FD G-Force Hard Drive - GF1000EU
Fantom 1TB G-Force Hard Drive - Dual Interface (eSATA & USB 2.0) - External Hard Drive

I received the product quickly. I plugged it in. I plugged in the USB and began backing up files. No problems. Easy to use. This drive is very quiet. The only negative is that the blue light is really bright (not a big issue).
 
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The drive delivers what the description promises.
 
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Received the product several months ago. It is nice hard drive for price. Just a word of caution, that this company is well known to not to honor rebates.
 
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There are many features that make this hard drive one of my personal favorites. One, is the material. The aluminum exclosure allows it to act as a heatsink and is fingerprint resistant. If you are like me, fingerprints drive you nuts which is why this is nice. And because it acts as a heatsink, it allows for the fanless design which is such a luxury. It works perfectly and has all of these great luxuries. The only gripe I have is that it does make tick sounds when I am writing to it or read from it, but that comes with every hard drive. Also, I don't like the extra cable needed for power. I wish it could be powered by the USB b/c that would make it much more portable but that also is an issue with nearly all external hard drives. Overall, I unbeatable price per GB and the great features makes this a no brainer.
 
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I've been very happy with my Fantom Drives external hard drive. Even with an older laptop, it functions really well.
 
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If you are looking for an easy to use external hard drive, with a lot of space and pre-formatted with FAT32 then buy this product. I bought two of these within like last 6 months, bought one for myself and have been recommending it to all my friends until one of my friends asked me to buy it for him. Both times this product came within 3-4 days and not damaged at all, came with all the hardware which is easy to use. I still have not reformatted this drive since once you format it to NTFS its very hard to format it back to FAT32 and Xbox 360 will recognize it only under FAT32 format. Overall the product is great and easy to use :).
 
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I bought this to backup my new Quad core desktop PC. The drive took about 12 hours to do a full reformat to HPFS. The blue activity light would be very bright if I kept the drive close to eye level but I keep it on the floor so the light is substantially dimmed by the fine perforations of the front bezel plate. The provided Usb cable is rather short at 36". No eSATA cable provided. I noted that the drive case became somewhat warm (not hot)after being on a few hours. Since I am something of a pack rat I had a small fan (37mm) that I had salvaged from an obsolete video card. A few dabs of Gorilla Glue was used to fix the fan to the lower margin of the front bezel and the fan was connected to an old plug type PS. The result was a notably cool drive during a several hours long full backup. I have had personal experiences with drives in non-ventilated cases seemingly fail only to work just fine when an active cooling modification is made. Aside from the lack of an eSATA cable and a too short Usb cable, this is a good choice for backup storage.
 
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I'm using the Fantom 1TB HD via USB 2.0 to back up my MacBook Pro using Apple's Time Machine software. I used it yesterday to perform a clean install of my OS, which has been giving me some trouble. I've had nothing but good experience w/the Fantom so far. Besides, the price, I bought it for the eSATA interface, though I haven't tried that yet.
 
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I just got mine yesterday and it is pretty fast for a USB transfer. It's quiet, I faintly hear a fan on the drive. Very easy to use. Like the box says, just unpack, plug in power & USB cable and viola! you got a drive! It's also great if you don't have a lot of money stash away, it's cheap for the amount of space you get.
 
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These work awesome for this application. We have all three DVR's hooked up to these and so far so good after 6 months. Bought eSata cable off of here too. THIS DRIVE DOES NOT ERASE YOUR DVR INTERNAL HARD DRIVE BUT TAKES THE PLACE OF IT. To regain your internal HDD just turn off the Fantom and reset your DVR. To reuse the Fantom just turn it on, wait for one minute, and reset your DVR. Easy Peezy at an unbelievable price!
 
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My enclosed drive is WDC WD10EAVS-32D7B1. HD Tune shows a minimu xfer rate of 70KB/sec. I backed up 230GB of desktop in approx 70 mins - same as for a slightly more expensive Cavalry External drive. Drive is quiet. A quick NTFS format took 1-2 minutes.
 
