Posted 11/22/2007 at 06:47:35pm

Your review was way too kind. This PoC is just a high-heat-generating pretty night light. I've already had to RMA two of them (awaiting the third unit now) because neither would run the eSATA interface for more than a few minutes before hanging the interface and then hanging the PC. The second unit would run over its USB 2.0 interface, but after a week it had to be RMA'ed because the included Seagate diagnostic utility discovered a fatal internal failure. I've tried both of the first two units on my ASUS A8N-SLI Premium (AMD FX-64) mobo with two different flavor eSATA PCIe cards and also on my current ASUS P5K Deluxe (Intel C2D Q6600) mobo which has two native eSATA ports built onto the mobo back panel. In the meantime, I've purchased an APRICORN EZ-BUS-DTS-EKIT Aluminum 3.5" USB 2.0 & eSATA External Enclosure (based mostly on high recommendations on the ASUS Independent forum) and popped a new WD 750GB SATA II OEM drive in the enclosure, and it's worked flawlessly over the eSATA port as soon as I initiated it in Windoze XP Pro. My advice: run away from this Seagate drive/bundle. I'm not optimistic my third unit will fare any better than the first two. (Well, the weather IS turning cold tonight, and I do need a new space heater/nightlight).