I read to drink and eat on this model but to an external hard disk used temporarily, it does its job. To see if it will last over time. So far, all external hard drives that I bought have always held in time, regardless of the brand. I always have a 40GB hard drive Seagate and that works very well.
I bought one in July and a second in September, so good after 6 months.
I wonder how do people have so many problems, or so I'm very lucky.