Maxtor OneTouch 4 Lite 750 GB 3.5 USB 2.0 ExternalHard Drive
Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:10
Binding : Electronics
ProductGroup : CE
Manufacturer : Seagate
Brand : Seagate
Label : Seagate
Publisher : Seagate
Model : STM307504OTA3E1-RK
Studio : Seagate
Lowest Used Price: USD $100.00
Lowest New Price: USD $114.99
- Backup all your files with one touch of the button or automated scheduling
- Simple Maxtor user interface for drive management, security, and backup scheduling
- Two levels of security against unauthorized use - Maxtor DrivePass¿ and data encryption
- Simple Maxtor user-interface drive management, security and backup scheduling
- Drive and power management utilities; 5-year limited warranty
Backup your files with a push of a button or set up the software to perform convenient automatic backups. With 7200 RPM and 16 MB cache buffer, you get fast drive performance, seamless data exchange, and instant access to your files. Simple setup, just connect the USB 2.0 cable, and your Maxtor OneTouch 4 hard drive automatically appears on your desktop. For all those precious pictures, videos, music and data files, external hard drive is a must have. Up to 480Mb/sec Bus Transfer Rate with USB 2.0 Operating system - Windows XP Home or Higher, Mac OS X (10.4.7 or later), 256MB RAM Approximate Unit Dimensions - 2.5 X 5.88 X 6.75 Approximate Unit Weight - 2.2lbs
Amazon.com Product Description
The Maxtor® OneTouch® 4 Lite solution is a full-featured backup and storage solution with Maxtor SafetyDrill™ for complete recovery of a hard drive’s contents in case of a system crash or virus/spyware attack*. With two levels of data security and capacities up to 1 TB, users can confidently back up or sync work and home computers.
 Protect your data from unauthorized use. |
 Back up your files with one touch of a button |
Provide a safe haven for your entire working environment. Don’t back up and protect just your files anymore. System crashes and virus attacks can happen, and it’s difficult to get your computer back to just the way you like it. To prepare, should the unfortunate happen, Maxtor SafetyDrill automatically creates a snapshot of the entire contents of your PC’s hard drive which can be readily booted for an easy and complete recovery.
Backup all your precious memories to one safe, convenient place with one touch of the button or automatically with easy scheduling software. Maxtor’s simple user interface makes it easy to protect your contents without even thinking about it and, just as importantly, restore it if needed.
With this elegantly simple full-featured backup solution, Maxtor’s software makes automated backup scheduling, specific file restoration, sync, security, drive and power management a snap. To safeguard against unauthorized use, Maxtor OneTouch 4 Lite comes with both data encryption and Maxtor DrivePass. It’s simple to install – just plug the external drive into an available USB 2.0/1.1 port on your PC or Mac. With up to 1 TB, there’s ample room for your important documents, videos, photos, graphics, and music in one safe, convenient location – over 16,660 hours of digital music or 320,000 digital photos or 1000 hours of digital video or 250 two-hour DVD quality movies or 500 games.
The sleek and slim design of this hard drive--only measures 6.73 x 2.49 x 5.88-inches (H x D x W). The Maxtor OneTouch 4 Lite lets you transfer files seamlessly from your computer via its USB 2.0 connection at a brisk transfer rate of up to 480Mb/sec. The drive delivers a spindle speed of 7,200 RPM, giving you the high-speed performance you need to back your data up quickly and safely.
At this compact size, and with this high performance, you now have the ability to take your data with you anywhere you go, so your digital content finally has room to breathe. A five-year warranty is also included, giving you complete peace of mind.
Product Highlights
| · Maxtor® SafetyDrill™ prepares, boots and recovers a PC’s entire internal drive contents in case of system failure or virus/spyware infection.* | · Back up all your files with one touch of the button or automated scheduling. |
| · Maxtor DrivePass™ and Encryption protects contents of drive in case unauthorized use. | · Quick and easy installation with pre-loaded software |
| · Simple Maxtor user-interface drive management, security and backup scheduling | · 5-year limited warranty |
| · Sync data between two or more computers on the same operating system. | · Customizable Maxtor OneTouch® button |
| · Plug and play storage | · Auto Updater helps keep your Maxtor OneTouch solution current. |
| · Drive and power management utilities | · USB 2.0/1.1 compatible up to 480 Mb/sec data transfer rates |
| · PC and Mac compatible | · 7200 RPM, up to 16-MB cache buffer |
*Windows Only
Maxtor® is the expert and the leader in designing simple external storage and backup solutions for consumers and professionals. Maxtor offers a broad line of trusted, intuitive storage solutions for safeguarding critical business data, digital files and personal memories. Maxtor developed the industry’s first external storage device that features easy-to-use OneTouch® button backup and restore capabilities. The Maxtor® OneTouch 4 Lite solution is the easy way to back up and store photos, videos, games, music, business data, personal information and more. The OneTouch 4 Lite solution continues the OneTouch legacy as the leading external hard drive for small office users, consumers, creative professionals and mobile warriors.
