Comments on: Seagate 160 GB 3.5″ USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

By: P McD at RG

P McD at RG — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:45:11 +0000

the drive works just fine. hard to go wrong with Seagate.

By: Baud

Baud — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:56:19 +0000

Brand new dell and brand new external drive. The CMS Bounceback software will not work with it. When it tries to find the backup device I get the Blue screen of death and then crash. I finally found that Stomp makes a backup software similar to Nova Backup and that worked finally. The drive actually comes with NO SEATOOLS OR BACKUP SOFTWARE. I was not impressed. This may be because this drive has a lower price/performance than some of their other drives. My advice, step up to the 1 touch USB2.0/Firewire drive. I have one that works flawlessly. Or even better put one of Seagates internal drives in a Vantec Enclosure. I have had the best luck with that option.

By: compengineers

compengineers — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:49:24 +0000

The desciption of this item is misleading. Is it ST3160812U2-RK or ST3160203U2-RK that is being sold? The title says ST3160203U2-RK but the product details says ST3160812U2-RK !

By: G. Young

G. Young — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:38:37 +0000

I’ve always been a Seagate fan, so we bought this for our office backup. Do not do as we did and rely on it as your only backup. Despite excellent care and almost never being moved, ours crashed after 2 years. It would cost at least $100.00 to recover the data. We’re not only not buying another one, we’re never buying another Seagate anything.

By: P. Hoxha

P. Hoxha — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:17 +0000

I was thrilled when I received this item and started using it immediately. It seems nice and reliable (I think), BUT it is so slow it’s not funny. This is the first time in my life that I give a review and I am even late for work but I got to say it. This thing is just sloooow. It takes forever to transfer data. I have to transfer 8g at it will probably take 9 hours. Now I leave it overnight and hope that is finished in the morning. Maybe it is this item only. I know my PC is fine. Just be careful.