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| Brand: | Seagate |
| Item Height : | 44 millimetres |
| Item Width: | 12.7 centimetres |
| Screen Size: | 3.5 inches |
| Hard Drive | |
| Hard Drive Size: | 1000 GB |
| Hard Drive Interface: | USB 2.0 |
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Technical Details
- 1TB external desktop hard drive
- Free storage solutions for your home or work files
- Easy set-up
- USB 2.0 and 1.1 compatible
- PC and Mac compatible
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Maxtor Basics External Desktop Hard Drive safely stores your work, your photos, your songs, your digital videos, your memories. Ideal for home and office, it is easy to use - just connect the power adapter;then connect the USB cable into your PC or Mac and your your Maxtor Desktop Hard Drive appears as another drive on your computer. Perfect for the Home PC or laptop user who needs extra storage in a hurry. Use the extra free capacity to free up the space on your PC or Mac for better perfomance, or add more of the favourite files - with up to 1TB you have room for 16,660 hours of digital music or 320,000 digital photos or 1,000 hours of digital video or 250 two - hour DVD quality movies or 500 games. The industrial design of this next generation of external hard drives includes shock protection, EMI protection and the newest SATA hard drive technology.
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64 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
1tb hard drive,
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This review is from: Maxtor 1TB Basics Desktop USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
Been looking for an external drive and came across this one. Surprised to see only one review which did put me off buying at first. Glad i bought it now.
The drive had a 2 pin plug attached but there is a 3 pin adaptor plug in the box. There is also a quick start guide which is: 1. Plug in adaptor to drive. 2. Attach the usb cable(supplied) from drive to pc. That was it. I am runing Vista premium and the drive was detected straight away.Total setup time 2 mins The drive itself is formatted to 931gb and is already formatted to NTFS which was nice. It does make a noise it's not bad but you will know it is there. The drive gets slightly warm but again no problem there either. Also there is a 3 year limited warranty, obviously there are many reasons why it might not be replaced but it does give me peace of mind for now :) One of the cheapest 1tb drives on Amazon. All in all a good buy.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Quiet, cool, reliable.,
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This review is from: Maxtor 1TB Basics Desktop USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
I have two of these drives, the first one I bought was £25 more from the unspeakable PC retailer and thought it good value then, the only problem I had with it was the plug (UK and Europe supplied) unclipped from the transformer and I freaked out for a bit thinking the drive had just died, but worked fine after I found out what was wrong and clipped it back in; the second drive I bought from here and the transformer and plug are different so this issue has been resolved. The drive spins up quickly before your computer BIOS kicks in and you can boot from it if you like, although USB limitation will make it slower. Using the drive speed is what you'd expect, USB being the only bottleneck I believe; it is fromatted to NTFS and has an icon and autorun script in the root to display a picture of the drive in My Computer, no trouble in XP, Vista, or 7 beta, just plug in and go. The drive runs cool with just some vents to the left, has no fans and is nice a quiet. The drive goes into standby after 15 minutes (quickly spins up again when required) and when you power down the computer. Complains from other reveiwers include not comming on after putting computer in standby, solved by pulling USB out of back of drive for a second, I never use standby anyway; no rubber feet at the bottom of drive, I must admit you should get some or be careful here; not working on a Mac, don't buy it for a Mac then, and drive not working, this can happen with any drive and there is always at least one reveiw someone has written saying that the drive is rubbish, regardless of make, 3.5 drives are not for chucking around; if you are using it for backup you'll only lose the stuff you have on another drive anyway. If you need large volume portable storage to carry around spend some money and get a Solid State or 2.5" drive.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
No complaints so far,
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This review is from: Maxtor 1TB Basics Desktop USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
1TB drives seem to be something of a minefield. Many are panned and there are many reviews describing drives failing after as little as one or two days.
I received my Maxtor drive a few days ago and so far so good. The drive can be a little noisy at times but I cannot fault it any other respect. I have a XP laptop and the device was available to use within two minutes of plugging it in. The three-year limited warranty goes a long way to giving peace of mind with an expensive item such as this. Of all the drives I considered here on Amazon this is the one people seeem the most positive about.
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