Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini 160 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive STM901603OTA3E1-RK by Seagate
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Digital camera reviews of Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini 160 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive STM901603OTA3E1-RK
Digital camera Review: What gives?
Summary: 2 Stars
I wanted to back up about 48 GB of stuff to my 160 GB Maxtor, only to have the thing say it was out of space after 3 HOURS. This item has had little or no thought put into its design for its intended use.Digital camera Review: Will not backup the root directory and certain files
Summary: 1 Stars
This product provides only limited backup protection for certain files in certain locations. Most frustrating is that it is impossible for it to backup anything in a root directory. For example, if you have files of any type in the C: directory (or more likely a D: or E: drive) it cannot back them up. Only files in subfolders (e.g., "C:\files") can be backed up; no file in any root directory (e.g., "C:\") can be designated for back up.
Here is the response I received from Maxtor tech support on this issue: "Folders must be selected in the software. The backup utility is designed to backup data and there for it is not really designed to backup drives. So it wants to backup information on the drive, not the entire drive. It is just the way the software is designed and is working as intended." (4/03/2008).
You are also limited to the directories you can backup. You can backup your "My Documents" and even your "InetPub" directory but you cannot point it to the default directory for your Microsoft SQL backups. And even though it will backup the "Inetpub" folder it is not a complete backup. For example, all of the hidden folders (e.g.,\_vti_cnf) will generate the message "Not Supported/File skipped (backup of hidden files and folders is not supported)" and will not be backed up.
In addition, certain files in selected folders will not be backed up. It will not backup thumbs.db resulting in so many exceptions in the log report that it is virtually unreadable. Strangely, it will back up some .jpg files but will throw an exception for others.
This product has great potential but as implemented is seriously flawed. In my opinion these OneTouch Mini's are designed to easily and automatically backup _most_ of your "My Documents" folder. If you need to backup anything more I think you will be disappointed.
Digital camera Review: nice packaging, bad software
Summary: 1 Stars
The metal box, though not as strong as the plastic types, easily dented while with my laptop traveling looks nice.
The software says "synchronization" however this is simply false advertising, it is barely better than just copying your files over. For more info see the thread on Maxor's forum detailing the problem.
http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=onetouch&thread.id=1506
In order to access the hard drive you have to have Maxtor's software installed on the computer so you cannot plug it into other computers. The major problem with this is if you want to recover from a system failure, you won't be able to access the files until you have installed the Maxtor software from another location.
Digital camera Review: not good if you password protect and PC dies
Summary: 3 Stars
This Maxtor drive is a pain if you password protect it and then try to get it to run on another PC or hard drive. Nothing happens. You can't find any support information that tells you this. Don't password protect your files unless you have set up this hard drive on more than one machine. You will need to turn off the password protection before it can be loaded onto another PC. That is not a good plan if you only have one machine.Digital camera Review: worked for me
Summary: 4 Stars
it was described for what it was. works great for keeping all my stuff backed up.