 Works just fine...No problems... |
| Review Date: June 11, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Joshua Smith, Dallas,TX USA |
| I purchased this Maxtor 1.5TB (dual drive in single enclosure) package and it formatted fine and has worked without fault since day one. It's now about six months old. I plan on buying another on soon. I am running it on Mac OS X 10.4. |
One year and still running
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| Review Date: July 1, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Spudly McGruff, Philadelphia, PA |
I have two of these drives hooked up to a Macintosh Mini using Apple RAID 1 (mirroring) to keep two copies of all my work in progress. I've not had any issues with the drives since I brought them over 1 year ago. Long story short: any drive can fail at any time. Don't ever keep all your data on one big drive without doing regular backups. I backup these drives once a month to other drives (cheaper 500Gb drives I get when they're on sale). Yes, it's a pain, but it beats using tape like in the old days.
These drives run quiet and relatively cool. I set my mac to automatically sleep these disks after 30 minutes of inactivity, but they're on 24/7. I also recommend having them on a power line conditioning UPS to ride through power glitches and storms. So many things can go wrong in a home studio that can corrupt or destroy a drive, you just have to take precautions. These are disks, not stone tablets. One day, they WILL fail, and data will be lost. But it's your responsibility to prepare for that day, whether its today or five years from now.
I couldn't be happier than I am with these drives: A ton of storage for a reasonable price and decent performance!
UPDATE: December, 2009: These two drives are still performing phenomenally. Best. Purchase. Ever. |
Works for me!
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| Review Date: July 13, 2007 |
| Reviewer: D. Elm, Arizona |
I have not had this device for long, so cannot speak to the long-term reliability of this 1.5TB hard-drive, but so far it works as advertised, and I had no problem formatting the drive for use with Windows Vista. It formatted quickly and easily for me. Having said that, I left mine in the default RAID 0 configuration.
I've used Maxtor drives for years, and have a 200GB & 300GB Maxtor external drive working alongside this 1.5TB drive. So far, the software that came with this 1.5TB drive appears more stable and intuitive than the previous versions of Retrospect that came with my previous drives.
In short, I've got no complaints at all about this hard-drive. It has met all of my expectations, and assuming its quality/durability match my older Maxtor drives, I'll continue as a perfectly satisfied customer. In fact, I suspect I'll pick up another one of these hard-drives before the end of the year and do my own mirroring between the two 1.5TB drives versus using a single drive in the RAID 1 configuration. |
One Year... no problems on XP
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| Review Date: November 14, 2007 |
| Reviewer: J. D. Kammerer, Detroit, Michigan |
I purchased this product almost a year ago (9 months to be exact) and have held off on writing a review on this product because of some of the complaints pointed to extended use.
As I've said, I've had this product for 9 months now and have had no troubles with it and will be buying a second one in the next month. Doing 3D computer graphics and animation this product has helped conserve hard drive space and usage which is necessary when doing composite layering and rendering.
In the nine months, I have had NO, and I repeat, NO data loss. While the direct, on the drive, rendering time of animation is a little slow, than if I rendered on my main hard drive, the Firewire connection has proved stable and reliable.
Well worth the money I spent and will be spending more to increase my storage capabilities.
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Maxtor 1.5 TB
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| Review Date: August 6, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Chris Johnson, |
| The Maxtor 1/5 TB OneTouch III Turbo Edition Hard Drive is fast, reliable, gigantic in regards to memory (but not physical space), and virtually silent. |
Maxtor External Drive Review
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| Review Date: January 6, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Kenneth A. Tinnell, Loveland, OH |
| This product is just what I needed - large disk, capable of RAID 1 configuration and FireWire enabled. And for the price (which is continually falling), it suits the need. Just to think that 20 years ago 1.5 TB cost hundreds of thousands of dollars! |
Hardware Fine, Documentation Improved, Software...Um.