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Purchased this product a month ago and never faced a single problem. It's been a great buy compared to other products in the market in same segment. The initial formatting to NTFS took 10-12 hrs. and thereafter I partioned the hard drive. Everything went very smooth. It's SUPER SILENT and transfers data atleast 10-15 MBPS on USB connection but it varies.... I'll post again if anyting else comes up.
 
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Received product and works as described. The blue light on the front is rather bright. NEVER received my rebate, that was about six months ago.
 
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although it showed "delivered" in the online tracking and the date of delivery is june 27 2009, which is last saturday. I was at home and i did not get anything, any parcel. where the hell is the hardisk delivered?
 
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Based on all the good reviews here I bought this one but for some reason it didn't work for me. I put it for formatting to NTFS and after waiting for over 2 hours it failed. Then the drive was not accessible at all and froze my computer many times. I retried formatting it but the same outcome. I'm not sure how well it worked for other folks here but I had to return mine.
 
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I bought the drive several months ago. I've seen many other drives advertized, but this still remains the best value. I'm glad I've got plenty of space for backups. I forgot and missed the rebate window :-(
 
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No one seems to have had this problem so perhaps it was me or my computer. The initial formatting was so slow that I stopped it 3 times before I finally let it run for 10 hours (yes 10 hours) before it finished. Later I transferred a full 80 gig drive to this one and it took 23 hours. Since then it has been flawless. The drive was not shipped, it was beamed over!! I ordered it on Monday and received it on Tuesday (the next day!!) and yes, that was the free shipping. Bottom line, it seems a bit slow transferring large amounts of data. However, I recommend the drive and would buy it again. You can't beat the sale price. It is even less now than when I bought it.
 
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Standard free delivery was super good - three days from order to having it left on my doorstep. Installation was easy as plugging it into laptop USB port running Windows Vista Home - shows up as drive F:. Starts and stops as expected. Moved to second PC running XP Home SP3 to backup files without incident; restored files to first PC. Attractive case, silent operation, tiny heat signature, intense "on" light, power switch readily accessible. Price was attractive, rebate was slow to come, but did get here. I would definitely recommend it to another buyer (and have).
 
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It works fine and the rebate arrived in a timely fashion
 
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Bought this drive to back-up files from my old computer for my new system, also wanted to use this to store my music, photos, etc, instead of on my actual computer drive. Very happy, easy install. Don't sweat the reformat, I reformatted before going to sleep and woke up and it was all ready to go.
 
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I wanted a drive to store pictures and other files from my wife's laptop and my desktop. This works perfect for that. Wife had no trouble setting it up and using it and I didn't either. Only hassle I had was sending away for the rebate, but its no different than any other mail-in rebate. Great buy.
 
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I love my new hard drive. I think that it is a great deal. It works very quickly and is quiet as well. I also like the blue light in the front.
 
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In addition to the price being right, the capicity: huge, the size: small, the absolute best thing about this drive is that it is VERY QUIET. I too had to format the drive(s) NTFS to hold files greater than 4G, and it took hhhhoooouuuurrrrsssssss, but since then it has been great. I am using it on USB2.0, since I have no SATA connections. I realize that this is significantly slower than SATA, but it is significantly better than the EIDE drive that the OS is installed on. I did buy a second one, but will hold out until the 1.5T drives are available at this price point. Should be any day now, as the internal drives now cost about the same per Gig for a 1T or a 1.5T.
 
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I've been using this for over a month now and I have nothing bad to say at all.. It's pretty quiet, it's not huge, and it was a great price. How can you beat that ??
 
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I needed the extra storage space for pictures and home movies, and this drive is perfect for that. I connected it with an USB cable, so it's a little slow on large volume transfers, but for normal file swapping it's great. No problem connecting it to my Vista x64 laptop!
 
