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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.
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 Works great for me! |
| Review Date: June 26, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Peter Rocha, New Jersey |
| People seem to complain often about Maxtor hard drives, but I suppose I've either been lucky or unhappy customers are just more likely to post their comments compared to satisfied customers. This is my fifth Maxtor external drive (the other 4 are 300gb) and I'm about to purchase another 1tb unit. Works great for me, no problems in set up or usage. And unlike the 300gb drives, the 1tb drives don't get hot under heavy usage. I'm very happy with this drive. |
Maxtor One Touch III 1TB
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| Review Date: February 16, 2008 |
| Reviewer: J. Foote, |
| I think no matter what brand of HD you buy there is always a chance that HD will fail. A lot can happen in between the factory and your desk. For the guy who lost all his data, maybe yours got dropped in the store warehouse. I have been using Maxtor for years and anyone using Mac in the 90's was as well because they were the standard HD in most of their machines at that time. Further I wouldn't trust software to run my backup's anyway. I'll admit I know nothing about the software, maybe I would be happy using it, but I work with PS3 and manually organize my files in Bridge using this HD as a mirrored 500 GB HD and I feel safe. Also it is whisper quiet, is built really well and hey they stack nicely and it is nice to look at. As a seasoned working photographer I say buy it, you'll be just fine. |
Very Reliable
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| Review Date: February 9, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Valerie P. Westerfield, Denver |
I do a lot of Final Cut Pro editing and haul this drive with me wherever I go and it does a heck of a job. I even dropped it once and it still kept on ticking. LOVE this product.
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I enjoy the safety it provides
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| Review Date: March 11, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Elliot Injury, |
| I love the 1TB I have. I use it in a raid 1 setup which gives me 500GB to work with and then I have partioned that to mirror my laptop harddrive and also leave me with extra storage space. It is very comforting to know that even if my laptop drive failed or if it was stolen or smashed or whatever, I could simply boot from the mirrored drive on the Maxtor and it would be like I was at my computer immedietly. I like the security of having the computer in a raid 1 setup so that if a drive fails it is backed up on its twin. I have too much to lose without it. |
Firewire conflict but otherwise so far so good!
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| Review Date: December 14, 2006 |
| Reviewer: D. L. Smith, Columbus, Ohio |
| I was a bit worried about this drive at first. Connected to my mac with FW 800 it would not mount after I restarted my computer. However, as others have mentioned, this seems to be a conflict with other FW devices. When I switched it to the USB 2 cord it worked fine, mounted everytime. Just a bummer I can't use the FW 800 cord without the hassle of a work around. The work around is: unmount before you shutdown reboot, then unplug the drive from you machine, turn it off. After you restart, plug the drive back in and restart it. |
Worked for less than 2 years
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| Review Date: February 27, 2008 |
| Reviewer: B. Boyd, |
I have been running this drive more-or-less continuously for 1 year. It does get moved around now and then to various PCs, and it gets packed up and driven cross-country twice a year. It gets heavy, daily use because it stores my music collection.
The drive is quiet and does not run hot. The footprint is reasonable given the amount of storage provided. The enclosure is sturdy with a rubbery covering on the sides and edges. It has occasionally made ominous motor sounds (sounds like a bad bearing), but it always stops after a short time.
The drive is configured RAID 1. I do not use the Retrospect backup software (horrible installation experience; I never have high expectations for software that is thrown in with devices so I don't really include that in my assessment).
Overall a good, solid piece of equipment that works as advertised.
**UPDATE 5/14/08**
It died. I experienced an I/O error while adding tracks to my iTunes library; subsequently, Windows would not recognize the drive. Retried on several different computers and with both Firewire and USB. Fortunately, all of the data on the drive was backed up so it's not a disaster, just irritating. |
Best of the 1TB external hard drives
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| Review Date: December 30, 2006 |
| Reviewer: K. Chung, Canada |
If you read online reviews from tech magazines you'll soon find it's either the Maxtor OneTouch III or the WD MyBookPro II for affordable high-performance 1TB RAID drives (LaCie is too expensive). Both are respected hard drive manufacturers.
I own 1 Maxtor OneTouchIII Turbo 1TB, 2 of 300GB, 1 OneTouchII 300GB and 1 WD MyBookPro II 1TB. Used to own a 160GB LaCie d2 Triple Extreme.
