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Horrible Seagate Goflex_Home Network Drive.
My experience with this 1TB network drive is about the worst in 25 years of assembling my own PCs.
I bought the drive as a solution to back up three PCs on a home wireless network. The one drive would always be available for back up.
The drive is bundled with Memeo back up software which needs to be installed on each PC with password required to access, even if there is only one user. The software is designed to do real time back ups to a location on the drive, updating the backup as changes occur. Disasters of course occur if you change the backup and not the original.
The program worked on one PC, the one connected by ethernet to the router. It did not work on the other two wireless connections. Contacting Memeo, as Seagate required. was useless. I had to tell someone named Jason three times to read my question. He kept answering questions I was not asking. Finally he sent back a solution completely incomprehensible.
My objective is to always have a recent image of my each harddrive backed up. I tried Win7 backup routine and discovered that Win7 Home Premium will not see networked drives. Apparently Win 7 Professional and ultimate will.
I had experience with Easus backup but needed the pay version to see a networked drive. OK I paid $39.00. But that wouldn't work either. Easeus support couldn't solve that, saying its a network or drive issue.
Finally I contacted Seagate support. Their answer was they don't support third party software. Truly the last time they will see any of my $.
One other interesting point. the drive is supposedly designed to stop spinning when there is no activity. This drive is ALWAYS spinning.
I would really like to get this all to work. Any ideas? Thanks.