Maxtor Personal Storage 5000DV - Hard drive - 200 GB - external - FireWire / Hi-Speed USB - 7200 rpm - buffer: 8 MB

by Maxtor

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• Item Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 pounds
• ASIN: B00007KLI4
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 12, 2006

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Maxtor external hard drive makes it easy to add fast storage specially designed for your unique creative requirements. With a storage capacity of 200 GB, you'll have plenty of workspace for all your large projects, including space for more than 15 hours of digital video. This Maxtor 7,200 RPM hot-swappable hard drive features FireWire and USB 2.0 interface ports, giving you one of the most versatile drives available for your Mac and PC.

Plus, you can easily back up your system using the Maxtor OneTouch system. Make backup copies of your files, while you work, with a simple push of a button. You can also run automated, unattended backups with Dantz Retrospect Express software, included with the drive. The compact drive design lets you set it vertically or horizontally.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quite a useful device, but consider also the 120mb version., January 31, 2003

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N. Robert Lee "Dardanarius" (TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor Personal Storage 5000DV - Hard drive - 200 GB - external - FireWire / Hi-Speed USB - 7200 rpm - buffer: 8 MB (Electronics)

The drive includes both firewire and usb cables. The power brick may be considered clumsy for some, but I suppose the usb port does not supply enough power to drive the device. The included backup software is excellent (Dantz backup express). There is also a 120mb version of the 5000DV (which is also a 7200rpm drive but comes with a 2mb cache instead of 8mb here). Unless you take the position that larger is better, it's probably more efficient to go with the 120mb version. Also if both types of connections are available on your PC, I recommend using the Firewire because I feel (after some research and tests) that it is marginally faster than USB 2 in real world applications. This is a real useful device for backup and multimedia files.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars File backups without integrity, July 10, 2003

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"tazziedevil" (Marietta, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maxtor Personal Storage 5000DV - Hard drive - 200 GB - external - FireWire / Hi-Speed USB - 7200 rpm - buffer: 8 MB (Electronics)

I bought this drive to use as a fast, external, detachable, RELIABLE, backup solution. I returned it. The disk itself runs pretty hot, the case gets very warm, needs cooling IMO, and after I had problems and tried to run a disk check it passed a Scandisk check only 1 out of 3 times (2 times it hung).

As a backup solution I couldn't rely on it - my experience was that the files would seem to back up OK, but each time about 20~30 files would fail the compare/verify step... i.e. the backed up file on Maxtor didn't compare equal back to the original file on my C:\ drive... this happened on different files each time I ran the backup. Whether this was the disk or the bundled backup software (Retrospect Express from Dantz) I couldn't tell, but as a bundled solution it failed the integrity test.

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Fast? yes. External? yes. Detachable? yes. Reliable? no.

I'm genuinely disappointed it didn't live up to expectations - the disk has great specs and Retrospect has some nice features. For not much more $$ I'll buy a second PC, network it, and use it's internal hard disk as my backup device - the kids will get an extra PC this way too.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a reliable backup-drive, October 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Maxtor Personal Storage 5000DV - Hard drive - 200 GB - external - FireWire / Hi-Speed USB - 7200 rpm - buffer: 8 MB (Electronics)

I have had this drive for three months, and a friend bought one at the same time.

After a month or so the one my friend bought crashed without warning, without being moved or there being any other logical reason for the crash. It just stopped working, claimed that there was no file system on the disk and the led faded in and out and it made weird noises when he tried to access it.

Two months go by and the same thing happened with my disk! It has been in the same place for months, I haven't even moved it!