SimpleTech by Hitachi SimpleDrive 500 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive SP-U35/500 (designed by Pininfarina) by SimpleTech
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Digital camera reviews of SimpleTech by Hitachi SimpleDrive 500 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive SP-U35/500 (designed by Pininfarina)
Digital camera Review: DO NOT BUY THIS HD UNLESS YOU ENJOY LOSING YOUR DATA
Summary: 1 Stars
I first bought this SimpleTech 500GB drive a year and a half ago and was very satisfied with how easy it was to use. Everything seemed to be going fine - until barely 3 months in. I have never in my life yet experienced any sort of PC crashes, so I was more that shocked when the item i purchased to prevent the headaches and hassle crapped out on me after only 3 months. Emailing SimpleTech didn't work either as they don't have any way to fix the device, I'd have to shell out big bucks to get the data recovered and then mail it out to them to be replaced. No deal. Bye bye 75GB worth of video clips and pictures.
Unfortunately, I wasn't around when my mom was shopping for another external a year later, and she brings home another SimpleTech 500GB. Well guess what happened? Yup, little blinking red light of death after 6 months. I seriously question how this product is still on the market when it is the biggest pile of junk ever.
Digital camera Review: DO NOT USE THIS DRIVE if you value your data!
Summary: 1 Stars
I got this drive to backup a laptop that had gone kaput... I put all my info on this thing, then restored the laptop. I intended to back up my important stuff from this drive to another soon.. But never got the chance. WITHIN ONE WEEK of purchasing and using this drive, I started getting a clicking noise and the drive was not recognized by the computer.
I called SimpleTech and was told that the clicking noise indicated a hard drive failure; they could replace/repair the drive, but my data was gone unless I wanted to pay someone hundreds of dollars to recover it.
This thing is completely unreliable and the customer service agent was absolutely unempathic, unhelpful, and rude.
BUY SOMETHING ELSE!! I'm going for a Seagate this time.
Digital camera Review: Dependable and inexpensive.
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this drive mainly to collect data from employees computers that were laid off this fall. I was delighted with the ease of operation and the shear amount of data that I was able to get on this thing. I am very happy and satisfied with it's performance. Recommend highly.Digital camera Review: Died after 3 months
Summary: 1 Stars
The drive performed very well for first 3 month. When I had about 150GB worth of data, it suddently died. I dont know if it is the adapter that failed or the drive but it wouldn't powerup anymore.
This basically means that all your backups are gone and you have no way to recover that.
Overall performance of this drive is poor.
Digital camera Review: Don't buy if you want your data safe
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this in good conscience after reading some positive reviews, at the time. I wish I had waited. Go read the reviews now, nine months after the fact. I've been to several sites and many people are having the same problem. The drive crashes and all your data is toast. It will make a chirping/growling noise, and your computer will not recognize it. So, after trying to make sure my data was safe after a harddrive crashed in my brand new laptop, I was stupid enough not to retrieve ALL saved data from the external, and now all that was not saved is gone forever. I give up. Is there no product that is problem free???
So if you value the data you put on this SimpletonDrive, make sure you also back up somewhere else, because one day you'll turn it on and it will all be gone....