[X4U] Seagate 1 TB hard drive issue not loading on desktop...

[Tim Kinsella]

And what ones do you buy ??
Let us know!!?
Thanks, 
Tim

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On Jan 25, 2011, at 8:24 PM, John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:

> On 1/25/11, cat soul <catsoul at thinkplan.org> wrote:
>> On Jan 24, 2011, at 12:20 PM, John Baltutis wrote:
>>> On 1/23/11, LAL <lalicata at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>>> I will NEVER, EVER, REALLY never buy a seagate USB portable drive
>>>> probably never buy a seagate drive again.
>>>> 
>>>> Could NOT get it to work, so I am giving it away...............
>>>> 
>>>> Please learn from my experience, buyer beware, and research....
>>> 
>>> What did Seagate's support say? BTW, I only buy and use FWHD externals.
>> 
>> I'd add and expand on this. I will never buy a "consumer" external
>> drive again, FW, USB, Seagate or whoever. They are, simply, designed
>> to be disposible.
>> 
>> I have had 5 seagate "pro" externals, the ones with the wraparound
>> orange lights. One by one they've started to go. 3 years old or less.
>> 
>> when I wanted to defeat the default "Sleep" setting, Seagate told me
>> that I needed a PC to do it, that there were no tools to turn off
>> that setting on a Mac.
>> 
>> It is way past time for manufacturers to get over that Mac
>> marginalization malarkey...I'd say about 14 years past time.
> 
> I forgot to mention that I won't buy any ext HD that proprietary "sleep"
> crapola installed, especially stuff that can't be readily removed by the Mac
> OS. That rules out some current Seagates and most WD HDs. I prefer to roll my
> own using Macally enclosures and bare HDs. FWIW, I've only had one HD go bad in
> over twelve years. The ones I put into my G4 450 MP nine years ago are still
> going strong.
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