Just picked mine up three days ago; nice form factor, variety of colors - (am I the only one that doesn't care about the color of a backup hard drive?) really super easy to use and a fantastic value; (I got mine off the rack at Best Buy for 119.00.
The other thing I really appreciated about it was the packaging just pops open easy; no scissors and steroids required. Very rare for an electronic product!
I could have given it five stars except for one problem; no documentation! I understand that they were trying to make it super user friendly, but the extend of the PDF and written documentation is just about: "Here is how you plug into a USB port" - duhhh!. If you are familiar with backup software and have owned an external backup drive I imagine you will just about love how easy it is; but if you are like me you'll be wondering; "am I using this correctly?". If they simply had put a pdf somewhere in the drive that simply in one page tells you how to use the software it would have saved me a couple hours of trial and error.
BTW: Youtube video's on this product were FRUSTRATING! Everyone wanted to show off the various colors or talk about how "glossy" it is; but couldn't find anything step by step on how to use it to backup my stuff! Thank goodness I've figured it out "I think".
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