I will admit this is one of the first external hard drives I have purchased. It is easy to install and I find myself using it like a large thumb drive. It works great and I have had no problems with it, it is a plug and play on both my machine at work and my one at home (both run on windows xp).I have even considered going back and seeing if I can get a couple more for two of my brothers who are into programming software and could use the extra memory space.