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I bought this external drive, because it has an eSATA interface. It worked right out of the box, but to my surprise, it took over 3 hours to do a complete format. It's quiet and runs cool. Great buy, once I get my $20 rebate.
 
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This is the third fantom I have purchased. Two for Mac ibooks and for one iMac. I would recommend it to those seeking an external drive. I connected it to my iMac; and, it performs efficiently with the time machine.
 
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Love this. I skimmed the instructions, plugged it in and away we went! So far, not problems, glitches, bumps or hiccups.
 
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This is my second of this model. Have one running with ESATA connection and the latest one is USB. Power switch on back so will not power down with the computer, but that is not a problem. If I dont want to start it with the computer, I can use the power switch and not pull the connecter cable and fumble trying to find the port to reconnect. Blue light is reminder if on. Running one for over 6 months now and no problems. Nice Aluminum case and stays cool. They do have a 'green' model now w/2yr warranty.
 
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This is the second Fantom 1TB Drive I've purchased and I could not be more pleased. Compared to other drives, especially this size, the Fantom is quiet, cool, and easy to just plug and play. It doesn't have any software for automatic back ups, etc. but that's really no big deal. I wanted a drive to store photos, music, video and other files and this drive fits the bill. Plug and play and it's part of your system. Excellent performance and costs.
 
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Ordered on Sunday, received on Friday. Reformatted the drive from FAT32 to NTFS. It worked as expected without any problem. The construction seems solid. The aluminum case feels very sturdy. It is an excellent deal.
 
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Had the drive for a couple of weeks. Have connected the drive to my Win XP Dell Dimension 8400 desktop (4 years old) and it worked right out of the box. I did do a quick format to NTFS. I also bought an eSATA bracket so that I could run the drive as eSATA. My motherboard has 4 SATA connecters (e means external thus external SATA). I connected to #3, changed the bios (F2 on boot) to turn on SATA #3, turned on the drive and it worked. The bracket from buy.com was a Tripp Lite SATA to eSATA transition cable P952-002 and the cable (drive comes with USB cable but not a eSATA cable) eSATA P950-36I. I did only one test backing up My Documents folder with eSATA and USB. The eSATa was marginally faster. The eSATA should be twice as fast (maybe 1/4 with my older SATA) on writes. Have yet to take the time to see if there needs to be changed settings to WinXP to improve performance with eSATA or if the limiting factor is hardware. If anyone does find out please let me know. May also try an eSATA board as I have a PCI Express slot, which is needed for the eSATA board. Keep in mind, if you want to use the external drive on more than one computer than USB 2.0 will probably be your most common connection.
 
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Work as charm as soon as received. Low heat generated than previous Fantom Drives. Terrific purchase, love it!
 
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Worked right out of the box. Take a bit longer to recognize in Mas OS than my other WD drives.
 
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The drive worked great when I plugged in via USB. It was about as fast as I expected but I wanted more speed so two weeks later I bought an esata cable and hooked it up. That's when the drive went coo coo! Win2k insisted the drive wasn't formatted. I had formatted with NTFS and loaded 600GB of data with no problems...so all of that was erased somehow. I unplugged the power and the esata cable, hooked the USB back in and powered up. No change. The drive needed to be formatted again, thus erasing my files. After formatting, the drive showed up as 31.8MB (MegaBytes) wtf? I called Micronet and an actual person was there! The tech was very helpful, but concluded with an RMA and $9 worth of shipping out of my pocket. I mailed the drive on April 17th. It's April 24th and my drive showed up on my front porch. I plugged it in (USB) and formatted with NTFS. Capacity 931GB - used 93.5MB Not sure what the 93.5MB is all about, but the drive is working now. The paper work in the shipping envelope stated that they replaced the hard drive. I'm not sure what went wrong with the first one, but I can't complain about their customer service. Friendly, prompt and best of all, FREE. I'm loading files as I type and there are no problems. I would recommend this drive and manufacturer. It's nice to deal with a company that actually cares and stands behind their products. I was going to give 3 stars, but their speedy and effective response changed my mind. 5 stars!!!!! *****
 
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Great product and great service. It got here in really good time, and it works great!
 
