Maxtor A01B120 OneTouch USB 7200 RPM 120 GB External Hard Drive

by Maxtor

Product Details

• Item Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000AZW8X
• Item model number: A01B120
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 28, 2003

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Maxtor OneTouch drive -- simply smarter storage with push-button backup. Just press the button and your files are backed up. With 120 GB, you have ample room to store your photos, music, videos, files, and more. The drive features a 7200 RPM hard drive and is equipped with a USB 2.0/1.1 interface. For PCs.

Features:

• Maxtor OneTouch button - the easy way to make backup copies of your files
• Push the button!
• Ideal for editing video and creating high-end graphics
• 7200 RPM
• Whisper-quiet fluid dynamic bearing motor
• USB 2.0 and 1.1 compatible - up to 480 Mb/sec data transfer rates
• Anodized aluminum design
• Customizable OneTouch button
• Plug and play storage
• Hot swappable
• Dantz Retrospect Express software included
• Power on/off button and power management utilities included
• Quick and easy installation
• PC compatible
• 120GB holds up to:
  • 9 hours of DV video
  • 120 hours of MPEG video
  • 120,000 digital photos
  • 30,000 MP3 files

Product Description

The MAXTOR A01B120 OneTouch 120GB External Personal Storage Drive makes it easy to add blazing fast storage that swings wide to door to creative freedom! With a storage capacity of 120GB, you'll suddenly have ample workspace for large video, audio or graphics projects. Dantz Retrospect Express software and power management utilities included

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Crashed and burned - this Maxtor drive is a piece of junk, March 16, 2004

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Stop treating me like a criminal (Citizen of Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maxtor A01B120 OneTouch USB 7200 RPM 120 GB External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I loved this drive at first. It was exactly what I was looking for as a backup solution. Allowed me to archive an entire volume and then store the disk in a safe. Perfect.

But when I tried to perform my second ever backup with this drive (three weeks after initial purchase), things got ugly. The Retrospect software got halfway through a backup set and then froze. I then got a error message like: "Delayed Write Failed : Windows was unable to save all the data for the file C:\somefolder\somefile. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere."

The drive itself started making loud grinding and metalic clicking sounds. Hard drive crash, I assume? Same grinding/clicking any time I power up the drive. So I can't even get to the data I backed up a few weeks ago. Sorry Maxtor, I need a *reliable* backup drive. That's the idea behind backing up your data, remember? And now I have no backup solution and have to deal with a mail-order return hassle. Take your quality assurance people out back and flog them.

30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Storage is great, but double up- these puppies fail, February 13, 2004

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lots of lost music guy (Hanover, NH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maxtor A01B120 OneTouch USB 7200 RPM 120 GB External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

Bought the 250g Maxtor 1-touch last year and the drive was great, acting as an archive and a backup to my smaller 20g hard drive. Unfortunately, I had no backup to this backup and the drive kicked the bucket last week after 11 months on the job. Lost 120g of data that I had no back up for. Sending t oHD Recovery outfiuts would ost $1 - $2000 at minimium. So, if you buy one, I would recommend buying a second one as well. You can get a cheapie. The idea is that having two hard drives crash at the same time is pretty remote possibility. Just a thought from one very veyr bummed user.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE!!!!, March 4, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Maxtor A01B120 OneTouch USB 7200 RPM 120 GB External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I was extremely excited about this drive but it almost crashed my brand new high end gaming system. First of all, the drive would periodically fail to be detected (until I restarted). Then one day, my computer basically stops working - everything ground to a halt and every program took minutes to open then crashed. I was on the phone with my pc's tech support and they were ready to replace the system completely when I simply unplugged my Maxtor Onetouch and everything went back to normal. This drive has some MAJOR compatibility issues. Maybe you will get lucky and things will be fine but I don't think its worth the risk.

p.s. The backup software is also extremely difficult to use.