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(8 customer reviews) 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Acom works well for me,
June 12, 2005 M. Copeland "moreyc" (N. Bellmore, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Acomdata External 80 GB USB 2.0 & FireWire Hard Drive (PC/MAC) (Personal Computers)
I bought this drive for my Dell Inspiron 8100. It has USB 1.1 (useless for this) and a 4 pin Firewire which is how I connect. I use backup image software for protection and had no place to back it up. While hibernate and sleep mode will sometimes cause the drive not to be seen, it is easily remedied by either rebooting or unplugging and replugging in the firewire port. I also connected an external DVD burner through the firewire interface and copy my backups to disk. I've had the drive over a year and so far so good. I've already gotten my money worth as I had to restore my image a few months ago and all worked well!
This works well enough so I am buying another Acom (160 gigs) for additional storage.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Beware the rebate!,
December 14, 2003 R. Lee (SoCal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Acomdata External 80 GB USB 2.0 & FireWire Hard Drive (PC/MAC) (Personal Computers)
The drive is a competent but not speedy performer on the firewire side using a PC. Benchmark performance on Sandra was 15% - 20% off optimal. I have not used the USB interface. ACOMDATA failed to pay out its rebate offer despite three phone calls and a letter to corporate. I gave up at that point. They won't get by business again.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Good value for money.,
January 24, 2004 By A Customer
This review is from: Acomdata External 80 GB USB 2.0 & FireWire Hard Drive (PC/MAC) (Personal Computers)
I had no trouble getting this external drive to work in Windows XP using both USB 2.0 and FireWire. Both cables are included. Not the fastest but fast enough. Cost after manufacturer's rebates was under $... Good value for money considering that the drive comes with both USB 2.0 and FireWire interfaces.
