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Excellent External hard drive.

I use it as an external hard drive for photos.

Purchased my first Buffalo as a Raid 1 storage drive for my photography around 2012. Had good luck with THAT one, so I decided on getting a 6 TB version of the same external drive set up on Raid1, as my older drive was a 4TB raid1 device giving me a net of 2TB of storage, and it was now FULL! So I've activated this new 6TB drive also on Raid 1, which gives me 3TB of new redundant and safe storage capability. I trust the reliability of these external drives!!

I am a professional photographer and use The Buffalo Drive Array to store my photographs. In the past, I was concerned about the possible complexity of using an external Raid system, and wouldn't purchase one. Well, to my surprise, it is just as easy to use as a single external drive. An icon shows up on my desktop, I double click it to open it up, and drag in my folders. Nice and easy, and I'm comfortable that my files are backed up on 2 drives. Oh, and the auto shut-off very nice.

As a working photographer, I keep all my photos on two external hard drives. One my working drive and the other as a back up kept at home. I need a rugged external hard drive because I work on files in two locations and LaCie is the best!

About a year ago, my G-Technology external hard drive stopped working as my time machine backup for my MacBook Pro. I tried all kinds of stuff. Searched the Internet endlessly and boy, there are a lot of people with the same issue. I was debating whether to buy a new drive, but thought I'd try a new cable first. It's expensive, but if it works, it's worth it, and if it doesn't, I'll return it. I'm so glad I gave it a try. I followed the steps in the instructions for hook up and power and it immediately began backing up my machine! I now have three backups from today alone. Thank you StarTech!

This external hard drive is great for storage. It is a little slow when working off of it using Lightroom/Photoshop on my Macintosh, but I'm ok with that.

I have been working with this Seagate external hard drive for a couple of weeks now, and it has been performing well. I have several other Seagate external hard drives that have really performed well over many years, and I expect this drive to be just as reliable. I am a satisfied, repeat customer!

I needed a redundant way to back-up my picture files. (I just had a hard drive fail) The Buffalo system does it automatically. I had a little trouble setting it up but a call to customer service took care of the problem. Their rep. talked me through the setup and it has worked as advertised.

Protects my WD external hard drive.