Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo 1 TB 3.5" USB 2.0/FireWire 400/FireWire 800 External Hard Drive

by Maxtor

Product Details

• Item Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8.6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BW32IY
• Item model number: STM310004OTAB06-RK
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 27, 2005

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Maxtor® OneTouch® III Turbo Edition Drive is a high-performance, large-capacity external storage solution designed for creative professionals needing the disk-striping speed of RAID 0 for intensive disk-access applications or the security of RAID 1 for automatically mirroring data.

User configurable RAID solution.

Pre-formatted for Mac; easily formatted for Windows.

Real time access, backup, store and protect
With the most highly integrated storage, backup, security and drive management software on the market today, the Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition is perfect for creative professionals who need a high performance, large capacity storage solution. Faster throughput means faster workflow, and that means greater productivity for creative professionals who work in digital video, photography and graphic arts. The user-configurable Maxtor RAID solution streamlines performance to enable multiple streaming without dropping frames—critical in quality video editing.

The Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition supports both Mac and Windows® platforms. It arrives preformatted for the Mac and includes the 924 chipset for ultimate Mac performance. Plus when you need it most, you can boot your Mac OS X directly from the drive. And to keep things simple, a wizard interface makes it quick and easy to format for Windows.

Using Maxtor’s simple user interface, you have the option to easily back up your entire computer drive or selected files either automatically or at the touch of a button. The Maxtor DriveLock security feature password-protects the contents of your drive, helping to safeguard your files if the drive is lost or stolen or against unauthorized users.

For creative professionals needing the disk-striping speed of RAID 0 for intensive disk-access applications or the security of RAID 1 for automatically mirroring data, this user-configurable Maxtor RAID solution streamlines performance and conquers multiple-streaming without dropping frames critical in quality video editing.

Product Highlights

· Ideal storage solution for high-quality video editing and other intensive disk-access applications	· User-configurable RAID 0 and RAID 1
· Available in 1-TB and 1.5-TB capacities	· FireWire® 800 interface for fast access to files
· Triple interfaces —FireWire 800 up to 800 MB/sec data transfer rates —FireWire 400 up to 400 MB/sec data transfer rates —USB 2.0 and 1.1 compatible up to 480 MB/sec data transfer rates	· Pre-formatted for Mac easily formats for Windows
· Oxford 924 chipset	· Boot Mac operating system directly from FireWire 800 drive
· Customizable Maxtor OneTouch® button	· Maxtor DriveLock™ protects contents of drive if lost or stolen
· Simple Maxtor user interface for drive management, security and backup scheduling	· Creates historical backup versions with comprehensive system and data restore to a point in time
· System Rollback rolls back your PC settings to a better point in time while keeping data current*	· Data synchronization between two or more computers
· Cool operation and modular design for easy stacking	· Connect up to 62 FireWire devices
· Connect up to 127 USB 2.0 devices with USB hubs	· Plug and play storage
· Hot-swappable	· Power on/off button and power management utilities included
· 7200 RPM, 16MB cache buffer

*Windows only

Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition-RAID performance doesn't get any easier than this.


What's in the Box
External hard drive, EMC Retrospect Express HD backup software, 9 to 9 pin FireWire 800/1394/iLink cable, external AC power adapter, installation CD with backup software and user guide, quick start guide, Maxtor 1-year limited warranty.

Product Description

1TB 7200RPM 16MB USB 2.0/FW400/FW800 Barracuda 7200.2

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Amazon needs to have a Zero Star rating for products like this, March 27, 2007

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Dr. Stuart Cheshire (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo 1 TB 3.5" USB 2.0/FireWire 400/FireWire 800 External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

Terrible product, even worse customer service. The drive died after two months, and after an hour on the telephone with their customer service representative she then told me that before she would authorize a warranty replacement she would email me a document of additional terms and conditions, and unless I agreed to every one of these additional conditions they wouldn't honor the warranty. She then (AND I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP) proceeded to ask me a series of "Homeland Security" questions to determine if I was a terrorist. At that point I said I refused to waste any more of my time answering stupid questions, and she said that in that case they would refuse to honor the warranty.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware, June 27, 2007

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Dawn Mikulich "Photographer" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo 1 TB 3.5" USB 2.0/FireWire 400/FireWire 800 External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I bought this drive in January 2007 in order to backup my desktop.

It worked fine until June 2007 and suddenly my computer could not recognize the drive. According to Seagate (who now owns Maxtor) the drive had failed and would need to be replaced.

My drive is still under warranty, however, Seagate could not specify a replacement time since the current have no inventory of this drive. In the meantime I will have no drive for my backups. Even though this is Seagate/Maxtor's incompetence I am responsible for a $19.95 for their Advanced Replacement service.

Although this service is not officially required, unless you have your orginal box and packing materials the warranty is voided when shipped other than the very specific way the instruct. So, you must buy the Advance Replacement service to have a replacement drive sent to you. You then return your original drive via the packing materials used for that drive.

All in all this wouldn't be so horrible except that Seagate/Maxtor can not give me any sort of estimate as to how long it will be until I receive the replacement drive.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy it!, February 9, 2007

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D. Liu (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo 1 TB 3.5" USB 2.0/FireWire 400/FireWire 800 External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

All my external drives in the past have been Maxtors. So, when I researched my purchase for my first 1TB drive, I didn't think much of the reviews I came upon warning of the failure rate of their 1TB drives. I've had this drive for about 5 months now. I use it to manually back up my files and only do it about once a month, so it has not seen a lot of use. One day it just decided to quit. It makes a bunch of clicking noises and that's about it. I'm going to have to return it for a replacement, but it certainly doesn't inspire much confidence in my replacement, wondering when the next time it's going to fail. I would rather get a different drive. I certainly won't buy Maxtor again.