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Maxtor STM902503OTA3E1-RK OneTouch 4 Mini 250GB 2.5-Inch USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drivex$64.95
  (18 reviews)
Best Price: $64.95
This lightweight, portable hard drive is powered from the USB port and lets you bring important files with you. You also get durability with its built-in rugged shock-resistant design. With the Maxtor SafteyDrill software for windows, SafteyDrill prepares, reboots and recovers your PC's entire hard drive in case of system failure or virus/spyware infection. Automatically synchronize your files between two computers every time you connect or disconnect the drive so you are always working with the most current data. No need to worry about unauthorized access to your private files with the Maxtor DrivePass and encryption. For the price and all its features you're getting a great value. Approximate Unit Dimensions - 4.9 X 0.59 X 3.22 Approximate Unit Weight - 5.9oz The Maxtor® OneTouch® 4 Mini storage solution is a full-featured, portable backup and storage solution with Maxtor SafetyDrill™ for complete recovery of a hard drive’s contents in case of a system crash or virus/spyware attack*. With two levels of data security and capacities up to 320 GB, users can automatically back up or sync work and home computers and confidently carry an up-to-date portfolio in their pockets. 
Have a simple and reliable backup solution for all your stuff |
Easily bring important files with you, wherever you go. | 
Keep all your digital content in a safe and secure location. |
Portable Performance and Security You and your content belong together. Weighing less than 6 ounces, the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini makes it easy to confidently carry your up-to-date portfolio in your pocket. This full-featured, portable backup and storage solution now includes Maxtor SafetyDrill for complete recovery of your PC hard drive’s contents in case of a system crash or virus/spyware attack. A simple user interface makes automated backup scheduling, specific file restoration, and security a snap. You can automatically sync data on multiple computers so you always have your latest files handy. To safeguard against unauthorized use, Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini comes with both data encryption and Maxtor DrivePass. With up to 320 GB you have room for 5,330 hours of digital music or 102,400 digital photos or 320 hours of digital video or 80 two-hour DVD quality movies or 160 games. It’s easy to install – just plug the drive’s USB cable into an available port on your PC or Mac. The OneTouch 4 Mini comes with preloaded software and there is no additional power needed, so you’re off and running! The sleek and slim design of this hard drive--only measures 4.90 x 0.59 x 3.22-inches (H x D x W). The Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini lets you transfer files seamlessly from your computer via its USB 2.0 connection at a brisk transfer rate of up to 480Mb/sec. The drive delivers a spindle speed of 5,400 RPM, giving you the high-speed performance you need to back your data up quickly and safely. At this compact size, and with this high performance, you now have the ability to take your data with you anywhere you go, so your digital content finally has room to breathe. A five-year warranty is also included, giving you complete peace of mind. Product Highlights
· Ideal backup and storage for carrying your digital portfolio with you
| · Maxtor® SafetyDrill™ prepares, boots, recovers your PC’s entire internal drive contents in case of system failure or virus/spyware infection | | · Sync data between two or more computers on the same operating system | · Maxtor DrivePass™ and Encryption: two levels of security against unauthorized use | | · Simple Maxtor user interface for drive management, security and backup scheduling | · USB 2.0 for fast data interface and power source | | · 5-year warranty | · Customizable Maxtor OneTouch® button | | · Drive- and power-management utilities included | · Quick and easy installation with pre-loaded software | | · Auto Updater helps keep your Maxtor OneTouch solution current | · PC and Mac compatible | | · 5400 RPM, up to 8-MB cache buffer | *Windows Only Maxtor® is the expert and the leader in designing simple external storage and backup solutions for consumers and professionals. Maxtor offers a broad line of trusted, intuitive storage solutions for safeguarding critical business data, digital files and personal memories. Maxtor developed the industry’s first external storage device that features easy-to-use OneTouch® button backup and restore capabilities. The Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini solution is the easy way to back up and store photos, videos, games, music, business data, personal information and more. The OneTouch 4 Mini solution continues the OneTouch legacy as the leading external hard drive for small office users, consumers, creative professionals and mobile warriors.
