Fantom 1TB External Hard Drive

Hey all,

I recently purchased a Fantom 1 TB External hard drive from buy.com and I am glad that I did. The thing is an absolute tank and at $99/w rebate they are practically giving them away.

Highly recommended for anyone in the market for some extra storage!!

What kind of drive is inside? Since there are only a few manufacturers, and it even says it is a 7200 RPM drive, I'd say that is a very good deal at $99 inc. enclosure.

Doesn't look like it has a fan, does it? I'd watch the temp the first few days and then forget about it.

TheHoff wrote in post #6719042
What kind of drive is inside? Since there are only a few manufacturers, and it even says it is a 7200 RPM drive, I'd say that is a very good deal at $99 inc. enclosure.

Doesn't look like it has a fan, does it? I'd watch the temp the first few days and then forget about it.

I don't know, i'll look at it later to try to find out. And it ran very quietly, so likely no fan. I personally only fire it up for file transfers so the risk of overheating is low.

It's solid steel construction; it feels like a brick in your hands.

I had one of these (well it looks identical cosmetically), and inside were two 500Gb PATAs running in a JBOD configuration. Hope this helps.

Had? Did you have difficulties?

Nope but just out grew it and ended up stripping the drives out and popping them into my media server instead. Just have an empty case now.

I ordered one two weeks ago too. Inside mine was a Western Digital "green" drive, even though they sold the one with the green silkscreen logo for about $10 more. I popped it out and replaced my C drive with it and it's way quieter than the Seagate that came with my Dell.

The enclosure is fanless and ran extremely cool, even after doing a 2 hour USB transfer.

I was thinking of getting one of these is yours the fantom g force I was also considering the cavalry 1tb ,Does anyone have any experience with one of these thanks,
Alan

Mine is the Fantom GForce and it contained the Western Digital green drive. So far so good (quiet, cool) but it's only been a few weeks.

I was staying away from the TB hard drives because that would be a lot of data to lose. But, you guys are saying the case contains 2 500gb drives, which has my attention. If the hard drive was to stop working would the data from both drives be lost or just the "broke" one?

I paid $100 for my 500gb WD book. Some are even saying this $99 TB contains WD drives.

May have to jump on one of these!

If two drives are tied together as a JBOD, one can fail and you can still recover the data from the good drive.

However by using two drives you are increasing the likelihood of failure. With one drive, you have (say) a 1 in 50,000 chance of having a hard drive failure on any given day. Now since you use two drives, you have a 2 in 50,000 chance of having one fail. You're better off with the odds of using only one drive, since it has less chance to fail, and making sure it is not your only back-up.

Backups are best done in pairs and then one copy removed from site.

I have a folder with some photos that is less then a gig that are priceless to me. Size means nothing if everything is backed up anyways. Not a question of if but when.

Hybrid93Hatch wrote in post #6726459
I was staying away from the TB hard drives because that would be a lot of data to lose. But, you guys are saying the case contains 2 500gb drives, which has my attention. If the hard drive was to stop working would the data from both drives be lost or just the "broke" one?

I paid $100 for my 500gb WD book. Some are even saying this $99 TB contains WD drives.

May have to jump on one of these!

The Fantom 1TB drive I was referring to had a single Western Digital 1TB "green" drive inside.

I've had bad experiences with Fantom drives, but read on and I will explain. After about two years in an always on, backup situation, the drives lost power randomly. At first I thought that the drives were failing, turns out it was just the power adapter for the external portion. Pop out those drives and drop em in a computer and you basically get internal hard drives. So after two years, if it fails, take the drive out and make it internal, still a great deal!

shadowman wrote in post #6719002
Hey all,

I recently purchased a Fantom 1 TB External hard drive from buy.com and I am glad that I did. The thing is an absolute tank and at $99/w rebate they are practically giving them away.

Highly recommended for anyone in the market for some extra storage!!

I have a Fantom 1TB. but I mixed up the AC adapter. Would you tell me
what's the power adapter's DC output? What's the brand of the adapter's name? Could you send me a picture of the adapter?

Thank you.:o