Fujitsu Siemens Storagebird XL-S 400 GB

I initially bought this product because I thought it would be a cheap no-frills way to back up all my work documents - which for about 15 days it was. It was easy to use, just plug it into a USB slot and it was there in the background, the way you want a hard drive to behave. Unfortunately, after about 15 days, it started making strange ticking noises from inside the box. These didn't seem to be affecting its performance, just annoying me. Then after a couple of days it stopped working altogether. You could hear the motor stopping and starting as the drive was trying to work, but windows would not recognise it as a drive and neither would DOS, so I couldn't ...  Read the complete review