Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo 1 TB 3.5" USB 2.0/FireWire 400/FireWire 800 External Hard Drive | 
 enlarge | Brand: Maxtor
Category: CE
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $287.98
You Save: $112.01 (28%)
New (5) Refurbished (1) from $287.98
Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 26528
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: C01W010
Model: STM310004OTAB06-RK
UPC: 751921029297
EAN: 0751921029198
ASIN: B000BW32IY
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Massive storage capacity for your digital portfolio | | • | User-configurable RAID solution; Use RAID 0 for high performance disk striping or RAID 1 for automatic mirroring | | • | Maxtor DriveLock security feature password-protects the contents of your drive, helping to safeguard your files if the drive is lost or stolen or against unauthorized users | | • | FireWire 800 for fast data transfers | | • | Pre-formatted for Mac easily formatted for Windows |
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Product Description
Designed for creative professionals who need the disk striping speed of RAID 0 for intensive disk-access applications or the security of RAID 1 for automatically mirroring data, the Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition provides an easy to use wizard interface for configuring your system for optimal performance. With the most highly integrated storage, backup, security and drive management software on the market today, the Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition is perfect for creative professionals who need a high performance, large capacity storage solution. Faster throughput means faster workflow, and that means greater productivity for creative professionals who work in digital video, photography and graphic arts. The user-configurable Maxtor RAID solution streamlines performance to enable multiple streaming without dropping frames critical in quality video editing. The Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition supports both Mac and Windows platforms. It arrives preformatted for the Mac and includes the Oxford FireWire 924 chipset for ultimate Mac performance. Professional digital video and demand seamless, real-time access to huge, data intensive files Cache Buffer - 16MB Average seek time - 9.0 ms Integrated Interface - FireWire 800, IEEE 1394b, iLink up to 800MB/sec data transfer rates, FireWire 400, IEEE 1394a, iLink up to 400MB/sec data transfer rates, USB 2.0 and 1.1 - up to 480 MB/sec data transfer rates Maximum Sustained Transfer rate - FireWire 800 91MB/sec, FireWire 400 43MB/sec, USB 2.0 33MB/sec System Requirements - Apple G4 processor or greater, Mac OS X (10.2.8 or later), Pentium III, 500 MHz equivalent processor or higher, Windows 2000 Professional, XP Professional or XP Home Edition, 128MB (256 recommended) RAM, CD-ROM drive, Internet connection for system updates
Amazon.com Product Description
The Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition Drive is a high-performance, large-capacity external storage solution designed for creative professionals needing the disk-striping speed of RAID 0 for intensive disk-access applications or the security of RAID 1 for automatically mirroring data. 
User configurable RAID solution. |
Pre-formatted for Mac; easily formatted for Windows. | Real time access, backup, store and protect
With the most highly integrated storage, backup, security and drive management software on the market today, the Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition is perfect for creative professionals who need a high performance, large capacity storage solution. Faster throughput means faster workflow, and that means greater productivity for creative professionals who work in digital video, photography and graphic arts. The user-configurable Maxtor RAID solution streamlines performance to enable multiple streaming without dropping frames—critical in quality video editing. The Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition supports both Mac and Windows platforms. It arrives preformatted for the Mac and includes the 924 chipset for ultimate Mac performance. Plus when you need it most, you can boot your Mac OS X directly from the drive. And to keep things simple, a wizard interface makes it quick and easy to format for Windows. Using Maxtor's simple user interface, you have the option to easily back up your entire computer drive or selected files either automatically or at the touch of a button. The Maxtor DriveLock security feature password-protects the contents of your drive, helping to safeguard your files if the drive is lost or stolen or against unauthorized users. For creative professionals needing the disk-striping speed of RAID 0 for intensive disk-access applications or the security of RAID 1 for automatically mirroring data, this user-configurable Maxtor RAID solution streamlines performance and conquers multiple-streaming without dropping frames critical in quality video editing. Product Highlights
| Ideal storage solution for high-quality video editing and other intensive disk-access applications | User-configurable RAID 0 and RAID 1 | | Available in 1-TB and 1.5-TB capacities | FireWire 800 interface for fast access to files | Triple interfaces
 —FireWire 800 up to 800 MB/sec data transfer rates
—FireWire 400 up to 400 MB/sec data transfer rates
—USB 2.0 and 1.1 compatible up to 480 MB/sec data transfer rates | Pre-formatted for Mac easily formats for Windows | | Oxford 924 chipset | Boot Mac operating system directly from FireWire 800 drive | | Customizable Maxtor OneTouch button | Maxtor DriveLock™ protects contents of drive if lost or stolen | | Simple Maxtor user interface for drive management, security and backup scheduling | Creates historical backup versions with comprehensive system and data restore to a point in time | | System Rollback rolls back your PC settings to a better point in time while keeping data current* | Data synchronization between two or more computers | | Cool operation and modular design for easy stacking | Connect up to 62 FireWire devices | | Connect up to 127 USB 2.0 devices with USB hubs | Plug and play storage | | Hot-swappable | Power on/off button and power management utilities included | | 7200 RPM, 16MB cache buffer |
*Windows only
Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition-RAID performance doesn't get any easier than this.