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Great deal on this hard drive. I don't have esata yet, but at least it gives me the option. The drive itself is virtually silent and yet manages to run cool. It's actually much smaller than I expected compared to my Western Digital My Book 300GB drive. The front of this drive sports a VERY bright blue LED. Not bad on my desktop, but if I were using it on my home theater PC, I'd probably have to turn it so it faced backwards or put some black electrical tape over it. No big deal either way. Overall, a fantastic drive.
 
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Had a few issues re-formatting this device using VISTA, but, it was fairly simple with the XP edition desktop I had. Speed is decent, but, I'm mainly using it as a storage/backup device. So I just backup my data periodically and run it overnight. works great!
 
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This is the second one I purchased. It is a great drive, very quiet, and fast with the eSATA connection. I like the design, it takes up very little space on my desk, and if I wish I can stack them on their sides on top of my computer case. The external drive style is great, it keeps the drive outside of the hot case environment and if I need to take my data with me in an emergency I just grab the drive and run. I use one in always connected mode and the other as a data backup drive. This is my third fantom drive, the first one I purchased many years ago and it is still running strong. I definitely trust this brand.
 
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I read on another site that Fantom is just the case manufacturer - the hard drive inside is not made by them and is most likely made by one of the handful of companies whose name you would recognize (Seagate, Western Digital, etc.). I can not tell what brand of hard drive is inside the case on mine. The case could be opened, but doing so will void the warranty (there's a sticker over the screw). In any case, the drive has performed flawlessly since I got it (about a month). It is as fast or faster than my other external drives and the aluminum case looks good and offers good protection for the drive (I don't know if the drive inside would survive the shock, but the case could be dropped off the table and not be damaged...). The case is also well ventilated. The price is great (less than $100 after rebate) and I would not hesitate to buy another one and I would recommend it to anyone without reservation.
 
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A great drive for the price ($90 after rebate). Initial format to NTFS took a while, but I was expecting that with a drive this size. Drive is very fast and responsive. A little bit of noise during heavy read/write cycles, but nothing to write home about.
 
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Bought this drive and it crashed after 3 months. Replaced it under warranty (data all lost) and tonight it fell over and that was it. This was not dropped or anything. It was just bumped and being tall and slim fell over. I think I need to find something not quite so low end and something which will be more stable
 
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This 1 terabyte Fantom hard drive was well packaged and sent fast. The directions were easy to follow and the unit set up and installed easily. It also works perfectly.
 
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I have this drive for only about a week. So far all is great. The chassis is very sturdy, dissipates heat easily. Almost silent operation. The only thing is that in order to take advantage of eSATA interface you need to purchase your own eSATA cable. The vendor suplpies only USB. Oh, well.. I would buy another one when I need it.
 
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The power switch is a plus, the power and USB cable could be a little longer but other then that this hard drive is a great buy.
 
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Really this is the good one in the market. For me, i like the metal casing since i dropped it twice and it is still working fine.Its really light when compared to my old 500gb WD hard disk.Its real quiet and doesnt get heated up so quickly.Consumes less power compared to the old one.
 
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Just plug in and go! It's that simple. I unboxed it, pluged it in, and that was it. Very simple to use and a super buy for the price...highly recemonded to anyone requiring some "extra" storage space!
 
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Seems to be working fine as a Mac Time Capsule backup.
 
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I'm using this drive for extra media storage under Ubuntu. The OS found it without issue. I've got it partitioned into an xfs and an ext3 partition. It runs great and has plenty of room. And, you can't beat that price!
 
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Quick arrival, no problem setup except for the fact it didnt have a esata cable
 
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A no brainer. SATA makes it fast, it's quiet and simple to install. I've had experience with "losing everything I had" before, so I have a few terabyte backup drives; this one represents the best value and easilest use. A solid bargain.
 
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