Comments on: Hitachi 1TB USB External Hard Drive

By: John Welsh

John Welsh — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:59:17 +0000

I had nothing but problems with the Western Digital “Book” drives (see review elsewhere) but this drive has so far been perfect. It’s used for manual backup, and not used everyday, but after two months, NO complaints.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:45:21 +0000

Best Drive ever i have 2 and im about to buy another. It has a high speed to recieve and transfer files at the same time with no delay or freezing up one of the cheapest drive’s too what or were can u get a highly named TB drive for $119.99.

By: J. Rudd

J. Rudd — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:40:28 +0000

Anyone that has used Maxtor or WesternDigital will be surprised at how much longer these hard drives last. Hitachi has always impressed me by the quality of drive they offer.

By: miseenscene

miseenscene — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:04:09 +0000

By the fact that I am wasting my time typing this, one should gather that this product is inferior and frustrating. I am returning this immediately. The time to recognize from plug-in is the longest in the industry sometimes minutes, which is insane if you have used LaCie drives.

I edit video and this lasted less than a month before failure, where the drive stopped being recognized by the mac. I have 100's of gigs worth of media that is now gone, because the RMA process just sends you a replacement instead of fix the old one.

I thought the Hitachi brand name would be an indication of some level of assurance, but incidents like this make me wonder of the quality of products or lack thereof in the entire line of Hitachi.