mac drives

I purchased my 120g duel firewire/USB external hard drive several months ago and have had no problems. In fact I love it and I think that AcomData is recieving a lot of bad reviews unfairly. I have dealt with both the tech-support and customer service for rebates and I have to say I was treated very well by both departments. I also recieved my rebate in a timely manner. It really astounds me that people would actually trust a computer component as a PERMANANT storage solution. When all these people have lost thier data from a hard drive, precious or not, it is thier own fault. BACK UP YOUR DATA!

I bought this drive myself, because the space I was using on my laptop (20GB at the time) wasn't enough. I needed to archive some things to make way for new. At the time, the laptop I had did not support USB 2.0, but it did have Firewire. Wanting to make sure it was as fast as possible, this was the cheapest method to accomplishing what I wanted to do. Unfortunately, the saying that "you get what you pay for" has never been more true.

As a drive? IT's great. It's fast, efficient, great storage for the price. AS a product? It sucks. Like many others, mine started making the loud noise too, and the only way to get it to stop is to bang it. Not very comfortable with continual banging of a storage device. A lot of my information has sensitive parts, so I can't send it to the shop to repair it under warranty, because of privacy laws. I bought another drive, a US Logic with less space and no Firewire (I have a better laptop now that supports USB 2.0), and it's not as fast as the other, but it does what I need to, and quietly.

If you need external memory? Don't buy ACOMData products.

I recently purchased this Hard drive and a week after it crashed!! i cant even reformat it.. i lost 70GB of video for my business. Please dont buy it, ACOM data sucks!