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Maxtor 500GB One Touch 4 USB 2.0 16MB Cache External Hard Drive - STM305004OTA3E1-RK

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Product Summary
Manufacturer: SEAGATE
Mfg Part#: STM305004OTA3E1-RK
UPC: 00763649004333
Buy.com Sku: 205467388
Item#: C2KPPP
Buy.com Sales Rank: 1463
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Product Guides
 
Sometimes the simplest solution is the best. With the Maxtor OneTouch 4 external hard drive, protecting all your photos, videos, music, and files is as easy as one touch of the button. The simple user interface makes it easy for backup scheduling, data restoration and even power management.

Its easy to install just plug the external drive into an available USB or FireWire400 port on your PC or Mac, run the preloaded software, and presto, youre good to go.

To top it off with up to 500GB, you have more than enough room for all your stuff in one safe, convenient place- over 12,495 hours of digital music or 240,000 digital photos or 750 hours of digital video or 187 two-hour DVD quality movies or 375 games.
 

Features
Maxtor OneTouch button - the easy way to make backup copies of your files
Simple Maxtor user-interface for backup scheduling and restoring
Instant storage for your stuff
Customizable Maxtor OneTouch button
Auto Updater helps keep your Maxtor OneTouch solution current
Plug and play storage
USB 2.0
PC and Mac compatible

 
Tech Specs
Hard Drive: 3.5 inch ATA with ATA 133 interface
Capacity: 500GB
Model #: STM305004OTA3E1-RK
RPM: 7200
Cache Buffer: 16MB
Interface: USB 2.0 and 1.1 compliant
Sustained Transfer Rate: USB 2.0 33MB/sec
Bus Transfer Rate: USB 2.0 480Mb/sec
Dimensions: 2.5 x 5.88 x 6.75 in
Weight: 2.2 lbs (1 Kgrams)
AC Voltage: 100-240 VAC
Input Frequency: 47-63 Hz AC
Compatibility: Mac and PC

PC Requirements
Pentium III, 500 MHz equivalent processor or higher
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business
Microsoft Windows XP Home, Professional, Media Center Edition
CD-ROM drive for Maxtor SafetyDrill
256MB RAM or more as required by operating system
Internet connection (for software updates)

Macintosh Requirements
Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later
256MB RAM or more as required by operating system
Internet connection (for software updates)

 
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Customer Reviews
Value 3
Performance 3.5
Ease of Use 3.5
Overall Satisfaction 3
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1 of 5 Great for XP - not Vista Thursday, May 15, 2008
A Customer from Andover , CT  

One touch works great on XP devices. Love it. Hooked it up to my Vista laptop, works great as well. Got a new Vista Gaming machine. One touch will not install - needs driver(?). There are no drivers available. Can only use on 3 of my 4 devices
 
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2 of 5 Hard Drive Saturday, March 01, 2008
A Customer from Roseweed, CA  
Hard drive TICKS traded 2 already. Dont recomend.!!!!
 
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1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
 
5 of 5 Great Drive at a Great Price. Monday, February 04, 2008
A Customer from Patrick, SC  
This Maxtor drive comes ready to go out of the box. It has one drive letter and does not require formatting. The Iomega drives I have required formatting to NTFS from FAT 32. The Western Digital drive does not turn on automatically when the computer is powered up (the power button on the drive must be pushed). This 500 GB Maxtor eliminates all those headaches. I have 2 other Maxtor drives that have been in use for about 5 years and still work fine. I will buy Maxtor Drives from now on. Great Drive at a Great Price. I recommend them to everyone.
 
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3 of 3 customers found this review helpful.
 
2 of 5 Be Careful Thursday, January 17, 2008
A Customer from Santa Ana, CA  
I bought two of these last Thanksgiving, and hadn't really used them much until now. One of the drives recently started corrupting files, the program I was using told me to run chkdsk, and now all of my files are gone. They are still taking up disk space, but are not in the folders. If this happens, do not run chkdsk, it makes recovery more difficult. Seagate/Maxtor just says that the we should backup our information, and they will accept the drive in return. There are free recovery tools, so don't pay for Seagates recovery tools at $130. Apparently, people have posted that the drive inside isn't the problem, it is the enclosure that has trouble. Just be careful and if something goes wrong or fishy, immediately try to recover the data to another drive (this goes for all hard drives). I didn't expect this drive to have trouble as soon as it did.
 
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5 of 6 customers found this review helpful.
 
5 of 5 Nice! Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Brett Appelman from Naperville, IL  
I just bought this drive, and I am very impressed with it. I needed to get all of my music off of my laptop, it was eating up too much of the internal hard drive. I put all of my music on the Maxtor, as did my wife. Now we can share and listen to both sets of music whenever we want. The drive is quiet and very fast in transferring data.
 
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