Title: bad design
Product review: My mistake - but the drive let me plug the USB cable in the wrong way. The cable plugged in the wrong way without giving me any tactile warning - I did not have to force it in at all. Now the drive is dead. The pretty blue light still glows, but all my data is gone, gone, gone. I say the design is bad because there is no excuse for allowing such a trivial (but predictable) error to destroy the entire box --- after all, people buy these drives for backup!!! A quality drive would 1) have some type of electronic safeguard in place to sense when the cable was inserted in the wrong orientation, and 2) have a tighter fit for the cable, so that if the plug is upside down, then it will be obvious that something is not right.
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