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Mfg Part#: GDII1000EU
Buy.com Sku: 210802271
UPC: 00749656136090
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Buy.com Sales Rank: 2972
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GreenDrive II is Fantom Drive’s answer to energy
reduction and environmental responsibility by
utilizing up to 40% less power without sacrificing performance.
The GreenDrive II employs variable speed disk
mechanisms that increase their rotational velocity in response to host demand, resulting in virtually no performance degradation vs. a 7200RPM disk.
Additionally, no lead is used in any component
of the GreenDrive II, making it Restriction of
Hazardous Substances Directive (ROHS) as well as
California Electronic Waste Recycling Act compliant. As a matter of fact, even the soy-based inks used to print the box are environmentally friendly.
GreenDrive yields an average drive power savings of 4-5 watts over competitors’ drives while maintaining solid performance. That power savings equates to reducing CO2 emission by up to 60 kilograms per drive per year – the equivalent of taking your car off the road
for 14 days each year, and saving up to $14 per year in electricity costs depending
on the power-on-hours.
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| Customer Reviews |
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| Value |
 4.9 |
| Performance |
4.9 |
| Ease of Use |
4.9 |
| Overall Satisfaction |
4.8 |
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5 of 5 Trouble Free Hard Drive 8/24/2010
Bill H from Reading Pa
This is the 2nd Fantom hard drive I have, the 1st one I have now about 10 months and it has been trouble free. The price was right, then free shipping, what more could you ask for?????The only bad part is the rebate, time will tell if it comes.
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5 of 5 Good Drive 6/25/2010
TK from SC
Does what it says it does, free software works well too. And the fact that it uses less power is good.
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4.7 of 5 No fan but not quiet 6/12/2010
frank from wash. dc
I read all of the reviews here and every one says that its quiet but I get a little noise on every access (especially when copying from a slower drive) which is a little annoying. My other backup drives: 2TB WD book, and 1 TB La Cie have less noise than this. Also all of my portable HDs are noiseless compared to this. I like the drive overall and the esata I/F is certainly faster than USB.
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4 of 4 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 works great, don't count on the rebate 10/12/2009
from ohio
I have absolutely no complaints about this drive. It doesn't get hot, it's quiet, and there's no annoying light to indicate it's on.
If you are considering this purchase, do so on the merit of the reviews, not the fact that there's a rebate. The rebate company is rumored to be awful (seriously, Google them and read the results yourself!). I purchased this drive in early August, sent the rebate towards the end of August. At the time, the rebate website said allow 5-6 weeks for processing. This week starts week 8. The website now says that processing takes 10-12 weeks and that a status update should be available after 6-7 weeks. I'm not holding my breath. At least I'm very pleased with my purchase! :)
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1 of 2 customers found this review helpful.
4.7 of 5 Works as advertised so far 9/27/2009
from Lexington, KY
Bought this as a back up after I learned the hard way about my laptops harddrive crashing. So dont put it off any longer and get one of these. Its light and doesnt get hot. Windows Vista had no problems recognizing it. The instruction tell you remove it through windows before shutting it down. Instructions dont tell you about the remove hardward icon. It lists another icon that wasnt in my tray. Maybe thats for XP but I had to use the remove hardware icon. Then it will tell you when you can remove it safely. Also for some reason I could not get the remove safely message. It was telling me the drive was in use. I ended it up having to disconnect it regardlessly. Shut the laptop down, and then waited til the drive stopped spinning. Then unplugged the drive cable. After that I get the message like I should. Have only been in used for a couple of weeks. Only backed up some pics, so I cant comment on the reliability of the unit.
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5 of 5 Works fine 9/5/2009
from Ocala, FL
I bought this ext. drive to keep my family videos and pictures backed up and also for future HD video and maybe a disk image when I get around to it. It is really plug and play. Hooked it up and started tranferring files. I did not use the software that came with it. The usb cable could be a little longer, but was not a problem as I do not leave the drive running and only turn it on when tranferring files at the end of day and keep the drive within arms reach. This is just the 3rd week I have had it, so cannot comment on the performance over the long run.
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5 of 5 Nice External HD 9/2/2009
from Milledgeville, GA
Computer recognized it right off the bat. Does not get hot and it's quiet since there is no fans. Using it as a video library with my Playstation 3 now.
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1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Works as advertised 8/13/2009
from Lakeland, FL
I bought the Fantom GreenDrive for two purposes:
1) To store periodic image backups of my PCs for recovery purposes
2) To store daily backups of my important files.
This product provides the storage and performance to do both efficiently.
The drive is discovered automatically by both Vista and XP systems and comes preformatted and ready for use.
I use the free version of Macrium Reflect to do the disk image backups. The NTI Shadow software that comes with the drive is great for doing the daily file backups quickly.
I can think of no reason why anyone would not be satisfied with this product.
