Seagate STM305004OTA3E5-RK Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus 500 GB External Hard Drive

Manufacturer: Seagate Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price:$199.99 Our Price:$145.70 Features: 500 GB portable hard drive connects to your computer via USB or FireWire 400 cable 16 MB cache buffer; 7200 RPM for fast read/write times Stores over 160,000 digital photos, 500 hours of digital video, or 8,000 hours of digital music Includes portable drive, software, USB 2.0 cable, FireWire 400 cable, external AC power supply, and quick start guide 5-year limited warranty Description:

Reviews:

$150 paperweight
I bought two of these drives, which are brand-new (does not geueberholt). They both came friendly packed on, but, when I did the "test run" function, both drives came above, as defective. I could not believe that two of two designated badly its and their technical support became. The call center is obviously in India and the connections was bad and the people was useful not at all. I asked, if there were any other tests and whether this could be a microprogram list problem. They did not have a reference point, about which I spoke. They held to repeat if the self check said that they must be defective then it were defective. Everything, which they offered for a re-installation, was a geueberholter drive and I had the new drives first to send to them and a re-installation then wait. Who would take a danger that the geueberholten reinstall somehow improve should?? I was a fan of the Seagate quality, but no more. BAD, BAD experience.


On Three Networked Computers
I have three home computer a desktop with XP Pro and 2 laptops with XP Home. I can see the drive across the network however I do move the unit from computer to computer once a month for the emergency backup (shadow). I've had none of the issues with installation in fact I find the unit extremely fast backing up the desktops two drives, the laptops take about 10 minutes to create a shadow copy, The desktop is faster however it's running twin xenon 3.06 GHz processors. Consequently given the problems that could happen (see other reviews) I've had none, and find the unit fast even across the Wi-Fi network.


One touch 4 last touch shoud be as you return it Or throw it out
I have a 500 gig one touch 4 drive , this drive software has wiped out my OS windows installer and re written the permissions for my system I am attempting on running it on XP Pro. The software encountered an error will not install or un install . will not let me access files on my system telling me I need administrator rights I am the administrator , , Be very careful running the software that comes with this drive .Also the software is so limited it only restores one file at a time I have over 300,000 files to back up , Segate/Maxtor don't even answer your e-mails.


So far so good
I use this drive and a Lacie 600GB. In the defense of the Lacies is older 600 the more as one year than my max gate, but the size and price adjustment are amazing. This max gate is physically rather small and very good looking. And this of Amazon price is over half of, which I paid for the Lacie, which has only 100GB more. I carry out that all drives are in front-over-bent to break, and if pit has any problems I it communicate here. Otherwise it seems largely! Runs rather coolly also.


Stopped working after 4 days!!
I bought this hard drive to use exclusively as my Time Machine backup on my MacBook Pro. I formatted it for Mac and it worked like a charm... for 4 days! Then on day 5 I noticed that the power light wasn't on. I unplugged the drive and plugged it back in - nothing. I took the adapter and tested it by using it on a battery charger. The batteries charged just fine, so I know the adapter works. I could exchange the drive because it's brand new, but my data is already on it so I am not about to hand it over for a new one because there's some confidential stuff on there. I guess I just have to take the $170 loss and get a new drive. It won't be a Maxtor.


Great drive for an imac
I've been using this drive for about a month now. The reviews I read online before my purchase gave high marks to the drive but mentioned that the bundled (Windows) back up utility is limited. Since I bought this drive for my mac, that was not a show-stopper for me. I wiped the drive and partitioned it on my aluminum imac (Leopard) via firewire. I have Time Machine backing up to 1 partition and a bootable clone on the other. No problems so far. Very happy with this drive. It even matches the aluminum and black scheme on the mac.



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