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Maxtor one touch's come in a variety of sizes 120 200 240
etc<br><br>
I believe they are mostly USB 2.0 by now.<br><br>
They are OK. The one touch is simply a button that invokes a piece of
software. That software is a dumbed down backup program that comes with
the unit, but it's pretty dumb.<br><br>
You can actually re-purpose the button to do just about anything, but you
had ought to get a better backup program if you want to automate
backups.<br><br>
The Maxtors come formatted as Fat 32, this could be a boon or a
problem.<br><br>
At 05:28 PM 12/3/2004 -0500, Christine Verick wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hi Winpartners!<br><br>
I'm e-mailing on behalf of a helpdesk client, Roberta Brawer, who is
interested in purchasing<br>
a 200gb external hard drive for backup purposes. It also needs to be USB.
She's hoping to purchase<br>
one this weekend.<br><br>
She is not subscribed to winpartners as yet, so please cc:
roberta@mit.edu on your responses.<br><br>
She is currently looking at the Maxtor One Touch II, but she hasn't seen
many reviews for it<br>
good, bad or ugly and would like to know if others have any opinions to
offer.<br><br>
Her requirements:<br>
1. Reliable (most important)<br>
2. Easy to use<br>
3. Reasonably priced<br><br>
Govconnection has one listed:<br>
<font face="Verdana" size=4>Maxtor</font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=4>Maxtor One Touch II 200GB Hard
Drive</font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=4>Platform: N Mf
#:E01A200</font><font face="Verdana" size=4 color="#FF0000">
$211.40</font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=4>Item #: 5529552</font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=4><br>
</font>She wanted to see if this was USB, but the Maxter page does not
have this listed as 200gb. It<br>
says it's only a 250gb hard drive so I'm not sure if this is a typo on
Govconnection.<br><br>
Thanks for any help you can offer!<br><br>
Christine<br><br>
Christine Verick<br>
Information Services & Technology<br>
MIT Computing Helpdesk<br>
verick@mit.edu<br>
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