I wanted an external hard drive. The reviews scared me. Horror stories abounded. I looked but didn’t buy.
There was a Black Friday sale and I got this at a great price. After reading more reviews….I got scared all over again and left it in the box. Then I got busy sorting out a new desktop and laptop. And it stayed in the box.
In March I started thinking I should really take it out of the box. I did, freaked that it would cause another problem with the desktop, and left it on the desk behind the monitor. One saturday I went back to reading reviews. It looked like the biggest complaint was about the backup software. I already back up to my laptop and Jungle Disk. I just wanted a big hard drive to drag majorly changed files over to once in a while. Enough prevaricating – I plugged it in.
Windows 7 instantly recognized it. I saw the crapware on it, reformatted to ntfs, created a few folders on it and dragged over the files I wanted. All of which took less than five minutes. The drive hummed and buzzed and shook the desk a bit, so when i was done I ejected it and left it there with the wire pulled out. Whenever I want to backup I simply plug it in and drag.
Looking for a larger grain of salt to take reviews with…