Comments on: AcomData 250GB E5 USB 2.0/FireWire External Hard Drive with PushButton Backup http://firewireexternalharddrives.gowiseup.com/acomdata-250gb-e5-usb-2-0firewire-external-hard-drive-with-pushbutton-backup/ Backup Hard Drives, Seagate External Hard Drives, Western Digital hard Drives Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:17:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: D. Williams http://firewireexternalharddrives.gowiseup.com/acomdata-250gb-e5-usb-2-0firewire-external-hard-drive-with-pushbutton-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-76 D. Williams Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:22:39 +0000 http://firewireexternalharddrives.gowiseup.com/acomdata-250gb-e5-usb-2-0firewire-external-hard-drive-with-pushbutton-backup/#comment-76 Mine crashed after about a year and 1/2 for no apparent reason and support from Acomdata. They told me to go after the store who sold it to me. I have another Acomdata that has yet to crash and I am throwing in the trash just in case. There are too many similar products in both price and specification to take a chance on this very poor product. Rating: 1 / 5 Mine crashed after about a year and 1/2 for no apparent reason and support from Acomdata. They told me to go after the store who sold it to me. I have another Acomdata that has yet to crash and I am throwing in the trash just in case. There are too many similar products in both price and specification to take a chance on this very poor product.
Rating: 1 / 5

]]> By: Rob Ippolito http://firewireexternalharddrives.gowiseup.com/acomdata-250gb-e5-usb-2-0firewire-external-hard-drive-with-pushbutton-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Rob Ippolito Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:58:23 +0000 http://firewireexternalharddrives.gowiseup.com/acomdata-250gb-e5-usb-2-0firewire-external-hard-drive-with-pushbutton-backup/#comment-75 I bought this item over Christmas and had problems booting it up from the start. I had to reboot my iMac into Windows to reformat it and then reformat it again under Mac OSX so Mac OSX would not recognize it. After I reformatted it, the performance was sketchy at best. Sometimes my iMac would recognize it and sometimes it would not. Huge disappointment and it's too late to return it. No problems under PC though. Rating: 3 / 5 I bought this item over Christmas and had problems booting it up from the start. I had to reboot my iMac into Windows to reformat it and then reformat it again under Mac OSX so Mac OSX would not recognize it. After I reformatted it, the performance was sketchy at best. Sometimes my iMac would recognize it and sometimes it would not. Huge disappointment and it’s too late to return it. No problems under PC though.
Rating: 3 / 5

]]> By: S. Kawakami http://firewireexternalharddrives.gowiseup.com/acomdata-250gb-e5-usb-2-0firewire-external-hard-drive-with-pushbutton-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-74 S. Kawakami Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:12:15 +0000 http://firewireexternalharddrives.gowiseup.com/acomdata-250gb-e5-usb-2-0firewire-external-hard-drive-with-pushbutton-backup/#comment-74 What the @#*%# ?? <br /> <br />I purchased a 150GB version less than one year ago. It died on me yesterday, taking along 5 years of digital photos and 20 GB of music. Many of the files were located only in this HDD. (yes, I SHOULD be using external HDD for backup purposes only, but of course, I didn't!) <br /> <br />I quoted several data recovery services. The quotes ranged from $250 - $2500. ARRRRGH!! <br /> <br />A spoke with a co-workers who used to work for a hard drive manufacturer. When I described the symptoms (The HDD indicator light is on, but it does not appear to spin up. No "clicking noise of death") he suggested a few things before I invest the large sums of money with a data recovery service. <br /> <br />I opened the external case, disconnected the HDD from the interface PCB and the connectors and took the HDD out. I opened my PC, connected the HDD to the power supply cable....and voila! the HDD started to spin. The problem was with the stuff acomdata designed (it was the power supply. The HDD is sourced from and OEM) The whole thing took 10 minutes. <br /> <br />The HDD now resides in my PC's spare HDD slot. Didn't need to install a new driver. The PC recognizes it as before. No $$ invovled. WOO HOO! <br /> <br />The moral of the story is...acomdata is not to be trusted (don't cheap out on HDD's!!)....and BACK UP YOUR DATA! Rating: 1 / 5 What the @#*%# ??

I purchased a 150GB version less than one year ago. It died on me yesterday, taking along 5 years of digital photos and 20 GB of music. Many of the files were located only in this HDD. (yes, I SHOULD be using external HDD for backup purposes only, but of course, I didn’t!)

I quoted several data recovery services. The quotes ranged from $250 – $2500. ARRRRGH!!

A spoke with a co-workers who used to work for a hard drive manufacturer. When I described the symptoms (The HDD indicator light is on, but it does not appear to spin up. No “clicking noise of death”) he suggested a few things before I invest the large sums of money with a data recovery service.

I opened the external case, disconnected the HDD from the interface PCB and the connectors and took the HDD out. I opened my PC, connected the HDD to the power supply cable….and voila! the HDD started to spin. The problem was with the stuff acomdata designed (it was the power supply. The HDD is sourced from and OEM) The whole thing took 10 minutes.

The HDD now resides in my PC’s spare HDD slot. Didn’t need to install a new driver. The PC recognizes it as before. No $$ invovled. WOO HOO!

The moral of the story is…acomdata is not to be trusted (don’t cheap out on HDD’s!!)….and BACK UP YOUR DATA!
Rating: 1 / 5

]]> By: Peter http://firewireexternalharddrives.gowiseup.com/acomdata-250gb-e5-usb-2-0firewire-external-hard-drive-with-pushbutton-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Peter Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:12:58 +0000 http://firewireexternalharddrives.gowiseup.com/acomdata-250gb-e5-usb-2-0firewire-external-hard-drive-with-pushbutton-backup/#comment-73 Worked great for about one year (just past the warranty) then died. No warning, just didn't mount one day. Tried it on other computers: nothing. AcomData did not reply to my tech support request. Rating: 1 / 5 Worked great for about one year (just past the warranty) then died. No warning, just didn’t mount one day. Tried it on other computers: nothing. AcomData did not reply to my tech support request.
Rating: 1 / 5

]]> By: OutdoorsGuy http://firewireexternalharddrives.gowiseup.com/acomdata-250gb-e5-usb-2-0firewire-external-hard-drive-with-pushbutton-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-72 OutdoorsGuy Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:36:20 +0000 http://firewireexternalharddrives.gowiseup.com/acomdata-250gb-e5-usb-2-0firewire-external-hard-drive-with-pushbutton-backup/#comment-72 Guess I can join the club of failed acomdata drives - used this 250GB hard drive for backups only about every 3-4 weeks so only turned it on and used it 15 times max and now it is dead with nothing but clicking sound and Windows unable to recognize. Junk. Rating: 1 / 5 Guess I can join the club of failed acomdata drives – used this 250GB hard drive for backups only about every 3-4 weeks so only turned it on and used it 15 times max and now it is dead with nothing but clicking sound and Windows unable to recognize. Junk.
Rating: 1 / 5

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