A good review I hope... I have over 2.5TB of 320gb drives. So trust this opinion on the points I write:
The simpletech drives are no real difference over the passport by western digital, in fact the WD is a bit thinner (when you cram as many in a case it may matter). The WD is supplied with a short cable, the Simpletech is a longer cable, and THIS is why some of the users will experience a problem with the simpletech drives-> The cable being longer will deliver less current to the drive, thus some computers do not...
[Simpletech FS-U25/320H Mini USB 2.0 320GB Portable Hard Drive - Black Cherry review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 07/25/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (10 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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High Quality at Affordable Price If you are looking for a high quality portable external USB-powered high capacity hard drive at an affordable price, this is your choice!
Ownership: 5 days.
Pros:
1. High quality as SimpleTech is using a Western Digital (WD) internal hard drive disk (HDD) known to be a state-of-the-art HDD.
2. As portable (small size and light) as WD passport.
3. USB-powered or bus-powered. As single USB port of some computers can not provide enough power, SimpleTech is provi...
[Simpletech FS-U25/320H Mini USB 2.0 320GB Portable Hard Drive - Black Cherry review by Sumit Mukherjee "mukhi" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Sumit Mukherjee "mukhi" | | Review Date: | 03/29/2008 | | User Location: | Stockton, CA, USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
94% (35 of 37) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Short life I purchased two of these to use with my laptops (both have low capacity built in hard drives). Within one week they both died. I ran a diagnostic on one of them and it had more than 400 bad sectors. The other drive would not even boot up. I tried on more than one computer, with different operating systems. It just stopped working. I previously had to return a 250gb simpletech drive after only 4 months. I wish I had known about the 250gb drive before I bought the 320's. I would not have w...
[Simpletech FS-U25/320H Mini USB 2.0 320GB Portable Hard Drive - Black Cherry review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/07/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
76% (19 of 25) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Failure to Mount The price was too good to resist. Great look, light weight. Well, buyer beware. I plugged it in, the power light lit up, but the unit never mounted on my Intel Mac. I swapped the cable with a Simpletech 80GB unit I bought a while back, it mounted fine. However I need a working cable for the road! Thinking the cable was faulty, I returned and exchanged it. The 2nd unit lit up, but wouldn't mount even with my good cable. So that was returned. I give up! Not going to take the chance on losing my da...
[Simpletech FS-U25/320H Mini USB 2.0 320GB Portable Hard Drive - Black Cherry review by Macbraeburn can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Macbraeburn | | Review Date: | 05/11/2008 | | User Location: | San Francisco, CA USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
54% (6 of 11) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Make sure to backup your backup I have had my External SimpleTech harddrive 500mg for a little over a year. Just up and died. I have an old Maxtor and Western Digital harddrives just keeps on running. It is a good thing I had a backup of my backup.
I won't be spending any more money on this Simpletech brand.
[Simpletech FS-U25/320H Mini USB 2.0 320GB Portable Hard Drive - Black Cherry review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/26/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
50% (6 of 12) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Snazzy and functional I've had this drive about one month, and am very pleased with it. It's very small, yet huge in terms of capacity. It also looks cool (and even feels cool, like metallic velvet). It's extremely quiet (actually silent), and is plenty fast. No problems playing back recorded video through Media Center or Media Player. Smooth as silk even when fast-forwarding. Music of course and pictures come through perfectly.
On my Toshiba Satellite notebook, it functions just fine connected to on...
[Simpletech FS-U25/320H Mini USB 2.0 320GB Portable Hard Drive - Black Cherry review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/22/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (8 of 8) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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dead after 2 days. I always have been lucky with online purchases and usually I am not too concerned when reading the occasional reports by unhappy consumers.
So I ordered this nice looking device at a great price and was getting ready to be happy ever after. The 320 GB mini signature hard drive was shipped fast and without incident. Great design, small and light.
It worked fine for two days uploading files from 2 different computers (Dell and a Sony), even with the limited power provided through ...
[Simpletech FS-U25/320H Mini USB 2.0 320GB Portable Hard Drive - Black Cherry review by Anke can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Anke | | Review Date: | 05/06/2008 | | User Location: | Berkeley, CA USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
66% (4 of 6) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Works well, but needs two usb ports I like this in many ways: its fast, and small. But on laptops, you need two usb ports next to one another
for this to work, or you will need to get an external power adapter (though how you do so is not mentioned
in the user guide). It works fine with my macbook, but if your laptop does not have two usb ports
next to one another (like on some macbook pros), then I wouldn't buy this.
[Simpletech FS-U25/320H Mini USB 2.0 320GB Portable Hard Drive - Black Cherry review by Civitas can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 6.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Civitas | | Review Date: | 04/16/2008 | | User Location: | Chapel Hill, NC United States | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (4 of 4) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Luckily, I Burned a Hardcopy of Everything! Well, Almost Everthing. An utter failure and disheartening about the quality of US made electronics. My MacBook Pro's hard drive was filling up with images too quickly, and I decided I needed some external storage for my photos. I opted for this jewel over the LaCie or the Toshiba...I bought it because it is made here in the US; I've always advocated buying domestic made goods when possible: Unfortunately, I think I'm going to have to reconsider this decision. The SimpleTech Black Cherry was/is a big mistake! I put 36 ...
[Simpletech FS-U25/320H Mini USB 2.0 320GB Portable Hard Drive - Black Cherry review by Patrick Cooley can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Patrick Cooley | | Review Date: | 07/10/2008 | | User Location: | Huntsville, AL United States | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
60% (3 of 5) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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stay away this is the second simpletech portable drive i have purchased. both have been horrible and had the same problem. while it usually always mounts on the desktop it seems to have a problem mounting with any reasonable amount of "speed." i have to unplug it and plug it back in multiple times before it works correctly.
for instance, when copying files the same file will either report to take 12+ hours (bad) or 20 minutes (good). it's like the drive goes from 5400 RPM to 54 RPM. again this...
[Simpletech FS-U25/320H Mini USB 2.0 320GB Portable Hard Drive - Black Cherry review by Tony Carreon can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Tony Carreon | | Review Date: | 05/31/2008 | | User Location: | Maryland | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (2 of 2) Users Found This Review Helpful |