Posted on 04/11/2006 10:07:20 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Maxtor has taken charge in the land of personal backup for quite some time now and shows no signs of slowing down and letting its competition gain ground with its not too distant release of the One-Touch III drive that has a total of 1 Terabyte on tap.
It wasn’t long ago that 1 Terabyte of storage would be limited to the ultra-rich or businesses whose need for large amounts of data could justify it. To that point, Maxtor has found a way to bring this huge amount of storage in a price tag of well under $800 dollars. While we certainly understand that the mainstream consumer won’t be jumping at one of these, when you consider the price of the 500GB drives by themselves you’ll see that the One Touch III 1TB drive is priced fairly reasonably.
There’s a decent bundle that Maxtor includes with this drive – all the needed cables and adapters are included along with a full copy of ECM’s Retrospect backup software. We found Retrospect to be very intuitive and easy to use if you want a good way to make daily, weekly or monthly backups from whatever data you want.
Hat Tip to HardOCP for finding this.
The handsome case Maxtor designed house two of its massive 500GB hard drives that come by default setup in a RAID 0 format – which is how they get to 1 Terabyte of storage. How you hook this unit up to your PC is up to you as there are three options to consider: USB 2.0, Firewire 400 and Firewire 800; the latest and fastest installment of Firewire (IEEE1394) technology.
Great news for Seagate.
I wouldn't do RAID0 for storage, and who needs a really fast terabyte drive? You could have a couple of 500s for a lot less.
I work with a couple guys who could fill that with just two powerpoint slides.
If you tune the channel just right, will we see Jimmy Carter giving a live speech?
Ummmm...that'd be 
...not ECM.
I know it's not your typing error Earn.
"backup my TRS-80??"
To load/save your TRS-DOS basic programs from the cassette player use the CLOAD and CSAVE commands... (old school baby)
Well I got hundreds of vital programs on cassette tapes, do you think this sucker can handle that? And where do I find a cassette player that has a USB 2.0 interface.
That'd make one HELL of an iPod.
If most MP3s are 1MB/minute (roughly), a million minutes of music would require 16,000 hours or 694 days or thus a bit more than two years to hear...if an iPod battery could ever last that long.
Two slides or two slideshows?
Sheeesh!
I remember paying about $800 for my first HD.
A Seagate 10MB SCSI drive.
This was about 1988.
How time flies!
Just how many porn clips can be stored there?
I'm not going there.
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