BUSLink UII-1207E External USB 2.0 7200 RPM 120 GB Hard Drive w/Retrospect Software (No Card)

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Summary: Buslink makes great HD's
Review: This HD is great. The aluminum case is rugged. No install disk needed, although I had to convert the format from fat32 to Win NT format which took about 10 min. Be sure you use USB 2 because it is much faster than USB 1. Most PC made after Fall 2002 have USB 2. Otherwise an upgrade card is well worth the money... and is simple to install. I only gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because it costs ...more than the Maxtor brand HD. FYI, get a bigger HD than you think you might need. You'll be surprised how fast you can fill this up with backups like your entire HD.

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Summary: a bad experience.....
Review: this review refers to the 80GB drive...
I transferred all my mp3, photos, video and photoshop files to this drive which "stopped responding" about 4 weeks after installation. According to BUSLINK customer service: "This can happen sometimes." I had to send the drive in via FedEx(on my own expenses!!!) to have it fixed. They also would make "every possible attempt to recover any data that is on that drive". I had to "just write SAVE DATA on the drive and box". Needless to say that when I got the (refurbished)drive back there was not one bite of data left on it and I was informed that BUSLINK does not do data recovery at all, they just change the drive. Well, thank's for the information and loosing about 45GB of my data!!!!
To make a long story short: This product is not very reliable, and the service not very professional.