Seagate Technology 200 GB USB 2.0 and FireWire External Drive ( ST3200823A-RK )
Little noisy buy an excellent product
My only complaint is the packaging from Amazon.  It arrived rattling around in the box.  Must have shipped on a Friday at 4:59!  The folks in the Amazon shipping department were probably headed out to Happy Hour and in their rush to get out the door did not include enough packing material.<br /><br />As far as the drive itself, upon opening the box, while everything seemed to be in tact, because of the way it was packed at Amazon, I was already convinced I would have to ship it back.<br /><br />It fired right up!<br /><br />The instructions were excellent.  Simple.  Straight-forward.<br /><br />The cables and power supply are all individually wrapped, and the drive was packaged very well in the Seagate box.<br /><br />The included USB and FireWire cables are both about 3 feet long.<br /><br />(Most vendors only give you about a foot with their products.)<br /><br />When the drive is in use, it is a bit noisy...sounds like coffee purcolating.<br /><br />Sitting idle, the purcolating sounds of the read/write head only appear occasionally at very short bursts.<br /><br />The exterior of the unit is built tough and looks tough.<br /><br />The supplied backup software is also very intuitive.<br /><br />I would recommend this to anyone looking for an easy way to back up their data.  No hassle, no gimmicks.