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Pros & Cons
Pros
I find the fantom drives to be highly reliable, sleek in design, and priced very fairly. Great reliability rates a repeat purchase.
The external hd is active & makes some noise during operation. I sometimes turn it off at night but when i power back on next morning i have to restart the receiver for it to pick up the drive again.
Cons
Fantom datum drives fail almost immediately more often than they work. On windows 10, it repeatedly connects and then disconnects. Don't bother with this device.
Fantom is probably buying up lots of refurb drives, pennies on the dollar, slapping them in a fancy aluminum enclosure, and selling them as 'new' very expensive paperweight now. I'm actually amazed how they get away with selling these garbage drives.
Highlights
Quality
Easy to hook-up & use, especially for the less experienced like myself.
Prior to this purchase, several previous fantom usb hard drives (2tb) have served me flawlessly for backup purposes for eight y... Read More
Unless you receive defective one, i think this is the one you would buy!
Replaced my seagate back up drive that kept giving me error massages and would not let me write to it.
Price
It does what i need at a great value.
At this price point it's a bargain.
The price point is great so i can continue to purchase more.
Shipping
No issues and delivery was when expected.
Also, the customer service was quick to reply to my inquiry (about how to use it, etc.
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external, great, good, fine and port. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 689 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 26 2024.
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Not bad at all just pointing that out
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I like fantom drives and have used them for years ive had two for a long while and just ordered a third
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They come with a mount which does the trick basically
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I researched a quite a bit about the large size external drives
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Also i had a bad experience with sxxx drive
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So this time i tried to be real careful about my choice
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By the way when youre not using the fd then it goes to some kind of 34sleep34 mode
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Talking to a old friend said when was still working postal inspector said they used it in there computers also
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