Just a head'sup, the WD My Passport Ultra 1TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 I bought last week isn't recognized and gives an occasional click. I babied it and kept it on safe surfaces, only used it long enough to copy 750 GB of data. Further evidence I treated it like a baby is my lack of concern of any lost data - I didn't move anything there, only copied. To boot it wasn't connected to the Pogoplug yet, as i had three failsafe devices scheduled to test before it (USB stick, old SATA on USB adapter and G-Connect) and never got past the USB stick.
Your mileage may vary, and for all i know it could be the USB cable or even fix itself, but I know my Windows 7 and how it handles devices and this has biased me to other hard drive brands where possible.
15-day return-exchange policy at Best Buy, so I might add $10 and get a Seagate backup plus or something like that. Still, strangers will have 750 GB of my stuff :-(
Your mileage may vary, and for all i know it could be the USB cable or even fix itself, but I know my Windows 7 and how it handles devices and this has biased me to other hard drive brands where possible.
15-day return-exchange policy at Best Buy, so I might add $10 and get a Seagate backup plus or something like that. Still, strangers will have 750 GB of my stuff :-(