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1.5 stars
"It's simple, Hitachi drives crash."
Pros: Nice slim design, looks like something out of 2001 a Space Odyssey.
Cons: Unstable drives, causes skipping and lost data. Design makes the hard drive flipped on its side giving it suspect performance at best.
Summary: I have purchased many hard drives and I have found that it is mainly Hitachi drives that I have ever had a problem with. I decided to give this drive a chance because it was cheap and I thought maybe they got their act together and produced a stable product. However with all the debating and hesitation I decided to purchase this upright drive. It did the same as all the other Hitachi drives that I have used, it crashed. I realize these things happen, but to this degree and volume it cannot be tolerated. I lost over 500gb of data that cannot be replaced, or only at an astronomically high price. I would not recommend this product to anyone, not until they can improve their products, perhaps only in solid state drives. As an alliterative I have decided to go to the most trusted drive in my experience Seagate.
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