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Title: Buyer Beware!!!
Review: I bought this hard drive as my main storage source to carry all of my media (~100 movies, ~8000 songs) as well as thousands of photos from trips around the world. The Hard drive died upon start up the day I returned from a trip. After taking it to three different data recovery specialists, they all tell me that what I need is a "Clean Room" if there's any way for recovery. Clean room recovery costs anywhere between $700 and $4000!Do your research!!!Simpletech is just a brand name; the company that actually makes the hard drives is Hitachi, the hard drive itself is Deskstar (aka "Deathstar") which is (I've discovered) known for these types of failures.Bottom line, you get what you pay for (once again). If you're still going to decide to buy this hard drive, and your data has any value to you at all, buy a second hard drive of a different brand and keep all valuable data on it as back up... come to think of it, a secondary back up of valuable data is a great idea no matter what!
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