The LaCie was the quietest, no fan, but prone to getting warmer due to reliance on aluminum case as heat sink. Never had a problem with it. The WD MyBook ProII 1TB is a lemon and others will mention similar problems with fan noise, inability to update firmware ... in my instance the Firewire 400 port doesn't work and I'm returning this drive.
What's left? The Maxor OneTouchIII 1TB is a brick! I wish it was smaller, but compared to the WD MyBookPro, it's similar in size, Maxtor is more rectangular and fits into laptop bags easier than the WD - softer case (easy to grip) means less likely to accidentally drop and damage on hard surface. The 1TB drive works well, very fast and quiet like my other OneTouchIII's, but I'm concerned that the drive could fail (setup for 1TB, no mirroring). Wish Maxtor had self-replacement policy for hard drive failure and matched WD's 3yr warranty (currently Maxtor only has 1yr). Maxtor TechSupport tells me you have to send back defective drive and they'll send replacement drive, but can't do anything about data retrieval. If you try replacing dead drive yourself you void warranty.
In conclusion, choosing the Maxtor unit is like the lesser of two evils. WD needs to go back to the drawing board. Maxtor works great compared to the competition (increase warranty to 3yrs and allow self-service without voiding warranty and you'll get 5star rating from me). |
Great so far
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| Review Date: March 26, 2006 |
| Reviewer: D. Marusich, |
| This drive is way better than the 1TB Lacie - It's quiet, has a nice set of installation instructions/utility - and RAID 1 should automatically mirror and fix data - I've had a few issues with it mounting on boot - but it turns out it was a conflict with other FireWire devices. No problems with USB2 |
Yikes!
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| Review Date: April 28, 2007 |
| Reviewer: B. America, East Stroudsburg, PA USA |
I bought several of these RAIDS from Amazon. I bought two 1TB, one 500GB, and one 1.5TB. The 1TB RAIDS worked out of the box. Formatted to NTFS. The 1.5TB RAID set up to RAID1 started showing corruption on the file system within a week.
I deleted the partition and set it up as RAID0 striping figuring I would use on of the other 1TB RAIDS as a true backup of each other. The 1.5TB formatted to about 80% and hung for 2 days. I tried again and it hung at 80%. I tried formatting with my laptop. Same problem with the 80% stall. I used my new dual-core 3 GHz Biostar 6000 box to format via firewire. Again it stalled at 80%.
I went to the vendor and exchanged it for a new one. I went home and started the formatting fiasco again. It hung at 80% on my external DMZ box and again on my regular workstation. I returned the 1.5TB drive and opened a ticket with Maxtor anyway. From the feedback I've been getting on the ticket I'm not too confident that a solution will be forthcoming.
What I did find out while surfing the web looking for some tips on these drives is that there are many reported issues with them. First, when there is a failure, your data is gone. It seems the controllers on these are not what I would want to put critical data through. I'm reading about hard drive failures and unsuccessful attempts at users trying to recover their data at the cost of losing the warrantee.
Maxtor put an HPA area on the drives that cripples attempts to use a replacement drive. No reason for this from what I can see other than looking at their webpage and seeing their data recovery services. After reading forums today I haven't had time to mount the drives with any of my forensic packages to see the internals of the HPA. I can also see no reason to have an HPA on the drives at all. The controller should be handling all RAID functions. RAID should be hot swappable! The "I" in RAID being inexpensive is hard to swallow when paying full retail top dollar for a drive. I don't see a need to image a physical drive and then have to image the HPA block by block to get past the "swap protection".
Looking a little deeper and I came across an attorney webpage looking for owners of these drives for their participation in a class action lawsuit. Search under Sklar Law Offices. Seems there is something brewing. I'm certified in forensics, security, and Cisco networking with 15 years combined experience in both the NYPD and technology and I may just give them a call to really pick one of these drives apart. |
Hopefully yours will fail while still on warranty
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| Review Date: June 13, 2007 |
| Reviewer: S. Karlstrom, New York, NY, USA |
You are lucky if this drive fails within a year while it's still covered by warranty, because if it doesn't, it will certainly fail within a few months after your warranty runs out. That's what happened to me. The drive worked fine for about a year, then one of the disks in this external drive failed on me and started to make a clicking noise. At that point, the entire drive stopped working. I cannot format it and I cannot even get it to be recognized by windows anymore because the drive is simply broken.
Hopefully this is different now, since the new Maxtor OneTouh units comes shipped with Seagate drives instead of Maxtor drives. You can find this out by looking at the sticker on the box. If the model number begins with STM, then you're in luck with one of the new Seagate drives. |
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