 - Ideal backup and storage for carrying your digital portfolio with you
- Simple Maxtor user interface for drive management, security, and backup scheduling
- Two levels of security against unauthorized use ¿ Maxtor DrivePass and encryption
- Maxtor SafetyDrill prepares, boots, recovers your PC's entire internal drive contents in case of system failure or virus/spyware infection (Windows only)
- Customizable Maxtor OneTouch button, USB powered; PC and Mac compatible
List Price: $124.99
Lowest Price: $85.00 
Product Description: This lightweight, portable hard drive is powered from the USB port and lets you bring important files with you. You also get durability with its built-in rugged shock-resistant design. With the Maxtor SafteyDrill software for windows, SafteyDrill prepares, reboots and recovers your PC's entire hard drive in case of system failure or virus/spyware infection. Automatically synchronize your files between two computers every time you connect or disconnect the drive so you are always working with the most current data. No need to worry about unauthorized access to your private files with the Maxtor DrivePass and encryption. For the price and all its features you're getting a great value. Approximate Unit Dimensions - 4.9 X 0.59 X 3.22 Approximate Unit Weight - 5.9oz Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-30
250 MB Maxtor one touch review
This product gives me all satisfaction and it allows me to share data between my desktop running under Windows XP and my laptop running under Windws Vista and this without problem. You even don't need to install anything if you manage file copy by yourself. Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-23
why these are so cheap...very unreliable
I bought 7 of these drives for work, to transport a large volume of data to africa. I chose these because they were recommended by other companies i work with, are supposedly 'rugged,' reliable, have a large storage capacity and don't use external power (important when in the bush!). well of the 7 only 6 actually, worked, that's a 12% failure rate and a little high. the last one makes a loud creaking noise out of the box and is not recognized by any computer. it stranded me, 250 GB short of crucial space in the middle of africa! i also found them to be poorly constructed, like one had sides that were a little crooked, and the mini-usb hole didn't really line up. not to mention they whir, and heat up and make a lot of noise. i haven't even tried the software because all i want is storage space. not to mention, i called customer support to complain and they ended up sending me 7 more drives and charging my credit card - just doubling my order. not a good thing with my company's money.
well in contrast, i have a WD 250GB passport and it's amazing. silent, cool to the touch, super fast, i can't even tell i'm working off the drive (when i'm doing a lot of intensive image processing).
sorry maxtor, your drives suck.
i wish i could recommend these, they are so cute! Rating:
Date: 2008-06-22
Both my PC's stopped recognizing
I loved this unit at first. Actually bought a 2nd one, regrettably. After about 3 months both of my PC's stopped recognizing these units thus rendering them inoperable. Lost all information.
No matter what you do, back up info on a 2nd medium (which fortunately I did.)
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Date: 2008-06-09
Great drive
I have used this drive for about a week so I can't comment on long term reliability, but the drive hardware seems pretty good.
The included software is confusing at first. You would think clicking the "Backup" tab and seting up your daily backups is what you want, however that only backs up "My Documents", it does not do a full backup of your C drive and thus won't restore your hard drive if it crashes. The real backup program, Safety Drill, is hiding under the "Safety" tab. It does a full backup of your C drive so that if you ever need to you can boot on the included CD to format and restore the C drive. This is all in the manual, but who reads that until disaster strikes and you are horrified to find out the backup you thought you had is only the documents folder. Maxtor should make the installer launch Safety Drill right after the installation so you'll do a full backup right at the start. Once you understand the software, Safety Drill is wonderful. It backed up my 120GB C drive fairly quickly and compressed the 25GB contents into a 19GB file). You can define a frequency in days to have it do automatic drive backups.
The "Backup" tab is not as useful. It will backup "My Documents" but not much else. For example your e-mails will not be backed up. This pretty much forces you to do full backups with Safety Drill more frequently than you would like. The "Sync" tab has the same limitations as "Backup" so neither is of much use.
Overall it's a great drive and the included Safety Drill program works great. The drive is accessible like any other hard drive so you can create personal folders on it and use it as you please without affecting backups stored on the drive. I put this to use by disabling "Backup" and copying "C:Documents and Settings" over to the OneTouch. I then use the PowerToy utility "SyncToy" running on a schedule to sync the files thereby giving me a backup.
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Date: 2008-05-02
Beware of OneTouch software. It will destroy your file system
I bought this drive to assist my mother in law. Her computer is old and I was hoping to avoid a costly data recovery (aka tech rape).
When the "one-touch" software installed, it forced a reboot. The computer never came back up.
I figured I'd made a mistake so I bought a brand new Seagate internal drive, built it up with Windows XP, and reinstalled the external drive. Once again, the software installation for one-touch forced me to reboot - and again the computer would no longer boot.
I tried several utilities to recover the data, to no avail. So I took both drives to the local data recovery place. They informed me that the file system was corrupt on both drives, likely due to whatever I'd last done on the drive before it crashed.
If you insist on purchasing this brand, DO NOT INSTALL the software. The techs at Maxtor were not at all helpful. |
