Comments on: Buffalo Technology DriveStation Combo4 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 2.0/FireWire 800/400/eSATA HD-HS1.0TQ

By: Bayardo Aguilar Altamirano

Bayardo Aguilar Altamirano — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:06:04 +0000

I just bought one, excelent product.

In my case the internal mechanism is a Samsung Spinpoint F1 (HD103UJ) with a total capacity of 1000204886016 bytes.This mechanism is a very good one, maybe not the best in the market but it’s an excelent option anyway (you may get a different one). Check this review at Tom’s Hardware web site to see the comparison: [...]

By: Daniel W. Nelson

Daniel W. Nelson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:22:20 +0000

I bought this drive for my iMac (2008 model) and used it with Time Machine and it worked fine until it failed 9 months later. Disk Utility could not repair it. Sigh.

By: de la selva

de la selva — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:16:00 +0000

I bought this hard drive in March and put about 500 gigs of info on it and last week, when I turned it on, a message came up on my computer saying, “The disk you have inserted contains no volumes that mac osx can read. Initialize, ignore, or eject”. Called Buffalo Tech’s customer service and they said, “You could try Disk Warrior and if that doesn’t work send it to a disk data recovery service.” Well I shelled out $100 for the Disk Warrior software and guess what? It did nothing. So now I’m either going to be out another $300-$600, IF I should be so lucky that my data isn’t lost forever. So a $150 hard drive has now turned into a $250-$850 dollar hard drive AND is utterly USELESS to boot… all in less than 4 months!!!!!