I plugged it into a server, and it worked. If you can plug in a USB cable and power cord, you can use this device. It has only been in place a few days, so I can not speak about the long-term usage or durability. It was larger than I first imagined it would be, because it takes up about double the space that the 1TB external Seagates I require. The 1TB drives were also powered via USB, whereas these 500GB drives require electrical power and USB. Overall, so far, so good.
I bought this computer to free up space on my computer. This device works great, I have never bought or used a external hard drive before but I heard Seagate was a great brand and as far as I can tell this things works perfectly. It's fast and easy to start up.
Stopped working 10 minutes after I installed it.........I recommend internal sata secondary/etc drives instead........format the secondary internal sata drive as FAT 32 using gparted for linux application/app. ........off topic........I also recommend the free operating system Linux Mint Mate 32bit/i386 or 64 bit/I686.......the only thing bad about Linux Mint Mate is the color scheme chooser........Ubuntu Linux Mate as of 2017 only works on dual core 64 bit computers.........see also distrowatch or linux softpedia.
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