Mammoth hard drive

I just bought a new laptop with a 1tb hard drive, so I decided I needed more storage for backup purposes too. I wanted a cheap 3 TB USB drive to use with my laptop. I ran across this drive and the price was right so I bought it. When it came it was very heavy and larger than what I thought it was. In the picture it was hard to tell how big it was with nothing else in the frame to compare it to. It reminds me of the older desktop hard drives and the older thick USB cd drives. It's not really for packing around with you everywhere like the small 2.5 USB drives and enclosures. This one is intended to sit on your desk next to your computer. The next disappointment was that it is stamped on the bottom recertified, so that means it was a refurb and that wasn't mentioned in the ad for it. The next disappointment is that for it to work you have to plug it in to a power supply to provide the 12 volts for it to work. It won't power from your USB. So there goes the chance to use it on the laptop while on battery power on the go. Lastly I plugged it into my USB 3.0 port and transferred about 8 GB of data to it. It took literally forever. I believe USB 1 would have transferred the data quicker. So it's slow, big, and heavy and not for battery laptop use. I will still make use of it but just not as I originally intended. 3TB is just too much capacity to pass up at the price I got this for even to despite it's obvious drawbacks. Read full review

Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Refurbished