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Martin K.

Martin K.

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Most Favorable Review

Best 3TB drive for the money

Seagate Desktop HDD ST3000DM001 3TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate Desktop HDD ST3000DM001 3TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Large capacity, fast, quite, runs fairly cool, price

Cons: none

Overall Review: I bought 2 of these drives to store multimedia but I will use them to work with video since they are fast. I use an SSD for my O/S but I also might try to run an O/S from the drive since they are fast enough. Both drives arrived quickly and had no issues. Best to test any new drive before adding data though.

Most Critical Review

USB Thumb drive killer

Acronis True Image Home 2012
Acronis True Image Home 2012

Pros: None, nada, zero, zilch. Okay to be fair, their bootable recovery disk works good.

Cons: Once installed, I lost the ability to access my USB Thumb drives. This is a known issue (check with their forums). Windows informed me my USB drive needed to be formatted. Lucky I did not do that since I would have lost all my data on the drives.

Overall Review: I have been using their software since 2009 and ATIH used to be a good product. These days not so much.

12/27/2011

Great for OS Mavericks/Ipad

WD 3TB My Cloud Personal Network Attached Storage - NAS - WDBCTL0030HWT-NESN
WD 3TB My Cloud Personal Network Attached Storage - NAS - WDBCTL0030HWT-NESN

Pros: This unit is simple to operate and very quite. Works great with my Macbook Pro using OS Mavericks and my Ipad mini.

Cons: I wish there was a power on button. The IOS app isn't very useful so you must manage the device from a web browser.

Overall Review: I know it's lame but I purchased this though a brick and mortar sinces I wasn't sure it would work with OS Mavericks and my iPad mini and so I would return it if it didn't. I am going to buy another one here. The unit streams video to my iPad mini which was my primary reason for buying this.

12/18/2013

Best external hard disk with warning

LaCie 2big Thunderbolt 8TB External Hard Drive with Cable (9000246)
LaCie 2big Thunderbolt 8TB External Hard Drive with Cable (9000246)

Pros: The drive is fast. 230MBs xfer rates from external USB3 SSD drive to this drive connected to a Thunderbolt port. Runs very quite and cool. The big blue light doesn't bother me since I turned the drive away so I can't see it. 8TB should hold me for awhile.

Cons: I almost give this device 4 stars instead of 5 because of the way it was shipped. The external box looked like it been though the wars and when I opened the box, the internal box looked like it had been open a resealed and the box that contained the power cords and CD was torn. Given a choice, I would not order a product though a 3rd party provider like Spry again. I am glad I purchased the extended warranty,

11/25/2013

Perfect for you MCBOOK PRO

LaCie Thunderbolt & USB 3.0 9000352
LaCie Thunderbolt & USB 3.0 9000352

Pros: This drive is very fast and stays very cool. Great form factor. You can run your OSX from this drive if you want. Works great on OS Mavericks. Comes with Thunderbolt cable.

Cons: None

Overall Review: While not much faster than USB3 in my use, it does not have the USB issues that OSX Mavericks seems to have for me. The ability to chain Thunderbolt devices beats USB3 as well. It would be great if LaCie would have a bring your own drive option.

11/18/2013

Great drive but

SAMSUNG 840 Series 2.5" 500GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7TD500BW
SAMSUNG 840 Series 2.5" 500GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7TD500BW

Pros: Fast, lots of storage, works in BlacX external drive case

Cons: Felt warm after tarnsfering a alrge number of files to the SSD in a BlacX 5G case

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Poor shipping condition, very disappointed.

The external box looked like it been though the wars and when I opened the box, the internal box looked like it had been open a resealed and the box that contained the power cords and CD was torn. Given a choice, I would not order a product though a 3rd party provider like Spry again. I am glad I purchased the extended warranty,.

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11/25/2013