Imation Apollo M100

bad product – I had one to keep my old documents but it does not work. it simply appear on the laptop but I am not able to open it. I can not have my document yet. Show details

Useless – Please don't buy this crap. I lost all my kids memory. I saved all data in this product now I have none. its not working anymore. I never checked its review now I learn a lesson to review. I think most of product is low quality. Please don't buy this shit. I lost all my kids memory. I saved all data in this product now I have none. its not… Read more

working anymore. I never checked its review now I learn a lesson to review. I think most of product is low quality.

Changed it's formatting itself – I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but it change it's formatting overnight and i haven't been able to use it since (have plugged it into 3 completely different laptops, PS3, 2 different types of TV's, and its format doesn't work with any of them). I also found that it ejected itself extremely easily, as a simple nudge was able to… Read more

make it eject (inconvenient when watching movies on laptop in bed). It was working perfectly for the first 6-9 months I had it, then issues started occuring until it just decided to change its format.

Don't waste your money – Worked for perhaps a month. Just long enough for me to think my back up was safe. Of course, the inevitable happened, and when the PC crashed, I thought I was covered with my trusty back up cope, purchased for this very reason. Nope. It had died. Office Works offered to replace it, which was great, but it didn't get my precious data back. Furious! Not worth the plastic its made out of.  Show details

usesless – After I bought It I saw that it had such a bad review so I always kept it as a backup of my laptop. When I sold my laptop after I copied everything into the Imation Apollo M100 and deleted all the files off the laptop plugged it back on to my new laptop it crashes!

Wont Bloody Work – i agree with you mat i brought a 1tb to play movies on tv and it didnt even work the first time so i tryed it on a few dvd players, Play station 3's and other tv devices. It only works on my pc Bloody agravating what a waste of cash

Stopped working after 12 months – Not worth bothering with. No wonder they discontinued it. Probably had to dump thousands of returns. Imation products overall are pathetic. Drives, Blank CD's/DVDs and flash drives. If it has Imation name don't even consider the product. They make Seagate look good and that is something I never thought I would say.

Possible solution – Same as other reviews - mine was hardly used and gave up after about 1 year. Will no longer load to any computer. I have heaps on it. BUT I have an LG recorder and if plugged in there, I can download all the files to the HDD drive and then upload them to another external hard drive. The files can then be erased from the HDD drive. Worth trying. Hope this helps. Will try to get refund or credit.

USB 3.0 won't work – I bought this hard drive about a year ago and backed up my PC. Next time I plugged it in began the problems. Everytime I plug it into a USB3.0 port the device stops working. Sometimes this happens straight away, other times it'll happen part way through copying. What is consistent however is the shocking transfer rates ~ 5 MB/s on USB3.0 (when it… Read more

works). If I plug it in via USB2.0 it works fine but I'm getting transfer rates of ~ 25 MB/s on USB2.0. The whole point of me buying this drive was the USB3.0 high data transfer rate. It's cheap - but for a reason. Shell out the extra $10 and get a better brand that works.

movies cut out sometimes and i have to restart it and it wont let me delete certain files (^.-) – this a good hard drive but i wouldn't leave anything on here. Oh and i noticed it don't work on all tv's why is that??? why does the movie cut out sometimes??? why wont it let me delete files??? Fix the problems and you will get 5 stars (*-*)

Useless – Not even 4 weeks old. Works on laptop but not on dvd player and that's what I bought it for. Taking everything off, getting A REFUND PRONTO....

Just stopped working one day – I actually really liked this unit up until yesterday when it decided to not work. Blue light came on but couldnt be read from any PC or tv or anything. From what I've read this is not uncommon. What a waste of money.

Found a fix but still not happy – Had all of my business data saved onto this drive as I use multiple devices. The drive failed abruptly and I was unable to access the drive at all. As a last resort, I disassembled the drive (there goes the warranty!) in an attempt to get it to work. I found that the reader (needle looking thing) was stuck to the disk. I was able to release it and… Read more

reassemble the drive after which it worked (I immediately transferred all data to my PC and will back it up to the cloud. Now I will have to get my son to back up his school work on a different drive too as he has one. Cheap Stopped for no reason.

