SimpleTech PRO1000Q Pro Drive 1 TB Quad Interface External Hard Drive (Grey)

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	Price: $157.99
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Features - High-performance storage and backup - Quad interface for plug and play flexibility: USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, and 3Gb/sec eSATA - Compact design stacks or stands upright - Award-winning Fabrik backup software, including 2GB free online backup - Security lock slot Product Description As pure high-performance storage, the SimpleTech Pro Drive by Fabrik makes any red-blooded storage heart pump a little faster. Its blazing fast eSATA interface provides up to 3GB per second data transfer rate and its massive capacity makes it perfect for power users and digital media enthusiasts. With local backup and Fabrik Ultimate Backup, you get the same two-level protection the pros use. So, no matter what happens to your drive - a spilled drink, a curious toddler, a theft, or a natural disaster - you know your files are safe and secure online and off-site. Free 2GB online account, or for less than five dollars per month, upgrade to unlimited online capacity that is fast, affordable, and secure. A stackable design ensures a snug fit with Fabrik¿s Simple and Duo Pro Drives, so you can add more storage without taking up more desk space. USB 2.0 and eSATA interface. Its capacity is 1TB. Manufacturer Product Description SimpleTech Pro Drive™ – Works Like a Pro. Plug n' Play Simple. High performance storage and backup up to 3X the speed of USB 2.0. With four built-in ways to connect (USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, and 3Gb/sec eSATA) and award-winning backup software included, Pro Drive is a smart investment that delivers everything you need to succeed. High performance desktop hard drive for professionals and prosumers QUAD interface for plug n' play flexibility: USB 2.0 Turbo, FW400, FW800, 3Gbps eSATA SimpleTech Pro Drive Works Like a Pro. Plug n' Play Simple. High performance storage and backup up to 3X the speed of USB 2.0. With four built-in ways to connect (USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, and 3Gb/sec eSATA) and award-winning backup software included, Pro Drive is a smart investment that delivers everything you need to succeed. Compact, Intelligent Design Its compact design lets you stack multiple units or stand them upright to optimize your desk space, and a built-in security lock helps ensure your drive remains where you left it. Also includes Fabrik Ultimate Backup™ which works in the background to automatically save copies of your precious files on encrypted, secure servers – for ultimate online backup protection that's safe and protected from life's little disasters. Prosumers and small businesses who need professional-grade storage and backup of critical files, documents, and media collections Features and Benefits High-performance storage and backup Quad interface for plug and play flexibility: USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, and 3Gb/sec eSATA Compact design stacks or stands upright Award-winning Fabrik backup software, including 2GB free online backup Security lock slot Friendly, free unlimited technical support PC and Mac compatible 3 year warranty What's in the Box Pro Drive Quad Interface External Hard Drive USB 2.0 Cable FireWire 400 Cable AC Adapter Fabrik Local Backup Software Fabrik Ultimate Backup™ Service (2GB free)† Free technical support 3-Year warranty* * Warranty period may vary based on regulations of the country where this product is purchased. Subject to certain terms and conditions Customer Reviews Cheap, lots of space, and reliable so far (Mac & XP) Date: 2009-08-14 | Rating: 5 I bought this on sale for under $100, and I haven't had a single regret about the purchase. I've had no connection issues with Mac or Windows XP, granted I've only been using this for a couple weeks now. My only complaint is that FireWire 800 and eSATA cords are not included. Let me explain how I'm utilizing this bad-boy. I currently have 3 partitions. I have a 450GB partition for basic Mac storage (this is where I keep a full image backup and other files that I don't need access to all the time), a 400GB partition for a Time Machine backup, and a 100 GB partition for XP. I left the extra space for a potential linux partition or what have you for a later point in time. I'm using a generic Dynex eSATA II ExpressCard adapter ($20) and Belkin eSata cable with my MacBook Pro, and this hard drive flies. I moved 25GB in less than 10 min. I've had no problems with nightly run backups, and the Time Machine implementation works without any problems. I debated going with a bus powered drive, but I decided I liked the reliability of an external power source. I haven't had near the problems I've had with portable bus powered drives. Pro Drive is a GREAT item! Date: 2009-01-11 | Rating: 5 This was not only fast and EASY to install, it works GREAT and is fast and easy to use. Great drive, great price Date: 2009-01-09 | Rating: 4 I'm using this drive with Time Machine and it has worked very well. I have had a couple instances where