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Maxtor OneTouch 4 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Seagate
Mfg Part#: STM305004OTA3E1-RK
UPC: 00763649004333
Buy.com Sku: 205467388
Item#: C2KPPP
Buy.com Sales Rank: 87965
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Sometimes the simplest solution is the best. The Maxtor OneTouch 4 storage solution offers automated backup software for protecting all the photos, music, videos and documents on your PC or Mac in one safe, convenient place. With up to 1 TB of capacity and the simple Maxtor user interface, it’s easy to schedule, data restoration and even power management. Includes a USB 2.0/1.1 interface for PC and Mac users along with a 5-year limited warranty.

It’s easy to install – just plug the external drive into an available USB port on your PC or Mac, run the preloaded software, and presto, you’re good to go!

To top it off, with up to 1TB, you have more than enough room for all your important documents in one safe, convenient place – over 16,600 hours of digital music or 320,000 digital photos or 1,000 hours of digital video or 250 two-hour DVD quality films or 500 games.

The sleek and slim design of this hard drive--only measures 6.75 x 2.5 x 6.0-inches (H x D x W)--and a weight of a little more than two pounds. The Maxtor OneTouch lets you transfer files seamlessly from your computer via its USB 2.0 connection at a brisk transfer rate of up to 480Mb/sec. The drive delivers a spindle speed of 7,200 RPM, giving you the high-speed performance you need to back your data up quickly and safely.

At this compact size, and with this high performance, you now have the ability to take your data with you anywhere you go, so your digital content finally has room to breathe. A five-year warranty is also included, giving you complete peace of mind.
 

Features
Maxtor OneTouch button - the easy way to make backup copies of your files
Simple Maxtor user interface for backup scheduling and restoring
Ideal storage for photos, videos, graphics, music and data files
Customizable Maxtor OneTouch button
Auto Updater helps keep your Maxtor OneTouch solution current
Plug and play storage
USB 2.0/1.1 interface
PC and Mac compatible
Includes external hard drive with preloaded installation software, quick start guide, AC power adapter and USB 2.0 cable; 5-year limited warranty

 
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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Value 4
Performance 4
Ease of Use 4
Overall Satisfaction 3.5
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1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
 
5 of 5 Exceeded expecations Monday, February 09, 2009
Ray from Indian Land, SC  

Thanks ever so much. Very pleased with service. Backup works beautiful.
 
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4 of 5 As Advertised Wednesday, July 30, 2008
A Customer from Boston, MA  
I wanted a backup drive to store my pictures and albums. Somehow my iTunes folder has over 13,000 songs. Setup was fairly easy; I like the idea of an automatic backup; I chose every Monday evening. I'm on a home networked computer and it couldn't display my "shared folders". This is kind of a pain, because I wanted to also automatically back up the "MyDocuments" folder. Now I just manually copy it each week, but I wish it were also automatic. All in All, it was "as advertised".
 
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5 of 5 Good purchase Saturday, May 17, 2008
A Customer from Key West, Florida  
As usual my product arrived promptly from Buy.com and in good condition. The drive itself has been functioning flawlessly since I installed it several weeks ago. The was one hiccup however. About 10 days after installation my PC would totally lock up with no apparent rhyme or reason. I did the usual: virus scan, Malware and Spyware scans to no avail. Restored from an image to the first lock up, no help. Finally, almost as an afterthought I uninstalled the back up software that Maxtor had provided with the unit; Voila, problem solved. Go figure.
 
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0 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
 
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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4 of 5 Read all the complaints! Thursday, April 10, 2008
Chuck from Florida  
It's just that I have experienced none as of yet. Large capacity, easy to install and use. Mines very quite. The data transfer rate is good, the pre-installed backup software works flawlessly and it's fast. I installed two data recovery programs on it in a few minutes. I cloned both my XP Pro and Vista Home Premium Drives to it easily. The USB cable on mine is 5' long so no complaints here either. The price is good and the delivery took 3 days. Ordered on Monday, received it on Thursday. Must be, Seagate has made some improvements to their Maxtor external drives. Making a choice on which to buy was harder then anything I've done with it since it arrived. I recommend it without reservation.
 
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5 of 5 Good all around usb hard drive. Saturday, March 15, 2008
Mark from NY  
Not much to say. Bought this for a customer, good form factor and simple to use. Set her up with the one click backup(Setup required). Plug the USB cable into computer wait for bar on drive to light up and push it.The backup software has good features although I only used it for her My Documents backup. I set up Acronis backup utility for backing up the whole computer drive(Use it all the time, very robust program).
 
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1 of 4 customers found this review helpful.
 
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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2 of 2 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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