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Maxtor 1.5 TB OneTouch III Turbo Edition Hard Drive ( C01W015 ) | 
| Brand: Maxtor
Category: CE
List Price: $999.99
Buy New: $599.99
You Save: $400.00 (40%)
Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 3858
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 1500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.6 x 7.4
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: C01W015
Model: C01W015
UPC: 751921029846
EAN: 0751921029846
ASIN: B000JFNCXS
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 1.5 TB external hard drive connects to your computer via USB, FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 | | • | Delivers disk stripping speed of RAID 0 for intensive disk-access applications or the security of RAID 1 for automatically mirroring data | | • | Supports both Mac and Windows platforms, and it arrives preformatted for the Mac and includes the 924 chipset | | • | Includes portable drive, software, FireWire 800 cable, FireWire 400 cable, USB 2.0 cable, external AC power supply, and quick start guide | | • | 1-year limited warranty |
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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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 On my fourth replacement unit now December 1, 2008
Hindra Irawan (Fremont, CA United States)
Maxtor 1.5 TB OneTouch III Turbo Edition Hard Drive ( C01W015 )
Bought a unit of this item about a year ago (not from Amazon, I may add), but the unit failed after about 6 months, I got a replacement unit, failed after about 2 months, and my third replacement unit failed after 1 month. Now I'm on my 4th replacement unit which I've just received, and it seems the end of the line, since Maxtor said the warranty has expired (1 year). Never getting a Maxtor again for me...
Being "Touched" my Maxtor November 2, 2008
George R. Spencer
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After suffering a catastrophic loss with my first One Touch, and a secondary but less critical failure of another, I finally did my homework and discovered Maxtor's simple solution was not a reliable solution, and that the truly reliable solution was not all that complex.
I am writing this not only as a caution to others, but also as a suggestion on how to start a reliable approach to backup.
THE PROBLEM: Despite my customer research, the Maxtor one Touch II and One Touch III are the worst product decisions I have made in some time - and there is a reason for this.
Of the 2 Maxtor One Touch II's and one Maxtor One Touch III's only one of my II's continue to run. The first failure cost $3,000 to get the data recovered. Unfortunately I was also using it for data overflow at the time.
The second (This model One Touch III) also died about a year after I purchased it. Fortunately I was using only for backup.
They run great out-of-the-box, but after a year they wither and die. Why? I am not sure if it's the incremental file-backup software, or the hardware. Perhaps it is a combination of both, as Maxtor's incremental file-backup software progressively causes slower and slower operation, and more and more drive utilization.
Google the words "Maxtor repair". There are many vendors. And with most, once they have your drive, it's usually the most expensive thing that needs to be repaired, typically requiring rebuilding the physical electronics.
And considering the proprietary nature of Maxtor's drivers I don't find this price surprising.
Final point: You cannot recover your system if you suffer a complete crash. Expect to reinstall Windows, Office, get updates, and enter licenses, etcetera. You can recover your files, yes, if your unit is still running.
THE SOLUTION: Get a reliable high capacity internal or external bare bones hard drive, and use image backup software, not file backup software. There's a fundamental difference between "file" and "image" backups.
I had several misconceptions about image backup software. But I discovered one can also recover individual files. And MORE importantly, you can recover your entire system as well - very simply from the backup drive. It runs faster, it does a form of incremental backup based on image changes, and is much more reliable. It is rare that a solution is both cheaper and better. And I was not looking for cheaper.
For a hard drive I use a WD 1T Sata. And my software is ShadowProtect desktop. I am sure there are others.
By the way, with this solution, you own the software, so it's not tied to some device that will fail. I also (once a month) do a one shot backup to my inexpensive Western Digital Passport. Again as I own the software, I can apply it to any number of different physical backup devices that do not carry the extra overhead cost of proprietary software and hardware.
EXTRA: In addition, you might want to also consider iDrive, or Carbonite. I would use them for your documents only.
SUMMARY: Unfortunately only those that have experienced the loss of work-related or financial data, family pictures, or even that report that your child wrote of which you are most proud, will appreciate the advantage of being prepared.
Then to compound the problem, once we have experienced loss, we start out by looking for a simple solution. And we may be impressed with the concept of "One Touch".
But after suffering a catastrophic loss with my first One Touch, and a secondary but less critical failure of another, I finally did my homework and discovered Maxtor's simple solution was not a reliable solution, and that the truly reliable solution was not all that complex.
Burned twice October 8, 2008
G. Tokunaga (Campbell, California)
I don't usually write reviews about products I don't like, but this time I felt a responsibility to warn others to stay away from this one. Over the past year I've purchased the 1TB and 1.5TB versions of this drive, and both crashed on me within about six months. The first one gave me an audible warning by emitting a grinding noise so I was able to buy a new one (the 1.5 TB version) and transfer my files onto it before it crashed. The second drive lasted about six months before crashing without warning. In my twenty-plus years of using computers both at work and at home, I've never had a hard-drive completely crash on me until I purchased both of these drives. I used to have great trust in Maxtor drives after owning many over the years, but these two OneTouch III drives have completely wiped out that trust (along with the data that were on those drives!). Do yourself a favor and stay far away from these drives.
STAY AWAY!! August 28, 2008
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!
Definitely NOT recommended for mirroring your data July 27, 2008
Midwestern Transplant (California)
I purchased one of these unit about a year and a half ago (Feb 07) and used it in the mirrored mode. I had one drive fail about 7 months into use. The unit did not fail gracefully, it just became inaccessible. After some slightly frustrating interactions with Seagate, I got permission to open the unit and unplug the cable for the failing drive. At that point the drive that was still functioning was able to be used and the Maxtor software reported that there was a failure in the mirroring and I should contact support. After further wrangling with Seagate, I was able to get a replacement unit shipped and was able to copy my data over and get a functioning unit back up and running.
Then it failed again (Jul 08). Now I am out of warranty. Again, it failed by locking and crashing my Mac if I attempted to access the unit. This time I knew better how to crack it open and unplug the failing drive. Again, it was now accessible. I went out and purchased a new SATA drive of the same type, planning to put it inside, but then I thought a little more about this.
First, this unit failed twice in a relatively short time. Second, I noticed after failure that I had some corruption with my Retrospect backup set (stored on this drive), possible it died during backup both times but makes me nervous. Third, I started reading reviews and realized that this is a pretty brain dead mirroring system.
Why is this braindead mirroring? First, there is no user replacement of a failed drive, you are supposed to send it back to them and if you want your data back, that's more money. Unless you know how to talk them into doing what you need, this is won't function as you'd expect for a mirrored setup -- the whole idea is for it to be better than having a separate disk as a backup, you should be able to slap in a new drive and keep going. Second, I'm not sure there is an ability to rebuild a new drive inserted -- haven't tried. And related to that point, there is zero documentation of mirroring and how it works, how it keeps drives in sync, etc. I tried to ask support once about this and received unsatisfactory answers.
If you really want mirroring, I recommend using a more advanced unit like a ReadyNAS or Drobo. If you want simple mirroring, look at the Western Digital -- at least they have user replaceable drives and they appear to do things like rebuild the replacement drive automatically. I don't have any of those solutions yet, I'm going back to two drives, one main, one backup for the time being (to save $).
Definitely NOT recommended as a solution for mirroring. I have taken out the one functioning drive and put it in a separate Firewire enclosure for me to use it, I am going to recycle the rest of unit.
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