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"Looks are (very) deceitful."
1.0 starson by Fuscus1001Pros: It looks well-built.
Cons: FAT32 format has serious limitations for Windows.
No quality control: two different HDs gave final errors after 12 hours of formatting (1 TB), and attempts were made on different computers.Summary: This looks like a well-built HD.... but looks are deceitful. This external HD has a FAT32 format, as opposed to the Windows standard NTFS. This means that most Windows users will spend hours & hours reformatting this HD in order to be able to make full use of it, especially if they want to copy large files (over 4GB), which the FAT32 format cannot handle. In my case, three different computers (with Windows 7 & Windows Vista) failed to reformat it: I always got an error message at the end, after 12 hours of reformatting process (12 hours each time!). This is the sort of beautiful product that is wrongly devised (FAT32 format) and, as many other Taiwanese & Chinese goods, seems to have no quality control. Buyer beware!
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Some people don't know much about computers and it might be "hard" for them to understand this whole concept and at the same time try to format the hard drive. But still, this guy is exaggerating. Inside windows, you can just right click the drive, select "Format" and change the file system from FAT32 to NTFS. There's a checkbox that says "Quick format", and it shouldn't take more than a few seconds. Full formats are no longer useful, they come from the old era of hard drives with many faulty sectors and such, but now if a drive fails, most likely it will fail completely and doing a Full Format won't do anything at all.
I'm pretty sure that this drive is sold with FAT32 so that mac users can use it too and plug into a pc when needed, and if you really need the capabilities of NTFS or HFS+, then most likely you know what you are doing and therefore know how to do the format. The drive doesn't give much to say, it's just a common external drive, but IT WORKS JUST FINE.
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