, but I gave it +1 for the excellent price I got it for and because it uses the same model of 3TB Seagate 7200rpm HDD that I have in my file server.

Pros: - It was on sale $99.99 for 3 TB, slick design and as i own a 2tb M3 station looks just like it that i had no problem with it. - 3 year warranty. - USB 3.0 - Had no errors after doing testing of read and write in destructive mode. Has a lot of end connectors for Europe, America, and some other 2 styles for other places for wall outlets in the world. Read cons.

Cons: Fist: Its not a true Samsung drive its ST300DM drive with an external case of Samsung as i own a 2 TB M3 which does have a Samsung drive i decided to buy this 3 TB model, and was not happy as i had bad luck with seagate drives in the past. Two: The power adapter had corrosion in the terminals and had to clean them up, and the bag was "shield" connected and did not work. scraped the terminal again and tried again and now it worked. three: USB cable is very short less than 1 meter long. finally: temperature reached 52 C or 125 F when transferring 1tb of files and pictures

Overall Review: 25mb of stable transfer in a USB 2.0 have not tested in 3.0

Pros: Sleek, not too glossy of a surface, very fast and compact. Paired it with a Rosewill USB 3.0 PCI express card and let it fly.

Cons: Separate power cord is always kind of a drawback on external 3.5" USB drives.

Overall Review: This is exactly what i was looking for to archive all of my old home videos and pictures from my various computers. Direct transfer from camcorder to this drive was a snap with no lost frames and good speed. 12 Gig videos don't even put a dent in the space of this drive.

Pros: size and price

Cons: substandard Micro USB 3 cable

Overall Review: As others have stated, the cable that comes with this drive is junk. I am running Snow Leopard on an iMac and every time I tried to reformat it to HFS+, Disk Utility would come back with an error. Tried a cable that came with a drive from another manufacturer that was Micro USB 3 and Disk Utility had no problems. Do yourself a favor and throw out the cable that comes in the box and use one from ANYBODY else.