What's in the Box
Portable hard drive with preloaded installation software, USB 2.0 cable, Maxtor SafetyDrill recovery CD, quick start guide
MPN: STM902503OTA3E1-RK - UPC: 763649004937
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Customer Reviews
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Dont Buy Maxtor
By A3P8FRTSM3K85W on 2008-04-10
Fails in 6 months and Warranty send me a defective replacement. Called them again to get a second replacement. They have worst customer support who dont understand at all the value of time that they waste me.
If you have enough time and money to waste, go ahead and buy this unreliable product.
Great Drive - Superb Software
By A374CLBRSJYAM5 on 2008-04-30
At our office there are LaCie and Seagate external portable hard drives that are used for back-up of files and occasionally to transfer large quantities of files. When shopping for a external back-up solution for my home PC, I wanted a portable because I dreaded the thought of having one more plug and brick coming out of battery backup power supply that sits next to the home desktop PC. What is that mess beneath the desk my wife often asks? What are all those plugs for? With separate plugs and several power bricks for a router, external speakers, cable modem, laser printer, inkjet photo printer, a fax machine and a Western Digital 80gb external drive I did not want another plug or power brick. When the Western Digital 80gb external drive started to fail I replaced it and its power brick with the Maxtor 250gb One Touch 4 Mini. The change was a huge improvement. The Maxtor is less than 1/3 of the size and weight of the WD it replaced and it holds three times the data. Unlike the WD drive the Maxtor receives power from the USB port. The Maxtor has no power plug and no power brick.
What really sets this drive apart from the WD, Lacie, and Seagate drives I have used is the software. Some drives just allow you to back-up your data. While data back-up is essential to preserve ones digital pictures, music collection, and personal documents, if your internal hard drive crashes, data backup will not restore your operating system or applications. The One touch Mini, comes with Maxtor "Safety Drill" software that allows the user to image the entire drive, including the operating system (windows) and all applications. If the hard drive crashes, the user boots their PC with a supplied emergency CD, and then restores their whole PC from the drive image stored on the external drive. The last time a drive failed in the office, a technician charged us for half a days work to install a new drive, re-install windows, and reload various applications. With a drive image hopefully this will not be necessary. The back-up software included with the Maxtor is better than anything I have ever seen bundled with a drive. It is easy to use and it is robust. It can perform scheduled backups in the background. The Software is for the most part PC only. As such Mac users will not be better off with the Maxtor than with the excellent LaCie portables. For Windows users the bundled software makes the One Touch 4 Mini a better choice than competing options from WD, LaCie, Iomega and others.
Beware of OneTouch software. It will destroy your file system
By A38EYOBILO5BM0 on 2008-05-02
I bought this drive to assist my mother in law. Her computer is old and I was hoping to avoid a costly data recovery (aka tech rape).
When the "one-touch" software installed, it forced a reboot. The computer never came back up.
I figured I'd made a mistake so I bought a brand new Seagate internal drive, built it up with Windows XP, and reinstalled the external drive. Once again, the software installation for one-touch forced me to reboot - and again the computer would no longer boot.
I tried several utilities to recover the data, to no avail. So I took both drives to the local data recovery place. They informed me that the file system was corrupt on both drives, likely due to whatever I'd last done on the drive before it crashed.
If you insist on purchasing this brand, DO NOT INSTALL the software. The techs at Maxtor were not at all helpful.
My first time purchasing an external hard drive and also my last! Atleast from THIS cheap maxtor company!
