Cheap Maxtor X01FWRA040 External FireWire 5400 RPM 40 GB Hard Drive (Electronics) Price
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| CATEGORY: | Electronics |
| MANUFACTURER: | Maxtor |
| FEATURES: | Compatible with Windows or Macintosh operating systems, 40 GB storage capacity, 5,400 RPM, FireWire interface, 2 MB buffer size |
| TYPE: | IEEE-1394, ilink |
| MEDIA: | Electronics |
| MPN: | X01FWRA040 |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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| UPC: | 751921025985 |
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Customer Reviews of Maxtor X01FWRA040 External FireWire 5400 RPM 40 GB Hard Drive
Poor quality I ordered this drive 6 months ago. The drive I initially received, worked fine initially, but over a few months took longer and longer to warm up (up to 30 minutes), before the computer would recognize it. I returned it to the manufacturer. The second drive they sent me lasted for about 2 weeks, before my computer reported that it could not read from the drive at all, due to I/O errors. It seems that this drive is so unreliable, I need to keep a copy of all my files somewhere else, to be sure I don't lose anything when the drive fails.
Needs better support for OS-X
Does not operate well in OS-X. Drive is not accessable in OS-X unless Classic OS-9 is running on bootup. This means that you cannot run OS-X applications directly from the drive.
The transfer rate for this drive is extremely slow when uploading digital video files directly from the camera to the drive. The drive will lockup and you will need to reboot the system to unlock the drive if you cannot unlock it by powering the drive on and off.
Maxtor customer service is lacking, as well. There is no disclaimer on the box or any of their documentation on their website advising consumers about compatability problems with OS-X. They do not have any driver updates section for this drive on their website. I finally found the OS-X disclaimer after I downloaded the Software Installation file and decompressed it. This file should have been on the webpage as a notice.
Maxtor makes very good products, but they really stepped on it with this one. They need to do a better job with Mac products if they want to keep their share of this market, or just do us a favor and stop producing for the Mac and save us a lot of time.
great product for use with an iMac
I have had nothing but good luck with this product since I bought it about 4 months ago. I use it for backing up my hard drive and extra video and picture storage. Easy to use and nice looking on the desktop. Highly recommend. I think I would spend the extra cash on the 80MB if I had it to do all over though.