Maxtor STM310004OTA3E5-RK OneTouch 4 Plus 1 TB 3.5" USB 2.0/FireWire400 External Hard Drive | 
 enlarge | Brand: Seagate
Category: CE
List Price: $299.99
Buy New: $160.00
You Save: $139.99 (47%)
New (38) Used (2) from $157.24
Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 4172
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
System Memory: 16
Hard Drive Size: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 6.5 x 2.5
Warranty: 5 years warranty
MPN: STM310004OTA3E5-RK
Model: STM310004OTA3E5-RK
UPC: 763649004630
EAN: 0763649004630
ASIN: B000WM5F1K
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 1 TB external hard drive connects to your computer via USB cable or FireWire 400 | | • | Simple Maxtor user interface for drive management, security, and backup scheduling | | • | Two levels of security against unauthorized use - Maxtor DrivePass and data encryption | | • | Sync data between 2 or more computers on the same operating system | | • | Drive and power management utilities; 5-year limited warranty |
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Product Description
For everyone with data-protection needs that is looking for an elegantly simple, full-featured backup and storage solution, the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus sports a new vault-like industrial design that conveys security and protection. The elegant color scheme and design make it a good fit in any home or office setting.
Manufacturer Product Description
The Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus solution is a full-featured backup and storage solution with Maxtor SafetyDrill for complete recovery of a hard drive's contents in case of a system crash or virus/spyware attack*. With two levels of data security and capacities up to 1 TB, users can confidently back up or sync work and home computers. 
Protect your data from unauthorized use. |
Back up your files with one touch of a button. | 
Add on storage for your desktop or laptop. | Portable Performance and Security
Provide a safe haven for your entire working environment. Don't back up and protect just your files anymore. System crashes and virus attacks can happen, and it's difficult to get your computer back to just the way you like it. To prepare, should the unfortunate happen, Maxtor SafetyDrill automatically creates a snapshot of the entire contents of your PC's hard drive which can be readily booted for an easy and complete recovery. With this elegantly simple full-featured backup solution, Maxtor's software makes automated backup scheduling, specific file restoration, sync, security, drive and power management a snap. To safeguard against unauthorized use, Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus comes with both data encryption and Maxtor DrivePass. To top it off, with up to 1 TB you have more than enough room for your important documents, videos, photos, graphics, and music in one safe, convenient location - over 16,660 hours of digital music or 320,000 digital photos or 1000 hours of digital video or 250 two-hour DVD quality movies or 500 games. The sleek and slim design of this hard drive--only measures 6.75 x 2.50 x 6.00-inches (H x D x W). The Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus lets you transfer files seamlessly from your computer via its USB 2.0 connection at a brisk transfer rate of up to 480Mb/sec. The drive delivers a spindle speed of 7,200 RPM, giving you the high-speed performance you need to back your data up quickly and safely. It's easy to install - just plug the external drive into an available USB or FireWire port on your PC or Mac, run the preloaded software, and presto you're good to go. At this compact size, and with this high performance, you now have the ability to take your data with you anywhere you go, so your digital content finally has room to breathe. A five-year warranty is also included, giving you complete peace of mind. Product Highlights
| Maxtor SafetyDrill prepares, boots and recovers a PC's entire internal drive contents in case of system failure or virus/spyware infection.* | Back up all your files with one touch of the button or automated scheduling. | | Maxtor DrivePass and Encryption protects contents of drive in case unauthorized use. | Quick and easy installation with pre-loaded software | | Simple Maxtor user-interface drive management, security and backup scheduling | 5-year limited warranty | | Sync data between two or more computers on the same operating system. | Customizable Maxtor OneTouch button | | Auto Updater helps keep your Maxtor OneTouch solution current. | Drive and power management utilities | Dual interfaces:
 —FireWire compatible up to 400Mb/sec data transfer rates
—USB 2.0 and 1.1 compatible up to 480 Mb/sec data transfer rates | PC and Mac compatible | | 7200 RPM, up to 16-MB cache buffer |
*Windows Only
Maxtor is the expert and the leader in designing simple external storage and backup solutions for consumers and professionals. Maxtor offers a broad line of trusted, intuitive storage solutions for safeguarding critical business data, digital files and personal memories. Maxtor developed the industry's first external storage device that features easy-to-use OneTouch button backup and restore capabilities. The Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus solution is the easy way to back up and store photos, videos, games, music, business data, personal information and more. The OneTouch 4 Plus solution continues the OneTouch legacy as the leading external hard drive for small office users, consumers, creative professionals and mobile warriors.
