Maxtor announces OneTouch III Turbo; One terabyte turnkey RAID for the average Joe

Remember when you could fit everything you needed onto a single 1.4MB floppy disk? Yeah, me too. We're old and times have changed. If you pick up one of those new, spiffy Quad G5s and pack it with SATA drives that are filled with digital photos, music, video and porn other precious data, you're going to need more backup storage. Maxtor's got you covered with their new OneTouch III Turbo, which sports 600GB or 1TB (that's a terabyte, as in 1,000GB) of storage and a pretty fair, consumer-friendly price.

The new OneTouch has improved software included (some of the included software is not Mac-compatible, however), a quieter and more protective case design, a self-adjusted cooling system and even new retail packaging designed with not just eye candy in mind, but protection from careless shippers. It's also the industry's first two-drive solution that is user configurable as either RAID 0 or RAID 1 – configurations typically reserved for deep enterprise-use pockets.

The new drives are expected to ship in December. The 600GB version is $549.99 and the 1TB monster is $899.95. Both models feature one USB 2.0 port, one FireWire 400 port and one FireWire 800 port, making them compatble with a wide range of Macs running OS X 10.1.2-10.1.5, 10.2.4 or later and PCs, if you're into that sort of thing, running Windows 2000 or XP.