Hitachi LifeStudio Desk Plus 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive w/ 4 GB USB Key 0S02674 (Black)
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- Easily find, organize, and share your digital content using a stunning, interactive 3D wall
- Includes detachable auto-sync USB key for ultimate flexibility on-the-go
- Protect your files with two levels of reliable backup – online and local
- Sleek, vertical desktop design fits seamlessly onto your desk and delivers the capacity you need for all your photos, movies, music, and files
- Enjoy plenty of storage space with 1 TB, or 2 TB capacity options
The LifeStudio Desk Plus external drive automatically organizes your photos, movies, music, and files into a stunning 3D wall so you can easily view all your content both on your computer and from sites like Facebook. The included USB key enables ultimate flexibility on-the-go, and with plenty of capacity, reliable automatic backups protect all your content.
Hitachi Hard Drive
Hitachi LifeStudio Desk Plus 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive w/ 4 GB USB Key 0S02674 (Black)
List Price: $ 160.08
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Drive ok, External Case not so much.,
I used this drive for about a year with not problems. Mainly because it wasn’t moved and was sitting on a desk for the entire time. First off, the USB stick that it comes with doesn’t dock with the drive too easily. I feel like it should be an easy plug and play, but they made it much harder than it needs to be with the whole connection on the back of the usb, and the drive itself is ugly if you take the USB stick off of it.
Now the bad part really is when I moved my computer desk out and got a new computer desk. I had to unplug all my devices, and then replug them in after. Well when it got to replugging this hard drive back up, the mini USB on the back of the drive broke. The little metal plug was soldered on, and the plug completely fell off and into the inside of the external case. I good part is that the drive is actually easy to unassemble and I was able to take the actual hard drive out of the case and put it into my computer as an internal drive. Now the bad part is that I lost all my 1 TB of data on the drive. I had a ton of Discovery Channel HD movies, along with my complete series of many TV shows like Lost and Friends on it. They are now all gone. Very disappointing in the quality since this was literally the first time I unplugged and plugged back in since I got the drive. Not like I was doing it many times then it broke. I definetely say you need to backup with a NAS drive. I didn’t, but I am going to start doing that now.
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|Simple to Set Up and Install, but Buggy Software,
Hitachi almost got it right. Easy to install. Status of backups is not always correct. Online backup is slow and limited flexibility to search and retrieve. Old deleted files are not removed, using up storage
Have on occasion found backup consuming most computer resources, slowing down other applications. Reboot solves problem.
Great idea
But buggy software
Calls to customer service are answered but not returned. These guys have some problems
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Unable to backup large pst files used in MS Outlook
Use with both Mac and PC
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|Great Hard Drive !,
When I was sent an e-mail on this product for a bargain price I jumped on it without a second thought.
I have been using IBM / Hitachi hard drives for over ten years now and out of several dozen have never had one fail. It is the only hard drive I use after replacing other brands in laptops and PC’s brought to me for repair. I try to keep them on hand.
I have to say this is a very nice looking product , however I never once intended to use it as an external drive.
So why did I get it ?
Well first of all it’s a Hitachi one terabit hard drive , and second – it’s a Hitachi one terabit hard drive.
Have you noticed the prices on the hard drive market lately ? A few months back I grabbed a couple of two terabit drives for the price of a 500 gig drive now those same drives are three times as much.
What’s my point ?
Well once it arrived I tore open the outer packaging and saw this fine looking retail box , their marketing department went all out on this one.
I almost felt guilty knowing the outcome , but opening this lovely box very carefully so as to not damage this show piece of a container I found that it opened from the bottom and raised upward sort of like a garage door. Slowly I continued – raising this little door only to find yet another door, only this one opens like a kitchen cupboard with two doors hinged on the outside closing towards the center and right in between where the two doors meet there is this little cubbyhole and inside of that is a four gig USB drive.
After carefully extracting the little ‘thumb drive’ I once again return to this now rather amusing task of carefully un packaging my somewhat hidden device. Then at last. There it is ! Safely nestled inside it sits with both sides wrapped in another layer of protective cardboard , this time the packaging is of the egg carton style that form a capitol L on the left and an inverted L on the right. I only need to slide the content forward and remove the L’s and now I see the device.
The first impression is what a stylish design with graceful curves a piano black finish the solid weight like that of a brick , I am pleased and feeling like I may have scored on this transaction and it some how has that sense of this making up for the short comings of other not so fulfilling purchases and for a moment I pause just to look at and admire this item , this result of a collective effort of some creative individuals who obviously spent many hours working to get this to a world wide market.
The next thing I do after turning it over , end over end and round and round is I peal the rubber bottom off just enough to reveal the screws holding the bottom to the two halves of the container. Once they were removed with a slight prying of a couple of screwdrivers I am able to unsnap the two pieces and there is my prize.
It is even better than I had imagined for this not the lesser grade 5400 RPM Hitachi SATA one terabit hard drive it is the 7200 RPM 300 Mb per second version , plus a 4 gig USB drive a DC transformer , SATA to USB converter and a plastic box that I may one day use for something useful – or not !
Oh and all for less than $80 bucks ! That’s what I call a bargain.
I should also mention I played it safe and initially used a USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE hard drive adapter on a Windows XP computer to check out this drive. After running Dr. Hardware reports and benchmarks I found this drive had a better access time 3.7 – 4 milliseconds on the USB interface as opposed to up to 14 milliseconds through the SATA ports.
When installed on the ESATA port the read – write speeds were twice as fast as my other SATA drives.
To those who have had lost data issues I would like to say I know the feeling , when my new $2500.00 HP 350 MHZ machine locked up after only six months and I lost everything I had transferred on to that gigantic 40 gig IDE hard drive , I made it one of my first priorities to prevent that from happening again.
I would try to recover my drive by doing as I mentioned above. You may be able to read the drive once it is removed from the hardware in the external device and attached directly through a USB adapter , or attached internally. I think a Windows machine has a broader range when looking at USB device as opposed to the SATA ports , but that is only an opinion. There are some great data recovery programs and utilities available. One of my favorites is Partition Table Doctor , it can rebuild the partition tables that have been corrupted – be sure to run it in the interactive mode – it can make mistakes so always create an undo.
Get data back , recover my files , CIA unerase are nice data recovery programs that can also be helpful.
There are many more out there and since we have been loosing data ever since . . .
I can’t remember . . .
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