What's in the Box
External hard drive with preloaded installation software, USB 2.0 cable, Maxtor SafetyDrill Recovery CD, quick start guide, AC power adapter
don't do it !!! (2008-12-30)
i bought this drive two weeks ago to load up with family pictures, tv shows & movies from my pvr, GPS backups, audiobooks and music mp3s. my intent was to backup precious data to 1) prepare my desktop machine for wiping and reinstalling the OS (i do this every couple of years - makes the machine run better) and 2) enable access to archived media via my laptop when i'm away from home for extended periods.
this drive worked great for 1 week. suddenly, i'm getting errors that files are "corrupt" and "unreadable". now, i can't access any of my data, although i can see folder listings. did i mentioned that what's on this "backup drive" are the ONLY copies of my files? :-(
i've used maxtor drives for years as internal drives in my diy and upgraded machines and been happy with them, so i felt VERY comfortable buying an external maxtor drive. just this ONE time, i didn't do due diligence by checking the web before making my purchase. :-(
well, now that i've checked, the number of people who've had problems with these drives is STAGGERING!!!
be smart; don't be like me - DON"T GAMBLE with your data, DON'T BUY THIS DRIVE !!!
You've been warned ....
750 gb of Heartache... (2008-12-25)
In a word....it will crash suddenly and totally.
What does Seagate (Maxtors parent company) do when it discovers it has caused thousands of people to place irreplacable videos and family pictures on one of their defective drives???? How does it treat a problem of this magnitude on a drive it claimed should be used to "save your life"? It treats them like cash cows and dedicates a major part of its support website to advertising that it will find your files on your crashed drive.....For an UNNAMED PRICE which others here have said is VERY VERY high. One review I read on another site said they wanted $1700 for 300gb of data. Many write of being quoted thousands of dollars as the retrival price. I am neither paranoid nor the kind of person who readily see conspiracies but this behavior seems preplanned. Your data is being held hostage!!! Just pay them the price of a new laptop (or more) to get it back!!!
IF this company cared about your business they would have offered to transfer your files to a refurbished replacement drive for FREE (on any drive in warrenty that fails). This is TOTALLY THEIR ISSUE. Instead they try to FLEECE YOU TWICE. Remember that when you are tempted to buy Seagate products in the future.
I had this drive for about 6 months during which time it worked fine. Suddenly it died, taking with it picture of my recently deceased father, many ITUNES files and family videos that were too large to fit on DVD. Isn't that what you use a drive this size for, things that don't fit on your computer anymore and/or are too large for DVD? All this drive does is allow you the heartache of losing everything at one time. It should not be relied on to back up anything.
I have older drives that have lasted for years. This is a VERY VERY BAD product. Forget the cost of this piece of trash! I figure I'm out several hundred dollars worth of MP3 files alone. The family photos and videos are the worst part but I know my father would never want me to pay these people hundreds more to save old images of him. If you need one more reason to avoid this company, note that my father is surely going to haunt the factory.
Please note that there is also a problem with the software. Once the drive fails, if you try to connect it your system you can get a blue screen and lose whatever you are working on.
Wonderful Hard Drive (2008-10-18)
After reading reviews of this drive failing alot, I was rather concerned, but I have had Maxtor drives in the past and I had no problems with them, so I went ahead and dove right in.
First thing I needed was to get the drive formatted to fat 32 for my PS3. Maxtor has a simple program that I was able to down load for free from Maxtor that changed the drive to fat 32.
I use the drive to store and play my movies on. My collection of movies of well over 4oo and I needed to storage medium to place my movies on..
I have been using this device for several months now and have never had a problem with the hard drive.
Like everything in the computer world and life in general, if you have information that is important, you need to archive/backup the information, and not keep the information on one drive.
Problems started on day 1 (2008-09-24)
I had problems with the HD right out of the box. Files would disappear, then reappear, but only after running diskcheck or unmounting and remounting the device. It got more finicky as time went on including not letting me delete some files that otherwise seemed to work fine. I finally go fed up and copied everything to another drive, but everything would not copy because the files would disappear faster than I could copy them. I would copy a few gigs then an error would come up saying the file(s) could not be found. I'd remount so all the files could be recognized again, get a few more gigs copied, then another error. I had to repeat this for a few days until I recovered about 95% of the data. I tried to reformat the drive on Vista, but immediately got a blue screen (twice), so I tried to reformat on an XP system, where it "finished," but "with errors." I then tossed it in garbage where it belongs. I would not trust Maxtor again with data storage.
You need a back up for this back up drive (2008-07-25)
Please dont buy this product. I thought it was a good buy since I could store up to 750 gigabites of files. Then after a while it just stops working!! And the tech support said it would cost me thousands of dollars to recover the files that I have. Sigh.... Dont buy this useless box. Its like buying a safe with a diamond key sold separately.
