Maxtor One Touch 4 Lineup
Posted on: September 05, 2007
The One Touch series of hard drives is positioned as a potent backup tool for the enthusiasts. Three new models have just been launched:
- Maxtor One Touch 4 (from 250GB/$100 – 750GB/$270)
- Maxtor One Touch 4 Plus (from 250GB/$130 – 1TB/$360)
- Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini (from 80GB/$100 – 160GB/$150)
The mini is an ultra-portable 2.5” drive while the “4 Plus” and “4” will feel at home on (or under) a desk. The largest “4 Plus” can store 1TB of data (1000GB). They all come with a suite of backup/protection software for Mac and PC, which is nice. One regret: the “Safety Drill” disk-cloning utility (like True Image, but not as cool) doesn’t work on Mac. Also, Safety Drill does not compress the data. Not so surprising from a disk vendor… Maxtor, can you fix it? Maxtor products page
Update:
Maxtor has confirmed that disk images are indeed compressed using the zlib library. Compression ratios will depend on the nature of the data. Phew.
Reader Comments
By Jim , 03/06/08 6:10 PM (CommentID #710958)
I'm backing up in Safety Drill mode about 100 GB, and it looks like it will take about 26 hours! That's from a 3 GHz P4 with a SCSI 160 GB disk under XP SP2 plus all subsequent updates. I wonder what's going on. Would compression plus McAfee scanning everything cause that much slowdown?
By Vincent Louis , 18/03/08 1:17 PM (CommentID #566592)
Drive is good so far, Software is awful. Won't allow you to back up files within applications. Can't back up photoshop organizer. Will only allow one backup program at a time. (I would like to backup to two partitions). Plan on spending $50 for good backup software if you by this drive.
By stacy , 06/03/08 12:48 PM (CommentID #538575)
my maxtor one touch is running SUPER slow. Usually everything backs up in 2 minutes. It is taking hours..Anyone have any idea how to fix this problem?
By Hubert , 13/09/07 11:05 AM (CommentID #299998)
Indeed, it is a typo - thanks for pointing this out. It's fixed.
By Anonymous , 06/09/07 4:48 AM (CommentID #292771)
Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini (from 80GB/$100 – 160TB/$150)
I think that's a typo, unless someone figured out a way to cram 160 terabytes into a 2.5" drive and somehow kept that quiet until now.
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