What's in the Box
Portable hard drive with preloaded installation software, USB 2.0 cable, FireWire 400/1394a cable, Maxtor SafetyDrill Recovery CD, quick start guide, AC power adapter
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Based upon prior experience... November 27, 2008
dfkap (Sacramento, CA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
First, Maxtor should no longer even be in business. Look at their past 1TB drives as an example. This drive might be great for the first few months. The issue is that if you have it for more than 11 months, you will no doubt have a failure. Maxtor will tell you that you can send it in for a replacement, but if you want your data from your current purchase, they want you to fork over over $2,000 OR MORE. They will tell you that you should have backed up your date... not even considering for a serious moment that this WAS your backup. Their tech support was largely non-existent. They just wanted to recover my data. I'm thinking this is where a bulk of their money comes from.
I would possibly (only possibly) consider a Seagate, but a Maxtor? Never again. Not for this expensive of a purchase. My recommendation is to not just check reviews for this item, check reviews for ALL Maxtor products. This one is new enough that you haven't seen the number of failures it will probably have.
 Cannot encrypt complete drive snapshots November 11, 2008
D. Rhoadarmer
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I WAS going to buy this product in order to do complete system snapshots of my desktop and notebook, but when I read through the user guide at the Maxtor website, I discovered that these snapshots cannot be encrypted. So this won't work for me.
Seems a bit sneaky to advertise that it can do complete system snapshots and that it has encryption technology, but not readily disclose that you can't do them both at the same time.
Froze up on first back up on Mac November 3, 2008
Sameer
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have a macbook pro, bought this thing to backup the drive. I installed the software, restarted the computer as it instructed and started a backup of my home directory only. After a few minutes of calculating the backup size, the drive started backing up and then hung. Still haven't done my first backup, the software and the drive just hang, good job maxtor.
Horrid, awful little thing. Don't buy (especially if you work with video). October 14, 2008
QuantumRiver (Santa Fe, NM)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a professional video editor, and I needed a drive quickly and cheaply for an emergency storage issue, so I bought one of these. I had occasional problems getting the drive to mount over the 21 days that it functioned. I run a Mac G5 and a Mac Powerbook, which may possibly be an issue (although it's advertised as Mac compatible).
But then it died. Not even disk warrior would fix the issue. It was toast. I sent it back and (lucky me) I got a brand new one. This one has been "working" for about two months so far, but the thing won't mount unless I boot up the computer, then plug in the power to the drive, then plug in the firewire to the drive, and then only about 70% of the time. If I try to access the drive with finder once it has mounted, it will crash finder un-recovereably about 20% of the time. If I want to use it with Avid (don't get me started), I have to load Avid before doing any of this, or it takes down my machine. And then, once in Avid, I find that about 1 in 4 times I access the drive to save, Avid crashes and won't relaunch, and the machine generally goes down too. I have none of these problems with any other drives I've used (EXCEPT the MyBook drives, which have similar issues, are also complete trash, and should be avoided).
Spend the extra money on a decent drive while you have a chance to avoid the headaches and potential loss of valuable data and hard work.
 Good basic drive October 7, 2008
W. Downey
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good drive, would like different shape for more flexible positioning, and could use some more robust backup software.
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