Home > Consumer Reviews > Seagate Expansion 1.5 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive ST315005EXA101-RK

This product has caused me nothing but headaches. It worked for about a month. I got it so that I would be able to
expand my media library. Long story short, one day I went to throw another batch of stuff on it and it responded
with a click.... click.... click.... click.... click.... click.... you get the idea. While it was having a seizure
I couldn't even see what I had on it, let alone write to it. I called seagate and told them what was going on. They
wanted me to run sea tools. I am a mac user so I couldn't. I held the phone up to it so they could hear the horrible
sounds it was making. He still wanted me to run sea tools. I had to have the call elevated to his superior in order
to get anything done. Even his supervisor was from another country. Eventually I got them to send me another one.
I lost my entire precious collection of music, movies, pictures, books, comics. EVERYTHING WAS GONE. One month and
shipping costs later, I get another drive back from them. The case is scratched up, it looks bad, it's clearly used.
But does it work? NO. It starts in with the noises on my first 2 gig transfer. Half an hour after I got the replacement,
I need another one. As of right now I'm waiting on my second replacement. I can't stress enough to everyone out there
reading this. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT. YOU WILL MOST LIKELY REGRET IT. I wish I had read customer reviews before I bought
it. Hindsight is 20/20 right?. SPEND A LITTLE MORE IF YOU HAVE TO. IT WILL BE WORTH IT IN THE END. YOU CAN'T PUT A PRICE ON PERSONAL MEMORIES. A hard drive should make you feel secure. Knowing that the things you put on it will be there when you want them. THIS PRODUCT DOES NOT DELIVER!!!

I have bought two 1.5TB Seagate external drive about two months ago. Now one of them started making a clicking noise and failing. I researched the web and found out that there are tons of other people having the same problem with the same drive....just read through other customers reviews here on Amazon. This product should be recalled, it's a fraud!!! Too many failures and they know it!!!

Avoid this drive at all costs! Not only does it feel cheap and flimsy, it's also pretty big for a 3.5 drive; however, what really murders this product for me is that it arrived defective. Any relatively large file (think 20megs and up) fails to transfer and hangs infinitely at some point through the transfer. I have tried different USB cables as well as formatting the drive. The worst part was that I waited a month to get this drive as the item was back-ordered.

There's a reason these drives are cheap - stay away!

Purchased the drive because:
1) Seagate has been making good drives for as many years as I've been using computers (my first computer was a 386sx).
2) Lots of space.
3) On sale.

Why I shouldn't have bought the drive:
1) Poor reviews
2) Poor reviews
3) Poor reviews

It lived just long enough for me to move 1.2Tb of video files onto it before the "click of death" took hold. I researched about the drive and the clicking after the fact instead of before buying, which is my fault. 48% of N E W E G G user reviews gave this drive 1 out of 5, Amazon not quite as bad.

I was able to make the drive function again by placing pressure on the top of the drive (a 100 pack of DVD's). As soon as all my data has been moved to other locations I shall test if it was just a coincidence or if the pressure actually "fixed" the drive. Either way, I'm getting rid of it.

I bought 2 of these drives at the same time- and 2 weeks got the horrible clicking noise - returned one drive to seagate and a month later had to return the 2nd -

now both have developed the same problem -look online it will tell you the story - don't buy these drives!!!