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| Review Date: June 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: The Screaming Scallop, |
If you still have your old Maxtor software--that is, Retrospect 6.0--keep it. If you don't have Retrospect 6.0, find it. Don't install Retrospect Express HD; it freezes up, there's no reliable indicator of progress, and no log. (Some versions apparently contain 6.0 on the installation disc.)
Retrospect 6.0 skips (and logs) files it can't transfer but keeps running; Retrospect Express HD just stops completely upon the first file that gives it trouble. And because the tray icon and onscreen applet refresh so infrequently, you won't realize this for a while.
As for the hardware; no complaints. I really don't know what some other reviewers are talking about; I've used Maxtor OneTouch for ages now, and the only serious hardware problems I've ever had were of my own making. (I do notice that this drive doesn't get hot to the touch like my old 500GB OneTouch...)
Some of those problems were partially due to confusion in the instruction manuals. I'm happy to say that the instructions have improved vastly since my last purchase; clear-cut step-by-step illustrated guides that are easy to read and comprehend. |
3 stars due to power pack failure (thermal failure, i.e. cooked)
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| Review Date: May 6, 2009 |
| Reviewer: fred, left coast |
| I purchased the 750GB. version of this product about a year ago from a local chain, and it still works great! However, for whatever reason, the power pack failed about 5 or so months ago, and I just bought another on eBay for $twenty something dollars instead of grafting the specific dc plug onto a new power pack-risky. I had opened it up to note one of the components had overheated and smoked/smoldered leaving black soot in the interior of pack case. I would also like to mention the 2 older/early Simpletech drives (like Simpleshare, over 2 yrs old) I have still work great, but on one of the two the power supply dc plug stopped holding in the female socket (and not electrically connected when holding it in) so I had to wrap in one layer of aluminum foil and insert so it would hold and engage electrically. |
Crashes my Vista Computer
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| Review Date: December 21, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Anthony Schwartz, |
| There appears to be a serious problem with compatibility of this drive and my Dell XPS computer using a Vista OS. It was extraordinarily difficult to get the computer to recognize the presence of the drive, and it took hours of work with Dell tech support to get it to the point that it did. Thereafter, it could copy files, but with frequency its attachment results in a crash of the computer. This likely results (I have no evidence for this) from the general incompatibility of Vista with a lot of hardware, even with software generated by the manufacturer of the hardware that supposedly is Vista compatible. Hopefully the patch for Vista due out, I am told, within the next month, will help cure this problem. |
STAY AWAY!!
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| Review Date: August 28, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Mac-Dash, Reston, VA USA |
I bought this 200GB drive for use with a Mac G4 desktop in about June of 2006 as a backup drive and for extra space since my internal drives were filling up fast. On 25 Aug 2008, a little over a year after the warranty ran out, it crashed mechanically. Seagate, which in the meantime had taken over Maxtor, offered nothing in its place, and wanted $1700 (yes two zeros no decimal) to recover the data from it. It was about 3/4 full and was only partially a back up for other data, contained critical stuff, and so I had no choice but to have someone recover the data. (I ran every test I could using TechToolPro, DiskWarrior, Apple's Disk Utilities, and DataRescu 4.0 -- none of which would mount the drive, and the led light pattern indicated a hard crash. Seagate confirmed this in my call to tech support.
When I first got it, the software that allows the One Touch backup feature would not work even after two days on the phone with their tech support; this may be a Mac incompatibility at that time, but the bottom line was that I never did get full functionality, but it did run well enough for as long as it did... and then it just didn't anymore... no warning, just... oops, Screw You!
I found another data recovery service in Reston that charged a couple of hundred dollars less to do the job; they recovered everything. But, Seagate has not offered full or partial refund for any of the large initial or subsequent outlay that using one of their drives has cost me!
TAKE HEED: DO NOT BUY ONE OF THESE THINGS. BACK UP, BACK UP, BACK UP -- BUT USE SOMEONE ELSE'S DRIVE! |
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