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I found this external HD to be of the utmost quality build (the case at least--not sure what actual hard-drive is running inside). One word of caution though, don't get trigger happy and decide to format the drive as I did. This is a GPT drive, and such it cannot be formatted in the normal (default) manner. Make sure to use the included utility to format the drive in order to take full advantage of the 4 TB of storage.
After I realized what I had did (and getting only 2TB of the drive), I tried to go to the manufacturer's website to try and download the software that had come on the drive in order to initialize correctly. However, I couldn't find the software anywhere. I had to turn to an open source program called "EaseUS partition Master" in order to get the drive formatted to the full 4TB.
I can't speak about the "sanctioned" method of formatting the drive with the included drivers (since I zapped those), but be aware if you do initialize to a single GPT partition of 4TB, older OSs won't be able to see it, including Windows XP (with the exception of the 64-bit version).
Other than that one issue (which was of my own making), everything is going well. I've been able to consolidate files I had scattered about, due to storage limitations. Even so, I'm filling up the 4 TB fast! :O This is especially amazing when I consider how much less of storage I lived with in the past.
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