Seagate STM305004OTA3E1-RK Barracuda 7200.3 16MB Maxtor OneTouch 4 Lite 500 GB 3.5-Inch USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

List Price: $139.99 Discount Price: $92.00

Features:

• Maxtor OneTouch button ¿ the easy way to make backup copies of your files
• Simple Maxtor user interface for backup scheduling and restoring
• Auto Updater helps keep your Maxtor OneTouch solution current
• Plug and play storage; Back up your files with one touch of a button
• USB 2.0; PC and Mac compatible

Customer Reviews:

what a trouble shooter [Posted on 2008-06-04]
Its a great feeling to have 500 gbs of available space to store all your videos, pics, downloads, etc.I had 3 hard drives I needed to hold all my programs and items that I needed . I had my main drive of 80 gigs at 7000 rpms and 2 drives of 40 gigs at 5000 rpms .My whole system ran at 5000 rpms . Now I removed the 2 40 giggers and have my 7000 rpms back in swing and dont have to worry about slowin to crawl because of low memory with a 500 gig bank!
Its great and all I did was plug it in !The bestr part is that it was all under 100 dollarsSeagate STM305004OTA3E1-RK Maxtor OneTouch 4 500 GB External Hard Drive

They give support like a dead beat dad [Posted on 2008-07-07]
The drive worked fine until a mechanical failure. Seagate would not stand by the drive, and wanted $1800 to recover the data. It was 45 days past the warrantee and they were very cold and unhelpful. It turned out that it was just the arm reader was stuck, but after paying $800 to get it opened up and the data moved to a new drive I called Seagate to see if they would at least send me a refurbished drive for the problems, and they stated that they needed to stand by the warrantee. They said they would look into the poor support I got when I first called, but it sounded like they guy was reading off a card. I told them that I was calling to give them a chance to make me want to stay with a Seagate product, and they simply stated that I should because they make excellent drives. The service is worse than poor. The drive worked great when it worked, but just hope you never need to contact them for anything. I felt truly used.

I do not recommend it. [Posted on 2008-08-15]
The drive was purchased in April 08. Before it started acting up, it performed well - good data transfer rate, easy set up for backup...etc.

Last week, it refused to power up. I tried different power adapters, power outlets, USB cables, and even different computers. It just didn't power up. I called Seagate and within 30 sec. the customer support person acknowledged the drive was dead and offered me a replacement. However, the warranty did not include recovery of data on the drive. I search the web and found numbers of complaints on similar failure. Now I'm stuck. I don't want to exchange the drive without recovering the data, and who knows if the replacement would not fail the same way.

Stay away from this drive.

Utter and complete trash [Posted on 2008-08-23]
Left it on all night by accident one night a month after buying. By morning it didn't turn on anymore. Wanted to use a AC adapter to check if the power adaptor just died but this junkware uses an insane amount of amperes to power that useless light it has in the front. Wasted $20 buying exact model power adapter on ebay out of desperation. It wasn't the power adaptor though, it's the junkware that failed. Lost a lot of valuable data. I hate you forever maxtor.

Zero stars DOES NOT WORK WITH XP [Posted on 2008-09-28]
Google this drive, and other USB externals, for "disappears".
My old seagate USB drives keep chugging away. This piece of junk, AND an Western Digital I've already returned, just "disappear". While in use, etc. Seems to be a very common problem with XP and this new generation of USB drives. Power saving problems? Maybe, who knows. But I've tried everything and it even disappears in the middle of a backup.

JUNK!

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