I'm thinking of buying a 250gb Maxtor or a LaCie model. I wonder if anybody uses one of these on a regular basis and has any comments.
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Hi Chris,
We have just purchased a 300gb Maxtor Disk where I work, we intend to piggy-back it on to our existing 500Gb Lacie Disk - the Lacie is a network disk but has a firewire port which we can connect the Maxtor to. The Network lacie disk is excellent but the other one has only been in a few days so apart from saying it works fine, I can't really comment.
You can never have too much disk space.
Christine
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I own the Maxtor 250gb and love it. It's fast enough for documents, archiving and for playing MP3s from, but I wouldn't run apps from it. Mine has a one-button backup, which really does make me feel safer.
The USB2 and Firewire versions are identical, except you can't use the power-saving features on the USB-only version.
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It's very configurable, it can do any type of backup you like, including copying the actual files (as opposed to packing them in a proprietary backup format). The button actually just activates a macro in a very nice backup program that comes with it (Retrospect backup).Learn by teaching
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I've ordered a Maxtor 200gb 7000 series drive hopefully it will be more convenient for backups than my HP DAT drive. It has a dual Firewire/USB2 option. I notice it comes with a transformer so presumably there isnt enough power available through the USB connection.
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Doug,
The 200gb Maxtor arrived today and it was easy to set up and the included backup software will handle my dat drive as well. Mine has 1 USB2 and 2 Firewire ports. Is the extra firewire connector for a piggy back setup? havent found anything in the manual about it yet.
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Hi guys,
Sorry, I know I now sound exactly like the morons I despise on Internet, but here goes
I also own a 250GB Maxtor. The first one was DOA, so this is the replacement. After the DOA unit (yes, after...) I checked some other customers' experiences on the net, and Maxtor got a bashing. Western Digital seemed to be better. It seems the problem is the lack of cooling. No fan - a wonderfully quiet disk, but overheats and dies.
My conclusion - I use the disk only for backup, and it is rarely powered on.
My son has an internal 300GB Maxtor in his Mac. No problems whatsoever.
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Rex,
Thanks for the info, mine seems to run warm but nothing I wouldn't consider normal, so I'll keep an eye on it. Critical stuff gets burned onto DVD. I dont work in a particularly warm environment so perhaps this might help, where did I put that ice bucket!
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