Difference between Seagate 1 TB external hard drives
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From: Marts on 17 Jan 2010 14:57 me here wrote... > OfficeWorks have the Seagate 1 TB external drive at $129 and looking at > them I noticed that they had two lots of stock on the shelves in two > different boxes - which was probably old and current stock. I have one from the "old box". A mate has the new one. They are identical in appearance. Both work on XP (neither of us has Win7) and Vista. Unfortunately I bought mine a week before Orificeworks dropped its price from $149 to $129. Not a bad unit, either. When the PC or laptop that it's connected to is turned off it too turns off. Handy given that it has no on/off switch and the cables are stuck behind the computer at the moment. I just wonder how reliable these units are. A lot of irreplaceable data is currently on it (and backed up to DVDs). I was considering a mutli drive NAS and configuring it for RAID and to use the Seagate as a temporary backup unit, or to connect it to our new WDTV Live media player.
From: Marts on 17 Jan 2010 14:57 z1 wrote... > I have a Seagate 1TB Ext USB [own PS] and it works fine. > If I recall the firmware issue was a problem earlier down the line - > been resolved in the model I have. What were the problems with the firmware?
From: Rod Speed on 17 Jan 2010 16:40 Marts wrote: > z1 wrote... > >> I have a Seagate 1TB Ext USB [own PS] and it works fine. >> If I recall the firmware issue was a problem earlier down the line - >> been resolved in the model I have. > > What were the problems with the firmware? The drive just become invisible and only Seagate can fix that.
From: XR8 Sprintless on 17 Jan 2010 18:26
On 18/01/2010 7:40 AM, Rod Speed wrote: > Marts wrote: >> z1 wrote... >> >>> I have a Seagate 1TB Ext USB [own PS] and it works fine. >>> If I recall the firmware issue was a problem earlier down the line - >>> been resolved in the model I have. >> >> What were the problems with the firmware? > > The drive just become invisible and only Seagate can fix that. > > Not exactly true Rod, but you need to be handy with some tools and have access to an old nokia USB to TTL lead. http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seagate-7200-11-hdds-t128807.html |