Maxtor One Touch III – 500 GB massive storage

Posted on: November 19 2006

It has been a year and a half since I'm using two external hard disks Maxtor One Touch II (200 GB each) and it's now reaching the bottleneck of its capacity. Everybody wonders; 400 GB of massive storage and they are almost full, what the heck I have in there. Well, I collect a lot of TV series; 24, Prison Break, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Discovery Channels, Desperate Housewives, The Apprentice, Naruto and TV series list goes on. I also have bunch of DVD quality movies, wide range of softwares ranges from Electrical & Electronic Engineering to internet applications and few latest games. That might might explain why those two machine are now running out of breath.

With the space usage reached the warning level, I started to survey at Amazon and Dabs. The growth of space is almost exponential but the prices barely increase, which is good for consumer like me :). I look at this particular product, the Maxtor One Touch III - 500 GB which is around Â£160 (inclusive VAT). It's quite expensive and with same amount of money you were only able to buy 200 GB of external HD, that was 2 years ago. I would wait until next year where the price gradually starts to decline. I hope by the end of the second quarter of 2007, the price would decline to Â£120 (fingers crossed).

Look at its shape, for me, it's less appealing to Maxtor One Touch II. But who cares, as long as it can take large sum of data, and it's not choking, that's good enough.

Product Features

Automated OneTouch backup
7200 RPM spindle, 16 MB buffer for fast drive performance, seamless data exchange, and instant access to your files
500GB capacity stores 225,000 photos, or 21 hours of DV video, or 4,950 hours of music
Plug and play. Simply connect using the USB 2.0 cable and get up and running fast
Easy-to-use interface simplifies drive management, security, and backup scheduling

Technical Details

Model: F01H500
Item Package Quantity: 1
Hardware Platform: PC
Device Type: Hard drive
Form Factor: External
Drive Type: 3.5-inch ATA
Capacity: 500 GB
Spindle Speed: 7200 RPM
Buffer: 16 MB
Seek Time: 9.0 ms
Interface: USB 2.0 (1.1 compatible)
Interface Transfer Rate: 480 Mbps
Sustained Transfer Rate: 33 MBps
Operating Temperature: 41 to 95 degrees F
Dimensions: 5.3 x 2.6 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 3.2 pounds
System Requirements: Pentium III, 500 MHz equivalent processor or higher, Windows 2000/XP, 128MB (256 recommended) RAM, CD-ROM drive, Internet connection (for system updates)
Warranty: 1 year