The Seagate FreeAgent is the last external harddrive I would store my precious data on. I bought this drive and it was bad out of the box. I contacted Seagate support. We ran through formating, restoring the drive, trying on a different computer, etc. I can appreciate that something can be defective, but Seagate "policy" is to replace it with a refurbished drive. I have only had this drive for a week!!! If you bought a new car and had to take it back for service and the dealerships response was "We will swap it out with used car", you would be furious. Beware of their warranty policy!!!!