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|  | |  | | | Seagate STM305004EHAB01-RK Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 500 GB Portable Hard Drive | | | | | | | |
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| | Features | 500 GB portable hard drive connects to your computer via USBSimple to install; just plug it in and the drive appears on your computerStores over 75,000 digital photos, 8,000 hours of MP3 music, or 35 hours of DV videoIncludes portable drive, USB 2.0 cable, external AC power supply, and quick start guide1-year standard warranty
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| | Description | Maxtor Personal Storage 500GB 7200 RPM USB 2.0 Hard Drive with 16MB Cache | |
| | Product Details | | Product Weight: | 2.65 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.9 inches | | Package Width: | 7.4 inches | | Package Height: | 5.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 4.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 23 reviews |
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 23 customer reviews )
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8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 No problems Aug 14, 2007
By Dr. A-M
I have two of these - one at my office and one at home. One is connected to a computer running XP and the other is on Vista - they have been wonderful for backing up my systems. I was looking to buy a 3rd for my husband's computer.
12 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Great Paperweight Sep 26, 2007
By H. Gaber
Should be no stars. I owned this drive for 4 months and it just stopped working. I found out that the circuit board that controls the drive shorted out. I called Seagate (Maxtor was bought out) and they would do nothing for data recovery. The only thing Maxtor on this drive is the case. Inside it is the worst piece of Seagate garbage ever made. I took it to Best Buy to recover the data and they couldn't do a thing. I called Seagate to get a couple of apologetic Indians from India who stated Data Recovery is not covered and it would be a minumum of $700.00 to get the data back. This is a great racket Seagate has made. They sell you a cheap drive then take your data hostage for $700.00. If you are smart, stay away from this drive at all costs! It is not a Maxtor!!
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Sealed external = unwise solution Nov 21, 2007
By W. I. Thomason
My 3200 external drive was the essence of simplicity to use - open the box, plug it in, and everything is right there. Didn't have to worry about large drives not working with my system (as I would have with an internal), USB2 worked wonderfully wherever I took the drive.
Unfortunately, the drive is in a sealed plastic case. Plastic is an insulator rather than a conductor of heat, and electronics/hard drives need to avoid heat. I should have thought of that before I moved all my files to the drive, but my cynicism circuit wasn't engaged properly.
Very suddenly (after a few months of use) it started getting slightly noisy. I took this as a sign of impending failure and immediately stopped using the drive. Went and bought another drive and attempted to back up all my data, but now the Maxtor drive absolutely refuses to spin up at all. I would surely be able to get a replacement, but really that's not much consolation as data recovery is impossible without disassembling the drive case and forfeiting the warranty replacement.
In the future, I will not be buying another "external hard drive." Rather, a better solution is to purchase an aluminum external drive enclosure by itself (they are quite inexpensive) and plug a standard internal hard drive into the enclosure. The chance of heat-induced failure is much reduced, and if there's a problem with the enclosure's circuitry you won't automatically lose your data because you can just move the hard drive to another computer or another enclosure.
Bottom line: I would strongly recommend not purchasing any "external" hard drives in prepackaged form.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Easy to set up Jul 22, 2007
By JustMe
It was very easy to set up with fast transfer time.
Downside: It does not come with any automatic backup software. A lot of the units do come with the software.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Excellent value Aug 23, 2007
By C. Carter
I purchased this external hard drive to use for backing up my laptop and to use as storage for files and applications that I don't use all too often. I even set it up as a shared drive on my home network. All in all, I would recommend this product, as it works well and is definately worth it. The only problem that I have had involves some file loss if the drive is improperly disconnected from the computer (i.e. pulling out the USB cable while it may still be writing). I've successfully recovered these "lost" files using the chkdsk/f command in MSDOS.
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