I plugged it in, turned it on and it would not mount. There is a chance that it was the computer but If I unplugged it and plugged it back in it would mount and backup fine. It hasn't done this to me in a few weeks now, since 10.5.6 actually.... You can have the drive upright or using the included rubber thingies it can lay on it's side, I liked having the choice. It's Firewire 800, so once I get a firewire 800 cable I can get those speeds. That's really my only problem, it did not come with a firewire 800 cable. So far so good with a nice surprise Date: 2009-09-11 | Rating: 4 I bought this drive on clearance from Best Buy just over a week ago for $96. I liked that it had all four interfaces but I was a little leery that a 1TB drive with four interfaces would already be on clearance. I had the clerk open the box in the store so I could see what cables it came with. USB & Firewire 400, no eSATA or Firewire 800. Best Buy wanted $50 for a Firewire 800 cable so I figured I just use it with USB until I could order a Firewire 800 cable. I took it home and hooked it up to my 13" MacBook Pro and it recognized it with no problems. I formatted the drive and did a surface scan just to make sure everything was OK and it came back with no problems. I partition the drive into three partitions: one 250gb for SuperDuper, one 650gb for Time Machine, and one 100gb for general storage. I like SuperDuper a lot for backup but they claim that you will not be able to boot your Mac from any drive under USB and only certain drives thru Firewire. I proceeded to back up my Mac using the USB interface and everything worked fine. Two days later I left on a trip and while I was on the trip my hard drive in my Mac crashed. Dead hard drive. When I got home I hooked up my drive and ProDrive and much to my surprise, my Mac booted from the SuperDuper image right thru the USB interface! That was great and at least allowed me to continue using my computer to troubleshoot the hard drive. As it turns out the hard drive is bad and my Mac is at the Apple store getting it replaced. So far I haven't had any problems with the ProDrive at all and I'm very glad to see that it boots thru USB. I don't have my FW800 cable yet so I can't atest to the speed there and I dinged the drive one start for not coming with all the cables. Cheap Storage = Average to Difficult Reliability and Usage Date: 2009-08-25 | Rating: 3 I bought 4 of these hard drives at Fry's to back up a feature film I shot in HD and I have had a difficult time with them mainly because of their cheap hard ware. But having said that there are no other 1 Terabyte sized external hard drives with 4 different interfaces (usb 2.0, firewire 400 and 800, and sata) in the $130.00 price range, plus I now have all 4 drives with an exact copy of my 700 gigabyte movie files working and functioning as back up in triplicate form with 1 drive functioning as an editing drive. Basically the problems with these drives is that they cannot be daisy chained together via Firewire 800 because they only feature 1 firewire 800 port, but you cannot connect 2 drives at a time via firewire or they will unmount each other. I ran into this problem at first and thought it was a simple matter of the drives format settings, but I now believe that it is the cheap firewire bus in each drive that will not allow multiple simpletech drives to copy via firewire. I have been transferring footage and movie files on my powerbook g4 via firewire 800 and 400 and using my additional 2 terabyte acomdata external drive as a gate keeper of files when copying between 1 simpletech drive to the next simpletech drive. I also ran into a lot of problems formatting the drives for mac os x, but I've now learned that it was user error setting up the formatting options wrong. Basically I tried to use the mac disk utility to format the drives for mac os extended, but kept getting a partition error no matter how many times i reformatted the drive. I was able to trick a couple of the drives into formatting by partitioning them into two drives, one formatted as mac and the other smaller drive as ms-dos, but still this solution didn't work all the time. Then I discovered if you click more options in the disk utility you can choose the type of base formatting you want and when i choose the guid format that allows macs to see the drives then the re-format would work. These simpletech drives have hitashi hard drives under the hood, which is a pretty good and reliable company for hard drives, so I knew if I fiddled around enough with them that I could get them to work. If you are looking for a cheap external storage device, these simpletech drives will work, but if you are trying to make exact backs up of everything you will run into a lot of problems with these drives, but they are workable if you have an additional third party external drive to act as gate keeper or if you have enough storage space on your desktop or laptop to transfer over between drives. If you are backing up on pc then these drives run nice and smoothly with their fat 32 formatting, but if you want a mac format you'll run into a lot of trouble with very few online resources to help you out.