Technical Details
- Massive storage capacity for your digital portfolio
- User-configurable RAID solution; Use RAID 0 for high performance disk striping or RAID 1 for automatic mirroring
- 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
- FireWire 800 for fast data transfers
- Pre-formatted for Mac easily formatted for Windows
Product Description
Designed for creative professionals who need the disk striping speed of RAID 0 for intensive disk-access applications or the security of RAID 1 for automatically mirroring data, the Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition provides an easy to use wizard interface for configuring your system for optimal performance. Real time access, backup, store and protectWith 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.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.Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition - RAID performance doesn't get any easier than this.
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 BoxExternal 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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Customer Reviews
"Won't last!!" 2009-09-25By
Daffy Fan (California)
I have owned a number of Maxtor drives in the past and outgrown all of them. This one is a complete dud!
This drive has some great features: Raid, and triple interface USB 2.0, Firewire 400 & 800.
Shortly after I purchased this, bad reviews about it's reliability started showing up online. I warned my wife to use it only for her video files- things that she could recover from the original tapes. Fortunately, that was all she lost when the drive died after just a couple months of use. When these die, the Raid protection does you no good, because the whole thing dies.
It was still under warranty, and presumably because these drives are so unreliable Maxtor sent me a 2tb Seagate drive as a replacement. I am somewhat pleased to get a drive that doesn't have such a terrible track record, but the replacement Seagate has no Raid capability, and no Firewire 800. (Seagate now owns Maxtor, I believe.) I'll be saving my money for a Drobo or similar device in the future.
"I will NEVER buy another Maxtor or Seagate drive!!!" 2009-08-29By
Audio Man (Nashville)
I have owned many Maxtor drives over the years... the years before Seagate acquired the company. The few times I experienced a problem, the old Maxtor company sent me a new drive and all was well.
EVERY Maxtor drive I have owned since Seagate took over has failed within months of purchase.
A 500 gb OneTouch drive has been replaced 3 times.
A 1TB OneTouch had now also died for the 3rd time.
Your warranty is from the date of original purchase... not from each replacement date.
So they keep sending you bad drives until your warranty is up.
And you get to pay the postage too.
The replacement drives are not new drives.
They are REBUILT drives.
In other words... drives which have already failed once.
If they merely repaired your drive and returned it, at least you would know it's history.
This spring I bought two 1TB drives from an online Mac dealer, and did not notice the the drives within the enclosures were Seagates.
One died within a month of purchase and has been replaced.
The other one is still working so far.
"FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS BUY THIS CRAP" 2009-07-17By
A. Ferrari (Argentina)
Guys, I couldn't believe it died. Search for troubleshooting at maxtor's site, total crap. Didn't try support after reading reviews. Can't action my warranty, I'm overseas.
Now facing dissassembly and trying to recover data from it. For those of you who are not practical, bet on taking the individual disks inside onto external cases - you'll most probably be able to recover data, provided you've set NO RAID or RAID 1 - all the best
"2 Drives - 2 Failures - 4 Months - Lesson Learned" 2009-04-05By
RU - Tech (Huntsville, Alabama)
We used two of these drives a primary project storage for our production group. Both drives failed and customer support was well, poor at best. The only positive I can say is that we are glad we have a double redundant backup of all our files. It has saved us twice now.
"Total Failure" 2009-04-03By
Richard Silkebakken (Santa Clara, CA)
I bought this drive because it had Firewire 800 support, configured for RAID, was Mac Formatted, and had a generous 2TB of storage... all for under $200. What's not to like? Well, I found out...
2 weeks after putting 1TB of home videos on it (thankfully this was only a BACKUP copy), it stopped responding. All it would do is "click, click, click" when powered on. It was totally dead. I was able to take it back to the store and return it, and like a dumba** I exchanged it for a new one. 2 days later, the replacement also went completely dead (not even a "click" this time!).
Needless to say I am not a happy camper. This is the single worst technology product I have ever purchased. Had I read the reviews here first and not gone for the cheapest storage I could find, I would have avoided this drive like the plague. The earliest reviews of this product are THREE YEARS old, and uniformly bad. I can't believe such an awful product is still allowed to be sold to the unwitting public.
AVOID THIS DRIVE AT ALL COSTS. I'm never going to buy a Maxtor product again.
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