Don't waste money on this – My mother bought this product around 12-18 months ago. For the first, hmm, 8 months; it worked perfectly fine. My older siblings were using it to transfer music and movies along with my mother. My mother had downloaded and bought music and at the end of 6 months during the time it was working, she had around 80GB/1TB worth of music. Recently, I… Read more

have had to reformat her laptop due to viruses and problems regarding my younger siblings downloading various software for games. My mother very recently tried to move her music over to her now re-furbished laptop. However, the hard drive wasn't working. After being frustrated and confused as to why this it was not working, she came to me. I spent 2 hours trying to find a solution. After reading various reviews, looking at possible solutions; it came to the fact that the driver in the product was expired, out of date or just failed in general. There's 80GB of music and movies gone, several hours of loading music onto the hard drive gone. It's a waste of money and a waste of time.

I suggest you invest in Seagate. It worked for 8 months It stopped working after the 8 months

How to retrieve data from – I will tell you when i can retrieve data from it .It does not inform how to retrieve data supposedly stored in the hard drive There is no information in pamphlet supplied with the the portable hard drive..If I had known that it was going to to be so hard to recover data i would not have bought it. no imformation on retrieving data from

Good for data copies for a while, but dont rely on it – I purchased the Apollo M100 from Officeworks with good pricing. I transferred all my backup data with no problems. After about 6 months of very limited use, the unit died in a similar way as described by other users. Drive is now unreadable after windows mentioned a failed write error, with no warnings or indications that the drive was about to… Read more

fail. I essentially used it as a copy of my archival documents, and luckily still have all originals on PC. The drive is not recoverable and all data is lost. Dont rely on it for your only copies of data. Price and storage size Unreliable, short life

The light is on but nobody's home – Love the convenience of a portable drive such as this but within 6 months here I sit with a drive that lights up but no longer works! I can only assume it has failed as I have tried it over 3 devices. Came online to troubleshoot to find others with the same issue. Starting to wonder if this is why they were practically being given away at an… Read more

Officeworks store opening. Not happy, can't recall what I had on it now. Portability, size and convenience It has stopped working within six months.

Dodgy as they come – I can't describe the feeling of incredulity, disappointment, disgust, when the hard drive failed only 3 days after I bought it, only after I had transferred 80gb of data across to it. Fortunately I had backed up most of it, but I wanted the rest of it back - an expensive exercise. It was an electromechanical error - the hard drive would try to… Read more

spin when you first plugged it in, but instead produced clicking noises, and just turned itself quietly off after a few more seconds.

The thing that annoys me most about all this is that the manufacturers don't want to hear anything about it - they say that lost data is not covered by the warranty. Basically they are just hiding behind some unclear wording in the Consumer Law. The other thing I don't understand is why hard drive companies can't develop a fault-proof hard drive - other techs seem to be able to produce anything....

I definitely wouldn't recommend this to a friend, and if by chance you have made the mistake of purchase one of these drives, take your data off, and return this to where you purchased it from before anything goes wrong. Compact size, no external power. Faulty hard drive, expensive to fix, irresponsible manufacturers

useless – Unable to use it since day one. When plugged in blue light turned on, my laptop then was working to install it - but then nothing. The blue light is still on but it is not recognized. Tried to use different laptops but still negative :( - I might be lucky as I have not moved anything into it.

Terrible Product – Purchased the Imation Apollo M100 and transferred All my photos and work onto it. Checked the data was there on a secondart computer prior to deleting it off the first. I then when to do some photo editing and noticed that the hard drive could no longer be read. Attempted it read it on three computers including the Officeworks store that i… Read more

purchased it at.I Have Lost Everything. Every photo I have taken of my daughter for the past 9 years. Everything!!!!

Faulty

Value for money! 1TB – Excellent product. I got it at a steep discount from a local seller here in Auckland New Zealand. The only bug bear is that it has a proprietary pin on the hard drive side I.e. it's not your standard USB B type pin. But the computer side is a usb3.0 which is super fast and it shows. On a windows 8 machine I tried copying via USB 3.0 a 4GB file and… Read more ·  3

got an average transfer rate of 75mbps. On the standard USB 2.0 port I got a write speed of 25 Mbps!! As i said, REAL value for money. Doing the math it cost me $0.08 per gb!! Speed and product finish Proprietary pin on the drive side