100GB Diskgo USB 2.0 2.5IN Backup Ultra Portable Hard Drive

 (3 customer reviews)

After my Seagate backup hard drive failed in less than 6 months (and the company made it far too difficult to obtain a replacement -- I'll never buy Seagate again!), I gave Edge's diskGO a try. It was easy to install and has worked great. We now have two of them. I did, however, scrap the back up software Edge provides because it was not very "user friendly", and we use the software that came with the Seagate.

I bought this Hard drive about 6 months ago and since then having problems from the first day itself.
It gives "I/O device failure error" and sometimes computer doesnot recognize it. I asked for replacement, which they did.
New one has similar issues. Horrible drive. Never buy it

While I don't think that there's anyone out there dumb enough to consider buying a 100gb portable hard drive that's roughly twice as large as the 500gb hard drives being sold for the same price, I do think it's important to note when a product does not last. Especially when that product is meant to be used as a backup for critical files. It may change people's minds when purchasing higher capacity diskGO products.

This thing conked out on me from very little use. I only used it about once every two months to backup files for a period less than 3 years. I kept it turned off when I wasn't using it to make sure that if my computer got a virus that it wouldn't spread to my backup.

It thankfully hasn't caused a calamity, but I do have to spend more money on another backup hard drive.