Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition 160GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive

by Maxtor

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000M2TAKM
• Item model number: R01E160
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 19, 2006

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Maxtor® OneTouch® III Mini storage solution is a full-featured, portable backup and storage solution with Maxtor SafetyDrill™ for complete recovery of a hard drive’s contents in case of a system crash or virus/spyware attack*. With two levels of data security and capacities up to 160 GB, users can automatically back up or sync work and home computers and confidently carry an up-to-date portfolio in their pockets.

Work and play on the go. This lightweight, portable drive lets you bring important files with you.

Back up your files with one touch of a button

Portable storage with software for simple backup, sync and security
Are you on the run? Do you travel frequently, need to transfer files between two or more computers, or are constantly trying to remember which versions of your documents are the most current? Then the Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition is the solution for you.

Your digital data—whether it’s business documents, artwork, files for school, or personal memories—is precious to you and critical for you to maintain. The most effective way to safeguard your files is to back up your computer. And Maxtor makes it simple to back up all your files or selected files on your PC’s drive, automatically or with one touch of a button. Weighing less than 8 ounces, the Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition is the perfect solution for anyone who needs an easy, secure way to carry their up-to-date digital portfolio.

Part of the OneTouch III family and featuring their award-winning user experience, with the Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition you get backup, storage, security, and travel capabilities all in one—the most complete portable solution on the market today. Designed for mobility the Mini Edition can be carried in your pocket, briefcase, or backpack while holding up to 160GB of your data. It is the perfect solution for traveling business and creative professionals, students, anyone who is on the go.

The only all in one package—backup, store, protect, travel!
The Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition also gives you one of the most feature-rich portables available. The Mini Edition plugs into your personal computer via a USB 2.0 port for both data transfer and power, no additional power cords are needed. It also lets you effortlessly synchronize data between two or more computers on the same operating system, so that your most up-to-date files are secure and always at hand. And the Mini Edition comes with two levels of security, Maxtor DriveLock and Encryption to safeguard against unauthorized use.

The System Rollback feature can roll back your system to a point in time, such as before a virus attack, while keeping your data current.

The sleek and slim design of this hard drive--only measures 5.24 x 0.79 x 3.54-inches (H x D x W). The Maxtor OneTouch III Mini 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 5,400 RPM, giving you the high-speed performance you need to back your data up quickly and safely.

Product Highlights

· Ideal backup and storage for carrying your digital portfolio with you	· Maxtor® SafetyDrill™ prepares, boots, recovers your PC’s entire internal drive contents in case of system failure or virus/spyware infection
· Sync data between two or more computers on the same operating system	· Maxtor DrivePass™ and Encryption: two levels of security against unauthorized use
· Simple Maxtor user interface for drive management, security and backup scheduling	· USB 2.0 for fast data interface and power source
· 1-year warranty	· Customizable Maxtor OneTouch® button
· Drive- and power-management utilities included	· Quick and easy installation with pre-loaded software
· Auto Updater helps keep your Maxtor OneTouch solution current	· PC and Mac compatible
· 5400 RPM, up to 8-MB cache buffer

Maxtor® is the expert and the leader in designing simple external storage and backup solutions for consumers and professionals. Maxtor offers a broad line of trusted, intuitive storage solutions for safeguarding critical business data, digital files and personal memories. Maxtor developed the industry’s first external storage device that features easy-to-use OneTouch® button backup and restore capabilities. The Maxtor OneTouch III Mini solution is the easy way to back up and store photos, videos, games, music, business data, personal information and more. The OneTouch III Mini solution continues the OneTouch legacy as the leading external hard drive for small office users, consumers, creative professionals and mobile warriors.

Windows Only*


What's in the Box
External hard drive, USB cable, Quick start guide, Software and user guide preloaded on drive

Product Description

Seagate - 160GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive Mini

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Compact, High capacity, protable, May 19, 2007

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Jeff P. Henderson "Jeff H" (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition 160GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I own several Maxtor OneTouch II and III (3.5") USB hard drives that I use for backup and have be quite happy with them.

This mini (2.5") drive is great! It is compact, lightweight, portable, requires only a USB cable and no power cable. It is reasonably fast for a USB drive. One thing to note, this drive gets it power over the USB cable. The drive comes with a "Y" cable which allows you to plug into two USB ports on our computer if for some reason the drive is not getting enough power using just one. I have not found it necessary to plug in to a second port on any of the computers I've used the drive on. I have tried several alternate USB cables. I found that there is a limit to the length of the cable with which the drive will work. 4 foot and shorter cables seem to work fine, most of the 6 foot cables I tried do not work. I believe that the drive is not getting enough power with the longer cables. Not a big deal, I ordered several 3 foot cables and leave them with each computer I use. Then I can just grab the drive and go.

I'm using it store photographs and my Photoshop Lightroom database. This allows me to move the photos and database between multiple computers, as Lightroom does not yet have the capability to import and export from it's database or merge two databases.

I can't wait for the 250 or 300 GB version of this drive to become available.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Nice Portable Hard Drive, August 21, 2007

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Mr. Staack (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition 160GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

This portable hard drive has quickly become the favorite of my collection. It reads and writes at reasonable speeds, is easy to maintain (formatted it for NTFS and use PerfectDisk 8.0 to defrag), instantly mounts on all my workstations (Windows 2000, NT 4 with a 3rd party USB driver, and XP Pro), and - best of all - doesn't require an external power supply (unlike my 3.5" drives). It's quick enough to run simple applications from, and real-time Triple-DES or AES-Twofish-Serpent encryption (I use TrueCrypt, free) without choking or generating too much heat. It's just as fast with sequential read/writes as most of my other portable hard disks, though is slightly slower at random read/write by a slim margin.

Several tricks I used to get my read/write speeds up on my Maxtor OneTouch III Mini (and all my drives, in general) were to disable short file names, increase my cluster size to 32Kb (I generally save large media files), slightly increasing the size of the MFT (Master File Table), push the MFT back on the disk so it has room to grow, disable "last access time" feature, and disable indexing service (I have a 3rd party app to search for files). I don't run native NTFS compression, instead using WinRAR (with PAR2 parity files) if I need to save space safely and effectively. Google any of these tricks to find out how to do them.

I haven't tried the pack-in software - Generally, there's always a better 3rd party app to do the job. Still, I hear it works as advertised.

I think the Maxtor OneTouch III Mini is a very handy little portable drive, that works especially well if configured and maintained properly. It performs respectably, compared to high-end 2.5" portables or T1 non-volatile memory - but costing considerably less per GB. Larger portables, featuring 3.5" hard drives, seem to have a slight edge in performance and cost-per-GB, but aren't nearly as convenient to carry around. The Maxtor OneTouch III Mini's reasonable cost, respectable performance, small size, light weight, and no need for an external power supply are much appreciated.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars files a go go, November 8, 2007

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Joseph M. Vles (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition 160GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

Excellent little travel drive (little in size, lots of storage). It comes formatted as a SAT drive, which I was going to change to NTFS but decided against it because as a SAT it can be used with multiple operating systems. No separate power required, which makes this an ideal USB plugin device.
The one annoying thing is a huge white eye that could be used as a flashlight. A tiny green or blue light would have done just as well, but less obtrusively.