Good product, alright included software, Great value,

MOTIVATION: This drive is a good price for the space. I bought it so I would not have to worry about backup for a couple years. Its design is good, very small, and practically silent when operating. Overall I love the product but only gave 4 stars overall because its included backup software is not lenient enough on CPU use. INCLUDED SOFTWARE: I am disappointed by some of the software that comes with the drive. I ended up only leaving drive utilities and using windows backup to store emergency system images. After I set up the automatic back up software, that can select files by type, and constantly update the backup. I noticed what I felt was an excessive (12%) CPU usage from the backup software even when the drive was not connected. (CPU may have only been running at 50% maximum frequency) This bothered me enough to uninstall the included backup software. I never updated the included backup software, so it may have improved if I had, and might be useful to some. I kept the driver utilities to run diagnostics and it does not hog CPU. Additionally I simply copied some files for immediate use if they are lost on my internal drives. CAPACITY: This product is not technically 2TB but rather exactly two trillion bytes. Two terabytes actually should equal 2^40 bytes which is about 2 trillion 200 billion bytes. Rather than using the standard base 2 interpretation of a terabyte, this drive uses the base 10 interpretation which windows recognises as about 1.82 TB. This is no big deal if you want only want two trillion bytes. DRIVER & INSTALLATION Do not let windows install this device. It should open only as mass storage. Once you can access the files on the drive you can install everything it comes with and read instructions. I incorrectly allowed windows to search for additional device drivers and other secondary device installation procedures. This is warned against in the instructions. This led to Windows not installing the drive right, and constantly asking me to format it and intermittently disconnecting the drive. Do not format the drive. Once I undid the attempted installation I continued having difficulty reaching USB 3.0 speeds. My USB 3.0 driver had to be rolled back to an earlier functional version on my ASUS G73 laptop before I could get it to work. It was not difficult to find the driver. Apparently I had installed an updated driver that was not approved by ASUS. USD 2.0 was always fine. I would recommend reading the instructions (included on drive)because I did not, and I experienced difficulties that required moderate computer knowledge to overcome. THOUGHTS Much of this review relates to my own personal experience with this device. Overall I am very happy with the device. My review is meant to help people if they experience problems similar to what I faced based on my own mistakes and expectations. Included software did work for me, but I am simply not patient enough to use it in its entiretyRead full review