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Maxtor ships new OneTouch external drives
updated 08:25 am EDT, Tue August 26, 2003
is now shipping its Maxtor OneTouch line of external hard drives, featuring its OneTouch button and Dantz Retrospect in a sleek new industrial design. The OneTouch button can be customized to auto-launch applications or can be used for instant backup copies of files, and/or automated backup copies. OneTouch also supports a complete system restore capability (OS, drivers, applications, settings and user files) to the original computer system. The low-end 120GB/7200RPM ($200) is available with a USB 2.0 interface, while the other models are available with a FireWire/USB 2.0 connectivity: 200GB/7200RPM ($300), 250GB/7200RPM ($350), the Mac-formatted 250GB/7200RPM ($350), and 300GB/5400RPM ($400).
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08/26, 03:52pm reply
I work for a school district in Texas, and we've had 4 of the Maxtor One Touch drives die on us. These drives do not have a power switch, so they're on the whole time unless you unplug them. 4 people lost data that diskwarrior or Norton was able to recover. Just FYI
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ugh
08/26, 03:53pm reply
that should have been UN-able to recover....
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