By A5TEC8TH707E9 on 2008-07-17
At first when i bought this hard drive at staples it was at a great offer. The price was on "special offer" so i decided, why not try it? Well everything seemed to work fine for the first three months..Well afterwards this product stopped working and my computer didn't reconginze it. Tried it on another pc and nothing. Well i decided to take matters into my OWN hands (since i AM a computer technician) and i opened up this lovely product, only to find out that the actuator arm was stuck onto the hard drive's platter. the actuator arm's head (this is what reads the data on the hard drive's platter) is EXTREMELY SENSITIVE AND GETS DAMAGED VERY EASILY! (because is cheaply made of course) This product is just so badly made. The only thing that would make it expensive is its capacity. Other than that, this product is very cheaply made and that is the reason why many people who bought this product has their unit failing after a few months or even days... GEEE THANKS A ALOT MAXTOR, FOR WASTING MY TIME AND MONEY AND DON'T WORRY I WILL NOT ASK FOR A REPLACEMENT..THIEVES! BY the way can anyone recommend me a good external hard drive that is realiable and will not fail in few months? Thanks
why these are so cheap...very unreliable
By A302LVH4BSQWVE on 2008-06-23
I bought 7 of these drives for work, to transport a large volume of data to africa. I chose these because they were recommended by other companies i work with, are supposedly 'rugged,' reliable, have a large storage capacity and don't use external power (important when in the bush!). well of the 7 only 6 actually, worked, that's a 12% failure rate and a little high. the last one makes a loud creaking noise out of the box and is not recognized by any computer. it stranded me, 250 GB short of crucial space in the middle of africa! i also found them to be poorly constructed, like one had sides that were a little crooked, and the mini-usb hole didn't really line up. not to mention they whir, and heat up and make a lot of noise. i haven't even tried the software because all i want is storage space. not to mention, i called customer support to complain and they ended up sending me 7 more drives and charging my credit card - just doubling my order. not a good thing with my company's money.
well in contrast, i have a WD 250GB passport and it's amazing. silent, cool to the touch, super fast, i can't even tell i'm working off the drive (when i'm doing a lot of intensive image processing).
sorry maxtor, your drives suck.
i wish i could recommend these, they are so cute!
- Great drive
By A8NZQB1IDLUOP on 2008-06-09
I have used this drive for about a week so I can't comment on long term reliability, but the drive hardware seems pretty good.
The included software is confusing at first. You would think clicking the "Backup" tab and seting up your daily backups is what you want, however that only backs up "My Documents", it does not do a full backup of your C drive and thus won't restore your hard drive if it crashes. The real backup program, Safety Drill, is hiding under the "Safety" tab. It does a full backup of your C drive so that if you ever need to you can boot on the included CD to format and restore the C drive. This is all in the manual, but who reads that until disaster strikes and you are horrified to find out the backup you thought you had is only the documents folder. Maxtor should make the installer launch Safety Drill right after the installation so you'll do a full backup right at the start. Once you understand the software, Safety Drill is wonderful. It backed up my 120GB C drive fairly quickly and compressed the 25GB contents into a 19GB file). You can define a frequency in days to have it do automatic drive backups.
The "Backup" tab is not as useful. It will backup "My Documents" but not much else. For example your e-mails will not be backed up. This pretty much forces you to do full backups with Safety Drill more frequently than you would like. The "Sync" tab has the same limitations as "Backup" so neither is of much use.
Overall it's a great drive and the included Safety Drill program works great. The drive is accessible like any other hard drive so you can create personal folders on it and use it as you please without affecting backups stored on the drive. I put this to use by disabling "Backup" and copying "C:\Documents and Settings" over to the OneTouch. I then use the PowerToy utility "SyncToy" running on a schedule to sync the files thereby giving me a backup.
- Both my PC's stopped recognizing
By A1KSTGVDDWSB9Y on 2008-06-22
I loved this unit at first. Actually bought a 2nd one, regrettably. After about 3 months both of my PC's stopped recognizing these units thus rendering them inoperable. Lost all information.
No matter what you do, back up info on a 2nd medium (which fortunately I did.)
