Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.7 / 5.0

Must have, dependable external drive:

Simple plug and play external disk. have being using it for the past one month -- no problems so far. Formatted the disk in NFTS format and using it from a XP and Win 2K boxes. The aluminum case does get *hot*. Ofcourse, how "hot" depends on the sensitivity of the person touching it. Comes with a Firewire & USB 2.0 cable ( which you can use with USB 1.1 port as well ).

Overall highly recommend it.

Works Great:

I just got the 250GB unit up and running for our construction/architecture company and it seems to work great. I backed up about 50gb of cad files, .xls files and .jpgs last night and ran some test restores this morning and everything worked great. I'm gonna get a second unit and swap them out every day so I always gave a complete backup offsite. I found the retrospect software to be slightly confusing, but no more so than backup exec.

I liked my Maxtor 250 -- until it died:

I purchased a Maxtor 250 GB external hard drive in April of last year. Last month, just after the one-year warranty expired, the drive started clicking and became invisible to my PC. I fiddled around and got things working again, or so I thought. A few days later, the drive died completely. During the year that the drive worked, I generally was pleased with its performance. However, the reliability was very poor, and dying one month after the warranty expires is incredibly annoying. I would suggest that you... more info

Accessories:

Adaptec USB 2.0/1394 Combo Card PCI 3-Port USB 2.0 & 2-Port Firewire MAC/PC... from Adaptec

IOGEAR GIC250U 5-Port USB 2.0 PCI Card (USB 2.0) from IOGEAR

IOGEAR GPU202 2-Port USB 2.0 PCMCIA CardBus Card from IOGEAR

Personal Storage Carrying Case from Maxtor

Two-Year Service Plan for Computer Add-Ons Priced Between $200 and $699.99 from N.E.W. Customer Service Companies, Inc.

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