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[7 of 7 customers found this review helpful]
[9 of 9 customers found this review helpful]
"I had previously tried the Western Digital My book essential and ended up returning it. It made a whining noise and was slow. I purchsased this maxtor and love it. I am using the firewire port and it flies. I read somewhere that firewire doesn't hog your system resources like USB 2.0, and that makes sense. I also like how this drive has 2 firewire plugs so that you can daisy chain other firewire periphials ..." Read Full Review »
Feb 05, 2008 by Michael Metcalf
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"This drive has huge capacity, and is very easy to set up. Unfortunately the Maxtor Manager software does NOT allow you to "Backup what you want" as stated on the box. It will only perform automatic backup of the My Documents and Desktop folders for the user currently logged in. This isn't so great if you have multiple users with their own My Documents folder (each user must perform or schedule their own backups)..." Read Full Review »
Jan 08, 2008 by Biking Bum
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[6 of 6 customers found this review helpful]
Seagate 500GB OneTouch 4 External Hard Drive Review
"Bought it when my first computers hard drive crashed. After i got the hard drive back online, this backed up everything on there within an hour. Very large storage space which is helpful. fast transfer times and 7200 rpm. I currently have 3 computers backed up on it and havent seen a single problem …" Read Full Review »
Seagate 500GB OneTouch 4 External Hard Drive Review
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"Installation was as simple as plugging it in, and selecting which files to back up is just as easy. I got some odd error messages on pics but they're there and open.
The best part is that it runs every night without any action from me. I've checked & it picks up any changed files. A great reli
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[3 of 3 customers found this review helpful]
Seagate 500GB OneTouch 4 External Hard Drive Review
"The first drive I bought installed fine, however when running first backup it started giving disk errors, and caused blue screen with bad drive errors and chkdsk couldn't fix. Also failed Seatools. Support had me reformat, but that didn't fix - drive failed again. Exchanged at BestBuy for another, a …" Read Full Review »
Seagate 500GB OneTouch 4 External Hard Drive Review
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"I am using this external hard drive to provide back up for photos and also documents. It was very easy to install and provides greater service that I will really need, which is fine.The one issue I had is that I don't need to back up these files regularly; so a daily or even weekly back up is not n …" Read Full Review »
Seagate 500GB OneTouch 4 External Hard Drive Review
"We used this product for 5 months with no problem. Then, one day we turned it on and while the computer recognizes that the drive is there (in the device manager and the system tray), the device drivers will not load properly. I use the Seagate (manufacturer) SeaTools to help diagnose, and it says " …" Read Full Review »
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