I had this for several years. The annoying orange light defaults to being on. I found out how to turn it off, but after a while it just started glowing again on its own. There were delayed write errors every week. Many times, the computer would not recognize the drive. This would happen regularly, and I would have to power down the drive and reconnect it. Since I was using this drive for backups, I did not access it often, and there was no visible indication that it was not connected. I had to start checking in Windows Explorer that it was connected. Finally, one day the orange light started blinking. The flashing light seemed to indicate that it finally died, and there was no way to get the computer to recognize it.