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2 of 2 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Just awesome drive - Software is worthless though 8/8/2009
HowardH from New Jersey
On the Mac, Just initialize it, and make it a Time Machine backup disk. If you need more flexibility, use another backup utility. I was not impressed with the Shadow software that came with the drive. I now have 3 of these drives, and they are the best drives I have! They are quiet, they stop spinning when they are not in use, They wake up quickly when they are accessed again, and they run extremely cool, even while they are being heavily used.
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3 of 3 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Working great for six months now. 7/21/2009
John L. from Phoenix, AZ
Not that it is a spectacular feat, but I've had the 1TB GreenDrive for six months now and have not had any problems with it. No problems getting it started right out of the box. Pure Plug 'n Play connectivity whenever we take it from the desktop and transport it with the laptop.
We use the GreenDrive as our movie storage drive, and I wasn't too happy with the USB connection speed. I put an eSATA card into my desktop and connected the GreenDrive that way. MUCH BETTER!
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1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Fantom GreenDrive II - 1TB USB 2.0 & eSATA Externa 7/11/2009
LoverBoy0118 from Baltimore, MD
This is the 2nd Drives that I purchased to replace the 1st FANTOM drive 250gb has crashed for about over a year. When pluged it in into the USB port the drive got really HOT and USB cable smoked. I fingured that probably I got a BAD USB cable. Overall... It is a nice drive and nice design...
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2 of 2 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Best External Hard Drive I've ever owned 6/1/2009
from Young, Fairfield, CA
I've owned several external hard drives of all kinds. And this drive beats them all with Price/Storage/Performance. With it's Fan-less design, I no longer have to turn the drive off like I've had to with other external hard drives. Simply the best Bang for your buck. I wouldn't buy anything else but this if I need more storage memory. I've had this drive for over 4 month and I rarely turn my computer/drive off.
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3 of 3 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Works with my Time Warner HD DVR 5/19/2009
Brian from Greensboro, NC
I purchased this drive with the hopes of expanding my storage space on my TimeWarner DVR (Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300HD). Extremely east to set up.
Just did these steps:
- Turned DVR off
- Connected the external drive via the esata cable
- Turned on external drive, then cable box
- Message came on the TV screen saying it found the drive and asked if I wanted to format it.
- After format completed, I rebooted the cable box and that was it.
My percent used went from 78% down to 11%. I've been using this drive for about two weeks now and have had no problems at all. Everything seems to work (pause, reverse, fast forward, etc.).
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2 of 2 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Good drive - Bad Ninja 5/15/2009
Beverly Hills Ninja from Minneapolis, MN
Drive works exactly as I would have expected. I did have to return the first one after I tried to use the Ninja software to encrypt the data. When trying to use the Ninja (perhaps the Chris Farley incarnation) on the drive, it made the PC blue screen when formatting, then made the drive unreadable. Finally, after subsequent repair attempts, the drive ended up spontaneously rebooting my PC upon USB connection. Second drive works great after NOT using Ninja software. NTI Backup software seems to work well.
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5 of 5 Good drive 5/13/2009
from Rugby, ND
Drive works as was expected. I am using this to backup servers at work. Previously was done by a 6x80GB tape drive. I am sure I am using way less electricity now. Hooked up to USB and ran with no problems.
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4 of 4 customers found this review helpful.
4.7 of 5 Good drive forgot the software 5/12/2009
Don from Nashua, NH
I purchased both the barebones version of this drive and this version that had the eSata cable and the backup software. The drive is excellent but save the money and buy the barebones version and buy your own eSata cable. The backup software is almost useless if you really want to make an image copy of your drive(s). If you just want to back up you application data, it might be acceptable but this isn't Norton Ghost (nor did I expect it to be). Again, hard drive itself on eSata has performed flawlessly.
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5 of 5 Very Efficient Unit and Easy to Use 5/10/2009
J.C. Nadal from Flanders, NJ
This external drive is very quiet and fast. I was able to set it up within minutes and able to back up my 250 gig hard drive within 10 to 15 minutes! I was looking for a "big name" external hard drive and found this one a a MUCH better price! I am very pleased with this purchase from buy.com
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1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Simple to set-up & use 4/28/2009
Dave from California
This External Hard Drive is simple to set up and use, I was using it under 5 minutes. Very quiet. I have recommended the device to several friends and co-workers. Kudos to Fantom Green Drive !
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1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Great Product, but not for me 4/28/2009
RPd from Los Angeles, CA
Hi: I bought this great green fantom drive because I have a Mac laptop with a broken internal drive, and the housing on my external drive has been broken for 2 years. So, basically I had a laptop in 2 pieces and one of those pieces in 2 pieces. So, solution, buy a 1TB Green Drive. Problem: I couldn't start up the Mac using the USB 2 connection. So, I went ahead and bought a 160Gb internal, and now I use this quiet, great drive strictly for mass storage and backup -- it's great, but I would have loved it even more if it had a FireWire 800 option.
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