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This hard drive is a great all purpose storage. I like the size of it, small to today's standards but yet great enough to store those special folders, for games or picture memories. I purchased this particular drive to remove the pc board from it and put on my hard drive, which quit working; In order to save the information. It is an identical drive. I actually installed it in my home built computer system as a second drive instead. These drives can be used very easily as an external drive. All you need is an adapter from Sata or IDE to USB, which are easily found on eBay. This way you can take it from one computer to another like a USB stick. It is best to build a box to put the hard drive in if you decide to do this, so as make sure it is protected from someone touching the pc board and zapping it. The reasons to use a used hard drive can be quite rewarding for those who would like to try it. They can be used as a flash drive, or just an extra drive to give you a little more storage when buying a huge drive would be just too much money. If you run out of space on your old drive, just decide how much more space do you need? Then buy A used drive to increase the size as a helper. If all you wish you had is 20 or 30 gigabytes more than a 40 gigabyte hard drive would be plenty. Just get a USB adapter for it so you don't have to crack open your computer case. Besides you are helping the environment by recycling.Look now and do a search and see how much money you can save.Read full review
I bought this 40 GB Seagate, and another identical unit from another Ebay seller, and also two 80 GB Western Digital drives from two other sellers all for the express purpose of using them in pull out caddies in an ALESIS HD24 Hard Drive Multitrack recorder in my home studio. None of the 4 above mentioned drives will mount up in the HD24. I am not saying there is a problem with the drives as I have read on Alesis message boards that the HD24 is picky about hard drives that work in it. I got the unit with a 40 GB Maxtor in it, which works, and later got a Seagate 80 GB and an off-brand (do not remember the name) 80 GB which I use in three other caddies, and they all work fine, so I had no reason to doubt these Seagate 40 and WD 80 GB drives would not work. I later decided to get an external HD enclosure in hopes of atleast using these drives as backups to my home desktop computer. Both WD 80 GB drives work fine in the rocketfish enclosure, however NEITHER of the Seagate 40 GB drives work it it at all. I have yet to figure out why. The drives may be good, but so far they are nothing more than paperweights to me. I may try another brand of external enclosure or if I can get hold of a junker computer to experiment on, but I am not going to tear my main computer down just to try to get these drives working. I probably should have sent them back to the sellers, but I waited too long, thinking I could use them for some other application. I can not say that I would recommend the Seagate 40 GB drive at all, because I have yet to be able to use them for anything.Read full review
This is an excellent hard drive for beginners. It is quiet and quick. It's 40 Gig size is small per the demands of those who need a lot of space, but is great for those who don't require a massive amount of storage space. It also works very well as a secondary hard drive. I use mine to store digital photos and find it very useful
I got this drive for a relative of mine. Great upgrade for a 9 yr old computer. I ordered this drive because of the very low price and because my previous experience with them were good. I owned a dimension 4600 for 6 years and had the same drive and never had any issues with. If I need another small drive I will go with this type again. I prefer Seagate to Maxtor because my time with Maxtor was not as positive as Seagate. For this reason alone I always stick to Seagate.
A perfect for the small system I designed. Right size, right capacity and right weight. A perfect for the small system I designed. Right size, right capacity and right weight. A perfect for the small system I designed. Right size, right capacity and right weight. A perfect for the small system I designed. Right size, right capacity and right weight. A perfect for the small system I designed. Right size, right capacity and right weight. A perfect for the small system I designed. Right size, right capacity and right weight.
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