What's in the Box
External hard drive, EMC Retrospect Express HD backup software, 9 to 9 pin FireWire 800/1394/iLink cable, external AC power adapter, installation CD with backup software and user guide, quick start guide, Maxtor 1-year limited warranty.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 47 more reviews...
 Complete trash! Only buy if you enjoy hearing your money and data disappear with a CRASH!! December 1, 2008
This is the biggest hunk of junk I've ever seen. STAY AWAY FROM THIS DRIVE!!! It crashed within the first two months, and it was only used and turned on 5 times total in that period as I manually backed things up. I lost all data! I will NEVER buy another Maxtor product, and since Seagate owns them I will never buy a Seagate item. Look into Buffalo, I have had good luck with them, and their customer service actually trys to help you instead of laughing in your face and telling you to pay them more money.
Stick to your OEM business, Maxtor November 11, 2008
What can I say... poor software, horrible installation experience (installation crashed 3 times on my XP SP3 Dell XPS machine), drive disappear and won't wake, and very noisy. Overall seems like Maxtor has no idea what a good user experience is and their website is also worthless. Compared to my Buffalo external drive, which works without any software installed, this thing feels like a "beta".
Maxtor, you make good harddrives for PC and you should stick to that business only, stop trying to make a product directly for the average consumer because you failed!
An Unreliable Drive for your important data. November 10, 2008
I had bought this Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo for my Apple Mac G5 system as a backup drive and have been using for over a year. The drive suddenly stopped working, my Mac does not recognize it. I tried using Data Rescue software to see if it can mount the drive so I can safely copy the data and retire this Maxtor. Everything failed. Since I had used this as a RAID 0 the chanced for recovering the data is bleak. It is always a good practice to have valuable data backed on to DVD's. :( .
Bad "Touch". But read the solution to backup here. November 2, 2008
After suffering a catastrophic loss with my first One Touch, and a secondary but less critical failure of another, I finally did my homework and discovered Maxtor's simple solution was not a reliable solution, and that the truly reliable solution was not all that complex.
I am writing this not only as a caution to others, but also as a suggestion on how to start a reliable approach to backup.
THE PROBLEM: Despite my customer research, the Maxtor one Touch II and One Touch III are the worst product decisions I have made in some time - and there is a reason for this.
Of the 2 Maxtor One Touch II's and one Maxtor One Touch III's only one of my II's continue to run. The first failure cost $3,000 to get the data recovered. Unfortunately I was also using it for data overflow at the time.
The second (This model One Touch III) also died about a year after I purchased it. Fortunately I was using only for backup.
They run great out-of-the-box, but after a year they wither and die. Why? I am not sure if it's the incremental file-backup software, or the hardware. Perhaps it is a combination of both, as Maxtor's incremental file-backup software progressively causes slower and slower operation, and more and more drive utilization.
Google the words "Maxtor repair". There are many vendors. And with most, once they have your drive, it's usually the most expensive thing that needs to be repaired, typically requiring rebuilding the physical electronics.
And considering the proprietary nature of Maxtor's drivers I don't find this price surprising.
Final point: You cannot recover your system if you suffer a complete crash. Expect to reinstall Windows, Office, get updates, and enter licenses, etcetera. You can recover your files, yes, if your unit is still running.
THE SOLUTION: Get a reliable high capacity internal or external bare bones hard drive, and use image backup software, not file backup software. There's a fundamental difference between "file" and "image" backups.
I had several misconceptions about image backup software. But I discovered one can also recover individual files. And MORE importantly, you can recover your entire system as well - very simply from the backup drive. It runs faster, it does a form of incremental backup based on image changes, and is much more reliable. It is rare that a solution is both cheaper and better. And I was not looking for cheaper.
For a hard drive I use a WD 1T Sata. And my software is ShadowProtect desktop. I am sure there are others.
By the way, with this solution, you own the software, so it's not tied to some device that will fail. I also (once a month) do a one shot backup to my inexpensive Western Digital Passport. Again as I own the software, I can apply it to any number of different physical backup devices that do not carry the extra overhead cost of proprietary software and hardware.
EXTRA: In addition, you might want to also consider iDrive, or Carbonite. I would use them for your documents only.
SUMMARY: Unfortunately only those that have experienced the loss of work-related or financial data, family pictures, or even that report that your child wrote of which you are most proud, will appreciate the advantage of being prepared.
Then to compound the problem, once we have experienced loss, we start out by looking for a simple solution. And we may be impressed with the concept of "One Touch".
But after suffering a catastrophic loss with my first One Touch, and a secondary but less critical failure of another, I finally did my homework and discovered Maxtor's simple solution was not a reliable solution, and that the truly reliable solution was not all that complex.
Avoid at any price September 17, 2008
I just lost my warranty replacement drive (and all data) the second time. My experience is that the disks work just long enough to load them up with data and then they turn into inert bricks. Maxtor replaced my first drive but their automated warranty replacement web site says I can't get the replacement replaced so I'm out my data and my money.
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