Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo: 1TB of backup lovin'
Taking a page out of 80's marketing, Maxtor just announced their new OneTouch III Turbo edition (don't tell us extreme finally got played!). Er, vroom vroom. This Mac and PC compatible external storage solution actually sounds promising offering up to 1TB of "easy-to-understand" RAID 0/1 storage using two 3.5-inch 7200RPM ATA drives, FireWire 800/400 and USB 2.0 interfaces, and of course their OneTouch backup. It also includes new tools to sync data between two or more computers and a System Rollback feature to revert PCs back to a healthier state. No, it is not network accessible but it is available this December at $550 for 600GB or $900 for 1TB.
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Computers.net @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
600GB is the intro model? Some of us don't even need to backup a third of that. It'd be nice if there were a model with less gigabytes costing less dollars. I think the over $500 price tag keeps it out of the home market.
Brian @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
$900... clearly, a price designed for the boot-legging market. I can't imagine another profession where godly-large compact storage is actually necessary (other than in the cramped, dirty apartment of a Manhattan boot-legger), nor would I want to imagine an individual who would be crazy enough to plunk down a grand for personal usage.
JREAU @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
damn... and I was gonna get one just so I could be the first on my block to own anything with 1TB. After reading the comments of #s 1 and 2, I'm having to rethink that plan. Thanks a lot guys.
OM @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
Be wary peoples. The Onetouch series before this model has made quite a few owners (including me) very un-happy with crappy software and is ability to primarily develop bad sectors before doing an uncanny oneway performance as a brick. Just facts. Sorry if it hurts.
OM
Blake @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
#1 - there are lower model that are cheaper... just look at any of the OneTouch II Line (80, 120, 160, 200, 250, and 300 gig models i believe)
#2 - have you ever used a computer for anything other that word docs and instant messenger? the "boot-legging" market isn't the only thing that requires mass storage. Any sort of digital video creation requires TONS of storage (uncompressed raw video footage can be upwards of 1 gig a minute). This holds the same for 3d animation (maya, bryce, et al). Plus, did you miss the part about "It also includes new tools to synch data between two or more computers". Which is obviously geared towards a more small business oriented applications, where high end raid 5 servers are out of the question, but mass storage is still in demand.
but you're right, no one could EVER need 1 TB of storage... oh... wait... my media server has 2.5 TB of mass storage which is nearing full with legal, uncompressed backups of my dvd collection (which means i never have to hunt through a box or shelves of boxes for that one movie i want to watch) but you MUST be right
Nick @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
Yeah, echo that #4. My OneTouch died on me and I had to go through a lengthy 12 hour recovery process to retrieve as much as possible from the f****** $200 BAD INVESTMENT...
Sorry, I'm still a little bitter over the whole thing...
Pancake @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
The Buffalo TeraStation is a much better buy for the money, and it's networked. Great for hooking printers up to, can record TV directly to it via usb.. lots of great features.
Buy.com has it now for $933.
Hood @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
Well, as the proud owner of 10+ of these Maxtor OneTouch drives, I can assure all of you that they're possitively awful. From personal experience, and from reading countless user complaints on the net, this series of drives approaches a 90% failure rate after 6 months. They also have a nasty heat issue where even if the drive's been in sleep mode for hours, touching the side of the case can burn your hand. Stay very far away from this stuff.
dutch @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
Obviously it will not be in RAID 1 mode with only two disks:
600gb = 2x 300gb in RAID 0
1TB = 2x 500gb in RAID 0
Dan @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
about #8
actually, backups are ideal mirroring (RAID 1), since RAID 1 is mirroring. if your goal is to back something up, and make sure it never gets lost, this is the ideal RAID mode (with only two disks)
you would simply be sacrificing half the amount of storage for the benefit of fault tolerance.
Dave @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
Stay away from Maxtor drives. They run too hot and they crash. In the last three years I have had the following drives fail:
80GB IDE Maxtor - Replaced and still running
120GB SATA Maxtor - Replaced it with a Samsung
250GB SATA Maxtor - Replaced it three times so far.
I will never buy Maxtor again.
Mathew @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
I have a Onetouch I (250GB) - I use it daily for bittorrents on my mac... and haven't had anything bad happen in the year I've been using it... maybe I'm a lucky one?
motech @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
i saw it in person at digital life,
the enclosure is very very nice . . great design.
i currently have over 1TB on my iMac
(1 internal 250gb and 3 external 250's)
you can never have too much storage . . .
Adrian @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
To the people who have no clue who needs this drive (or other drives of this size), its clearly for people who deal with digital media creation... specifically video, where the lowest quality format (mini DV) runs about 15gb/hour of video. If you've got camera than can do it, 10 bit uncompressed 1080 will only get you about a minute and 30 seconds at 15gb or rather about an hour and 40 minutes using a full tb (but they obviously arent using external firewire drives for storage). And all this for only the raw footage.
Video obviously creates the largest files, but other programs can generate monstrous files as well. For instance, i have a number of photoshop files around a gig each due to many layers.
I agree though, maxtors don't have a good reputation.
Halogen8 @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
Infrant (http://www.infrant.com) has a much better solution (http://www.infrant.com/products_ReadyNAS_X6.htm) for around the same price. Even far better than the Buffalo TeraStation. You can get the device stand alone with no drives for $550, and add drives as you wish.
eric @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
"RAID 0/1 storage using two 3.5-inch 7200RPM ATA drives"
whats RAID 0/1, and is ata the developer or something?
CJ @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM
#2, How about a review? As in you buy it, test it, then review it. We are not interested in your opinion, just facts. Sounds like you want want but can't afford it. Next time, buy before you write.