The drive works ok, however, I've had to put some tweaks into the Windows registry to stop the drive from timing out; it was often inaccessible Sue to going into "sleep mode". The other issue is that transfer speeds are noticeably slow than WD 3 5" USB drives I bought for half the price, three years ago. I won't be buying another Canvio.

I bought this a few months ago and found that if you are using it as a backup solution, as in copy local files off main PC, then it does the job. If you are constantly accessing files or updating spreadsheets etc, the drive goes into what I would assume is a powersave mode. You hear it having to spin up again. When you then try and resave your spreadsheet it doesn't recognise the location of the original work and you have to save it locally and copy it back to the HD which is a bit of a pain. I will say yes to recommending it for backups or pure storage but No to actively working on live files.I hope this helps.

does what it is designed for works ok and seams well made- my big issue is that i am not a computer genius just having a base level skill set so my problem was that THE DEVICE DOES NOT COME WITH ANY KIND OF INSTRUCTIONS! you get a down load but again it makes the assumption you know what to do!- theres no basic or beginers tutorial what so ever!. got it done in the end but took hours of trial and error and frustrations! not a reflection of the devices function or design just the user information provided!.