Hitachi XL2000 2TB Hard Drive


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  • Only USB 2.0
  • Reported as noisy during operation
  • Has slow transfer speeds in comparison to other products

 

 

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Failed after 6 days
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This is a cross-post: Knew something was up when I plugged it in for the first time and booted up. PC stuck in boot cycle. Had to disconnect hard drive or power down for boot cycle to complete. Never had a chance to look and see if PC was trying to boot from this device. Next issue, tried backing up for the first time but backup software balked, saying this hard drive was formatted as FAT32. Who uses that anymore? After formatting to NTFS, backup was successful. Hard drive failed completely after six days. Just all of a sudden, couldn't read from it, couldn't format it to wipe what was already on there.

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Hitachi XL2000
-1 points

Crap it crashed the second day cant reformat it either. It does come formated as FAT32 so it can be used for MAC or Windows OS. After reformating to NTFS storing my files there I awoke the next day to find it had gone to a RAW format. Went to Hitachi for tech support was told all you can do is reformat. They wont help at all don't buy this junk. I am trying to do data recovery before I trash can this thing & buy a Seagate instead.

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Hitachi XL2000
0 points

Crashed on me Also.

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XL2000
0 points

I had to have a way of backing up my "CRITICAL" data before upgrading from XP pro to Windows 7. Needless to say it took all my data fine then after I completed my OS upgrade the drive was a dumb as a wheel block and not a useful. I had research for finales that is now locked up in a very stupid piece of junk.

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Points and point the samething (It Crash)
-1 points

-1 points
Crap it crashed the second day cant reformat it either. this is junk. I am trying to do data recovery before I trash can. can not recover any data

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XL2000 Just doesn't work
0 points

this drive goes to sleep while copying large numbers of files, or perhaps it's simply over heating, either way it's way too unreliable to be used for any sort of application. DON'T BUY THIS DRIVE!

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XL2000 Just doesn't work
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this drive goes to sleep while copying large numbers of files, or perhaps it's simply over heating, either way it's way too unreliable to be used for any sort of application. DON'T BUY THIS DRIVE!

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XL2000 only clicks and doesn't light up
0 points

This unit seems to have failed after I reformatted to NTFS and backed up my entire hard drive. What a real disappointment. I will never purchase this brand again. Now I have to figure out how to either reformat the drive or get out a great big electromagnet to degaus the platters.

Any suggestions?

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