Evaluation: 
Conclusion: Reliable performer... Fan's a tad noisy
Review: Works with OS X 10.3 Panther without a hitch. Plugged it in and formated it as HFS+ and went right to work. None of the mount problems that other FireWire drives have had with Panther (I know, I returned two of another brand before I bought this one). So good, it's a little boring. Ships with a robust, good quality Firewire cable. No problems since I bought it in November 2003. I Daisy chained it with a LaCie to move some files and it behaved nicely.Yes, it has a fan and you can hear it.
Evaluation:
Conclusion: Fast, reliable and exceptionally easy
Review: I bought this hard drive four months ago. So far, it has worked perfectly. I just plugged in the USB cable into my Windows XP laptop and, in ten seconds, it automatically recognized everything and I had 120 gb more! It was great, so simple! I used it to backup many files from a number of computers and, every time, in ten seconds, it was perfectly working.
It is also fast (8 GB in 8 minutes), and it always works without problems and without overwarming. The only small difect: it is effectively a little bit noisy, but not too much.
Overall, I am very satisfied of this product.
Evaluation:
Conclusion: Noisy Hard Drive, etc.
Review: I should have taken the other customer reviews to heart before ordering the external hard drive and especially those reviews that described the drive as noisy, which indeed it was. So much so that I returned the item for a refund. Also I could not get the instruction manual to open from the supplied CD-ROM to complete the installation process. Simpletech's web site did not list the specific model for troubleshooting and advice. The cumulative impact of these issues causes me not to recommend this item.
Evaluation:
Conclusion: GREAT VALUE FOR MONEY
Review: I got a 120GB external drive for the money that was returned to me for my Archos 20GB jukebox...I have no regrets.. the Simpletech drive is quiet and worked the first time I plugged it into my USB 2.0..it works with Win 98SE, Win2000 and WinXp..AS a bonus, I got the syncsort Backup utility...
Evaluation:
Conclusion: too slow, not like a USB 2.0
Review: Just bought it two weeks ago to back up data on my laptop, but it runs so slowly, after I update my laptop with a USB 2.0 cardbus card, it is still slow, only copying date at about 2MB/s.
it is noisy, too.Don't know why, want to return it.I bought it on buy.com, return processing is kind of hassle.