- 250 MB Maxtor one touch review
By A361RO80D1ZEP5 on 2008-06-30
This product gives me all satisfaction and it allows me to share data between my desktop running under Windows XP and my laptop running under Windws Vista and this without problem. You even don't need to install anything if you manage file copy by yourself.
- Would be a good drive, if it didn't break so consistently.
By A1Y3X3C1VLGAES on 2008-09-21
I wish this drive would work. It's the perfect size to fit in along with a laptop, but I'd suggest avoiding it altogether. My drive lasted about 5 weeks before it died. There are numerous other reviews here of this same drive and it seems to be too common a theme to be an aberration. Just keep looking for another hard drive, even if it costs a bit more.
- OS X doesn't recognize
By A3H76SW9Y95R0V on 2008-10-01
Never had problems installing an external HD on OS X before now. I've tried 3 different Macs, two with OS 10.4.11 and one with 10.5.5...none of the Macs recognize the disk. I was briefly able to "see" the disk using Disk Utility, but wasn't able to reformat the drive--got an error that Disk Utility could not unmount the drive.
I've checked a number of forums and seems that Maxtor OneTouch products have similar problems. I've got a 750GB drive at home that works like a charm. This little drive, however, not so much.
- Solution to the ultimate problem of hard drive failure
By A6FP7PJ95JV0U on 2008-07-17
Why are the other reviewers complaining? This is properly labeled by PCMagazine as one of the MUST HAVE tech gadgets. Here's why (provided that you use Windows XP or Vista and IF your computer hard drive is NTFS formatted, not FAT32 formatted -- and it is easy to change to NTFS is you have XP or Vista): if your computer fails, you can be up and running in under an hour by putting in a new hard drive and restoring to the new hard drive the image of your original hard drive. Why is that good? It means that you can continue working with nary a problem. I have 3 of these minis and I rotate them, making a clone of my hard drive every night and storing it in a small fireproof safe. This is easily the easiest and most accurate method of hard drive recovery that exists today. Even PC Magazine agrees with that assessment. Why do the other reviewers think otherwise?
- maxtor 1 touch external junk drive
By A2FP0EGW1D05HO on 2008-08-26
I purchased this item before reading these reviews.
( My first mistake.)
My second mistake was opening the box.
I purchased this from Best Buy and was told that it is the must have, for people like me, who don't know a whole lot about computors, who need
to store and back up info.
I was also told that it is user friendly.( Not true )
If you want a temporary cheap buy than go ahead and waste you're money,
but even the customer support is crappy and half the time they are having
issues with their call center equiptment!
For first timers there should be an easy walk through instruction which myne did not.To be a successful business you should not asume that every body knows every thing about what you are selling.
- Drive failed in less than a week
By A1RWRDOSXNSZCP on 2008-09-17
Avoid this product. I bought one. It worked great for a several days and then never worked again. It wasn't mishandled or dropped it's just a crummy product. I have a 20GB portable 'Pockey' drive that must be about eight-years old and that thing has seen a world of hard use and it still works.
- Worst external HD I've ever purchased.
By A11607UH3SWRRI on 2008-08-02
I've had 2 of these go bad withing 3 weeks. 35GB of data, kapuut, again!!! I'll never buy another Maxtor product.
- PC and MAC (yeah, right)
By A1EZ2M3AKXUXAY on 2008-09-02
I thought this will help me backup my stuff in both my pc and my mac. It didn't. Altough the box says (tricky) it works in both.
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Maxtor STM902503OTA3E1-RK OneTouch 4 Mini 250GB 2.5-Inch USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive Accessories
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| Product Features |
- Ideal backup and storage for carrying your digital portfolio with you
- Simple Maxtor user interface for drive management, security, and backup scheduling
- Two levels of security against unauthorized use ¿ Maxtor DrivePass and encryption
- Maxtor SafetyDrill prepares, boots, recovers your PC's entire internal drive contents in case of system failure or virus/spyware infection (Windows only)
- Customizable Maxtor OneTouch button, USB powered; PC and Mac compatible
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